Job Openings at Save The Children

ROLE

• The Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Project Manager will be responsible for providing overall technical assistance for the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of SBC strategies and strengthening the capacity of SC partners and their frontline workers in SBC. S/he will ensure the utilization of evidence-based, best practices and SC’s global SBC Framework and Process to inform the development of effective SBC strategies, frameworks, tools, materials for the SBC interventions on PLANE Window 3. The SBC Specialist will also support SC's efforts to address the demand side barriers to education, particularly for out of school children, including girls and children living with disabilities, through SBC technical assistance. Under the guidance of the Programme Manager and Senior SBC Technical Advisor, the Social and Behaviour Change and Capacity Strengthening Specialist the SBC Specialist will also lead SC's efforts in creating equitable Partnerships with communities, local and consortium partners that relate to the project’s SBC components. Specifically, this work will entail support to PMC, the consortium partner with whom SC has joint plans and a teaming agreement to incorporate SBC interventions within this project, develop SBC strategic plans, help manage relationships with the partner.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Programme Support:

• Under the leadership of a Programme Manager and other team members, the post holder will;
• Collaborate with MEAL colleagues to contribute to formative research and evaluation protocols, tools, training, data collection, analysis and report writing.
• Provide technical direction to define evidence-informed SBC approaches and activities to influence shifts in community norms, attitudes and behaviours  in support of learning by households and communities. 
• Work with PMC to develop, adapt and pretest SBCC packages (framework, tools, messages, and materials) on community support to learning for use by PMC and community volunteers. 
• Develop detailed implementation plans for PMC and SC-supported SBC interventions, and ensure high quality and timeline delivery of deliverables against intended objectives, targets, and timelines.
• Provide strategic direction and leadership in social and behavior change to meet SC and donor requirement targets/goals and deadlines.
• Manage and lead staff and partners to ensure efficient and timely implementation and robust monitoring of social and behavior change interventions.
• Work closely with the technical team and PMC on the design, planning, implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive SBC strategy.
• In cooperation with Advocacy Advisors, ensure community-based and social accountability initiatives are linked with policy influencing.
• Provide staff with ongoing training, mentoring and guidance on social and behavior change.
• Ensure the timeliness, cost, and quality of all activities related to social and behavior change.
• Prepare required reporting for social and behavior change activities.
• Prepare annual work plans and budgets with clear and measurable SBC objectives and deliverables.

Capacity Strengthening:

• Provide oversight to the SBC program components, including undertaking field visits to partners to oversee implementation, provide on-site feedback and supportive supervision on required improvements, and generate field visit reports with timely and appropriate follow-up on action points.
• Provide mentoring and support to community mobilization officers, partners and SC staff in SBC, encourage the development of peer networks and learning opportunities, including review meetings.

Partner Management:

• Under the supervision of the SBC Advisor, liaise and maintain relationships with PMC, SC’s communication partner, with whom the organization has joint ambition/plans/teaming agreement on the SBC and communication components for PLANE.
• Ensure that all supported SBC activities from Partners are appropriately planned and delivered, and report on progress monthly. 
• Provide support and ensure the quality of the work of partners' selected consultants and staff working on community mobilization and support to learning.

Representation & Advocacy & Organizational Learning:

• Ensure that Save the Children's and PMC’s work is coordinated with other agencies and the Government's efforts and support Interagency Coordination forums, advocating for the specific needs of children. This may involve supporting coordination working groups within the project supported communities, LGAs and States.
• Contribute to communications and media work as required through correction of data and information and sharing with the project heads.
• In cooperation with the MEAL Team, provide tools and support to project staff for the effective monitoring and evaluation of social and behaviour change and community capacity strengthening efforts, enabling measurable outcomes and impact to be demonstrated.
• Expand capacity for documentation and dissemination of programme results, including success stories and case studies in close coordination with SCI Nigeria’s Knowledge Management team.
• Ensure that all materials produced have been posted to PLANE’s Sharepoint/Onenet site, SC workplace and external platforms in collaboration with the CO Media and Comms Team. 
• Facilitate the sharing of experience and learning about PLANE across the country office, Region and SC movement and wider sector including publishing in journals and giving presentations/ attending conferences.

Safeguarding

• Ensure safe programming in the planning and implementations across the project period.
• Adhere to the Do no Harm principles across the entire steps of the project within the Programme Management Cycle.

General:

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practices concerning child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities, and other relevant policies and procedures.

