Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries, including the United States. We aim to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives by improving their health, education and economic opportunities. In times of acute crisis, we mobilize rapid assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters. Each year, we and our partners reach millions of children in communities around the world. Join our dedicated and diverse staff in their work to improve the well-being of children everywhere.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Procurement Officer (National Position)
Ref Id: 190001VL
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employee Status: Permanent
The Organisation
- We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better health care, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
- We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
- We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
- Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children.
- We undertake rigorous procedures to ensure that only people suitable to work with children are allowed to join our organization and all candidates will, therefore, be subject to this scrutiny.
- We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Role Purpose
- The Procurement Officer is responsible for managing procurement processes to ensure effective, transparent and accountable support to Save the Children’s programmes in Borno State.
- Under the supervision of the Procurement Coordinator to ensure adequate consideration for coordination of supplies deliveries and planning of program implementation.
- Provide technical advice and guidance to program/support teams on procurement of goods and services and on best procurement practices.
- Anticipate procurement bottlenecks and resolve them ahead of issues.
Scope of Role
- Reports to: Procurement Coordinator
- Staff directly reporting to this post: Procurement Assistant and Intern
- Budget responsibility: None
Key Areas of Accountability
Procurement and Supply:
- Implement procurement as per approved Save the Children International guidelines, procedures and form.
- Check the availability and prices of requested items in the local market; liaise with Country office if procurement must be conducted there.
- Maintain and regularly update the price list.
- Maintain and regularly update current suppliers’ database.
- Maintain, keep up to date and share a weekly procurement tracker, showing the current status of the requested items and the date which they are expected to be supplied to the projects.
- Organize collection of required number of quotes for all relevant procurement.
- Advise the budget holder on contract allocation if relevant. Call for procurement committee meetings, take notes and document the decision making process.
- Draft POs according to procurement committee’s proceedings for review of relevant manager and submit for budget holder approval.
- Collate all payment files and submit to SCM for check before submission to budget holder and finance for payment.
- Prepare monthly summary report on the payment, identifying problems in operations and solution proposed.
- Oversee all arrangement for meetings and conferences as required, ensuring these are delivered to a high quality and cost effectively.
- Line manage all Procurement Assistants under supervision of the position by managing performance on an ongoing basis.
- Manage supplier relationship up to delivery of goods/completion of service.
- Follow up with finance office on outstanding payment files. In liaison with the Supply chain Manager, trouble shoot files incompleteness and/or inconsistencies.
- Maintain and keep up to date a hard documentation filing system for procurement files allowing easy reference for audit purpose.
- Comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to child protection, code of conduct, fraud, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies.
- Carry out any other tasks required by the line manager in line with job description and capacity development plan.
Reports:
- Maintain all procurement files in an organized, accurate and up to date manner.
- Produce weekly procurement tracker and send to programs and management team at field level.
- Generate any other procurement related reports upon request (item category/donor/time/budget/base etc)
Qualifications and Experience
Administrative & General Skills:
- Level of education – Bachelor’s degree/HND in Procurement/Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Accounting or related field
- Professional international qualification in Procurement or Logistics (e,g CIPS, CILT) an added advantage
- Communication and interpersonal skill level – Excellent
- Language requirement – English and Hausa
- Level of IT literacy required – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email System, Internet browsing- Excellent
- Highly organised with good administration skills for order and information management, able to develop filing systems and databases to ensure an auditable trail.
- Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours in the event of major emergencies including travelling at short notice and for extended periods of time
Experience Expectation:
- Desire number of years in a similar position – 2 years post NYSC
- Experience in procurement and logistics in INGO – minimum 2 years
- Experience in a relatively insecure field based environment
- Commitment to Save the Children values.
Skills and Behaviours (Our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
- High level of accuracy in work and ability to analyse complex sets of relationships and situations.
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds suppliers accountable to deliver on their responsibilities.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and takes responsibility for their own personal development.
- Creating best in class function
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
- Work effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.
Creativity:
- Designs more effective administrative system
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach
- Willing to take disciplined risk.
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
- Displays consistent excellent judgement.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: WASH Officer
Ref Id: 190001VB
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Job Type: Permanent
Role Purpose
- To support implementation of WASH component of project including construction/rehabilitation, follow up of community hygiene groups, and collaboration with WASH stakeholders at state/LGA levels.
Scope of Role:
- Reports to: WASH Coordinator
- Staff directly reporting to this post: Hygiene Promoter & WASH Assistant
Key Areas of Accountability
Objective 1: Take the lead on the Rehabilitation/Construction of water and sanitation facilities at Nutrition, Education, Child Protection and FSL sites:
- Carry out field visits to assess sites at the respective facilities and in conjunction with the SCI Nutrition team towards determining the needs and requirement for action and implementation.
