🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ Save the Children Nigeria – 7 Positions

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Assistant
2.) Nutrition Assistant
3.) Nutrition Program Officer
4.) WASH Officer
5.) Project Lead
6.) Head of Education
7.) Program Manager

Job Title: Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Assistant

Location: Yobe, Damaturu
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Purpose

• To support implementation of the cash plus for UNICEF funded UNICEF Nutrition project in Yobe, Nigeria. More specifically, the CVA Assistant will work closely with the CVA nutrition officer and CVA coordinator to ensure project deliverables are met on time and within acceptable quality standards.
• S/he is principally responsible for the field implementation of the UNICEF cash plus project including community sensitization on the project objectives, beneficiary selection criteria and on the intended use of the received cash. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

 Role Scope

• Reports to: CVA Coordinator.
  Staff directly reporting to this post: None

Key Areas of Accountabilities
Programme Support (typically will be at field level):

• Assist the CVA Coordinator in the planning and implementation of CVA activities, including Cash Transfers (physical cash).
• Contribute to developing activity work plans in line with the project’s detailed implementation plan.
• Work closely with community mobilization team to ensure that program implementation is responsive to community needs, meets targets, and is carried out in line with best practices.
• Integrate community approaches, protection mainstreaming, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate.
• Ensure program filing system is in place, adheres to internal and donor regulation and filing is regularly maintained.
• Work closely with the MEAL team to map, identify and register program participants.
• Together with the community mobilization team, ensure that project participants are properly sensitized on the project objectives and key deliverables.
• Supervise Enumerators during post distribution monitoring and cash distribution.
• Ensure effective community engagement to create enabling environment and ownership.
• Submit weekly program update including success stories to the CVA Coordinator.
• Identify emerging issues related to the livelihood programme and make recommendation for further solution.
• With support from the Accountability team, ensure accountability is enforced in all project activities as well as ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design/implementation.
• Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.

Capacity Building:

• Supervise, hire, and orient team members, as necessary.
• Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.
• Promote accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback via regular performance reviews.
• Provide team members with information, tools, and other resources to improve performance and reach objectives.
• Contribute to country team-building efforts, help team members identify problem-solving options and ensure the integration of all team members into relevant decision-making processes.
• Identify any gaps or capacity needs within the team and ensure training and capacity building are incorporated into program planning.

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 supporting coordination working groups within the IDP camps and host communities or target project sites.
• 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.

Behaviours (Values in Practice)
Skills and Behaviors (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.

Occasional duties:

• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
• Judgement and Decision-Making
• None.
• Academic background; experience & person specifications:

Qualification

• Minimum of 1 year experience in humanitarian/development work
• Educational qualification: B.Sc in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Economics, or its equivalent in any related field of study.
• Previous experience of project management and implementation of cash transfer component of humanitarian and/or development projects.

Experience and Skills:

• Relevant experience of working in cash transfer programming, including report writing.
• Academic qualification in Economics, Business Administration, or other related fields
• Previous experience of project management and implementation
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation
• Experience of training and staff capacity building
• Some experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
• Knowledge of institutional donors and experience of developing proposals
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports.
• Excellent communication and strong influencing 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 the aims and principles of SC. A good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support.

Desirable:

• High level of communication in a local language related to working environment.
• Familiarity with inter sectoral integration of project interventions.
• Experience in gender mainstreaming and social protection programming.

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.

Equal Opportunities:

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

• We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety:

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Contacts:
Internal Contacts:

• CVA Coordinator - frequent contact
• Nutrition Project Staff Members – frequent contacts
• Field Finance Manager – frequent contact
• Technical Specialists – frequent contact
• Team Leaders – regular contact
• Other Save the Children Staff – regular contact.

