🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ Save the Children Nigeria – 4 Positions

Job Title: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Officer 

Job ID: 13250
Location: Kastina
Employment Type: Full Time
Caregory: Program Operations
Reports directly to: Program Manager
Staff directly reporting to this post: MHPSS Facilitators
Information Management: Child Protection Program

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.

Role Purpose

• The MHPSS Officer will be responsible for the planning, implementation, and monitoring of MHPSS activities under the education and child protection project targeting conflict and climate affected children in Northwest Nigeria.
• The Officer will ensure integration of MHPSS into education interventions, strengthen the capacity of teachers and school staff, and support safe learning environments that promote children's emotional wellbeing and learning outcomes.
• The officer will also assist in providing clinical intervention children in distress and is required to travel to field sites regularly.

Key Areas of Accountability
Technical Quality:

• Lead the design and implementation of MHPSS interventions integrated into education programming.
• Ensure the provision of age-appropriate, culturally relevant psychosocial support activities in schools and learning spaces.
• Conduct and support structured group and individual PSS activities with children, adolescents and caregivers.
• Work with teachers, school aunts, and school fathers to identify children with protection and psychosocial concerns and refer appropriately

Capacity Building & Supervision:

• Train and mentor teachers, school counsellors, education and PSS facilitators, school aunts and fathers on basic MHPSS principles, Psychological First Aid (PFA), and classroom-based psychosocial support.
• Establish and build the capacity of school aunts and fathers to provide nurturing, gender-sensitive, and responsive care to children, especially those showing signs of distress.
• Develop and adapt MHPSS training materials and tools for non-specialists in the school environment.

Coordination and Representation:

• Work closely with education, and child protection teams to ensure holistic support for children.
• Engage community and school-based support structures, including school aunts/fathers, in strengthening the MHPSS referral pathways.
• Participate in local coordination forums, including education and protection sub-sectors.
• Maintain effective communication with stakeholders including local authorities, schools, and community-based structures.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting:

• Develop tools to monitor MHPSS interventions within the education and child protection program.
• Contribute to regular reporting, success stories, and documentation of lessons learned.
• Support in needs assessments and baseline surveys focused on children and caregivers’ psychosocial wellbeing.

Safeguarding:

• Assess Safeguarding activities during field visits.
• Assess the mainstreaming of safeguarding in programme operations

Other:

• To carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities within the overall function of MHPSS as and when requested by the supervisor.
• To be proactive in developing actions that will improve the activities they engage in while in schools and communities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in psychology, Social Work, Education, Child Development, or related fields
• Minimum of 3 years experience in implementing MHPSS or Child Protection programs in humanitarian or development contexts.
• Demonstrated experience in integrating MHPSS into education programming.
• Experience working with children and adolescents in emergency or conflict-affected contexts.
• Knowledge of Psychological First Aid, community-based psychosocial support, and child protection principles.
• Fluent in English; knowledge of Hausa or local languages in Northwest Nigeria is a strong asset.
• Good report writing skills
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions
• Commitment to Save the Children’s Child Protection Policy.

Skills and Behaviours (Our Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong facilitation and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse teams and communities.
• Proven ability to build staff and community caregiver capacity.
• Demonstrated commitment to child safeguarding and protection principles.
• Ability to adapt to changing contexts and work under pressure.

Working Contacts:

• External: The job holder is required to have regular contact with other similar organizations, education and child protection institutions, children, community, and government departments.
• Internal: The job requires the job holder to have direct relationship with all staff and management at all levels in ensuring the organizational policies and procedures are adhered to and complied with.    

Application Closing Date
28th June, 2025; 12:59 PM.

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

Job Title: Child Protection Information Management System Officer

Job ID: 13251
Location: Kastina
Employment Type: Full Time
Caregory: Program Operations
Reports directly to: Program Manager
Staff directly reporting to this post: Case workers
Information Management: Child Protection Program

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.

Role Purpose

• The candidate will provide statistical analysis and other information to support management decision making within Child Protection Programs in Katsina, Kaduna and Zamfara state.
• The CPIMS Officer will assist in the setting up and implementation of the information management system as part of case management responses for children vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, neglect and violence.
• The candidate will ensure an up to date and quality data on both programme performance and quality delivery while maintaining high professional standards of all our Child Protection Programmes.