- Work with the Logistic Coordinator and Finance and Grants Compliance Team to identify and contract vendors to ensure the planned activities are in accordance with the specified designs and standard.
- Prepare weekly plans and schedule of work for all construction/rehabilitation sites, while ensuring compliance in meeting and reaching deadlines and targets.
- Work with and support the vendors to ensure all materials and equipment are in stock and any necessary orders are placed for all actions to be carried.
- Provide interpretation to designs of work and work according to specifications.
- Establish a site book at each location and make report on progress registered in the site book while ensuring signing in with remarks.
- Must adhere strictly to standards and ensure quality of materials used by the contractors falls within the utmost standard.
- Ensure that all construction/rehabilitation processes including selection of sites and actual implementation are done in collaboration with key stakeholders at state, LGA and community levels
Objective 2: Take the lead on integration of hygiene promotion into other SCI programming:
- Carry out regular supportive supervision visits on hygiene promotion to CMAM sites
- Build the capacity of partners and SCI staffs on hygiene promotion
- Ensure that community mobilisation approaches on the project fully integrate hygiene promotion concepts
- Engage community leaders and other key stakeholders at LGA level on hygiene promotion
- Liaise with RUWASSA and the LGA WASH departments on WASH programming and ensure that all activities are done with their active participation and support
- Provide support on WASH to other SCI programmes and initiatives when required
- Ensure that WASH is integrated into all trainings carried out on the CMAM project
- Carry out advocacy visits to key stakeholders at both state, LGA and community levels
- Support periodic evaluation studies to evaluate the impact of the WASH component
- Contribute technical expertise to donor proposals for ECHO or any future projects
Objective 3: Monitoring and evaluation of WASH activities:
- Prepare a monthly plan of field activities and share with relevant staff
- Develop and implement tools for monitoring of WASH activities in collaboration with the M&E team
- Timely collection and analysis of data for the monitoring of the activities
- Identify the problems in the implementation process and propose solutions
- Evaluate regularly the impact of the activities and propose changes for improvement
- Prepare activities’ reports and other ad hoc reports according to agreed timelines and as required
Skills And Behaviours (Our Values In Practice)
Accountability:
- Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
- High level of accuracy in work, and ability to analyse complex sets of relationships and situations
- Holds self and others accountable
Ambition:
- Creating best-in-class EA function
- Future-orientated, thinks pro-actively
Collaboration:
- Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Designing more effective admin systems
- Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
Skills & Experience
Administrative & General Skills:
- First degree in Engineering, Geology, Geography or other WASH-related fields from a recognized/accredited Tertiary Institution in Nigeria
- At least two years’ post NYSC graduation experience
- Advanced degree will be an added advantage
- Previous experience with other local and international NGOs
- Experience in Nutrition and in community based programmes
- Training and experience on borehole and VIP latrine construction/rehabilitation
- Community mobilisation and advocacy experience
- Computer literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint)
- Fluency in English and Hausa, spoken and written
- Ability to work in partnership with government and other NGO staff
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to work within a team setting
- Independence, adaptability and flexibility with good workload management, multitasking and ability to meet tight deadlines
- Excellent communication skills
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Child Protection Officer (National Position)
Ref Id: 190001VA
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Employee Status: Permanent
Role Purpose
- The Child Protection Officer is responsible for ensuring that quality psychosocial support services are provided to internally displaced persons mostly children.
- They will have their capacities developed to provide these kinds of protection to children in a range of Save the Children’s emergency responses world-wide.
- The Child Protection Officer will be expected to support on sectoral assessment, project planning and coordination.
- In most circumstances, the post holder will be expected to mentor and/or build capacity of implementing partners on the field.
Scope of Role
- Reports to: Child Protection Coordinator
- Staff directly reporting to this post: None
- Budget responsibility: None
Key Areas of Accountanility
- Support the Coordinator to conduct child protection assessments using SC assessment processes and tools and the Inter-agency Child Protection Assessment Resource Toolkit. Adapt the Assessment Tool as necessary. Coordinate with other SC thematic areas, the national/district Child Protection Working Group and/or other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific, disaggregated analysis of children’s needs.
- With support from the CP Coordinator and/or other senior programme staff, develop monthly and quarterly plans and costed plans, contributing towards an overall thematic programme plan. From the strategy initiate programming in the following areas as appropriate:
- Support to the psychosocial (physical, social, emotional) wellbeing of children and their families.
- Emergency family tracing interventions and alternative care options for unaccompanied and separated children, utilising tools within the Inter-Agency Child Protection Information Management System
- Prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and gender-based violence (GBV) in project communities
- Prevention and response to the main risks for children’s exposure to physical harm
- Prevention and response to all forms of exploitation including harmful child labour and child trafficking
- Support the integration of case management into CFS and PSS
- Support the integration of child protection in to other SC emergencies core sectors on the field
- With support from the Child Protection Coordinator, supervise project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities (for example, monitoring against individual performance management work plans).
