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Save
the Children is the leading independent organization creating
lasting change in the lives of children in over 120 countries
around the world. Recognized for our commitment to
accountability, innovation and collaboration, our work takes us
into the heart of communities, where we help children and
families help themselves.
We work with other organizations, governments, non-profits and
a variety of local partners while maintaining our own
independence without political agenda or religious orientation.
Save the Children’s mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the
way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and
lasting change in their lives.
Save the Children is looking for experienced development
professionals to work within the Nigeria Country Programme.
This role will be critical for the delivery of results for
children expected by this programme.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Safety and Welfare Officer
Location: Abuja
Job Description
- The Safety and Security Officer will work closely with the
National Safety & Security Manager to carry out safety and
security assessments, make recommendations and provide support
for their implementation of SCI Programs in Nigeria.
- The Safety & Security Officer will facilitate the
implementation of Save the Children’s Safety and Security
Policy and Standards within country programmes and help drive
systemic change in the quality of safety and security
management and contribute to building country compliance with
safety and security Minimum Standards.
- She/he will also take forward the organisational security
ethnics. While on assignment the post holder will play a key
role in the capacity building of Safety & Security Focal
Points.
Qualifications
- Candidate should have a formal security qualification or
advanced security management training and mode of operation of
NGOs;
- S/he must have a minimum of 3 years field based experience
in complex and insecure settings, experience in liaising with
civilian, police and military government authorities,
experience of incident reporting, incident mapping,
intelligence collation and analysis functions, compilation of
security reports and assessments;
- Ability and willingness to dramatically change work
practices and hours,and work with incoming surge teams,in the
event of emergencies;
- Experience in providing safety & security trainings
such as personal safety & security, fire safety and first
aid;
- Willingness to work and travel in often difficult and
insecure environments; s/he should have a high level of IT
expertise;
- Knowledge and understanding of Nigeria-the Northern States
Job Title: Information and Communication Officer
Location: Nigeria
Job Description
- The Information & Communications Coordinator will
prepare communications outputs such as situation reports and
key messages for advocacy and for media, lead on information
management tasks, help to build profile and gather powerful
communications materials as well as rising to the challenge of
other tasks such as supporting the completion of donor
proposals. In most circumstances, the post-holder will also be
expected to mentor and/or capacity build existing country and
field programme staff.
Qualifications
- B.Sc/B.A/B.Eng level in a relevant subject or equivalent
field experience of 2-3 years, managing a team, leading
communication activities (including information management);
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a
wide range of different audiences including donors, journalists
and the ‘general public';
- Experience of effective spokesperson across a range of
media;
- Excellent relationship building skills in order to work for
limited periods within programmes.
- Ability to deliver high-quality photographs and case
studies from affected communities.
- Experience of delivering training, presentations and other
capacity building activities to varied audiences, ideally
within a country programme;
- Excellent IT skills, especially in Microsoft Word.
Job Title: Program Manager Saving Newborn Lives
Location: Abuja
Job Descriptions
- To oversee the programme management for the SNL3 Nigeria
project and Quality of Care project in Lagos and Jigawa states
and other MNH projects.
- The incumbent is expected to manage all operation aspects
of all MNH projects including, but not limited to budget,
procurement and put in place risk and mitigation strategy.
- S/he will work with and report to all functional
operational units.
- The incumbent will also report to the Head of Health and
Child Survival, working closely With the Snr.
- MNH Advisor ensuring that technical decisions are signed
off by the Head of Health on donor reports.
- S/he will work to ensure operational management of all MNH
projects particularly SNL3 and the QoC projects, as platform
for Increasing the reach of women and newborns at state level
with quality MNH services.
Qualifications
- The candidate should have a minimum of Bachelors’ Degree in
Health with 7-8 years’ experience in related field or a
Postgraduate qualification in Public Health with a minimum of 5
years’ experience in field.
- S/he must possess basic experience in MNH programme with
public health qualification and at least 5 years health
programme management experience with INGO in Nigeria.
- The incumbent must have a good understanding of national
health policies and strategies, programmes on MNH in Nigeria
and MNH issues in Nigeria.
- Experience in project management for Maternal and Newborn
Health is desirable.
Job Title: Education in Emergency Advisor
Job ID: #899676
Location: Abuja
Job Description
- Save the Children International is a ‘dual mandate’
organization and as such equal priority will be given to both
humanitarian and development work.