External Contacts:

• Partners – frequent contact
• Children, stakeholders – regular
• Government agencies (LGA & State Government staff) – Frequent contacts

Application Closing Date
30th April, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Nutrition Assistant

Location: Yobe, Damaturu
Employment Type: Full-time
Reports to: Nutrition Officer
Staff reporting to this post: None

Role Purpose

• Provide support to Field Assistants in different Projects’ Communities in implementing nutrition interventions (Community Management of Malnutrition [CMAM] and Infant and Young Child Feeding [IYCF]) as agreed with the donor. The Nutrition Assistant will also work with the Government and other key stakeholder in ensuring quality delivery of nutrition interventions in the Project locations.

Scope of Role

• Reports to: Nutrition Officer
• Staff reporting to this post: None.

Key Areas of Accountabilities

• The post holder will receive a context specific Terms of reference for each deployment, which will draw upon the responsibilities outlined below.
• Programme Support (typically will be at field level):
• Ensure quality of nutrition screening for children under-5 conducted by Community Nutrition Mobilizers in target Communities.
• Provision of Outreach OTP Services in target communities together with the outreach team.
• Ensure quality of IYCF counselling sessions provided during Support group meeting.
• With support from the Nutrition Officer, ensure quality cooking food demonstration sessions are conducted in Project supported Communities
• Build capacity of CNMs and Mother Leaders by providing on-the-job training on CMAM and IYCF.
• Support Project level nutrition assessment/surveys as approved by Donor.
• Support quality data collection of activities conducted in the Communities.
• Promote increasing awareness of appropriate nutrition behavior in project communities by ensuring behavior change materials are visible in supported communities and health facilities.
• Support the development of case studies and success stories from programme implementation.
• Provide maternal and childcare/feeding key messages to beneficiaries of food program during food distribution.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• The job duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the Post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Capacity Building:

• Provide on-the-job guidance to Field Assistants and Community Nutrition Mobilizers working on the field.
• Ensure all Field Assistants and Community Nutrition Volunteers are familiar with their posts.

Qualifications

• Certificate or Degree in Nursing, Nutrition, Public Health or any related fields.

Experience and Skills:
Essential:

• Certificate or Degree in Nursing, Nutrition, Public Health or any related fields.
• Experience of working in Nutrition programme.
• Good communication skills (verbal and written).
• Acceptable IT Skills
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Desirable:

• Qualified nurse/nutritionist with primary health care / community health care experience.
• Fluency in speaking Hausa and/ other local language.

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 - 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
• 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 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

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.

Equal Opportunities:

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

• We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety:

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Application Closing Date
30th April, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Nutrition Program Officer

Location: Yobe, Damaturu
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Purpose

• To support the implementation of the Nutrition component under the LDSC MAMI project in Yobe state.

Main Responsibilities

• The post holder will receive a context-specific Terms of reference for each deployment, which will draw upon the responsibilities outlined below.
• Programme Support (typically will be at field level):

Working closely with the Nutrition Coordinator, other officers and assistants, the Nutrition Program Officer will do the following:

• Support the Nutrition team in ensuring quality screening of all children under five years (0-5 months for the MAMI intervention and 6-59 months for IMAM services) and ensuring referral systems are in place for all children in the target location.
• Support Field assistance to conduct follow-up visits on children referred.
• Support caregivers identified as at risk to access MHPSS and other relevant services at the community and Health facility level. Also ensure critical cases are escalated to the MHPSS officer for appropriate care.
• Support the formation of counselling groups to support caregivers identified with mental health issues.
• Promote and support optimal Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) practices.
• Support in identifications, training and supervisions of Lead mothers and fathers for MIYCN support group activities as well as Health workers at the facilities for IMAM and MAMI services, ensuring all children referred with malnutrition receive the appropriate care.
• Work closely with Field Assistants to identify MAM cases and support Tom-Brown approach.
• Facilitate the formation of Mother to Mother and Father to father support group meetings and conduct supportive supervision/spot checks during support group meetings.
• Provide counseling to caregivers of children with Moderate Acute Malnutrition. 
• Support in the referral of malnourished cases from support groups to health facilities offering Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) services.
• Support the Nutrition Coordinator to Collate and compile program monthly data reports, as well as planning of monthly activities for the project. 
• Prepare transport requests for field trips to the program-implementing communities.
• Participate in the training of lead mothers and support group members on Food Demonstration
• Working closely with the Nutrition officer, ensure timely implementation of nutrition activities.
• Provide capacity building and training to community nutrition mobilizers, health workers and Community Nutrition Mobilizers on MAMI, MIYCN, and IMAM and referral mechanisms.
• Ensure monthly and quarterly follow-up with Community Mobilizers and community leaders through review/feedback meetings.
• Working closely with other program sectors to promote integration to resolve other underlying causes of malnutrition.
• Work closely with the MEAL team to review captured data on a monthly basis.
• Assist the nutrition team in giving supportive supervision to community volunteers.
• Compile and submit reports on weekly progress report.
• Prepare Procurement plans as well as PRs for the project.
• Capacity Building:
• Identify learning and training opportunities for partner staff and communicate this to the Nutrition Program Officer or Nutrition Coordinator.
• Ensure all staff supervised and volunteers are familiar with their responsibilities.