- With support from the Child Protection Coordinator and/or other senior programme staff, prepare and review timely monthly reports submitted by partners
- With support from the Child Protection Coordinator, identify project supplies specific to the programme needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan.
- Work with the M & E plan to ensure links to reporting requirements where possible, refer the M&E framework to build an evidence-base for child protection programming interventions.
- With support from the CRM/Accountability Officer put in place accountability activities for your project, ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design.
- Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings and the Sphere standard
- Ensure appropriate child friendly spaces time schedules are tailored to the physical and mental needs of the children based on age group and gender
- Coordinate monthly meetings including, parents forum and child protection committee
- Provide essential psychosocial first aid support to children and adults when needed.
- Ensure partner staff are supervised regularly to ensure activities are carried out in line with minimum standard guidelines.
- Consistently maintain referral pathway of project locations
Capacity Building:
- Provide capacity to implementing partners that have less CPiE experience
- Provide technical support/capacity building to other CP staffs in the absence of the senior child protection officer/adviser.
Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
- Ensure that Save the Children’s work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and support Interagency Coordination forums including the State Child Protection Sub Working Group, advocating for the specific needs of children. This may involve supporting the coordination of working groups and sub-working groups.
- With support from the Lead Child Protection Adviser and/or other senior programme staff, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers in-country.
- In collaboration with the Humanitarian Technical Unit and Child Protection team, feed in learning, experiences and evidence to relevant global advocacy objectives.
- Contribute to communications and media work as required.
General:
- Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
- Other ad hoc tasks as requested by Line Manager.
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically.
Collaboration:
- Actively listens to different perspectives and experiences of stakeholders
- Actively participates in networks to access and contribute to good practice
- Establishes and maintains clear communication and dialogue with disaster and conflict affected people and other stakeholders
- Establishes clear objectives with partners
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency
- Commitment to Save the Children Values
Understanding humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:
- Ensure that programme goals and activities uphold the principles of the key national and international humanitarian frameworks, codes and commitments
- Integrates beneficiary accountability principles into the approach
- Participates in disaster coordination mechanisms and interagency cooperation mechanisms
Leadership: Action; Thinking; Self; Inspiring; Developing Others:
- Demonstrates approachability and trust by listening carefully to others and valuing their contribution, and making others feel comfortable by being open and honest about their thoughts and feelings
- Demonstrates self-development and management by taking responsibility for own development, and actively seeking out feedback to better understand their own strengths and weaknesses
- Makes positive statements about work
- Effectively influences others by understanding their interests and showing how they will be met by own preferred solution
- Gives constructive feedback to enhance capabilities and responsibilities to partners and others
Qualifications and Experience
Essential Criteria:
- University Degree or equivalent in Social Work, Social Science, Development Studies or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience
- Minimum 2 years post NYSC work experience in Protection work, supervision, community mobilisation and distributions and solid understanding of the actual Nigeria Emergency context.
- Proven ability to supervise a CP project with holistic approach and integrated to child protection right
- Speaking fluent English, and other languages of Northern Nigeria is an advantage
- Computer literate
Desirable Criteria:
- High level of personal integrity, commitment and professional responsibility
- Excellent communication skills,
- Team player with strong leadership skills
- Mature personality with life experience is an advantage
- Able to be a self-started and work in challenging contexts and fragile environment.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Child Protection Coordinator
Ref Id: 190001V9
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Job Type: Permanent
Role
- This role will manage Child Protection aspect of projects in Yobe State within the Save the Children country program.
- The Child Protection Coordinator will with the support of the Program manager will be responsible for Child Protection project activities including supporting the coordination of effective and efficient planning, implementation and monitoring of the project at field level.
- The child protection program is currently focused on Case management, psychosocial support (which includes the provision of psychosocial support to children through community based child protection networks and child friendly spaces), community strengthening and capacity building for the staff and ministry staff.
Main Responsibilities
- In close collaboration with the Program Manager, manage project field activities, ensuring project objectives are being achieved and ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of our field work.
- Working closely with the Program Manager, ensure that the project implementation strategy is clearly understood by the implementing teams, and ensure that project plans and strategies are adhered to during implementation,
- Ensure quality and timely documentation of field activities and support project reporting on progress as per SC and donor required quality standards.
- Provide technical support, capacity building and on the job supervision to build the capacity of the respective Save the Children’s field staff and partner staff to effectively deliver the project including;
- Facilitate CP team to directly identify and register separated and unaccompanied children; work with the field team and Abuja/Federal team to ensure accurate and timely input into the CPIMS for coordination.
- Working with CP field team, conduct community sensitization on CP issues.