- This is the only way we will be able to ensure that some of
the fundamental rights that we believe children have, such as
survival, safety and constant access to protection and
education can be guaranteed.
- As part of a commitment to work with children through
humanitarian interventions Save the Children will support
programmes in both sudden onset and chronic emergency
situations.
- The Education in Emergency Advisor will be expected to lead
on sectoral assessment, programme design and master-budgeting,
coordination (including the Cluster), and support fundraising,
recruitment and procurement liaising and linking with other
sectors as appropriate.
- The post-holder will be expected to mentor and/or capacity
build existing education taff specifically engaged in
humanitarian programme.
Main Responsibilities
Programme Support:
- Lead on technical assessments in coordination with other SC
thematic areas and/or other external sector agencies, ensuring
assessment findings are documented and that all assessments
include a specific analysis of children’s needs.
- Working with the Deputy Team Leader – or Team Leader
develop sector response plans and masterbudgets and contribute
to Save the Children’s overall response strategy ensuring that
it is compatible with both the overall Education Sector
Strategy (facilitated by the Education Cluster).
- Working closely with the Deputy Team Leader – or Team
Leader, support fundraising for your sector, including
development of high quality concept notes and proposals, and
engagement with donors’ technical advisors.
- Prepare and oversee programme implementation to ensure
timely delivery of programme activities (for example,
monitoring against logframes, individual performance management
workplans).
- Prepare timely programme and donor reports on project
activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any
relevant external donor requirements.
- Working closely with the HR team, identify technical
staffing needs (both national and international) for emergency
programmes, and ensure rapid recruitment, induction and
training of new staff.
- Identify programme supplies needs and coordinate with the
logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement
plan.
- Working closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation team
put in place a sector M & E plan, ensuring this links to
reporting requirements, and capacity build technical field
staff in carrying out the work.
- Working closely with the Accountability lead put in place
accountability activities for your thematic area, ensuring that
feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered in
programme design.
- To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief
are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter, the Red
Cross Code of Conduct and with INEE Minimum Standards for
Education in Emergencies.
Capacity Building:
- Identify learning and training opportunities for Save the
Children staff and partners and work as a mentor and role model
for less experienced staff and those with little or no
education experience
- Coach and mentor national level counterparts and link in to
wider organizational talent development mechanisms.
Representation & Advocacy & Organizational
Learning:
- Ensure that Save the Children’s work is coordinated with
efforts of other agencies and Government, and take a leadership
role within Interagency Coordination forums (including the
Education cluster), ensuring the specific needs of children are
being addressed. This may involve taking the lead in
coordination working groups.
- Take steps to document lessons learned for wider
dissemination.
- In collaboration with senior programme staff, assist in
advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all levels.
- In collaboration with SC Education colleagues, feed in
learning, experiences and evidence to relevant global advocacy
objectives.
- To identify opportunities and material to contribute to
communications and media work, acting as a spokesperson when
required.
General:
- Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with
respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and
safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and
procedures.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential:
- Significant management experience working in an emergency
response contexts or fragile states.
- Previous first phase emergency response experience is
essential.
- Education to M.Sc/MA/MEng level in a relevant subject or
equivalent field experience.
- Demonstrated experience in leading assessment activities
and of designing, managing, monitoring and evaluating education
programmes in emergencies for international NGOs.
- Experience of applying relevant interagency humanitarian
frameworks and standards in education in emergencies (for
example INEE Minimum Standards)
- Previous experience of managing a team.
- Previous experience of project management.
- Experience of and commitment to working through systems of
community participation and accountability.
- Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation skills.
- Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands on
implementation capacity.
- Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff.
- Experience of representation, including Cluster
coordination, and ability to represent SC effectively in
external forums.
- Experience of preparing successful funding proposals for
donors.
- Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and
project reports.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong influencing skills and experience in advocacy.
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of
patience, tact and diplomacy.
- A high level of written and spoken English.
- The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and
accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working
circumstances.
- Commitment to the aims and principles of SC . In
particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child
focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our
support.
Desirable
- Experience or knowledge of working and living in similar
regions/contexts
- Specific experience of designing and managing DFID, ECHO
and UNICEF projects Specific experience of designing and
managing consortia projects.
Job Title: Internal Control and Audit Manager
Location: Abuja
Job Descriptions
- The Internal Control Manager is responsible for ensuring
that all Save the Children and donor guidelines and policies
are complied with; while ensuring that the Country Office has
effective governance, risk management and control system are in
place.