Representation & Advocacy & Organizational 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 supporting coordination working groups within the IDP camps and host communities or target project sites.
• 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.

Core Behaviours:

• Understanding humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:
• Ensures 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.
• Achieving results effectively:
• Ensures efficient and transparent use of resources in accordance with internal controls.
• Establishes staff engagement mechanisms.
• Addresses difficult situations and makes tough decisions confidently and calmly.
• Considers the wider impact of decisions to be made in the short and long-term.
• Continuously provides feedback and updates to achieve improved results.
• Coordinates with stakeholders to avoid duplication and maximize resources.
• Document lessons learned and apply for better planning and future programming.
• Maintaining and developing collaborative relationships:
• 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 teams and individuals and monitors progress and performance.
• Operating safely and securely:
• Identifies and communicates risk and threats and minimizes these for oneself and the agency.
• Takes measures to do no harm and to minimize risks for partners and the communities.
• Reduces vulnerability by complying with safety and security protocols set by the organization.
• Demonstrates an understanding of wider UN/NGO security coordination and how the organization can benefit from, and contribute to, those mechanisms
• Managing yourself in a pressured and changing environment:
• Helps team members to practice stress management through prioritization of workloads and modelling of appropriate self-care
• Remains effective and retains perspective in the face of difficult or demanding situations
• Demonstrates personal integrity by using one’s position responsibly and fairly
• Maintains ethical and professional behavior in accordance with relevant codes of conduct
• Plans, prioritizes and performs tasks well under pressure
• Takes responsibility for own work and for the impact of own actions
• Leadership: Action; Thinking; Self; Inspiring; Developing Others:
• Builds own awareness of the bigger global picture by using a broad range of sources to gather data
• Demonstrates managerial courage by confronting difficult situations and seeking resolution, and stating willingness to champion ideas
• 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 another for the purpose of his/her development

Qualifications & Experience
Essential:

• Health / Public Health / Nutrition / BSc or equivalent with minimum of 2 years progressive experience post NYSC
• Experience in Nutrition and community base programming especially in the North-East.
• Experience of emergency nutrition work (preferably IMAM and MAMI) and implementation of feeding programs, including monitoring and evaluation.
• Basic training in IYCF-E / MIYCN
• Proven capacity of management, leadership and teamwork.
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathize with all beneficiaries and their careers.
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions.
• Demonstrable ability at report writing.
• Prepared to live and work in an uncertain security environment.
• Ability and willingness to frequently travel and stay at the field.
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and local languages.
• Computer literate

Desirable:

• Master trainer and good facilitator
• Experience in conducting nutrition assessments and an understanding of nutritional surveillance and information systems.

