Save the Children Nigeria Job Recruitment Program 2022/2023 – Save the Children is recruiting candidates suitable to fill the vacant positions in their organization. Interested candidates should follow the guidelines listed below to apply.
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 positions below:
Job Title: Community Capacity Assistant
Ref No: 220002WL
Location: Bauchi
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Lenght: 6 months (With the option of renewal)
Team / Programme: Breakthrough Action, Nigeria
Grade: 5
Reports to: Community Capacity Officer, Bauchi and the Breakthrough Action-Nigeria State Coordinator
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.
Job Descriptions
- Breakthrough ACTION (BA) is a five-year cooperative agreement from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to lead USAID’s social and behavior change (SBC) programming around the world.
- Breakthrough ACTION/Nigeria (BA-N) focuses on malaria; maternal, new-born, and child health including nutrition (MNCH+N); family planning (FP); and tuberculosis (TB); and increasing the capacity of national and sub-national entities to coordinate and oversee quality SBC programming.
- BA-N will collaborate closely with the relevant USAID service delivery and commodities implementation partners from the outset to ensure seamless coordination between supply, demand, and quality of services.
- BA-N will work at the national level and in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Three states will implement an integrated SBC approach, seven states will implement a malaria-only SBC approach, and FCT will implement an FP-only SBC approach.
- The Community Mobilization Assistant will provide technical, programmatic, and administrative support.
- The Community Mobilization Assistant will work closely with the project technical staff and the community to ensure all project activities run smoothly.
- They will support the state programme teams in planning and programme implementation of the community capacity and mobilization component in Bauchi state.
Key Roles
- Contribute to technical work related to community capacity strengthening, including strategies, toolkits, developing communication materials, etc;
- Participate in the drafting and implementation of approved workplans;
- Mobilize community-based groups, including WDCs, VDCs, community influencers and opinion leaders.
- Promote community participation and inclusion so as to encourage community ownership over activities implemented;
- Monitor project events and stakeholder’s activities in coordination with project technical leads and capture success stories, to effectively capture lessons learnt on the ground from the projects;
- Provide quality weekly field reports, capturing activities progress, lessons learned as well as general situation and community updates and needs; and collaborate with relevant teams to ensure documentation of all community mobilization and M&E activities;
- Assist with the establishment and maintenance of effective relationships at the State level with health partners, implementing partners, State MOHs and other key stakeholders.
Competencies
- 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
Minimum Qualifications
- Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s Degree /BA/HND/NCE or national diploma in Communications, Journalism, Social Work, Psychology, Health, or related Social Science field
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with donor-funded projects in related tasks
- Prior work experience in community engagement in Northern Nigeria.
- Working Knowledge of MS Office Packages and database softwares and applications
- Well-organized, with ability to track multiple activities and deadlines
- Ability to work successfully in a cross-cultural, team-based environment
- Fluent English language skills (written and verbal).
- Commitment to the values, mission, aims and policies of Save the Children.
Desirable:
- Experience in training.
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.
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.
Job Title: Humanitarian Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Manager
Reference ID: 220001BC
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Team / Programme: Program Development and Quality (PDQ)
Grade: 2
Contract Length: 12 months
Reports to: Head of MEAL
Staff Directly Reporting to this Post: Borno office MEAL Coordinators, Accountability Coordinator
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 programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
Job Descriptions
- The MEAL Manager oversees high quality monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning across Save the Children’s programmes in Borno.
- S/he is expected to lead on MEAL system design and implementation, evaluations, research, MEAL budgeting, recruitment, accountability system strengthening, as well as support proposal writing and log frame development for all projects.
- The post holder will be expected to mentor and/or capacity build existing MEAL staff, and work across functions to ensure that the learning from the monitoring, evaluation and accountability systems informs programme decision making.
Key Roles
MEAL System Development:
- Oversee the MEAL state team and provide high quality MEAL technical leadership, support and capacity building to the state implementation team.