Scope of Role

• To ensure all information collected from the field sites as part of case management responses for children harmed or at risk of being harmed are safely and accurately filed and stored.
• To support caseworkers in managing their caseload by extracting individual caseload information.
• To ensure that all data protection protocols are observed while managing information collected.
• To uphold the SCI Child Safeguarding Policy and the Prevention of Sexual of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse within the workplace and communities of intervention.

Key Areas of Accountability
Technical Quality:

• To ensure data of all cases registered under case management are correctly entered into the IA CPIMS database and provide data and information in response to requests from internal and external parties on a timely manner.
• Support the CP team by generating a list of cases due for follow up on a weekly basis and monitor this against the number of cases followed up monthly.
• To provide statistics, information and reports to show progress and trends, and in liaison with the CM officers and Specialist present a monthly analysis to Child protection staff.
• To conduct regular data quality checks to ensure information collected as part of documentation and monitoring is accurate, reliable, complete, precise, timely and has high integrity.
• Provide feedback to the case management supervisors on the case management process and strengthen the capacity of case workers to complete forms accurately through one-to-one and group mentoring and review sessions
• To maintain confidentiality, privacy in the management of cases and observe data protection and confidentiality protocols while managing data. This includes and is not limited to the informed consent or use of data and privacy, but to all information sharing in the CPIMS.
• To handle and respond to programmatic data request from Child Protection project team aptly on case management.
• Supervise the coding for all cases registered in the various field sites.

Coordination & Representation:

• Effectively communicate with caseworkers, CP Officers, Program Manager and Senior Child Protection Technical Advisor to provide necessary information concerning reporting.
• Regularly attend case management meetings at field level.
• Attend the inter-agency CPIMS meetings

Grant Monitoring and Reporting:

• Provide input for weekly and staff activity reports.
• Monitor and report trends in case management.

Accountability functions:

• Actively seek complaints and provide feedback through engagement with the Community workers and beneficiaries at camp level – including through informal and focus group discussions and exit interviews
• Maintain an updated complaints and feedback database at camp level, including tracking progress on actions from the complaints received and actions identified to mitigate the identified issues.

Safeguarding:

• Assess Safeguarding activities during field visits.
• Assess the mainstreaming of safeguarding in programme operations

Other:

• To carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities within the overall function of Case management as and when requested by the supervisor.
• To be proactive in developing actions that will improve the activities they engage in while in the camps

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Social Sciences or its equivalent or Diploma in Information Management with a minimum of three (4) years’ work experience in child protection sector
• Knowledge of child protection in emergencies, case management, child rights and protection issues
• Strong self-starter, able to take initiative and adapt to changing circumstances and priorities
• Positive attitude towards community work with emphasis on the ability to learn from communities and support participatory, innovative approaches to problem solving
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with all children and their carers
• Fluent in written and spoken English, and Hausa will be an added advantage
• Good report writing skills
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions
• Commitment to Save the Children’s Child Protection Policy.

Desirable Qualfiications:

• Previous experience in working with IA CPIMS+ is an added advantage.
• Good understanding of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning concepts in programme context
• Understanding of the dynamics of the refugees is essential
• Experience of working with displaced and host communities in humanitarian and development context and other agencies that support Child Protection and education.

Skills and Behaviours (Our Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency.

Working Contacts:

• External: The job holder is required to have regular contact with other similar organizations, education and child protection institutions, children, community, and government departments.
• Internal: The job requires the job holder to have direct relationship with all staff and management at all levels in ensuring the organizational policies and procedures are adhered to and complied with.    

Application Closing Date
28th June, 2025; 12:59 PM.

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

Job Title: Construction Officer (ECW- FER) - Northwest

Job ID: 13234
Location: Zamfara
Employment Type: Full Time
Category: Programme, Development and Quality
Reports to: ECW Program Manager- Zamfara.
Staff reporting to this post: None
Role Dimensions: Field office-based position with at least 40% field visit

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 in country programs; or are visiting the country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Role Purpose