Application Closing Date
30th April, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: WASH Officer

Location: Adamawa
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Purpose and Description

• Save the Children International (SCI) is a leading independent international organization creating lasting change for children in need around the world. SCI works in over 120 countries globally, including Nigeria, helping children to survive, learn, and be protected. We are working with the government to improve children’s education, health, nutrition, protection and economic opportunities, and in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance to help the children to recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters.
• Save the Children International Nigeria has been selected as Grant Agent for the GPE Accelerated funding to implement Refugee Education intervention over an 18-month period across states of Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Benue, Cross-River and Taraba. As Grant Agent, we are strengthening collaboration with the government at Federal and States/LGA level and SC’s localization strategy recognizing your relevance in the development of a joint refugee/host community education programme to be implemented across the five refugees hosting states.

The WASH Officer will:

• Strategically lead and support implementation of WASH component of project including construction/rehabilitations of water and sanitation facilities in collaboration with Education and WASH stakeholders at state/LGA levels.
• Take the lead on integration of hygiene promotion into  Education programming
• Ensure increased access to high quality, effective and sustainable WASH facilities to improve hygiene practices among students, increase access to safe water and sanitation facilities for refugee and host community children attending school.
• Engage community and school based local structures like School Based Management Committees (SBMCs) to deliver and support the implementation of some activities such as establishment of health clubs, distribution of dignity kits to students, distribution of WASH curriculum to schools, and behavior change communication on WASH.
• Support Monitoring and evaluation of WASH activities
• Under the guidance of the Project Coordinator, WASH manager/TA and Programme manager, the WASH Officer will ensure that the GPE funded project is implemented in selected schools and communities in line with WASH minimum standards.

Scope of Role

• Reports to: Project Coordinator / GPE PM with Matrix reporting to WASH Coordinator/Manager
• Staff directly reporting to this post: None.

Key Areas of Accountabilities

• Carry out field visits to assess sites at the respective facilities and in conjunction with the SCI Education team towards determining the needs and requirement for action and implementation.
• Work with the supply chain 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.
• Carry out regular supportive supervision visits on hygiene promotion in selected schools and refugee settlements
• Build the capacity of partners and SCI staffs on hygiene promotion
• Ensure that community mobilization approaches on the project fully integrate hygiene promotion concepts
• Engage community leaders and other key stakeholders at LGA level on hygiene promotion
• Liaise with SUBEB, 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 programs and initiatives when required
• Ensure that WASH is integrated into trainings carried out on Education and other SCI projects
• 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 any future projects
• 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

Safeguarding:

• Ensure that project delivery complies to the highest safeguarding standards in line with Save the Children’s policy
• Work with the project safeguarding officer to ensure that all WASH activities, construction sites and WASH facilities have a safeguarding risk assessment and mitigation measures in place
• Ensure safe programming in the planning, implementation, monitoring, training of teachers and construction/rehabilitation of learning centres.
• Adhere to the Do no Harm principles across the entire steps within the Programme Management Cycle.

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 - 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.
• 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 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

Qualifications, Experience and Skills
Essential:

• First Degree in Civil Engineering, Geology, Geography or other WASH-related fields from a recognized/accredited Tertiary Institution in Nigeria
• At least two years’ post-graduation experience
• Advanced degree will be an added advantage
• Previous experience with other local and international NGOs
• Experience in WASH in School and in community based programmes
• Training and experience on borehole and VIP latrine construction/rehabilitation
• Community mobilization 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 and writing skills

Application Closing Date
30th April, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Project Lead

Location: Nigeria
Division: Global Programmes
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract / Internal Secondment
Contract Duration: 2 years (with potential extension)

Your Role

• As the Immunization Accelerator Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in the planning, execution, and monitoring of innovative projects aimed at overcoming barriers to child immunization.
• As part of a, working in synergy with teams across the Save the Children movement, you will collaborate with colleagues across the Save the Children movement as well as local organizations and institutions, to ensure that promising innovations receive the support they need to develop their evidence bases.