CORE BEHAVIOURS

• Understanding humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:
• Ensures that program goals and activities uphold the principles of the critical national and international humanitarian frameworks, codes, and commitments
• Integrates beneficiary accountability principles into the approach
• Participates in disaster coordination mechanisms and interagency cooperation

Achieving results effectively:

• Ensures efficient and transparent use of resources following internal controls
• Establishes staff engagement mechanisms.
• Addresses difficult situations and makes tough decisions confidently and calmly
• Considers the broader impact of decisions in the short and long term.
• Continuously provides feedback and updates to achieve improved results
• Coordinates with stakeholders to avoid duplication and maximize resources
• Documents lessons learned and applied them to future projects
• Maintaining and developing collaborative relationships:
• Actively listens to different perspectives and experiences of stakeholders
• Actively participates in networks to access and contribute to good practice
• Establishes and maintains clear communication and dialogue with disaster and conflict-affected people and other stakeholders
• Establishes clear objectives with teams and individuals and monitors progress and performance

Operating safely and securely:

• Identifies and communicates risk and threats and minimizes these for oneself and the agency
• Takes measures to do no harm and to minimize risks for partners and the communities
• Reduces vulnerability by complying with safety and security protocols set by the organization
• Demonstrates an understanding of broader UN/NGO security coordination and how the organization can benefit from, and contribute to, those mechanisms
• Managing yourself in a pressured and changing environment:
• Helps team members to practice stress management through prioritization of workloads and modeling of appropriate self-care
• Remains effective and retains perspective in the face of complex or demanding situations
• Demonstrates personal integrity by using one's position responsibly and fairly
• Maintains ethical and professional behavior following relevant codes of conduct
• Plans prioritize and perform tasks well under pressure
• Takes responsibility for own work and the impact of own actions
• Leadership: Action; Thinking; Self; Inspiring; Developing Others:
• Builds own awareness of the bigger global picture by using a broad range of sources to gather data
• Demonstrates managerial courage by confronting difficult situations and seeking resolution, and stating willingness to champion ideas
• Demonstrates approachability and trust by listening carefully to others and valuing their contribution, and making others feel comfortable by being open and honest about their thoughts and feelings
• Demonstrates self-development and management by taking responsibility for own development and actively seeking out feedback to understand their strengths and weaknesses better
• Makes positive statements about work
• Effectively influences others by understanding their interests and showing how they will be met by own preferred solution
• Gives constructive feedback to enhance capabilities and responsibilities to another for their development

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Master's degree in Social and Behaviour Change, Gender and Inclusion, Education and International Development, Health Promotion, Communications, Marketing, Social or Behavioral Sciences, Public Relations, or related fields.
• At least five years of SBC specific experience in designing, development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of SBC strategies and materials as well as related training.
• Experience in planning and implementing participatory learning and action approaches, including gender transformative and inclusive approaches.
• Experienced in pre-testing and concept testing SBC approaches and content.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to lead a stream of work.
• Ability to work independently as well as in cooperation with a multi-cultural team.
• Ability to think creatively and strategically.
• The proven capacity of management, leadership, and teamwork.
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive, and empathize with all beneficiaries and their careers.
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions.
• Demonstrable ability at report writing.
• Prepared to live and work in an uncertain security environment.
• Proficient writing and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to read, write and speak fluent English and Local languages (Hausa).
• Ability and willingness to frequently travel and stay at the field.
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children's aims, values, and principles.
• Relevant computer software skills (including, at a minimum, the standard applications in MS 
• Office) 
   

Desirable

• Master trainer and a good facilitator
• Experience in conducting SBC related assessments and measurement of behaviours, practices and norms.

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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• The Household Economic Strengthening Coordinator will be responsible for the technical and managerial aspects of project implementation to improve well-being outcomes for children. She/he will provide technical direction to project implementation and ensuring the project meets stated goals, expected results and reporting requirements. She/he will take a technical leadership role in designing and promoting use of evidence-based activities to facilitate in diversifying and stimulating growth in household income and integrate economic activities with complementary interventions across the project. She/he will be knowledgeable about evidence-based and state-of-the-art household economic strengthening/livelihoods approaches/strategies that address the different levels of household vulnerability. Support to vulnerable children and households can include promotion of cash transfers, household economic and food security and education subsidies. She/he will also liaise with the Program Manager to ensure partner organizations receive the necessary and appropriate technical support. In consultation with the FSL Advisor agree on the range of advice, support, training and/or other assistance required by the other technical teams on the PLANE Project to ensure sequencing, layering and integration. He/she will ensure that all economic strengthening activities follow SC quality programming standards and are market oriented in nature. 
• The HES Coordinator is the technical and coordination lead for the VSLA component of the project. This role is responsible for coordinating, consolidating and ensuring smooth implementation of VSLA interventions through support to the HES teams and ensuring adherence to Save the Children and donor guidelines and standards. The individual will also closely monitor project progress and support the field-based team to make adjustments as required. 