- In collaboration with the programme & technical team, develop and implement project MEAL plans, quality benchmarks, research, assessments and evaluations to support an evidence and learning agenda as well as a process for knowledge sharing between SCI, stakeholders and partners in the state
- Ensure that the state office complies with SCI MEAL processes and standards and ensure standardization of MEAL formats/reports including grant-level Indicator Performance Tracking Tables (IPTTs).
- Bring together data and findings from across projects to form a coherent basis for analysis of impact which promotes learning and strategy development.
- Develop and increase utilization of accountability approaches, such as participation, complaints and response mechanisms.
- Keep abreast of MEAL sector trends and developments, for example in remote monitoring, and adapt and promote introduction of new methodologies, technologies, innovations and best practices where applicable in the state
- Formulate key program questions that will help to advance the evidence base, and lead design of targeted evaluations (including but not restricted to baseline, midline and end line evaluations) and pieces of operations research.
- Actively contribute to the process of learning, evaluation, capturing and disseminating lessons from the programme for continuous improvement of programme performance and overall outcome
- Contribute to proposal writing and review to ensure MEAL activities and costs are adequately covered. Develop standard guidance for incorporation of MEAL costs into proposals in specific responses.
- Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct, as well as Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability.
- Ensure the considerations on gender, disability and inclusion re well integrated into the MEAL activities, tools, and analysis.
- Leads on the coordination with BHA Third Party Monitoring Initiatives (monthly).
Capacity Building:
- Identify learning and training needs as well as the opportunities for MEAL and other staff and work as a mentor and role model for staff.
- Conduct training and awareness raising activities for operations and programme technical staff at field level regarding MEAL priorities and quality standards.
- Coordinate trainings for MEAL and program staff in the relevant fields, such as on data collection tools, ICT solutions for MEAL, data analysis for both quantitative and qualitative data, etc.
Representation, Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
- Ensure that Save the Children’s work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and support Interagency Coordination forums, advocating for the specific needs of children. This may involve taking the lead in coordination working groups. Participate in interagency coordinated joint MEAL activities (for instance, inter-agency working group).
- In collaboration with Save the Children MEAL and advocacy colleagues, feed in learning, experiences and evidence to relevant advocacy objectives and lead on response-specific learning activities. For instance, support planning of After Action Review workshops, prepare lessons learnt reports and conduct accountability mechanism pilots. Take steps to document lessons learned for wider dissemination.
- Participate and feed into Save the Children regional and global working groups when needed.
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.
- Any other duties emerge as CO priorities.
Minimum Qualifications
- Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant subject – ideally also a Post-graduate Degree
- Minimum of 5 years’ work experience in MEAL, especially monitoring, including in large-scale, complex emergencies generating high volumes of data where technical capacity of MEAL staff is varied and coordination between MEAL/sector teams is a challenge
- Experience of working in the North East Region of Nigeria on Humanitarian Projects
- Ability to create and implement MEAL plans and IPTTs based on logframes and other reporting requirements and support junior colleagues to do so
- Strong experience in collecting, processing, analyzing and reporting on quantitative and qualitative data and supporting other colleagues to do so – including ability to troubleshoot Kobo-related issues
- Ability to contribute to Awards reporting from a MEAL perspective in a timely and accurate manner.
- Ability to manage team work plans in contexts where workload is high and priorities shift frequently
- Ability to hit the ground running and work on own initiative – but also be comfortable asking for support where needed in a timely manner
- Highly organized, with the ability to juggle multiple tasks to meet tight deadlines
- Strong team player, with the desire and ability to take initiative to pick us tasks outside official responsibilities
- Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff
- Experience of representation and ability to represent Save the Children effectively in external forums
- Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- 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 Save the Children. In particular, a good understanding of the Save the children mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support.
Desirable:
- Ability to speak Hausa.
Competencies
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving results together with children 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 in-country to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for self and team, takes responsibility for own personal development and encourages team to do the same
- Widely shares personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with own team, colleagues, members, donors and partners
- 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
- Always acts in the best interests of children.