Your Key Accountabilities

• Lead the end to end support of immunization innovations, from selection via an open call, through piloting to evaluation. You will be able to help innovators work through the next steps they need to take in order to build their evidence bases and take their innovations to the next level.
• Regular in-person support and monitoring of selected innovation projects/partners, including site visits that will require frequent travel in both Nigeria and Ethiopia.
• Initiate and lead discussions with local enterprise, health and innovation stakeholders, including donors, investors, and communities, to ensure the incubator is well networked, has a healthy pipeline and can offer the best support for our innovators.
• You will collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including local partners, Save the Children and GSK to deliver the programme.
• Communicate regularly with the Accelerator Project Team and Accelerator Investment Committees, providing progress reports from the innovators.
• Ensure relevant quality assurance processes are completed so that programmes are running effectively and on time.
• Support award team to ensure that awards management and other relevant information systems are up-to-date, and that global and internal processes are followed.
• Support grant and contract management, from grant set-up to quality assurance during implementation, lead reporting on the Accelerator and work with other SCUK departments to support reporting of the Immunisation programme.
• Ensure awards in the portfolio are compliant with donor requirements and SC quality standards.
• Implement an agile evaluation and learning approach, regularly collecting and analysing relevant data to adapt.
• Facilitate review and reflection meetings to optimize the design of the incubator and support provided.
• And ensure evaluation of the incubator and innovations takes place in a robust and useful.

About You
To be successful, it is important that you have the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience in project management, specifically in the field of enterprise support or health innovation, health management or health research.
• Must have previous experience of working with a range of in-country organisations of different types and sizes, for example, Community Based Organisations, Non-Government Organisations, universities, private sector health initiatives.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to bring together cross-functional teams and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience of the innovation process, preferably with experience in global health initiatives or social enterprise.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to complexity and uncertainty, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project budgets and reporting.
• Previous experience working in a global and multicultural context is highly desirable.
• Fluent in English language essential.

Salary
N21,000,000 / Annum

Application Closing Date
21st April, 2024; 11:37

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Head of Education

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Purpose

• The Head of Education will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for education.
• The role will lead strategy development and the technical design and implementation of high-quality programmes that deliver change for children in both emergency and development programming.
• The role supports national advocacy and influencing, while driving strategic partnerships for new business development.
• It supports the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners.
• The role will work closely operations colleagues and with partners in Nigeria CO, building their capacity and building ownership and agency of local organisations.
• This role includes a focus on external representation on priority issues including: early childhood care and development: foundational learning and uninterrupted learning (education in emergencies) to ensure all children have access to education leading to learning and wellbeing outcomes.
• In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

Scope of Role

• Reports to: Director Programme Quality & Development
• Staff reporting to this post: Education Technical Expert, Education Coordinator, and provide coaching and mentoring support to operational and other technical colleagues and local partners.
• Budget Responsibilities: None

Role Dimensions

• The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, the Country Office Programme Development & Quality team, advocacy colleagues, Regional Advisors, technical counterparts in other organisation, donors, academia etc. The role is also expected to engage with internal technical working groups and communities of practice.
• Context: Humanitarian and development

Key Areas of Accountability
Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership for education or the Country Office and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy.
• Build capacity of education staff and partners in key technical approaches related to education.
• Ensure safeguarding is embedded in all education programmes, and Core Operational Safeguarding Activities (COSA) are implemented and requisite standards met.

Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):

• Support New Business Development colleagues through technical inputs on funding strategies, donor engagement, capture planning, partnering and forming consortia, and opportunity preparation.
• Lead high quality technical education programme design; work with cross-functional colleagues across the movement and with local partners to deliver technical programme designs that are evidence based and in line with our programme quality principles, international standards, and donor requirements.
• Work to ensure that a rights based approach is reflected in our programme design and implementation (in line with our child rights programming approach ), with a strong focus on child participation
• Promote an Education Systems Strengthening approach as the overarching framework, that supports working in collaboration and partnership with governments and regional bodies, local partners and working towards impact, scale and sustainability.
• Provide oversight and guidance to the programme implementation teams to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.
• Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of education programmes at the community level.
• Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out gender and power analysis, and conduct quality monitoring against international standards through participatory methodologies that promote gender equality and social justice (including child-friendly and gender sensitive/transformative methodologies);.
• Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of disaggregated data, evidence and analysis (including gender and power analysis) and understands its link to quality and accountable programming; Contribute to strengthening the use of equality-focused programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.
• Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement .
• Contribute to organisational learning on education, ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and our partners, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global education community in Save the Children including relevant technical working groups.
• Monitor trends in order to ensure early action; and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses. Support Humanitarian colleagues (as needed) to develop emergency preparedness plans, and conduct sectoral assessments ( including gender analysis and disability situation analysis , using SC assessment processes and tools) and to design and deliver emergency response and recovery programmes.