• North-east region grapples with insurgency and armed conflicts, exacerbating the out-of-school crisis for girls and boys, the North-west has faced significant challenges from armed violence, kidnappings, insecurity and climate change.
• These factors, compounded by existing issues like poverty and displacements have led to widespread disruption in education, health, and basic services, particularly impacting adolescent boys and girls.
• The region’s extreme weather, marked by prolonged dry seasons, rising temperatures and flash floods, has damaged infrastructure and displaced communities, further hindering access to education.
• Schools in states like Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna have experienced attacks and kidnappings, instilling fear among students, teachers and parents, leading to absenteeism, dropouts and school closure.
• Furthermore, conflict over grazing land and natural resources has jeopardized safe access to education.
• With Funding from ECW, Save the Children is implementing a one-year project aimed In ensuring equitable access to safe learning environment for all, the project will assess existing learning facilities to ensure they are inclusive and sensitive to the needs of girls and boys with disabilities.
• The WASH facilities will be assessed for availability, functionality, safety, gender-responsiveness and disability friendliness in learning centres.
• The Construction Officer will be tasked with overseeing all functional aspects of construction related projects such as conducting feasibility assessment, preparing technical documents & tender documents, supporting supply chain team for the procurement process, mobilise contractors, conduct regular field visit and conduct intensive technical monitoring of construction related activities in close coordination with Education team in Zamfara, Kaduna and Katsina States.

Scope of Role
Key Areas of Accountabilities:

• Conduct need assessment in the selected schools to identify needs of School WASH facilities in close coordination with Education team.
• Conduct feasibility study to construct TLS, latrines and hand washing facilities in selected schools.
• Prepare designs and BOQs for water supply, Classrooms and TLS constructions and installations for schools and host communities.
• Conduct hazard assessment and verify availability of land to prepare designs and drawings.
• Prepare design, Drawings, Bill of Quantity (BOQ), cost estimate and specifications of construction materials as per standard in close coordination with School Management Committee and Education team
• Ensure quality of construction work carried by contractors per SCI construction policy.
• Supervise construction work of Latrines, hand washing facilities and any other construction activities that SCI will undertake.
• Prepare construction quality checklist and prepare periodic reports.
• Conduct frequent field visit to conduct technical monitoring.
• Provide necessary suggestion and technical backstopping to contractors, construction workers and School Management.
• Maintain close contact with selected communities and inform them of issues related to the project;
• Provide periodic progress reports and undertake verification of payment invoices.
• Monitor construction budgets and overall performance with Program and Project Managers
• Verify all construction work carried out at the completion stage in cooperation with the relevant authority and ensure that all requirements are fulfilled before a Certificate of Completion is issued, and final payments paid.
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Strategically lead and support implementation of WASH and construction and Construction component of the project including construction/rehabilitations of water and sanitation facilities in collaboration with Education and CP stakeholders at state/LGA levels.
• Supervise borehole drilling and rehabilitation by contractors in the field to ensure adequate quality control is maintained and project specifications and timelines are adhered to.
• Ensure Child Safeguarding Risk Assessments are conducted for all construction and programme activities.
• Coordinate with logistics to facilitate procurement of necessary WASH items such and other materials and support in the distributions across the supported schools and communities.

Capacity Building:

• Build the capacity of partners and SCI staffs on hygiene promotion.
• Ensure that community mobilisation approaches on the project fully integrate hygiene promotion concepts.
• Provide capacity to implementing partners that have less Construction experience
• Engage community leaders and other key stakeholders at LGA level on hygiene promotion.

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government and support Interagency Coordination Sub Working Group, advocating for the specific needs of children. This may involve supporting the coordination of working groups and sub-working groups.
• Under the guidance of the Project Manager, WASH and Construction TA, the Officer will ensure that the ECW funded project is implemented in selected communities in line with WASH and construction minimum standards.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering/ Architecture or related field;
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant working experience preferably in a humanitarian/recovery context;
• Experience on Construction and WASH related projects specially on design and construction of infrastructures.
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.

Experience and Skills
Essential:

• Previous experience with other local and international NGOs
• Training and experience on borehole and VIP latrine construction/rehabilitation
• Community mobilization and advocacy experience
• Computer literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, AutoCAD and Epanet)
• Ability to work in partnership with government and other NGO staff
• Good interpersonal skills
• Independence, adaptability, and flexibility with good workload management, multitasking and ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills
• Listening skills.
• Problem analysis and problem-solving.
• Proficient in relevant computer applications.
• Ability to work as part of a team, flexible, adaptable, and patient.
• Ability to work under pressure often to strict deadlines.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with mapping field equipment and software
• Experience with emergency water supply systems
• Familiarity with population fluxes and water supply management in the context of emergencies.