- Train key CP team members and resource people within the state and community on CP concerns
- Working closely with Save the Children’s CP team, contribute lessons learnt and best practice experiences from the project inform SC’s strategic planning and the design of future programming strategy and direction, including funding proposals
- Participate in regular meetings with government, local authorities, partners and other stakeholders to draw lessons, share experiences and monitor progress of the project.
- Ensure effective coordination and collaboration with key stakeholders and partners at field level – NGOs, civil society organizations, community groups, UNICEF and others
- Coordinate and liaise with field and national support teams to ensure quality project support in HR, logs, procurement, finance etc
General:
- Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
Core Behaviours:
- Understanding humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles
- Participates in the development of an organisational response based on an understanding of the contexts
- Achieving results effectively
- Accountability – ensure efficient and transparent use of resources in line with Save the Children policies and procedures
- Addresses difficult situations and makes tough decisions confidently and calmly
- Maintains focus on delivery of timely and appropriate results using available resources; identifies and acts on issues and problems in area of responsibility
Maintaining and developing collaborative relationships:
- Establishes clear objectives with teams and individuals, and monitors progress and performance
- Operating safely and securely
- Identifies and communicates risk and threats and minimises these for oneself and the agency
- Takes measures to do no harm and to minimise risks for partners and the communities
- Reduces vulnerability by complying with safety and security protocols set by the organisation
Managing yourself in a pressured and changing environment:
- Keeps oneself emotionally stable when helping others
- Remains effective and retains perspective in the face of difficult or demanding situations
- Maintains ethical and professional behaviour in accordance with relevant codes of conduct
- Plans prioritises and performs tasks well under pressure
- Takes responsibility for own work and impact of actions
Leadership: Action; Thinking; Self; Inspiring; Developing Others:
- Delivers results and always acts with the beneficiaries in mind
- Anticipates current and future needs
- Tailors communication style to certain audiences
- Demonstrates approachability and trust by listening carefully to others and valuing their contribution, and making others feel comfortable by being open and honest about their thoughts and feelings.
Qualifications And Experience
Essential:
- Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Social Work or relevant field experience.
- At least four (4) years post NYSC relevant experience in child protection programming
- Demonstrable commitment to a holistic vision of children’s welfare
- Substantial management experience, preferably in emergencies
- Excellent written and spoken English; local language skills a major advantage
- Demonstrable competence in report writing
- Experience of financial planning and expenditure monitoring as applied to grants management
- Experience of working with communities, and supporting their participation, ownership and empowerment
- Strong representational and communication skills sensitive to the cultural and military/political environment
- The ability to plan and ensure the implementation of projects, and to oversee the management and report on resources effectively.
- Able to work calmly under pressure in a rapidly changing context
- Proven team management skills
- Adaptability and flexibility; ability and willingness to live in the field
- Competent in Outlook, Word and Excel
- Commitment to upholding Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy, and other Global Policies.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Gender Equality Coordinator (National Position)
Ref Id: 190001VD
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Employee Status: Permanent
Role Purpose
- The Gender Coordinator will provide direct technical support to the humanitarian mission to ensure the vision of Save the Children where all girls and boys can hold diverse hopes and dreams for their futures, and have equal opportunity to make these come true are met.
- The coordinator will provide technical support to mainstream gender across programmes in Yobe state.
- She/he will ensure gender is integrated into the results based management frameworks, strengthening and supporting gender equality strategies and facilitating gender equality capacity strengthening for field teams via training and tool development.
- She/he will not only ensure programmes are gender sensitive but aim to provide advice on how to make such programmes become gender transformative.
Scope of Role
- Reports to: The Field Manager, Yobe State
- Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Duties and Responsibilities
- In line with the SCI Gender Mainstreaming guidelines, support the development of the country office gender strategy especially for the humanitarian unit.
- Develop a gender mainstreaming strategy for the humanitarian programmes.
- Formulate key gender messages and targets from lessons learned, assessments, research and evidence gained through project implementation.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of project objectives and initiatives, both short and long term, encompassing a wide range of issues with a gender lens.
- Ensure that voices of children disaggregated by sex form the basis of all key organizational strategies.
- Acquire information and understanding of key gender issues in the country particularly in the north east focusing on boys and girls (e.g GBV, Early Child Marriage, SRH etc) and adapt strategies as necessary.
- Build capacity of key programme staffs and volunteers including CS on gender.
- Keep a watching brief on policy makers and other key players in relation to Gender issues and identify opportunities to raise awareness and influence policy change.
- Develop good knowledge of state and national government structures, parliamentary and political processes and key decision making structures and how to influence them working with the advocacy team.
- Provide inputs into systems for research, analysis and documentation that underpin evidence for gender based programming and influencing at state and national levels.
- Produce reports, briefing papers and presentations for internal and external audiences, as directed.
