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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator
Job Ref: 190002XZ
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Role Purpose
- The MEAL Coordinator will be expected to lead on MEAL system design and implementation, evaluations, MEAL budgeting, recruitment as well as support proposal writing and logframe development usually at national level.
- In most circumstances, the post holder will be expected to mentor and/or capacity building existing country programme staff.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead planning of needs assessments in coordination other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and include an analysis of children’s needs. Lead development of SC programme baseline surveys where required.
- Working with the Deputy Team Leader – Programmes or Team Leader to support senior technical colleagues in their development of sector logframes, plans, and monitoring and evaluation frameworks and plans. Contribute to development of programme plan/strategy and master budget.
- Lead development of M&E systems (such as output trackers) and their roll out. Support sector technical staff to carry out monitoring and evaluation of project activities as agreed in M&E frameworks and plans and to strengthen integration between sectors.
- With support from senior technical colleagues, support fundraising, including contributing to proposal writing and review to ensure MEAL activities and costs are adequately covered. Develop standard guidance for incorporation of MEAL costs into proposals in specific responses.
- Lead planning, implementation and follow-up of evaluations (real times, evaluations of humanitarian action etc.). Participate in evaluations were required.
- Set up systems to manage complex information generated by MEAL activities, such as complaints databases and qualitative outcome monitoring data systems. Conduct statistical and qualitative data analysis and present and disseminate information to inform programme management at all levels of management within a response. Seek solutions for more complex data management requirements by working with IT colleagues, leading development of databases etc.
- With the HR team, identify MEAL staffing needs for emergency programmes, and lead rapid recruitment, induction, performance management and training.
- With support from other programme staff, identify MEAL activities supply needs and coordinate with the logistics team to ensure materials arrive in good time.
- Support sector technical leads to develop monitoring & evaluation plans and required tools. Capacity build technical field staff in carrying out the work.
- Implement accountability mechanisms at field level, such as complaints response mechanisms – working on community assessment, design, implementation, review etc.. Ensure that activities are carried out to raise awareness of prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse and handling of serious complaints in line with child safeguarding policy.
Support technical sector specialists to ensure that projects are carried out with participation from all disaster:
- Traditional and high-tech solutions) and that they solicit and respond to community feedback.
- To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct. For instance, with support from senior colleagues, work with sector technical specialists to ensure quality monitoring systems are set up to ensure adherence of programmes to minimum standards.
Capacity Building:
- Identify learning and training opportunities for MEAL and other staff and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.
- Conduct training and awareness raising activities for operations and programme technical staff at field and country-office level regarding MEAL priorities and quality standards.
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, advocating for the specific needs of children. This may involve taking the lead in coordination working groups. Participate in Interagency coordinated joint MEAL activities (for instance, inter-agency RTEs).
- With support from the Head of MEAL and/or other senior programme staff, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers in-country.
- In collaboration with SC MEAL colleagues, feed in learning, experiences and evidence to relevant global advocacy objectives Lead on response-specific learning activities. For instance, support planning of After Action Review workshops, prepare lessons learnt reports and conducting accountability mechanism pilots. Take steps to document lessons learned for wider dissemination.
- To identify opportunities and material to contribute to communications and media work, acting as a spokesperson when 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.
Key Areas of Accountability
Monitoring and Evaluation:
- Develop and implement a framework for monitoring programmes including rapid assessment and baseline tools, project specific monitoring tools, approaches, staff and team responsibilities and frequency of monitoring and evaluation activities
- Develop clear, systematic and feasible monitoring plans for projects, based on project logframes (including data collection-frequency and data management)
- Provide guidance to the MEAL staff to collect good quality monitoring data in a timely manner and collate/organize data received for reporting purposes
- Assist in data quality assurance and compliance with all grants related reporting requirements and their timely submission.
- Support project managers and technical advisors in conducting regular reviews of each project and ensure there is a clear process for staff/teams to raise concerns over programme progress and quality
- Ensure that the Humanitarian Response office complies with SCI MEAL standard operating procedures including: the global quality framework, Global Initiative requirements, total reach and the advocacy measurement tool.