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:

• 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 construction activities, construction sites and construction 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.

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
24th June, 2025; 10:46 PM.

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

Job Title: Head of Business Development

Job ID: 13208
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full Time
Contract length: Fixed Term – 2 years (Renewable based on funding availability & performance)
Grade: 2
Team / Programme: SC Nigeria
Job Category: Programme, Development and Quality
Reports to: Deputy Country Director / Director Programme Development and Quality
Staff directly reporting to this post:  3 (BD Manager, BD Coordinator & Costing Specialist)
Key staff engaging directly with this post: Thematic Technical Specialists; Head of MEAL & Team; Advocacy, Campaigns, Communications & Media team (ACCM); Senior Management Team; Field/Programme  Managers;  and  members.

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.

Role Purpose

• Save the Children is looking to add a dynamic, organized Head of Business Development who is passionate about being a part of a global team of individuals committed to improving the lives of children in Nigeria.
• The Head of Business Development is a key position to support successful pursuit of new funding for the country program.
• His/her actions and decisions in managing multi-divisional proposal response teams directly impact the quality and competitiveness of Save the Children’s proposals for new funding.
• The Head of Business Development provides technical assistance, support, and training to technical advisors for new business development strategies and tasks from pre- positioning through proposal submission.
• This position also oversees a unit that provides support to technical and cost proposals.
• Strategically, s/he will take the lead in coordinating appropriate internal advance planning in coordination and communication on potential new opportunities.
• S/he provides quality control and support to technical leads’ efforts to achieve greater program impact through the successful pursuit of larger and more strategic funding opportunities.

Key Areas of Accountability
General Management:

• Identify and track relevant upcoming funding opportunities – through advance intelligence gathering, partner relationships, and other available resources – and inform Country Office SMT and relevant technical leads.
• Lead the development, implementation and consolidation of private sector engagement processes. Serve as a point of contact on area of responsibility with public, private and non-government stakeholders, when needed.
• Conduct ongoing proactive monitoring and research to identify potential partnerships with foundations, private sector and high net-worth philanthropic individual donors within the sector, both locally and internationally.
• Facilitate the development of innovative funding products, including but not limited to diversification into social venture initiatives and other funding channels that could improve the Country Office bottom line.
• Coordinate proposal development, including providing quality control to proposals through the design, implementation, and/or review of response strategies and action plans for technical and cost proposals, including writing, reviewing and editing proposal sections, graphics, work plans, budget spreadsheets and narratives; managing partner relations; and overseeing final proposal production for submission to donors.
• Develop and/or maintain appropriate systems, procedures, policies, and materials to support the identification, selection and response to strategic opportunities.
• Manage major open solicitations and other proposal submissions, including teaming agreements, oversight of technical design and cost proposal, capacity statements, internal review/quality control processes, drafting sections of the proposal where appropriate.
• Conduct prospecting visits to field offices to identify and prepare for upcoming funding opportunities.
• Represent Save the Children as appropriate on strategic opportunities with donors, partners and others, participating as needed in meetings and conferences.
• Strengthen staff capacity to respond to strategic opportunities through the creation and/or delivery of formal and informal training and tools.

Strategic Leadership:

• Lead on the development of and updates of SC Nigeria’s country specific Funding Strategy and Donor Engagement Plan for the country program as a whole and for thematic, cross-sectoral and emergency response programs and projects.
• Ensure close collaboration and joint decision making with DPDQ, Director Programme Operations, ACCM Director and the Country Director and consultation with Members and Programme Funding leads on new (strategic) funding opportunities.
• Ensure timely strategic engagement with donors, partners, and other external stakeholders.
• Ensure funding is adequately channelled into the CO’s strategic objectives and towards innovations; ensure program development builds on learning and evaluation of previous project implementation.