- As a member of the SMT s/he will advise on the need to
protect programme’s assets, funds and reputation.
- The incumbent will undertake regular checks of procedures
and documentation in all of Save the Children’s offices in
Nigeria and will serve as a liaison for all external audit and
regulatory agencies.
Qualifications
- Qualified Internal Auditor or compliance manager with
extensive experience in programme management in an INGO and
risk-based auditing.
- S/he must be familiar with grant requirements of major
donors such as USAID, EC/ECHO, DFID and the UN and have a good
financial analysis aptitude.
- The incumbent must have good computer skills with ability
to use Agresso financial software, or other relevant ERP
software.
- He or she must also and also have sufficient experience in
audit and counter fraud and the ability to assess
organizational performance and risk.
- The candidate must possess excellent report and writing
skills with proven interpersonal and communication skills
including influencing, negotiation and relationship building,
must be willing to undertake high amount of travel within the
Nigeria SCI field locations (40%) and work with minimum
supervision under difficult conditions in some of the most
under-developed, insecure and remote parts of NIGERIA.
- S/he should possess strong cultural awareness and be able
to work well in an international environment with people from
diverse backgrounds and cultures and must demonstrate standards
of ethics and integrity.
- Experience in an INGO setting or commercial / public sector
international organisation will be an added advantage.
Job Title: Internal Control Manager
Location: Abuja
Contract Length: 2 years – renewable by mutual agreement
Job Description
- The Internal Control Manager is responsible for ensuring
that all Save the Children and donor guidelines and policies
are complied with while evaluating the effectiveness of the
governance, risk management and control systems in place.
- As a member of the SMT s/he will advise on any additional
steps that need to be taken to ensure the protection of the
programme’s assets, funds and reputation.
- S/he will undertake regular checks of procedures and
documentation in all of Save the Children’s offices in Nigeria
and will serve as a liaison for all external audit and
regulatory agencies.
Key Areas of Accountability
- To lead the Senior Management Team on regularly updating
in-country risk assessments and in implementing mitigation
measures.
- Lead on all fraud investigations and in documenting these
and reporting to the CD internally and to the regional finance
director and regional fraud director in the regional office.
- Work closely with programme development unit on
incorporating a risk culture whilst developing high risk
awards.
- Lead, plan, conduct, report and follow up assignments from
internal and external audits and other control action plans on
time and to a high standard. Some of these assignments will
require the internal control manager to assume the lead role.
- Ensure that relationships with all clients’ remain strong,
through effective networking.
- Deliver training as required to reinforce risk mitigation,
fraud awareness and compliance with meeting log frame results
- Conducting spot-audits tests of the internal controls in
finance, Human resources, award, logistics, operations and
programme.
- Flag significant internal control weaknesses to the country
director and senior management and support the monitoring of
agreed actions to reinforce those weak controls.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential:
- Qualified internal auditor or compliance manager
- Extensive experience in relevant operational areas (e.g. in
programme/project management in an INGO context) and experience
of risk-based auditing.
- Be highly accurate, detail-orientated, and able to complete
multiple projects, with conflicting priorities, on a timely
basis
- Excellent report English writing skills
- Proven interpersonal and communication skills including
influencing, negotiation and relationship building
- Willingness to undertake high amount of travel within the
NIGERIA SCI field locations (40%) and work with minimum
supervision under difficult conditions in some of the most
underdeveloped, insecure and remote parts of NIGERIA.
- Strong cultural awareness and be able to work well in an
international environment with people from diverse backgrounds
and cultures
- Demonstrate standards of ethics and integrity
- Commitment to Save the Children values
Desirable:
- INGO experience or have worked in a commercial/public
sector international organisation
- Familiarity with grant requirements of major donors such as
USAID, EC/ECHO, DfID and the UN
- Good financial analysis aptitude
- Experience of Agresso financial software or other ERP
softwares
- Experience of audit
- Counter fraud experience
- Ability to look at the bigger picture when assessing
organisational performance and risk.
Job Title: Child Rights Education Situation Analysis-
Consultancy
Job ID: #897441
Location: Abuja
Purpose
- As Save the Children in Nigeria prepares to scale up its
existing education portfolio, there is need for a detailed
analysis of the extent to which children’s right to education
in particular is being met across the country.
- As such the organisation is looking for a consultant to
develop a Child Rights Education Situation Analysis.
