🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ Save the Children Nigeria – 6 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.) Human Resources / Administrative Assistant
2.) Child Protection in Emergencies Assistant (IHN Project)
3.) Child Protection Information Management Assistant
4.) Climate Change and Education Technical Advisor
5.) Human Resources Manager
6.) Climate Change and Education Technical Advisor

Job Title: Human Resources / Administrative Assistant

Job Identification: 2808
Location: Adamawa
Grade: 5
Post Type: National
Job Schedule: Full time
Team: Nigeria Country Office
Job Category: Human Resources

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3- The responsibilities of the post does not require the post holder to have regular contact with children or young people but would be responsible to ensure employee and other representatives adhere to child safeguarding policy.

Role Purpose

• The role holder is responsible for providing professional Administrative and HR support to Save the Children’s programme team based in Adamawa.
• He/she is responsible for providing efficient and effective administrative support to the Adamawa Field office by ensuring all Administration Standard Operating Procedures are adhered to.

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Scope of Role

• Reports to: State Team Lead, Adamawa
• Staff directly reporting to this post: Office Assistant.

Key Areas of Accountabilities
Human Resource Management:

• Support Adamawa Field Manager and Senior HR Manager in the development of training needs.
• Organize training and maintain records.
• Support the Senior Human Resource Manager in researching training opportunities as prioritized by the Senior Management Team or as requested by supervisors.
• Follow up with staff on timely submission of monthly timesheets.
• Prepare the Adamawa office Weekly/monthly HR/Admin report.
• Update staff list and organogram monthly.

Recruitment:

• Develop a standard induction pack and maintain an induction schedule for new staff.
• Coordinate recruitment processes:
• Long/Short-listing of candidates.
• Interviewing candidates.
• Conduct reference checks and criminal record checks.
• Prepare contracts and offer letters.
• Coordinate the process of new staff induction on the global and national policy guidelines and procedures.

Staff Welfare Management:

• Registration of staff with Health Management Organizations (HMO) and administration of other updates with the HMO.
• Maintain records of all incident reports.
• Provide relevant information necessary for the management of the combined accident and employee compensation and group life insurance cover for staff.

Child Safeguarding:

• Ensure all new employees at the office have had a thorough child safeguarding policy induction.
• Training staff and consultants on the CS Policy (awareness raising, management systems, prevention, monitoring and responses)
• Ensure that representatives and beneficiaries of SCI programmers are made aware of the conduct they can expect of SCI Staff in line with the requirements of the CS policy and how to report concerns.
• Under the supervision of the Field Manager, disseminate, implement and monitor the Child Safeguarding Policy across SC Adamawa Field Office
• Other - Other tasks as requested by Line Manager.

General Administration:

• Management of the office premises. Ensuring the office is clean and all facilities are in good working condition.
• Supervise the cleaners and ensure cleaning items are always available.
• Ensure the office is opened and locked at appropriate times daily.
• Ensure staff have access to the office if they are required to work on a weekend after obtaining the required approval.
• Facilitating hotel booking, air ticketing and other arrangement in the field office
• Register, submit and file daily incoming and outgoing correspondence; and maintain a filing system
• Receive and attend to delegated procurement requests.
• Regularly maintain and update inventories under the supervision of the Line Manager.
• Update staff attendance list.
• Maintain Office meeting room-booking register and liaise with IT Department that all gadgets are in place and in proper working condition.

Store Management:

• Manage stationery and consumable store effectively and efficiently.
• Receive requisitions and provide supplies to staff.
• Issue out requested items for training/workshops/meetings to request staff upon receipt of the request.
• Ensure the minimum stock levels are maintained to avoid stock out.
• Regularly maintain and update inventory cards.

Hotel and venue bookings:

• Make Hotel/Venue Bookings and provide updates to requesting staff.
• Liaise with the required facilities to decide on the most suitable option while ensuring value for money.
• Timely communication to requesting staff on the booking information.
• Facilitating hotel booking, air ticketing and other arrangement in the field office.

Programme Administration:

• Provides administrative support to Adamawa Program teams: tracking actions, key dates, organizing events, meetings/workshop logistics e.g., booking venue/room, setting up conference calls etc.
• Documentation system: receiving and filing official documents, publications, and manuals and ensuring their security.
• Processing payments related to flight and accommodation bookings at most 3 days after SCI has been invoiced.
• Arrange Hotel/Venue Booking and provide feedback to the requester.
• Point of contact to receive/send communication to/ from states on behalf of the team.
• Liaise with all other departments for administrative needs e.g. stationery, procurement etc.