- Maintain a strong relationship with other Gender related staff across SCI
- Develop and maintain a network of external contacts with key individuals in the government, NGO sector, civil society and the media particularly working on gender issues and participate in gender working group meetings, which may include providing oversight.
- Represent and act as a spokesperson for Save the Children on gender issues various policy forums and advocacy opportunities at national and international levels, as directed.
- Write regular progress reports, including annual impact monitoring reports.
- Perform other tasks, as required, to ensure the smooth running of the organisation.
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
- High level of accuracy in work, and ability to analyse complex sets of relationships and situations
- Holds self and others accountable
Ambition:
- Creating best-in-class EA function
- Future-orientated, thinks pro-actively
Collaboration:
- Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Designing more effective admin systems
- Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
Skills & Experience
Administrative & General Skills:
- The post holder will possess a high degree of analytical skill, political acumen, ability to facilitate change, ability to influence, build capacity and ability to communicate key issues effectively and convincingly to a diverse audience at local, national and international levels.
Essential
- A post graduate University Degree in Social Sciences with academic training in women’s studies, gender and development or a relevant field.
- 5 years’ work experience with an international development organization, with focus on women and girls/gender equality programming.
- Proven experience working on normative change for gender equality and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in sensitive contexts
- Proven experience in designing, implementing and evaluating gender-transformative social and behavior change communication interventions.
- Experience in implementing gender-transformative approaches in humanitarian context.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team setting with minimal supervision
- Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced work environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Specific knowledge of international development and gender equality issues; experience engaging children and other community members on gender equality issues desirable.
Desirable:
- Experience building capacity and trainings especially on gender related issues.
- Prior work experience communities across Nigeria.
- Knowledge of the policies, functions, structures and decision-making processes of key national institutions with regard to Gender.
- Local language skills (Ability to communicate in Hausa and Kanuri will be an advantage).
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Cash Transfer Officer (National position)
Ref Id: 190001V6
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employee Status: Permanent
The Organisation
- We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better health care, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
- We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
- We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
- Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children.
- We undertake rigorous procedures to ensure that only people suitable to work with children are allowed to join our organization and all candidates will, therefore, be subject to this scrutiny.
- We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Purpose
- Working closely with the Cash Transfer Coordinator, to support implementation of the cash transfers of the GAC funded ‘Girls’ Education in Crisis in Northeast Nigeria’ project in Yobe, ensuring that the cash transfer component is delivered in a timely manner and to a high quality.
- In addition, maintain a strong understanding of implementation of the related education outputs.
Scope of Role
- Reports to: Cash Transfer Coordinator
- Staff reporting to this post: TBD
- Budget Responsibilities: None
Key Areas of Accountability
With support from the Cash Transfer Coordinator:
- Assist in sensitisation of local government structures, communities and traditional authorities on the on targeting criteria and identification and registration of the beneficiaries;
- Help oversee delivery of regular cash transfers and helping ensure the resolution of any problems;
- Assist in training of any Save the Children or partner staff on cash transfer programming.
- Actively participate in relevant field assessments to identify the beneficiaries’ needs and viable business opportunities, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs
- Organize the training of the cash beneficiaries on the identified needs
- Conduct the implementation and monitoring of all activities, at field level, as laid out in the plan of action.
- Assist in the registration of target families, ensuring that the data is collected and is recorded appropriately
- Coordinate activities with local authorities, international community members, other implementing actors and partners at the local level.
- Compile and submit regular project reports and updates
Support the Cash Transfer Coordinator and the education colleagues to:
- Conduct vulnerability mapping with community representatives in order to identify the most vulnerable out-of-school, crisis-affected girls aged 6 to 14.
- Develop strategies to address the economic barriers impeding the girls’ access to education in collaboration with the community representatives and the families of the girls.
- Implement cash transfer programs, conditional on the enrolment of girls in school, to allow families to cover their basic needs
- Facilitate the provision of livelihoods kits for agricultural or income generating activities in order to enable the ability to start-up businesses that will strengthen the households economically and enable them retain their children in school beyond the lifespan of the project.
- Strengthen the state-level household economic strengthening (HES) systems where gaps in capacity exist
Overall:
- Ensure that you work to the best of your ability and demonstrate high levels of commitment to Save the Children International and our vision, mission and values in order to ensure the objectives of your role and the country programme are met;
- Ensure the effective and efficient use of all Save the Children International resources in order to keep costs low and ensure safety in the workplace; and
- Comply with the requirements of Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy to ensure maximum protection for children.
Additional job responsibilities:
- The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Qualifications
- At least first Degree/HND qualification in social policy, social science, international development, economics or related relevant discipline
Experience and Skills:
- Minimum of 2 years post NYSC relevant work experience.