- Once completed, the Child Rights Education Situation
Analysis (CRESA) will serve as an integral part of
decision-making and will, in particular guide the development
and finalisation of Save the Children Nigeria’s five-year
Education Strategy,which will in turn feed into Save the
Children international’s broader post-2015 strategic
orientation.
The purpose of the CRESA will be expected to shed light on
the following elements:
- The prevailing rights climate, including legislation and
policy environments and the main areas of rights violations
(including those experienced by specifically marginalised
groups) identifying the root causes as well as current and
future trends in terms of violations of children’s right to
education.
- Who the duty-bearers and stakeholders are, their roles and
capacities, what they are doing to ensure children’s right to
education is fulfilled and what, if any systems of
accountability currently exist at different levels.
- Identify, in broad terms, particular groups and sub-groups
of children whose rights are denied as a result of various
factors including disability, gender, geography, poverty,
conflict etc.
- The status of Nigeria’s progress towards key international
education indicators, such as the ones displayed in UIS.
Scope of Work
- The CRESA will provide a review of relevant data collected
within the last 5 years (2010-2015) on the education situation
of children aged 0 to 18 years in Nigeria, disaggregated by
gender, age, school level, focussing primarily on Early
Childhood Care and Development and Basic Education and place it
within the context of children’s rights, in order to identify
any gaps or violations.
- The focus of the analysis is on access, equity and quality
in education.
The main requirements are to:
- Summarize key outcome variables and risk factors by region
in Nigeria, including the North East and North West Regions, as
defined by DHS in 2013, as well as Abuja and field sites
(Abuja, Bauchi, Kaduna, Port Harcourt, Enugu and Lagos)in order
to provide a comprehensive picture of education provision
across the country and identify areas of inequality.
- Describe for children in the 13 states of northeast and
northwest of Nigeria the current situation and recent trends in
indicators of access, equity and qualitative education gender,
food security, and social and cultural determinants of
education, analysed according to the provisions in UNCRC/CRA
and disaggregated whenever possible by age, sex and location.
Describe what is being done to ensure adequate access,
equity and quality to education of children as a right by
analysing:
- Current government (State and Federal) policies, legal
provisions and commitments as they relate to the rights of
children with a particular emphasis on education
- Current government programmes and practices, capacity and
effectiveness, as they relate to ensuring educational access,
equity and quality and promoting development.
- Current programmes and activities of other stakeholders,
agencies, recognized Civil Society Organizations working in the
field of education.
- Analyse the extent to which relevant children’s rights to
education (vis- a-vis access, quality and equity) have been
realized in selected northern Nigeria states and other
identified states: state the factors enabling and inhibiting
their attainment.
- Identify and quantify which groups of children are most
vulnerable, marginalised or excluded from efforts to attain
their rights to education, and analyse the root causes of their
different situation.
- Identify opportunities and impediments for Save the
Children to make a significant contribution to the fulfilment
of the rights of children to education in northern Nigeria over
the next five years (2015-2020), including government capacity
to deliver, the priorities of donors, and the extent to which
other agencies are working in the same field, so indicating the
scope for making a difference.
Timeframe:
- The assignment shall be completed over a period of 6 weeks
and will need to be completed by end of May 2015.
Person Specification
- Advanced university degree in Education, Social Science or
similar subject.
- Previous experience in development of analytical reports
and policy documents related to Education.
- Relevant research experience with proven track record of
publications.
- Experience of a wide range of data collection and analysis
methods (both qualitative and quantitative)
- Experience of conducting research with children with an
understanding of participatory research methods.
- Ability to synthesize and analyze large amounts of
quantitative and qualitative information using SPSS or EPI INFO
and other relevant packages.
- Understanding and knowledge of the social policy context in
Nigeria
- Excellent written English.
- Knowledge of a human rights based approach to programmes
Experience with preparation of a Child Rights Situation
Analysis is desirable
Job Title: Local Government Area Technical Advisor (LTA)
Location: Kebbi
Job Description
- To strengthen the capacity of the Local Government Area
(LGA) nutrition focal person or team (as designated by the LGA)
in management, delivery, and advocacy of cost-effective
malnutrition prevention and treatment interventions
(interventions include Infant & Young Child Feeding,
Community Management of Acute Malnutrition, Maternal &
Child Health Weeks).