Job Title: Head of Health and Nutrition
Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Contract
Ref No: 2200012T
Team: Programme Development & Quality
Grade: 2
Reports to: Director, PDQ
Staff Directly Reporting to this Post: Health Advisor, Programme Officer Health and Nutrition, Breakthrough Action Community Capacity Team Lead, MCGL Newborn and Child Health TA, MCGL Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Advisor.
Budget Responsibility: As delegated by Director of PDQ
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 programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
Job Descriptions
- Provide strategic technical support to the country programme and technical support to Managers in field/ project offices.
- Support the quality, design, delivery and representation of Save the Children’s Health and Nutrition programming in Nigeria.
- Initiate, lead, advise, support and optimise the contribution of the Nigeria country office to Save the Children’s global Child Survival breakthrough and campaigns.
- The incumbent will have overall responsiblity for the development of quality country-level interventions in the thematic areas of health and hunger reduction (nutrition).
Strategy and Programme Quality:
- Establish and lead the implementation of Save the Children’s health and nutrition strategy and organisational goals in collaboration with field staff, regional technical staff and the senior management team.
- Lead on the preparation of funding proposals and help to identify high value and high potential fundraising opportunities in collaboration with field teams and programme staff, ensuring that funding proposals are in accordance with country and global strategies and policies.
- Coordinate and enhance quality of community and primary healthcare and nutrition programming, and successfully raise funds to ensure programme continuation and expand coverage, ensuring high quality programming that is compliant with national guidelines.
- Ensure that beneficiary accountability is taken into consideration throughout programme implementation.
- Lead in planning of assessments and surveys and ensure best practices throughout implementation and dissemination of findings and results.
- Ensure integration and coordination among the various Save the Children projects contributing to the overall goal of the organisation.
- Enhance collaboration with other technical departments to support integrated programming and improve impact.
- Guide health and nutrition teams to develop and implement robust systems for gathering evidence and measuring impact, with reporting systems that provide appropriate information for use in national and global advocacy.
- Ensure that information for donor reports is high quality, accurate, reliable and available in a timely fashion as per plan.
- Produce and compile regular updates and mandatory reports on child survival for internal and external audiences (e.g. donors, internal use, for learning purposes between countries).
- Strengthen the nutrition and health team’s capacity for effective project management through mentoring and the identification of training needs.
- Support the recruitment and induction of health and nutrition staff and consultants.
Representation and Coordination:
- Represent Save the Children in various fora for nutrition and health in order to increase visibility and networking opportunities between different stakeholders (government and non-government).
- Represent our work to relevant bodies, including donors, and identify changes to their policies and priorities that may create opportunities and threats for our funding.
- Promote the sharing of best practice and learning in relation to programming, advocacy and campaign activities among field sites in the country and with SCI and other partners in the region.
- Work at the policy level with high-level decision makers from the Government, participating in strategy development, policy-making, and technical discussions, as well as negotiating to determine priorities for development.
- Serve as the principal health and nutrition technical expert (advisor) for Save the Children, preparing briefing materials and reports on health and nutrition sector development for donors, SMT and visitors where necessary. Present clear and convincing reports as needed on nutrition and health topics at workshops, meetings and other venues that demonstrate sound analysis and synthesis.
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and Knowledge Management
- Promote effective knowledge management within the health and nutrition programme and across sectors.
- Collaborate with appropriate Regional and HQ Advisors to promote programme quality and sharing of learning and identifying relevant innovations.
- Work collaboratively across all sectors to ensure integration, complementarity, and learning.
- In collaboration with the programming team, provide guidance and oversight to partners and other collaborating agencies to ensure that lessons of sound practice are documented and disseminated.
- In collaboration with the Head of MEAL, oversee the development and management of the CO’s monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) system for health and nutrition programmes.
- Ensure data is analysed to measure project performance and identify areas of improvement. Ensure that learning is incorporated into evolving programme plans.
- Collaborate with Regional and Headquarters technical staff to identify and implement appropriate electronic data collection solutions to improve timeliness and quality of M&E and reporting.