Front Desk:

• Greet and welcome all visitors and direct them to the relevant staff/persons.
• Manage the office switchboard, answer telephones and direct calls to relevant people.
• Carry out all duties associated with the Front Desk function including; welcoming guests professionally; receiving and transferring phone calls; and directing visitors appropriately.
• Deal with all queries/general enquiries by telephone, e-mail, in-person, from internal and external contacts.
• File and maintain files of front desk documents.
• Utilities & Payments of Office Rent and Bills.
• Send and receive office mail and parcels via courier and maintain a tracker for the same.
• Maintain a tidy, clean and professional appearance for the reception area at all times.

Requirements
Essential:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Management, Business Administration or Social Sciences.
• At least 2 years' experience in a similar role.
• Computer literacy
• Ability to draft well-written, professionally presented documents.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Excellent verbal communication and listening skills.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English.
• Sound knowledge of office practices, procedures and administrative systems including filing systems
• High level of personal integrity, commitment and professional responsibility
• Willingness and capability to comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to health and safety, security, equal opportunities, Child Safeguarding Policy and other relevant policies.

Desired:

• Previous INGO/NGO experiences

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.

Collaboran:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters.
• Values diversity and 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.

Application Closing Date
16th August, 2023.

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

Job Title: Child Protection in Emergencies Assistant (IHN Project)

Job Identification 2809
Location: Adamawa, Nigeria
Grade: 5
Post type: National
Job Schedule Full time
Team/Programme: Humanitarian
Job Category: Programme Operations

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have occasional contact with or access to children or young people

Role Purpose

• The CPiE Assistant is responsible for implementing community-based child protection program in Adamawa with frequent travel to the field sites.
• He/she will be responsible for prevention and response activities of the child protection program that include working with the community, psychosocial support activities, and case management.
• The CPiE Assistant will be expected to support child protection sectoral assessment, project planning, and coordination with other child protection actors.
• In most circumstances, the post holder will be expected to mentor and/or build the capacity of implementing partners on the field.

Scope of Role

• Reports to: CPIE Officer
• Staff directly reporting to this post: None
• Budget responsibility: None

Key Areas of Accountabilities

• Assist the child protection team in the assessment of the living conditions of children in the camp and participate in the development of appropriate responses to the needs of children.
• Facilitate the involvement of children and the community (leaders and parents) in the PSS activities and document the progress made.
• Support (the incentive workers) team leaders and social workers in the monitoring, verification, and documentation of cases of children.
• Follow-up on the preparation and implementation of the case action plan and home visit conducted by the social workers.
• Assist the child protection officer in facilitating and organizing appropriate care arrangements and suitable alternative care systems with close supervision and attention to the individual needs of children.
• Through working with the child protection committees identify potential foster families for unaccompanied and separated children in collaboration with social workers and community leaders.
• Organize and facilitate positive parenting skills training (Parenting Without Violence Common Approach) weekly sessions.
• Assist the child rights clubs to demonstrate to the community and the concerned body about protection concerns that children are facing while living in the camp and promote the participation of children in all matters affecting their lives.
• Organize and lead psychosocial support activities.
• Work closely with the child protection officer in the celebration of international events days and other awareness-raising sessions
• Assist and participate in the preparation of budget, work, and spending plans, and PR tracking to monitor the proper utilization of the budget and timely implementation of activities.
• Adhere to and fully abide by the child protection code of conduct.
• Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor.
• With support from the coordinator, supervise project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities (for example, monitoring against individual performance management work plans).
• With support from the lead Coordinator and/or other senior programme staff, prepare and review timely monthly reports submitted by partners and SCI Staff.
• Work with the MEAL plan to ensure links to reporting requirements where possible, and refer the MEAL 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 survivors of gender-based violence are timely identified and provided counseling and other appropriate response services.
• Ensure relevant referral forms are in place, and implemented accordingly, and coordinate monthly meetings including, parent’s forum and child protection committee
• Provide essential psychosocial first aid support to children and adults when needed and ensure partner staff are supervised regularly to ensure activities are carried out in line with minimum standard guidelines.
• Consistently update the referral pathway of project locations

Capacity Building:

• Provide capacity to implementing partners that have less CPiE experience.

Representation & Advocacy & Organizational Learning:

• With support from the Lead Child Protection Coordinator 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 the Line Manager.