Business Analysis and Donor Engagement:

• Represent the Nigeria CO in relevant donor fora, workshops and conferences where new business development opportunities can be formulated, as indicated by the line manager.
• Establish effective relationships with external stakeholders, donors and potential partners for large scale or strategic funding opportunities, either as a prime or sub-recipient.
• Cultivate excellent working relationships with and serve as focal point for SC Members and donor agencies at the regional and country level.
• Ensure key contacts, required formats and donor strategies are kept up-to-date at the country office level. ensures maintenance of donor and partner engagement tracking database.
• Identify, research, and disseminate information on new funding opportunities from bilateral, multi-lateral, and other institutional and non-traditional donors (foundations, corporates etc.).
• Explore and test potential private sector and other new types of partnerships and keep abreast of local funding environment.
• Ensure tracking of active funding opportunities, submission deadlines, financing available. Ensure all appropriate donor and SC proposal formats are available in country.
• Monitor proposals pipeline and win rates, ensure that updated trackers are available for planning purposes, keep senior management informed.

Oversee Proposal Development:

• Lead on the development of high-value or complex proposals for donor awards and bids for donor contracts.
• Provide leadership and co-ordination to the proposal development team, overseeing and ensuring quality and compliance with donor guidelines for all SC Nigeria proposals under development.
• Interface closely with Programme Operations, ACCM, HR and the Finance teams, as well as technical advisors, to ensure all information is produced in a way that ensures quality and integration of SCI interventions at the programme design and reporting stage.
• Ensure that concept notes and funding proposals align closely with Country Strategy Plan, Thematic plans, geographic priorities, master budgets and Monitoring & Evaluations, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) frameworks as well as SLT decisions.
• Develop and track proposal development timelines and work closely with PDQ, Programme Operations, ACCM, Finance, HR, Security and Supply Chain to ensure adequate and timely input into proposal and budget development.
• In collaboration with Members, when relevant, broker technical assistance and other resources to support proposal development.
• Facilitate engagement of consultants on large-scale proposals, or when technical specialists outside of Save the Children teams are needed.
• Represent Save the Children generally (along with technical experts) in consortium meetings regarding proposal development.
• Ensure that Programme Quality Framework is addressed in all new proposals and that key elements of programme quality are included (e.g. child participation, child safeguarding, lessons learned from past proposals, accountability, risk assessments, and effective partnership strategy).
• Ensure all proposal and concept note submissions to donors are complete, done as per Save the Children and donors standards and guidelines, reviewed and approved by the SMT and other staff in country as appropriate before submission to the donor.
• In collaboration with the Awards team, lead on maintaining the up-to-date database of proposals submitted, approved, rejected and reports submitted to donors/SC members.
• Ensure the Program Development team supports preparing all the relevant information for Prime system; the awards kick-off process and budget and proposal re-alignments throughout the implementation, as well as cost and no cost extensions, assuring initial proposal compliance
• Work with the Safeguarding Team to budget for Child Safeguarding Activities during proposal development and ensure that safeguarding activities are captured in project design and ensure inclusion of detailed Safeguarding narratives into all new proposals and opportunities.

People Management, Mentoring and Development:

• Support the DCD/DPDQ to proactively build and maintain technical skills and competencies required for leading and/or in-putting for first class programs.
• Be effective as a mentor and coach for the staff that report to this role, as well as other staff that contribute to developing proposals and writing reports.
• Support the development of an organisational culture that reflects our broad-spectrum programming values, promotes accountability and high performance, encourages a team culture of learning, creativity and innovation, and frees up our people to deliver outstanding results for children and excellent customer service for our members and donors.

Qualifications & Experience
Essential:

• Master’s Degree in social sciences and any of the development sectors.
• 8-10 years of experience in international development, including at least 5 years of experience in successful proposal development for institutional and corporate donors, including pre-solicitation preparation.
• Experience with major funding donor solicitations is required; substantive relevant experience in proposal development for other multilateral or bilateral donors may be considered within the years of experience sought.
• Experience training staff and creating training modules and materials.
• Experience managing a small team.
• Master’s degree in international development or related field.
• Preference for a candidate with overseas field experience.
• Must be willing to travel to state offices up to 20%.
• Ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously, work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to effectively communicate with and coordinate activities of multiple partners, including field-based staff.
• Excellent technical skills in writing, editing, formatting, research, negotiation, and verbal communications, and attention to detail required.

Skills and Behaviours (Our Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Understands and respects the need for procedures, policies and planning for safety and security management in delivering humanitarian assistance
• 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
• Creates a managerial environment across the team to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding

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
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a country-wide scale

Collaboration:

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
• Displays consistent excellent judgement.

Application Closing Date
30th June, 2025; 01:10 PM.

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