Management and Administration:
- Promote coordination and cooperation between health and nutrition programmes and operations staff, including working closely with the Director PDQ to ensure stewardship of resources and appropriate budget management of projects, collaboration in forecasting, and other business processes.
- Ensure accurate and timely management and reporting on financial and material resources as it relates to health programming.
- Ensure staff compliance with all SCI administrative and operational procedures and policies, as well as applicable donor regulations.
- Approve program expenditures, budget adjustments, and cost modification requests to donors per agency policies and procedures and donor regulations.
- Assist with the development of the Annual Programming Plan and provide overall leadership to the development of the nutrition and health budgets.
Advocacy:
- Advocate for reforms that will promote the effective implementation of Save the Children’s health and nutrition strategy. Apply knowledge and expertise to nutrition and health policy and programmes to design and develop activities that promote health policy implementation and development.
Human Resource Management:
- Lead, manage, and supervise nutrition and health programming team staff directly or indirectly according to the CO structure.
- Conduct periodic reviews of staff performance in keeping with SCI’s performance management system and mentor staff to ensure high levels of motivation, commitment, capacity, and teamwork.
- Ensure and build high-quality staff at all levels.
- Report all cases internal and external.
- Know CSG policy and code of conduct, and raise awareness on the policy (Children, partners, community).
- Contribute to lessons learned and the documentation of good practices under the lead focal point.
- To be a model in his/her work and private life, and respect the code of conduct and the policy of CSG.
- Know and respect local procedures.
- Ensure the well-being of children.
- Ensure the work place is a safe place for children.
Competencies
- 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.
Ambitious:
- 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 with.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
- Integrity
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
Minimum Qualifications
- Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s Degree, Master or its equivalent in Nutrition, Health or related field.
- 8 years of experience at the international level in technical support and/or programme management.
- Strong experience in community nutrition and health programming.
- Direct experience of planning, implementing and measuring the impact of health, hunger reduction or other related programmes.
- Successful track record of developing large-scale proposals ($1m and above) and securing funding from donors.
- Clear commitment to, and experience of, developing and coaching staff, combined with the ability to give direct actionable feedback.
- Successfully work with minimal administrative support.
- Inter-personal skills to influence and guide field and other senior managers in identifying programming opportunities and resolving programme and campaign challenges, and to work in a collaborative manner within the Country Leadership Team .
- Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically.
- Credibility to represent the organization to regional bodies and donors.
- Commitment to the values and mission of Save the Children.
- Ability to speak and write clear English.
- Ability to travel to the field.
Desirable:
- Experience with Save the Children.
Job Title: Nutrition Intern
Job ID: 220002PZ
Location: Oyo
Employee Status: Permanent
Team: Programme Operations
Reports to: Nutrition Specialist
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Grade: 7
Child Safeguarding
- Level 3: The responsibilities of this post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children and young people. In the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3.
Job Description
- Support the implementation and monitoring of nutrition activities in the ANRIN Project in the following cluster of LGAs in the States:- Orelope, Olorunsogo, Ore-Ire, Ogbomosho-South, Ogbomosho-North, Surulere, Atiba, Irepo, Ogo-Oluwa.
Key Roles
- With support from the Nutrition Specialist, ensure target beneficiaries (pregnant women, mothers/caregivers of children less than 24months, children 6 – 59months) access and utilize available nutrition services.
- Engage with community health focal points, community volunteers in cluster LGAs to implement quality nutrition interventions/delivery of nutrition services for the programme, which includes:
- Counselling of mothers/caregivers of children 0-23 months of age on improved behaviors related to maternal, infant and young child feeding, notably early, exclusive and continued breastfeeding, appropriate complementary feeding, and early stimulation.
- Distribution of micronutrient powders per month among children 6-23 months to improve the quality of complementary feeding.
- Iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation for pregnant women by specifically addressing barriers that inhibit women from taking a full course of IFA tablets during pregnancy through counseling during ante-natal care sessions.
- Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria during ante-natal care by pregnant women.
- Provision of zinc/oral rehydration solution (ORS) for treatment of diarrhea among children 6-59 months of age.
- Provision of vitamin A supplementation among children 6-59 months of age.
- Provision of deworming tablets among children 12-59 months of age.
- Supervise activities of community health focal points, community volunteers in cluster LGAs.
- Work with MEAL team in beneficiary verification and contribute to various project Reports
- Ensure programme approaches and implementation are sensitive to cultural and gender dynamics.
- Provide technical assistance LGA teams and Health Workers on nutrition, with a particular focus on development of effective methodologies to improve health and nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices.
- Conduct follow up monitoring of nutrition-related activities and document findings to feed into improved programming
- Support strengthening of information flow between State and LGA.
Capacity Building:
- Contribute to the development and/or adaptation of training materials.
- Facilitate on nutrition trainings in project locations for CHFPs and CVs.
- Develop training plans for Health Workers, CHFPs and CVs based on identified needs.
Documentation and Reporting:
- Ensure timely collection, compilation and analysis of quality data as well as production of quantitative and qualitative reports regarding nutrition activities in the Programme.
- Provide technical review of programme reports in line with the M&E framework.
- Work closely with the MEAL team to ensure that data are captured in a correct and accurate manner.
Representation & Advocacy & Organizational Learning:
- Represent SCI in relevant LGA level forums for nutrition in coordination with other Partners.
- Contribute to communications and media work as required through correction of data and information and sharing with the Project team.
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.
Minimum Qualifications
- Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (Health/Public Health/Nutrition).
- Demonstrable ability at report writing.
- Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with all beneficiaries and their carers
- Most be Resident in and familiar with the cluster of LGAs (Orelope, Olorunsogo, Ore-Ire, Ogbomosho-South, Ogbomosho-North, Surulere, Atiba, Irepo, Ogo-Oluwa).
- Experience in community based interventions in Western part of Nigeria is an advantage
- Fluency in written and spoken English and Yoruba.
- Computer literate
- Ability to work in partnership with government and development partners
- Good interpersonal skills
- Prepared to live and work in an uncertain security environment
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
Competencies
- Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
- High level of accuracy in work, and ability to analyse complex sets of relationships and situations
- Holds self and others accountable
Ambition:
- Creating best-in-class EA function
- Future-orientated, thinks pro-actively
Collaboration:
- Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Designing more effective admin and value for money systems
- Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
Job Title: Senior Gender Equality Advisor
Job ID: 220002PL
Location: Abuja
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Team / Programme: Programme Development & Quality
Reports to: Programme Quality & Development Director
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Contract Length: 2 year
Grade: 2
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 programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
Job Descriptions
- The Senior Gender Equality Advisor will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical and practical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for advancing gender equality in Nigeria. The role will lead strategy development and the technical design and implementation of high quality programmes that advance gender equality and ensure that children, girls and boys can equitably access, participate within, benefit from and act as decision makers for both emergency and development programming.
- The role supports national advocacy and influencing, while driving strategic partnerships for new business development. It provides leadership to ensure our work is grounded on intersectional gender and power analysis, and supports the design and implementation of gender transformative monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners.
- The role will work closely with operations colleagues and with partners, especially women’s/girls’ rights and gender equality-focused organizations, in Nigeria, fostering the building of ownership and agency of local organisations. It will provide leadership to design/adapt and deliver gender transformative content for capacity building and systems strengthening. This role includes a focus on external representation on priority issues including child-centred gender and power analysis, girls’ empowerment, gender-based violence and other topics central to gender transformative child rights-based approaches across thematic areas. 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.
- Reports to: Programme Quality & Development Director
- Staff reporting to this post: no direct reports but with dotted line reporting from gender equality officers, assistant, coordinators and specialist in the field offices and expected to provide coaching and mentoring support to operational and other technical colleagues and local partners
Key Roles
- Provide technical leadership for gender equality for the Country Office, and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy, supporting the organization to implement Save the Children’s Global Gender Equality Policy
- Provide technical leadership to establish/support/monitor a Gender Equality strategy /Action Plan for the Country Office, grounded on Save the Children’s Gender Equality Self-Assessment and other tools
- Build capacity of national staff and partners in key technical approaches related to advancing gender equality and social justice, via developing and facilitating high quality training via workshops, webinars, etc.
Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):
- Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children; uphold accountability for Save the Children’s global Gender Equality Marker (development or humanitarian)
- Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality, holistic gender-transformative and gender-equality focused programmes, building on global best practice. Ensure that broader intersecting social justice, disability and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.
- Work with Child Rights Governance colleagues 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 a Systems Strengthening approach as the overarching framework that supports working in collaboration and partnership with governments and 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 and grounded on gender and power analysis, 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 gender sensitive and transformative programmes at the community level.
- Contribute to the development, dissemination, monitoring and evaluation of innovative program quality tools and resources focused on advancing gender equality
- 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.
- Distil learnings and evidence generated into succinct and compelling programmatic guidance and thought leadership for internal and external consumption. Contribute to organisational learning on gender equality, ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and with our partners, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global gender equality community within Save the Children via Technical Working/Leadership Groups and Communities of Practice and externally.
- Support Humanitarian colleagues (as needed) to develop gender sensitive and transformative emergency preparedness plans, and conduct intersectional, sectoral assessments (including gender and power analysis, using SC assessment processes and tools) and to design and deliver gender sensitive/transformative emergency response and recovery programmes. Build capacity on gender equality and gender-based violence among humanitarian teams involved in different sectors. Ensure synergies between humanitarian gender equality teams, disaggregated data and gender sensitive/transformative programme design.
- Monitor trends in order to ensure early, gender sensitive/transformative action; and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses
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 gender equality programming.
- Foster partnership with feminist organisations focused on women’s and girls’ rights, engaging men and boys, equal rights and advancing gender equality.
- Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others to advance gender equality through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as clusters and working groups focused on gender equality and gender-based violence, or focused on specific thematic areas and requiring a strong gender equality lens (education, child protection, sexual and reproductive health and rights, etc.).
- Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes for advancing gender equality and eliminating gender based violence, including ending child marriage, 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 across thematic advocacy work.
- Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, and partner agencies, as required, highlighting the importance of a priority focus on advancing gender equality.
- Ensure the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), prioritizing and embedding gender equality across framing and content, 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- Candidates must possess a Master’s Degree in Women and Gender Studies or other related fields
- Related social science degree with focus on international development, social work, public health, sociology, anthropology or other related areas with equivalent experience of over 10 years working in the sector of gender equality
- At least 7 years’ experience (including field experience) providing technical leadership for the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes focused on advancing gender equality
- Strong understanding of gender equality principles and practices, the gender equality sector, policy priorities and key gender inequalities impacting children in Nigeria
- Significant experience in gender equality training, capacity building, and mentoring, and a demonstrated ability to make complex concepts compelling and accessible
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills related to intersectional gender and power analysis, and to the design, piloting, implementation and evaluation of innovative technical tools and resource to advance gender equality
- Track record in successful business development/fundraising, designing and pitching gender transformative approaches, models and programs
- Demonstrated strong knowledge and skills related to gender sensitive and transformative program design, monitoring and evaluation, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
- Experience of strategy development and planning to advance gender equality and social justice
- Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
- Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery
- Fluent in English and high level of English writing skills.
Competencies:
- Develops, implements and applies intersectional gender analysis.
- Designs and implements evidence-based holistic gender sensitive and transformative interventions: Fosters gender sensitive and transformative approaches to ensure all children have equitable access to, participation within and benefit from interventions.
- Strengthens capacities to advance gender equality.
- Develops and applies effective, innovative gender equality tools and resources.
- Advocates for gender equality.
- 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 marginalized 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 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 communicate with.
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.
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 SCI’s global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Gender Equality 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.
Application Closing Date
27th April, 2022.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Note
- Women are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
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