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 1 year post NYSC work experience in GBV and Child Protection work, supervision, community mobilization, and distribution and a solid understanding of the actual Nigeria Emergency context.
• Proven ability to supervise a CP project with a holistic approach and integrated child protection right.
• Fluent in English.
• Working knowledge of Hausa and local language.
• Computer literate.

Desirable Criteria:

• Female with a high level of personal integrity, commitment, and professional responsibility with GBV exigencies.
• Excellent communication skills,
• Team player with strong leadership skills.
• Mature personality with life experience is an advantage.
• Able to be self-started and work in challenging contexts and fragile environment.

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-oriented, 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 program 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 their own preferred solution.
• Gives constructive feedback to enhance capabilities and responsibilities to partners and others.

Application Closing Date
16th August, 2023.

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

Job TItle: Child Protection Information Management Assistant

Job Identification: 2812
Location: Yobe
Team/Programme: Nigeria Humanitarian Programme
Grade: 5
Contract Length: 5 months

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3:  the post 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 country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Role Purpose

• Under the supervision of the CPIMS Officer and with technical support from the Case Management Coordinator, CPIMS Specialist and CP Advisor, the post-holder will ensure efficient and effective day to day collection of field data and inputting data into CP IMS.

Scope of Role

• Reports to: Child protection in Emergency officer
• Staff reporting to this post: Non

Key Areas of Accountability

• Compile the case management data and ensure timely entry into the CPIMS
• Cleaning of the data regularly to ensure accuracy of data.
• Daily back-up and synchronization of data.
• Generate weekly reports that are shared with the Case management team to enable better management and prioritization of cases.
• Manage data from individual cases, which include security of the data and flagging errors
• Ensure mandatory fields are correctly captured and staff are assisted and guided as required before cases are entered into the system.
• To oversee the day-to-day management of the inter-agency child protection database in Borno State including ensuring accurate and detailed data is sent to the CPIMS Task force and SCI MEAL Team on a monthly basis.
• Flag and Follow up of individual cases with the Case management officers, child protection in emergency officers and the Case Management Coordinator
• Weekly analysis of data including achievements, duration between identification and entry, progress of the priority cases e.t.c.
• Populate and submit monthly 5Ws to the respective Sub Sectors.
• Field visit and provide technical support to registered cases randomly selected from the CPIMS database.
• Coaching the case management team on how to correctly fill the forms.
• Participate in any other activities as may be assigned to you by your supervisor from time to time.
• Comply with all relevant Save the Children International policies and procedures with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies

Capacity Building:

• Provide capacity to implementing partners and case workers on IA CPIMS form and case management
• Provide technical support/capacity building to caseworkers and project staff on quality data entry and CPIMS.

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 CPIMS Task Force and Case Management Task Force
• With support from the Lead Child Protection Manager 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.

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:

• Any other task assign by line manager.

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.

Safeguarding our Staff:

• The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety:

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

Qualifications
Essential Criteria:

• University Degree or equivalent in Social work, Social Science, Development Studies or equivalent combination of relevant training and experience
• Between three and four years of work experience in Protection work, supervision, community mobilization and distribution and a solid understanding of the actual Nigeria Emergency context.
• Proven ability to supervise a CP project with a 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 self-started and work in challenging contexts and fragile environments.

Application Closing Date
23rd August, 2023.

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

Job Title: Climate Change and Education Technical Advisor

Tracking Code: 4258-689
Location: Abuja with field travel

Where you Come in

• In this fulltime, maximum term 18 month role (with strong potential for extension), ideally based in any country in the West Africa region, you will play an integral part of the delivery of the Climate Smart Education Systems, Strategic Capability Initiative was launched by the Global Partnership for Education in June 2023.
• Working alongside UNESCO, UNESCO-IIEP and our Save the Children county offices you will be part of a multidisciplinary climate and education team with experts in policy and planning, financing, coordination, data management, infrastructure, school management and curriculum and play a key role supporting Ministries of Education think through what support they want from the project to further the integrate climate change into the education sector.

You will Make an Impact by:

• Sharing your experience and expertise in the multidisciplinary team to help identify opportunities to support ministries of education.
• Being the expert in coordination, financing, school management, or infrastructure.
• Traveling to selected countries to work with the UNESCO and Save the Children local teams so support the Ministries of Education to identify what more they could be doing to address the impacts of climate change.
• Building the capacity of Ministry staff and our country colleagues to better understand how climate change will impact children’s education and what we can do about it.

Does this Sound like you?