Networking & External Engagement:

• In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in education.
• Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as clusters and working groups recognising Save the Children and UNICEF are global co-leads for the education cluster.
• Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes through working closely with advocacy and child rights governance colleagues. Ensure that the diverse voices of children, girls and boys are equitably heard and represented in our education work.
• Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.
• Ensure the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.
• Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centres of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back.

People Management:

• Support implementation of the Save the Children performance management system, by supporting, coaching, supervising and reviewing performance of the Education staff.
• Create and maintain a cooperative and positive working environment where staff have clear roles and responsibilities, participate in decision-making and are supported in progressing towards their objectives.
• Working together with the Education Teams to identify learning and development needs of the Education Officers and develop specific plans to address the learning needs.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Master's Degree in Education
• At least 7 years experience of leading the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes in education.
• Understanding of the education sector in Nigeria
• Familiar with education systems (humanitarian/cluster systems as needed) for ex. the INEE Minimum Standards, the key issues related to Sustainable Development Goal 4 – to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all .
• Track record in successful business development/fundraising such as Global Partnership for Education, Education Cannot Wait, EU, FCDO, USAID, World Bank
• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
• Experience of strategy development and planning
• Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights.
• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
• Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children
• Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
• Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery
• Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring
• Fluent in English and high level of English writing skills.

Key Competencies:
Technical competencies:

• Ensures all children’s access to quality education
• Ensures all children’s wellbeing
• Supports all children’s learning and development

Generic Competencies

• Being the Voice of Children : Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities
• Advancing Equality & Inclusion : Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalised children
• Building & Strengthening Partnerships : Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to delivery
• Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peers.

Behaviours (Values in Practice):
Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds their team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in accordance with the context, 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.
• Widely shares Save the Children’s vision, and engages and motivates others future orientated, thinks strategically and on a national and global scale.

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.
• The post holder must commit to work in an international agency that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion and fights racism, gender inequality and discrimination in all forms; and to model positive behaviours that demonstrate a commitment to equality and respect to all colleagues, partners and communities.

Application Closing Date
18th April, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Program Manager

Job Identification: 6952
Location: Ogoja, Cross River
Job Schedule Full time
Contract Length: 1 Year
Job Category: Programme Operations
Team / Programme: WASH & education

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3:  The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programmes; or are visiting country programmes; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Role Purpose

• The Programme Manager will be assigned to Ogoja Field Office, with the overall responsibility for the integrated WASH and Education program in Ogoja, Cross River State; Kwande, Benue State, Akwa Ibom and Taraba State.
• In addition to directly managing the program in this area, the Program Manager will be expected to input into programme planning, have oversight of programme implementation, budget management, reporting, recruitment and procurement.
• The Program Manager will manage and oversee the team to deliver quality projects, including:
  • Timely activity implementation according to plan and routine monitoring against agreed indicators,
  • High quality progress and final reports for external and internal use and
  • Strong budget oversight: monthly forecasting and spending according to plan; quarterly revisions, as needed; and budget (spending) reporting as well as building the capacity of the team.

Scope of Role

• Reports to: Field Manager, with technical communication lines to the WASH and Education Specialist.
• Staff reporting to this post: WASH Coordinator, and Education Coordinator others as assigned.
• Other key working contacts:  CP Manager, Education Manager and Support Services (Supply Chain, Finance, HR), MEAL, PDQ, Awards among others.