- Ensure that all programmes are designed and implemented in accordance with international MEAL standards (such as, but not limited to, Accountability Partnership International (HAP-I) Benchmarks, SPHERE, DEC Accountability Framework, and the Core Humanitarian Standards)
- Support the PDQ Team bringing together data and findings from across projects and operational regions to form a coherent basis for analysis of impact which promotes learning and strategy development.
- Work closely with the regional MEAL team and share best experiences through the community of practice fora.
- Support the MEAL team, and Project Managers with technology-driven and innovative systems, including Segovia platform, biometrics, and mHeath.
- Develop and implement partner capacity building, including the inclusion of logframes in partner agreements and training for partner staff.
Accountability:
Work closely with the Accountability Officer to:
- Ensure that accountability to beneficiaries becomes a core element and success indicator for all program activities.
- Build on progress to date on integrating accountability to beneficiaries (and particularly children) within programmes through supporting the establishment of feedback mechanisms and producing information materials in a way which mainstreams accountability across all programmes.
- Contribute to improvements in existing policies and procedures to enhance effective accountability mechanisms.
- Assess how beneficiaries can best be involved at every stage of the programme cycle.
- Develop regular trend analysis of complaints on the organisation and sharing for wider learning and improvement.
- Coordinate with the Accountability Coordinator at Abuja level to ensure information flow for CRM.
Learning:
Work closely with the Country Office Knowledge Management Advisor, the Technical Advisors, and the Response MEAL team to:
- Promote learning throughout the Response Team, particularly on issues of programme quality, policy analysis and advocacy. Ensure new analysis and information is constantly available.
- Communicate program learning (through document sharing, presentations, etc) internally to provide guidance and technical input on strategic direction and programme design, and externally with key stakeholders (NGOs, government partners, working groups, etc).
- Ensure that lessons learned are properly documented and are incorporated into programme implementation and design.
- Regularly produce and report on best practices and case studies.
- Participate in designing and implementation of studies, assessments and learning in coordination and cooperation with PDQ teams and programme staff.
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
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
Qualifications and Experience
Required:
- Significant management experience in emergency response and fragile state contexts.
- Previous first phase emergency response experience is essential
- Significant experience of undertaking a MEAL related role in an humanitarian context
- Education to M.Sc/MA/MEng level in a relevant subject or equivalent field experience
- Experience of, and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
- Previous experience of managing a team and managing projects
- Demonstrated strong monitoring and evaluation skills, including planning/participating in evaluations
- Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity
- Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff
- Experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
- Experience of preparing successful funding proposals for donors
- Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
- Excellent communication and influencing skills with experience in advocacy
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
- A high level of written and spoken English
- 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 or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts
- Specific experience of designing and managing DFID and ECHO projects
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Humanitarian Child Protection Manager
Job ID: 1900023I
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Child Safeguarding: Level 3
- The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children or young people and, in the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3 posts in view of potential situations which may allow staff unsupervised access o vulnerable children and young people.
- As part of these responsibilities the post holder will support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children (by our own staff and/or as a result of how we do our work) is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis
- The post holder should report and respond to interventions as determined by position related responsibilities identified in the Child Safeguarding Policy.
Role Purpose
- The Child Protection (CP) Manager will be based in Borno State and is the sectoral manager of all child protection implementations in the Humanitarian Response, NE Nigeria
- The overall aim of the CP Manager is to manage the CP team and ensure CP interventions are in line with Save the Children and donor guidelines;
- including assessment, design and managing staff to initiate quality interventions to address violations of children’s rights to protection from abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect
- The post holder is responsible for ensuring that quality programmes are implemented and capacities developed to provide these kinds of protection to children in a range of Save the Children’s emergency responses in NE Nigeria
- The post holder is expected to also support on proposal writing and is responsible for programme reporting, programme design and capacity building of staff
- The manager will support in the development of the sector strategy and will represent Save the Children in coordination groups and support fundraising, recruitment and procurement.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Manage team of child protection, case management and child protection information management teams.