• You are a technical expert in education, school safety and / or climate change with in-depth knowledge of how climate change will impact children in schools and what Ministries of Education can do to reduce those impacts.
• You love to travel and engage with a variety of people who work in or support Ministries of Education. You know how to facilitate a conversation and lead from behind bring the best out in people.
• You know West Africa really well and you know what makes people and systems work in the regions.
• You are a confident operator and can go between the bigger picture and finer details of delivering quality technical assistance projects.
• You’re an excellent communicator and have a passion for the environment and climate change action as want to see vulnerable children thrive despite the challenges the world throws at them.

This Role Requires

• At least 5 years experience working in climate change and education.
• You must have extensive experience and expertise in at least one of the following areas as they relate to climate change in the education sector: Policy and planning, coordination, financing, school management and or infrastructure.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills supported by strong analytical capabilities.
• Experience operating within a complex environment and dealing with ambiguity.
• A friendly, communicative, accessible and positive personality.
• Fluent spoken and written English and / or French.

Benefits
Working at Save the Children is more than just a job:

• It’s the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place for children and working with others who feel the same.

In addition to a connection to social causes, you will have access to:

• Friendly and flexible work environment
• Agile work environment including working from home
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) as well as internal networks to support our diverse workforce,
• Competitive salary + super
• Additional annual leave options available

Application Closing Date
18th August, 2023 - 4 P.M

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Human Resources Manager

Job ID: 2400
Location: Abuja with field travel
Grade: 2

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.

Scope of Role

• Reports to: Director, Human Resources and Administration
• Staff directly reporting to this post: 2 HR Officers and 2 Assistants

Key Areas of Accountability
Policies and Procedures:

• Supervise the Human Resources function to ensure that advice and support are provided to managers and staff on interpretation and application of policies and procedures and on other HR-related matters.
• Supervise the development of HR practices and processes aligned with the organization’s overall strategy to meet the evolving needs of the organization.
• Provide ethical oversight and leadership support across the Country Office HR locations
• Ensure that staff and Save the Children Associates are aware of and adhere to the Child Safeguarding Policies.
• Lead in the implementation of High Performing Organization projects in the Nigeria country program.

Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development - Human Resources:

• Ensure appropriate staffing within Human Resources.
• Ensure that all HR staff understand and are able to perform their roles.
• Manage the HR team; define expectations, provide technical support as needed, and evaluate direct reports regularly.
• Ensure the recruitment, training, and promotion of staff as appropriate and ensure the availability of appropriate professional development opportunities for staff.
• Incorporate staff development strategies and Performance Management Systems into team building process.  Establish result-based system and follow up.
• Manage the performance of all staff in the Human Resources work area.
• Effective use of the Performance Management System including the establishment of clear, measurable objectives, ongoing feedback, periodic reviews and fair and unbiased evaluations.
• Coaching, mentoring and other developmental opportunities.
• Recognition and rewards for outstanding performance.
• Documentation of performance that is less than satisfactory, with appropriate performance improvements/work plans.

Staff Recruitment and Retention:

• Ensure appropriate recruitment, retention and succession of staff including orientation programs; design and implementation of compensation and performance management systems relevant for both development and emergencies, and career development for staff.
• Ensure that employment terms, conditions and practices are fair, consistent, and compliant with labor law and Save the Children human resource policies and best practices, and appropriate to the context.
• Prepare terms and conditions of employment and issue all employment and consultancy contracts in compliance with Nigeria Labour Law and regional HR best practices.
• In collaboration with the Director of HR and Administration, ensure maintenance of updated information on staff salaries, allowances and income tax calculations in compliance with current laws and regulations.

Performance Management and Staff Development:

• With other senior managers develop a culture of performance management across the organization, where staff are held accountable and rewarded for high performance.
• Lead implementation and maintenance of Save the Children’s Develop to Perform performance management system in alignment with organizational goals.
• Ensure that performance reviews are conducted regularly by supervisors; provide training and advice to managers on effective implementation of performance management.
• Providing guidance on staff capacity building and ensure that staff development is budgeted for.
• Ensure that staff have access to HR guidance on individual development opportunities arising from performance review feedback and personal career development interests.
• Lead on refresher trainings for staff in HR policies and procedures including performance management.
• Monitor and advise on disciplinary matters in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Mediate conflict, and grievances and lead on inquiries in harassment cases.
• Promote diversity and inclusion awareness and design activities that foster understanding and tolerance among staff from different cultural backgrounds.