Key Areas of Accountability
Programme Management:

• Overall responsible for the timely implementation of WASH and Education project activities, under this award, ensuring that services are delivered on time, on budget and in compliance with donor regulations.
• Ensure the programme is implemented in ways responsive to communities, partners and children in line with SC’s principles, values and strategic plan and compliant with SC’s procedures.
• Ensure award/grant kick off and management tools, including implementation plans, MEAL plans, procurement plans and distribution schedules of programme inputs are tracked and updated regularly.
• Manage program budget, including phased budgets, monthly budget forecasting and quarterly budget revisions for all grants.
• Ensure proper and effective use of program resources, ensuring that all resources/assets in project are managed in line with SC and Donor policy.
• Monitor program progress against both programmatic and budgetary targets and collaborate with the Technical Advisors/Specialists to adjust programme design as necessary.
• Prepare timely and high-quality programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• Close coordination with Child Protection and Education teams on cross cutting needs and issues.
• Needs Analysis, Program Design and Implementation:
• Support Technical Advisors and Specialists in the development of project and donor proposals in close coordinator with other sectors.
• Contribute to contingency and emergency preparedness plans and where possible, integrate contingency planning for WASH and Education in all program planning and proposal design.
• Support responses to new emergencies.
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability
• Support MEAL to collect appropriate, timely and accurate data against agreed indicators to enable both internal and external reporting.
• Work with MEAL team to identify and incorporate project suitable accountability mechanisms.
• Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development
• Ensure appropriate staffing within the WASH team and ensure that staff understand and are able to perform their roles.
• Establish performance management of staff through effective use of the Performance Management System including the establishment of clear, measurable objectives, on-going feedback, periodic reviews and fair and unbiased evaluations.
• Support, mentor and develop the WASH team to develop leadership, management and technical capacity.

Coordination:

• Regularly coordinate and collaborate with other program managers and program teams to strengthen programmatic synergies and impact for children.
• Ensure that Save the Children's WASH and Education work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and take a leadership role within Interagency Coordination forums, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed.
• Take steps to document lessons learned for wider dissemination.
• Represent SC and maintain good working relationships among the international and local NGO community, among community leadership structures and community-based organizations, and with visiting donor and third-party monitoring teams and other key contacts. Keep abreast of NGO, government, and donor initiatives relevant to SC’s work.
• Represent SC and the program in donor meetings or applicable sector coordination mechanisms as required.
• Encourage teamwork, openness, and honesty among staff and between SC and its partners.
• 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 duties as assigned by line manager.

Requirements

• Master's Degree or higher in WASH Engineering, Civil or Structural Engineering, a related field, working experience in Program Management.

Essential:

• Expertise in Project management and of managing WASH /Public Health programmes in an NGO for at least 7 years.
• Knowledge on partnership and grant/ award.
• Leadership qualities, motivational skills, mentoring ability; proven experience overseeing and developing a team.
• Experience of program cycle management, and experience in a complex and matrix-managed organisation
• Knowledge of effective financial and budgetary controls; proven ability to manage budgets.
• Solid experience writing comprehensive, high quality narrative reports for donors and other external constituencies; experience supporting national staff colleagues to engage in reporting by systematically collecting and compiling correct, meaningful information/data, etc.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English required.
• Experience living and working in a complex, high risk (dangerous) environment; demonstrated ability to live/work and maintain personal wellness and productivity in such an environment.
• Ability and readiness to work as part of surge team during an emergency (required); commitment to humanitarian response principles and accountability frameworks, especially in working with very vulnerable populations.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously in a highly stressful and challenging environment.
• Proven knowledge of KOBO software for KAP baseline Survey, MS office applications and IT literacy and capacity to learn and use other packages.
• Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children.  In particular, a good understanding of the Save the Children mandates and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin all aspects of the job.   Commitment to Save the Children Child Safeguarding policy.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of local language skills
• Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts.
• Previous experience in INGOs, UN etc.

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 - 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.
• 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 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.
• Initiative and innovation to address obstacles.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

Application Closing Date
18th April, 2024; 15:33

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online