- Demonstrated success in community resilience programs and technically sound in cash transfers, capacity building and other cash transfer components;
- Excellent communication skills, calm, with a good sense of working in inter-cultural environment;
- Fluency in written and spoken English;
- Excellent Microsoft Office applications skills (Excel, Word, Power point, Emails, Skype, Web researchers);
- Self-motivated and results orientated;
- Highly diplomatic and emotionally intelligent with strong oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrates a strong commitment and passion for the realisation of women’s and girls’ rights and gender equality;
- Knowledge of women’s rights and gender equality and willingness to strengthen her/his own capacity in this area; and
- Able to effectively advocate for change and influence others.
- Knowledge of and adherence to Save the children Code of Conduct, understands other international development guidelines.
Behaviours (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and takes responsibility for their own personal development
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their colleagues, SC Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
Equal Opportunities:
- The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Health and Safety:
- The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Cash Transfer Coordinator
Ref Id: 190001V3
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Reports to: Project Manager
Staff reporting to this post: Cash Transfer Officer
Budget Responsibilities: None
Role Purpose
- Working closely with the project manager, to support implementation of the cash transfers of the GAC funded ‘Girls’ Education in Crisis in Northeast Nigeria’ project in Yobe, ensuring that the cash transfer component is delivered in a timely manner and to a high quality. In addition, maintain a strong understanding of implementation of the related education outputs.
Scope of Role
- Role Dimensions: Members of the Country Office (CO) Senior Management Team (SMT) Project Management teams, Budget Holders, Donors, Members and SCI RO/Centre
Key Areas of Accountability
With support from the Project Manager:
- Support strengthening of state capacity for overall oversight, management and coordination of cash transfer programs (e.g. through trainings and technical support to government and civil society);
- Help oversee delivery of regular cash transfers and complementary services throughout the programme, identifying and helping ensure the resolution of any problems;
- Keep an eye on ensuring how the cash transfers can best be taken up by the State government beyond the end of the project;
- Contribute to regular and timeline monitoring and reporting as required and ensure that key programme lessons are captured and shared with colleagues; and
- Assist in training of any Save the Children or partner staff on cash transfers.
In liaison with education colleagues, keep informed of and support as needed:
- The vulnerability mapping with community representatives in order to identify the most vulnerable out-of-school, crisis-affected girls aged 6 to 14.
- Development of strategies to address the economic barriers impeding the girls’ access to education in collaboration with the community representatives and the families of the girls.
- Implementation of the cash transfer programs, conditional on the enrolment of girls in school, to allow families to cover their basic needs
- Provision of livelihoods kits for agricultural or income-generating activities in order to enable the ability to start-up businesses that will strengthen the households economically and enable them retain their children in school beyond the lifespan of the project.
- Strengthening of the state-level household economic strengthening (HES) systems where gaps in capacity exist.
Overall:
- Ensure that you work to the best of your ability and demonstrate high levels of commitment to Save the Children International and our vision, mission and values in order to ensure the objectives of your role and the country programme are met;
- Ensure the effective and efficient use of all Save the Children International resources in order to keep costs low and ensure safety in the workplace; and
- Comply with the requirements of Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy to ensure maximum protection for children.
Behaviours (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and takes responsibility for their own personal development
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their colleagues, SC Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
Additional job responsibilities:
- The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Qualifications
- Post graduate qualification in social policy, social science, international development, economics or related relevant discipline
Experience and Skills:
- At least a first Degree/HND in relevant course
- Minimum of 3 years post NYSC relevant work experience.
- Prior experience of helping deliver cash transfer programmes at scale;
- Good knowledge of cash transfers, the key principles and debates.
- Fluency in written and spoken English;
- Demonstrable track record of meeting or exceeding programme targets, while maintaining technical quality;
- Ability to represent the programme at a State level on the topic of cash transfer programming as well as to engage with and influence key stakeholders;
- Demonstrated experience of working with State governments to help strengthen capacity of the state;
- Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy-in;
- Experience in leading a team in fieldwork with communities;
- Commitment to, and understanding of, Save the Children’s aims, values and principles
- Good team player, with strong communication and interpersonal skills in English;
- Numerically articulate with experience of using spreadsheets and reporting systems;
- Self-motivated and results orientated; and
- Highly diplomatic and emotionally intelligent with strong oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrates a strong commitment and passion for the realisation of women’s and girls’ rights and gender equality;
- Knowledge of women’s rights and gender equality and willingness to strengthen her/his own capacity in this area; and
- Able to effectively advocate for change and influence others.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunities:
- The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Health and Safety:
- The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator
Ref Id: 190001VC
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Job Type: Permanent
Reports to: Yobe Field Manager
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Budget responsibility: None
Role Purpose
- To provide support to the project team on Policy analysis, new Programme development, advocacy initiatives, strategy development and pro-poor governance agenda in the delivery of basic social services with focus on improving quality and access to Health Services, Nutrition, Food Security, Education and Child Protection.