- Lead on child protection assessments and implementation using Save the Children assessment processes and tools and the Inter-agency Child Protection Assessment Resource Toolkit adapting the tools as necessary. The manager will coordinate with other Save the Children thematic areas to ensure integration, attend and be active in the Child Protection Working Group, and other external sector agencies.
- Integrate quality child protection programming throughout the response and across sectors in the NE. Including in the areas of:
- Emergency family tracing interventions and alternative are options for unaccompanied and separated children, utilizing tools within the Inter-Agency Child Protection Information Management System;
- Prevention and response to child recruitment including advocacy and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration initiatives;
- Prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and gender-based violence (GBV);
- 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; and
- Integration of child protection in to other core sectors.
- Ensure quality delivery of programme activities, for example, monitoring against log frames and reporting on the BvA.
- Preparation of timely programme and donor reports for child protection project activities in compliance with internal and external requirements.
- Working closely with the human resources team, identify child protection staffing needs for the emergency programmes, and facilitate rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff.
- Identify child protection programme supply needs and work with logistics team to put in place a sensibly phased procurement plan.
- Ensure quality and comprehensive case management systems are in place to support UASC and at risk children.
- Anchor the development of contextual manuals for foster care placement, case management tools, child friendly spaces, child protection committees, for use on the field.
- Ensure quality of child protection activities implemented on field.
- Ensure the coordination of case management and Child Protection Information Management System (CPIMS) database activities for quality reporting.
- Ensure that the concept of confidentiality and do no harm are integrated into programming.
- Working closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation team to put in place a child protection M & E plan, ensuring this links to reporting requirements, and capacity build child protection.
- Put in place accountability activities for child protection, ensuring that feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered in programme design.
- Ensure the child protection response complies with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings, the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.
Capacity Building:
- Identify learning and training opportunities for child protection staff and partners and work as a mentor and role model.
- Build capacities of government and ministries staff.
- Build capacity of local partners’ staff.
- Build capacity of other core sectors for fluid integration.
Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
- Ensure that Save the Children’s work is coordinated with other agencies and the government; take a leadership role in the Interagency Coordination forums to ensure children needs of children are addressed. This may involve taking the lead in the Child Protection Working Group, cluster and/or sub-groups.
- Take steps to document lessons learned for wider dissemination.
- In collaboration with senior programme staff, play a lead role in child protection advocacy activities targeting decision-makers.
- In collaboration with Save the Children colleagues feed in learning experiences and evidence to relevant global child protection advocacy objectives.
- Identify opportunities and material to contribute to external communications and media work, acting as a spokesperson when required.
- Prepare reports to donors to ensure that correct and appropriate sector information is included.
General:
- Demonstrate leadership in relation to 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.
- Deliver high quality results and development effective relationships with country programme staff which enhances the reputation of Save the Children.
Scope of Role
- The CP Manager will be responsible for developing and managing the CP Programme implementation of the humanitarian response, including Case Management and CPIMS
- The position is based in Maiduguri, Borno State.
- Reports to: Deputy Team Leader – Programme Operations
- Staff directly reporting to this post: 3
- Budget Responsibilities: Yes
- Dimensions: S/he is expected to work closely with the Child Protection team, the Nutrition, Food Security & Livelihoods, Health and Education Programme Managers, the Logistics, Finance, Awards, Human Resource Managers, the MEAL team and his/her team.
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
Qualifications and Experience
Required:
- Significant management experience (of at least 5 years) working in an emergency response contexts or fragile states in the area of child protection
- Education to B.Sc/B.A/B.Eng/M.Sc/M.A/M.Eng level in Social Work, Human rights Law, International Relations, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience.
- Previous first phase emergency response experience is essential
- Ability to identify the main gaps in child protection in the given context to inform a holistic response for children.
- Good knowledge of and experience in using established inter-agency standards and guidelines in child protection, such as the Inter-agency Guidelines on Separated and Unaccompanied Children, the Paris Principles, MRM, SC Child Friendly Spaces Handbook, and the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings.