Qualifications
- Candidate should possess minimum of a Master’s Degree in
any of the social Sciences or related discipline and a
professional qualification will be an added advantage;
- S/he should have 6-8 years proven work experience managing
International Donor Funded projects in an l/NGOs environment
with excellent communication skills, report and proposal
writing skills;
- Experience of and well developed skills in staff
management, supervision arid capacity building with proven
track record of supporting a senior management team;
- Computer literate (i.e.WORD, advanced Excel. Outlook,
Internet Explorer,financial systems).
Job Title: Proposal Writing Specialist/Advisor
Location: Nigeria
Job Description
- The Proposal Writing Specialist/Advisor must be dynamic,
organized and passionate about being a part of a global team
committed to improving the lives of children in Nigeria.
- The successful candidate will be an energetic proposal
strategy specialist who has proven record of success serving as
the lead writer on winning proposals to key funders such as
USAID, other USG, DFID, other bilaterals, foundations,
companies, etc.;
- Superior writing skills and an ability to communicate
complex technical ideas in a clear and compelling way;
- The ability to synthesize inputs from multiple sources into
one cohesive document with a unified voice.
- A talent for writing within strict page limits and
conceptualizing ideas for graphics that convey key information;
- Candidates who possess in- depth knowledge of INGOs in
addition to the characteristics mentioned above will be highly
desirable.
- Illustrative technical areas include health, nutrition,
protection, education, livelihoods, WASH, and similar sectors.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree and equivalent experience in a related
field required;
- Minimum 6 years, 2 years must be in writing and developing
proposals in response to solicitations from donors;
- Exceptional conceptual, analytical, writing, and editing
skills, including knack for synthesizing large amounts of
information into persuasive, clear language and graphics;
- Proven success in working as part of large,
multi-disciplinary teams in Nigeria and Members;
- Ability to consistently meet multiple deadlines;
- Excellent IT skills included.
Job Title: Household Economic Strengthening Coordinator
Location: Nigeria
Job Descriptions
- To provide technical support and guidance in the
implementation of the economic strengthening component of the
STEER OVC project.
- The job will primarily focus on; support to CSOs on market
assessment which will include gender iterative economic
opportunity analyses, identification of pro-poor high-growth
value chains, building financial literacy skills of households,
incorporating basic market principles, facilitate skills
trainings, manage group savings programs, household economic
assessments, support to households to develop and scale-up
businesses on community-based savings and loan schemes,
(S&L) for caregivers and heads of households.
Qualifications
- The candidate should have a Master’s Degree in Economics or
any other related field with work experience in the field of
Household Economic Strengthening.
- He/she should have worked with an International NGO with
interest in development issues and also the ability to work
across multiple sub agreements and partners.
- He /she should be able to assess priorities and handle
multiple tasks simultaneously to meet deadlines with attention
to detail and quality.
- Fluency in English and Hausa will be an added advantage.
Job Title: Technical Advisor HIV Prevention, Care and Support
STEER Project
Location: Nigeria
Job Descriptions
- The incumbent will be required to work closely with the
STEER technical team to achieve the strategic objectives of the
project focusing primarily on HIV prevention, Care and Support
but also supporting cross-cutting themes and integration
efforts across the project with other areas of OVC programming
including Household Economic Strengthening and Nutrition.
- S/he will lead planning and capacity strengthening efforts
while putting in place operational strategies for achieving
project aims, results and performance expectations through
adherence to high standards of programmatic and management
quality.
Qualifications
- The candidate should have an MBBS/MD and/or MPH with a
minimum of 5 years relevant experience in implementing HIV
Prevention, Care and Support programs or BS/MA in a relevant
health Degree a plus a minimum of 5 years technical experience
with community-level HIV prevention, Care & Support
programs.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government
and civil society partners and communities as well as transfer
knowledge to diverse audiences through workshops, training and
meetings using participatory methods and adult learning
principles.
- He/she must have Good knowledge of Government of Nigeria
HIV Care and Treatment guidelines (Pediatric and Adult) and
experience working with Ministry of Health and familiarity with
OVC programming and principles are relevant.
- Experience in project design and proposal development in
the HIV/Health sector for USAID/PEPFAR funded projects and
fluency in Hausa will be an added advantage.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should send their C.V. and covering letter
explaining why you are suitable to:
"mailto:Nigeriavacancy@savethechildren.org" target=
"_blank">Nigeriavacancy@savethechildren.org State
position clearly in the subject field as applications without
appropriate subject will be disqualified.
Note:
- Applications received after the stated closing date above
will not be considered.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Application Deadline 31st March, 2015