Key Areas of Accountability
People Management & Leadership:
- Have regular meetings with local authorities to update on the progress of programmes
- Involve relevant authorities in the planning and implementation of programmes through consultation and joint visits
- In collaboration with other team members plan and carry out feedback meetings with authorities and beneficiaries
- Advocate for allocation of appropriate resources for the implementation of Nutrition, FSL, Education activities in the LGAs
Programme Development and Quality:
- Support actively in the process of developing the organization’s short- and long-term governance and advocacy agendas. As directed, and particularly as it relates to exploring governance-related barriers to the elimination of exclusion and inequity, undertake research and analysis on possible new areas for SC programming.
- Prepare concept papers and other relevant documents, and initiate and describe project ideas and initiatives in accordance with the country strategy, the current contextual environment, the institutional capabilities of potential partners, resource availability and funding sources
- When working on specific high-priority initiatives, the Advocacy Coordinator will collaborate with senior staff and support the analysis process, developing policy positions and programme strategies, establishing new networks and partnerships, and managing coalitions.
- Assist colleagues to strengthen their knowledge and skills/capacities to incorporate governance frameworks, policy research, analysis and advocacy into their work.
- Contribute to development of advocacy strategies proposal writing and fund raising
Communication and Representation:
- Act as SC’s representative at local, national and international levels with local authorities, partners etc. as required, mainly in events relating to basic services (health/nutrition, FSL and education) programme. Represent SC Nigeria CO and communicate SC Nigeria CO’s public policy and advocacy positions as and when appropriate to institutions, government, international, national and local organisations as required.
- Support the coordination of the drafting and submission of strategic, planning and reporting documents, including but not limited to strategy documents, the operational plan and annual reports, and ad hoc requests for updates and reports from SC CO and Regional Office.
- Develop and maintain a professional network for governance issues within Nigeria and within SC globally.
- Dissemination of important information and messages
Programme Management:
- Supervise consultants involved in writing project designs, case studies or reports, facilitating training events, and conducting policy research, or other such contracted services.
- Support the implementation of the governance programme including quality control, negotiation with local partners, financial management, documentation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting etc
- Other – Other ad hoc tasks as requested by Line Manager.
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
Skills & Experience
Essential:
- Level of Education – Post Graduate
- Specified Study Area – Public Health / Social Science
- Desired Number of Years’ Experience – 4 years post NYSC (in education/health/social services delivery with a focus on governance and enhanced voice and accountability)
- Language Requirements – English – Excellent and working knowledge of local language(s)
- Level of IT Expertise Required – Excellent
- Profound knowledge in Nigeria governance especially the North East. Good knowledge of Borno governance structure and dynamics; knowledge of health systems and political terrains
- Ability to clearly communicate and easily relate to federal and state authorities
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment
- Comply with the requirements of Save the Children’s commitment to protect children in accordance with the Child Safeguarding Policy.
Prior Experience Expectations:
- Building external networks
- Strategic Planning
- Change Management
- Governance and advocacy
- Enhanced voice accountability
- Training and Facilitation.
Deadline: 5th July, 2019.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Programme Manager (National position)
Ref Id: 190001V1
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Employee Status: Permanent
The Organisation
- We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better health care, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
- We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
- We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
- Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children.
- We undertake rigorous procedures to ensure that only people suitable to work with children are allowed to join our organization and all candidates will, therefore, be subject to this scrutiny.
- We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Role Purpose
- The Programme Manager will act as the operational and technical lead on all education-related matters for the Yobe Office.
- He/she will be expected to lead on education-related assessments, programme implementation and closely work with the Field Manager, Education Sector Manager and Head of Education to inform new programme design and implementation at proposal and strategy level, as well as support on fundraising, recruitment and procurement, liaising and linking with other sectors as appropriate.
- In addition, the Manager will oversee the monitoring & evaluation of education activities and take the lead on the education cluster coordination in Yobe.
- The Education Manager will also be expected to play a leadership role within the response team, supporting and building the capacity of colleagues.
Scope of Role
- Reports to: Yobe Field Manager with technical dotted line to Education Sector Manager in Borno
- Reporting to: Education officers
Key Areas of Accountability
Programme Support:
- The Programme Manager, working with the Response Team will:
- Expand the Education Program Strategy for Yobe Nigeria;
- Prepare and oversee programme implementation to ensure timely delivery of programme activities, including monitoring against log frames and budget, individual performance management work plans, identifying programme supplies needs and coordinating with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan.
- Programmes to develop and implement may include:
- Literacy and Numeracy/ Remedial or catch-up Education programming
- Creation of additional learning spaces to serve the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and host community members.
- Outreach meetings in the camps and host communities (specifically targeting children/youth, parents, care-givers, other duty bearers) to build better understanding of family / community priorities and responsibilities for education.