- Previous experience of managing a team and of project management
- Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
- Experience in monitoring and evaluating child protection programmes in emergency, transition and development contexts
- Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity
- Experience in capacity building and in strengthening various duty bearers understanding of and response to child protection.
- Experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
- Experience of budget management and reporting across multiple awards
- Ability to write clear project reports
- Excellent communication skills
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
- A high level of written and spoken English
- The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
- Commitment to and understanding of child rights, the aims and principles of Save the Children , and humanitarian standards such as the Sphere Charter and the Code of Conduct. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support
Desirable:
- Good working knowledge of the Inter-Agency Child Protection Information Management System
- Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts
- Specific experience of managing DFID, OFDA, ECHO, USAID and other major projects
- Specific experience of working in inter – agency projects
- Knowledge of area and region
- Knowledge of local language, culture and traditions
Other:
- Other duties as assigned by the Deputy Team Leader – Programme
- Contribute as requested to implementation of norms and procedures of child safeguarding policy;
- Ensure that Save the Children Child Protection and Safeguarding policies are understood, implemented and monitored and that it is integrated into all aspects of the response work
- Comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to child protection, health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies.
- Support a positive and productive work environment
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Nutrition Officer
Job Ref: 190002YH
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Employee Status: Permanent
Grade: 4
Reporting to Position: Nutrition assistants
Child Safeguarding
Level 3.:
- The responsibilities of this post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children and young people. In the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3.
- As part of these responsibilities the post holder will support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children (by our own staff and/or as a result of how we do our work) is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis.
- The post holder should report and respond to interventions as determined by position related responsibilities identified in the Child Safeguarding Policy.
Role Purpose
- To provide technical support to the design, implementation and monitoring of health and nutrition activities in the programme “Support to Early Recovery from Conflict and Resilience Building in Yobe State”; with a special focus on behaviour change communications for improved health and nutrition practices during the 1000 days.
Main Responsibilities
Programme implementation:
- Contribute to developing programme strategy in health and nutrition in consultation with the programme team and other stakeholders.
- Contribute to the development of targeting criteria and methodology for mothers receiving cash transfers and ensure approaches are sensitive to cultural and gender dynamics.
- Support assessment, preparation and planning for implementation, working in partnership with State and LGA authorities.
- Lead on the implementation of the health and nutrition strategy for the programme, ensuring technical resources required have been factored into workplans and budgets.
- Provide technical assistance to State and LGA teams on health and nutrition, with a particular focus on development of effective methodologies to improve health and nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices.
- Conduct follow up monitoring of health and nutrition activities and document findings to feed into improved programming
- Support strengthening of information flow between State and LGA.
Capacity Building:
- Lead on health and nutrition training needs assessment for HWs, CVs and programme staff.
- Develop training plans for staff, government officials, health workers and CVs based on identified needs.
- Contribute to the development and/or adaptation of training materials.
- Facilitate on health and nutrition trainings.
Documentation and reporting:
- Ensure timely collection, compilation and analysis of quality data as well as production of quantitative and qualitative reports regarding all health and nutrition activities in the Programme.
- Provide technical review of programme reports in line with the M&E framework.
- Ensure regular communication and sharing of lesson learned and challenges with the management and partners to inform implementation
- Work closely with the MEAL team to ensure that data are captured in a correct and accurate manner.
Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
- Represent SCI in relevant State level forums for health and nutrition in coordination with other SCI programmes.
- Contribute to communications and media work as required through correction of data and information and sharing with the project heads
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.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential:
- Health / Public Health / Nutrition or equivalent with minimum of 4 years progressive experience post NYSC
- Experience in Nutrition and community based programming
- Technical expertise and experience on behaviour change programming
- Proven capacity of management, leadership and teamwork
- Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with all beneficiaries and their carers
- Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions
- Experience in community based interventions in Northern Nigeria
- Demonstrable ability at report writing
- Fluency in written and spoken English and local languages (Hausa/ Kanuri)
- Computer literate
- Prepared to live and work in an uncertain security environment
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles
Desirable:
- Master trainer and good facilitator.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Deadline: 13th September, 2019.
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