Competencies for this Role
Delivering Results:

• Takes personal responsibility and holds others accountable for delivering our ambitious goals for children, continually improving our own performance or that of the team/organization.
• Level required: Accomplished

Applying Technical and Professional Expertise:

• Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest standards; promotes and shares best practices within and outside the organization.
• Level required: Accomplished

Working Effectively with Others:

• Works collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people and perspectives. Knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure effective cross-boundary working.
• Level required: Accomplished

Communicating with Impact:

• Communicates clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence and trust.
• Level required: Accomplished

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), take responsibility for their own personal development and encourage others to do the same.
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, and 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

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources Management, Law, Business Administration, Social Sciences, or other related academic discipline.
• Recommended minimum of 4 years’ HR managerial experience in a corporate or an INGO environment.
• Ability to apply HR data analytics as a decision-making tool, to predict People & Organizational trends.
• Knowledge and maintenance of HR Information Systems that meets senior management’s information needs.
• Application of talent management software and learning management systems to streamline hiring, onboarding, training and retention processes.
• In-depth knowledge of employee relations and current employment legislation in Nigeria.
• Experience in the development of strategic and operational support services plans and their implementation in a work environment over a sustained period of time.
• Ability to plan and organise a substantial workload that includes complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities in both development and emergency contexts.
• Experience in capacity building and setting frameworks for staff development.
• Demonstrated credibility with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels of an organization
• Excellent oral and written English combined with effective presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to demonstrate leadership in a multi-disciplined team through a period of change.
• Ability to coach, mentor, delegate appropriately and provide developmental guidance to supervised staff.
• High level of commitment to the principles of development and to the organizational and programmatic goals of Save the Children.

What we Offer you

• Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits below, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.
• In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.

Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process:

• Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Climate Change and Education Technical Advisor

Location: West Africa

Job Description

• Save the Children is no ordinary not-for-profit.
• We’re ambitious, creative and outspoken. We stand up for children’s rights. We want all children to be educated, healthy and live a life free from violence.  We run programs all over the world and, if there’s a disaster - like an earthquake, drought or conflict – we are there on the ground.

Where you come in:

• In this fulltime, maximum term 18 month role (with strong potential for extension), ideally based in any country in the West Africa region, you will play an integral part of the delivery of the Climate Smart Education Systems, Strategic Capability Initiative was launched by the Global Partnership for Education in June 2023.
• Working alongside UNESCO, UNESCO-IIEP and our Save the Children county offices you will be part of a multidisciplinary climate and education team with experts in policy and planning, financing, coordination, data management, infrastructure, school management and curriculum and play a key role supporting Ministries of Education think through what support they want from the project to further the integrate climate change into the education sector.

You will make an impact by:

• Sharing your experience and expertise in the multidisciplinary team to help identify opportunities to support ministries of education.
• Being the expert in coordination, financing, school management, or infrastructure.
• Traveling to selected countries to work with the UNESCO and Save the Children local teams so support the Ministries of Education to identify what more they could be doing to address the impacts of climate change.
• Building the capacity of Ministry staff and our country colleagues to better understand how climate change will impact children’s education and what we can do about it.

Does this sound like you?

• You are a technical expert in education, school safety and / or climate change with in-depth knowledge of how climate change will impact children in schools and what Ministries of Education can do to reduce those impacts.
• You love to travel and engage with a variety of people who work in or support Ministries of Education. You know how to facilitate a conversation and lead from behind bring the best out in people.
• You know West Africa really well and you know what makes people and systems work in the regions.
• You are a confident operator and can go between the bigger picture and finer details of delivering quality technical assistance projects.
• You're an excellent communicator and have a passion for the environment and climate change action as want to see vulnerable children thrive despite the challenges the world throws at them.

Requirements
This role requires:

• At least 5 years experience working in climate change and education.
• You must have extensive experience and expertise in at least one of the follow areas as they relate to the climate change in the education sector: Policy and planning, coordination, financing, school management and or infrastructure.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills supported by strong analytical capabilities.
• Experience operating within a complex environment and dealing with ambiguity.
• A friendly, communicative, accessible and positive personality.
• Fluent spoken and written English and / or French.

Working at Save the Children is more than just a job.

• It’s the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place for children and working with others who feel the same.

In addition to a connection to social causes, you will have access to:

• Friendly and flexible work environment
• Agile work environment including working from home
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) as well as internal networks to support our diverse workforce,
• Competitive salary + super
• Full salary packaging benefits if you are an Australian resident for tax purposes (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)
• Additional annual leave options available.

Application Closing Date
18th August, 2023 at 4pm AEST.

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