- Teacher education/ training workshops on pedagogy, Literacy, Numeracy and Wellbeing as per the SCI Quality Education framework.
- Comprehensive School Safety to ensure that children are learning from a safe and protective environment.
- Works closely with SCI teams across various departments (Program operations, MEAL, Advocacy and Communications) to ensure a unified Education Strategic vision
- In close collaboration with other sector Managers, ensure Education Strategy efficiently integrates with other sector approaches, ensuring holistic child development across sectoral lines (Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Livelihoods, WASH etc.)
- Contribute to and ensure quality implementation for education programmes and donor reports are in compliance with internal Save the Children requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
- Works closely with the HR team, lead on identifying Education staffing needs (national and international) and ensure rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff
- Ensure child participation principles are institutionalized within education programming.
- Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Standards, INEE and Red Cross Code of Conduct.
Operational Planning:
- Provide humanitarian level lead in planning, development of detailed implementation plans, phased budgets, implementation, monitoring, documentation and reporting for education program.
- Overseeing the implementation and budget performance in line with the program plans and budgets.
- Effectively support the program staff and partners in developing annual plans, in line with education Program design and Save the Children International planning guidelines.
- Support staff and partners to ensure that education Program implementation are to the desired standards and on time.
- Provide guidance to the partners through the planning processes to develop plans that are cost effective and in line with education Program funding.
Finance and Budget Management:
- Manage the Program budget in coordination with Yobe Field Manager and Finance Manager.
- Overseeing the budget performance to ensure that program implementation is on course as per the detailed implementation plans and phased budgets.
- Support the Program implementation teams with budget monitoring and reporting.
- Ensure that the budget monitoring reports are responded to in time and with accurate information.
- Working closely with education Program teams, to ensure that partners are well guided, supported and their capacity built in sound financial management procedures.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting:
- Lead on technical education assessments in coordination with other SC thematic areas and other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs.
- Develop education program monitoring tools and work with the M&E and Assessment Officer to monitor education programming; Working closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation team put in place a sector M & E plan, ensuring this links to reporting requirements, and capacity build technical field staff in carrying out the work.
- Take the initiative in documenting lessons learnt, best practice and case studies to shape in-country strategies and programme approaches, and contribute to broader sector learning.
- Prepare timely programme and donor reports on program activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
- Put in place Education accountability mechanisms, ensuring that feedback is incorporated into programme design and learning disseminated to the wider sector.
Fundraising and advocacy:
- In coordination with Awards Management Unit, lead on fundraising for the Education and integrated programming, including development of high quality concept notes and proposals, and engagement with donors’ technical advisers
- Implement the girl education campaign strategy;
Partner Development and Management:
- Participate in partner’s capacity assessment and identify capacity building needs for the education Programing.
- Develop with the partner’s detailed implementation/work plans and phased budgets.
- Provide capacity building and support in implementation and quality by partners.
- Monitor and follow up the implementation of the agreed work plan and budget to ensure that the program objectives are being realized in accordance to the program and partnership agreement and take the necessary actions for any identified deviations.
- Undertaking partners’ capacity assessment in order to identify capacity gaps and areas of support that the partners will require for effective implementation of the program.
- Undertake visits to the partners on both programmatic and operational support.
- Ensure timely, accurate and high quality financial and programmatic reporting by the partners and take corrective actions for any non-compliance by the partners.
- Save the Children is a dual mandate organisation and as such the Education Manager is also expected to support the ongoing development work of the Nigeria CO as the workload and needs allow.
Qualification and Experience
Essential:
- Post graduate degree in Education or other relevant subject or 7 years’ working experience for graduate holder.
- Substantial experience of working in humanitarian programs or in fragile states
- Skills and experience in the education sector
- Previous experience of managing a team
- Previous experience of programme management across multiple locations
- Commitment to, thorough understanding of, and able to train staff in participation and accountability approaches
- Demonstrated experience in leading assessment activities and of designing, managing, monitoring and evaluating education programmes
- Demonstrated ability to set up monitoring & evaluation systems.
- Experience of senior level representation, including Cluster coordination
- Experience of developing and negotiating successful partnerships with institutional donors
- Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and program reports
- Excellent communication skills with a high level of written and spoken English
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
- The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
- Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support.
Desirable:
- Experience of urban programming
- Language skills in Hausa or Kanuri
Skills and Behaviours (OurValues in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
Collaboration:
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
- Builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
- Displays consistent excellent judgement.
Deadline: 5th July, 2019.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Note
- Applicants are advised that Save the Children International does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process. Any request in this direction should be immediately reported as it is contrary to the values and practices of our organization.
- Due to the volume of applications received, Save the Children may not provide feedback to all applicants. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed as received. Save the Children reserves the right to change the closing date, if considered necessary
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