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:  

• Provide    technical and management leadership including designing and implementing technical strategies, programs or tools in specific technical areas related to household-centered economic strengthening. Develop innovative economic strengthening strategies for vulnerable households to compliment other Nigerian government, private sector and international donor funded program interventions by strengthening the capacity of Nigerian entities (NGOs, CSO, local financial institutions). 
• Consult with all relevant actors including government, CSO and the private sector to identify existing economic strengthening initiatives at the target states and device strategies in facilitating increased access and linkages to the project beneficiaries. 
• One of the key project activities in achieving economic change/increase at HH level is through VSLA, he/she should ensure that groups are properly established, properly and regularly trained, monitored and mentored using standard approaches and protocols and with close consultation with the FSL advisor 
• Access to finance for the poor is low, these includes the target communities and VSLA members, in consultation with relevant program and technical teams, he/she should map, identity and implement financial inclusion and access to financing initiatives. 
• Conduct initial scoping and mapping activities to gather information on what models of economic strengthening services are available in the target communities, both formal and informal, which models are working effectively.  
• Provide technical support and coordinate the development of relevant tools and resources related to the economic strengthening component of the project. 
• Provide training, capacity building and ongoing technical support and mentoring for staff and partners to roll out and implement the economic strengthening strategy in target communities, working with state teams to plan and implement the strategy. 
• Ensure sustainability of livelihood gains, including private sector demand-driven job creation, enterprise development, financial education, value chain linkages and appropriate savings, credit and insurance services for various age groups. 
• Facilitate linkages with government safety net programs and other stakeholders to ensure that activities complement other economic strengthening initiatives and adhere to country and global standards 
• Ensure timely, high-quality work plans, quarterly and annual reports, financial reports, and any other reports required by the donor or the government. 
• Provide technical assistance in documenting and scaling up best practices related to the economic strengthening component of the project through case studies or success stories. 
• Under the Supervision of the Program Manager, manage the preparation, coordination, and execution for special technical events, such as trainings, etc.  
• Participate in meetings, seminars, debriefings, and other technical meetings on nutrition in the project. 
• Compile States level reports on project results, case studies and lessons learned. 
• Develop State level annual, quarterly and monthly work plans as agreed with the line manager. 
• Maintain good relationship with State Government and non-Government partners working on HES in the States. 
• Represent PLANE in State’s level meetings on HES, etc. 
• Provides technical advice based upon expertise and knowledge of evidence- based methods and strategies, current practice, and established operational and standards to ensure quality and rigorous design.
• Builds demonstrated capacity of local implementing partners to implement high quality programs with results.
• Lead in conducting market assessments and creation of business networks and learning and sharing cohorts within industry types at council and ward level teams.
• Train HES volunteers to roll out a self-assessment tool with mature groups, establish relationships with pro-poor financial institutions.
• Provide continuous supportive supervision in to HES partners to ensure quality household economic strengthening programming through Instruction, Modelling, Rehearsing and Feedback approach at ward level is implemented.
• Submit timely household economic strengthening updates to the Program Manager for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports.
• Collect success stories and Document Household Economic Strengthening specific lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication.  
• Make regular field visits to monitor project quality and collect data.
• Collaborate with MEAL staff to ensure that collection and analysis of data is accurate, rigorous and incorporated into project implementation.
• Safeguarding
• Ensure safe programming in the planning and implementations across the project period.
• Adhere to the Do no Harm principles across the entire steps of the project within the Programme Management Cycle.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

• Competencies and values
• Respect, integrity, diversity, commitment to excellence, adaptability, able to perform under stress, innovation, building relationships, communicating effectively, coaching and mentoring, facilitating change, developing teams, initiating action, strategic decision making, planning and organizing, leading through vision and mission and a personal commitment to children’s development and protection.

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 & EXPERIENCE

• Administrative & General Skills

Essential

He/she is expected to have the following:

• Master’s degree in development studies, agricultural economics, economics, business administration, international relations or a closely related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 6 years of experience in household economic strengthening/livelihoods programming.
• Practical experience in training design and implementation.
• Ability to manage projects, set realistic priorities, and plan for the successful implementation of activities.
• Good technical knowledge of policy and practice in the field of livelihoods, crop and livestock production/rural livelihood programming as well as other cross cutting issues.
• Solid knowledge of international and national social protection, household economic strengthening, and microenterprise and market development instruments and frameworks.
• Experience in leveraging private sector partnerships and resources for creation of business opportunities, business mentorship and skills training, and market access, strategies.
• Strong experience in providing technical assistance and mentorship.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders including government representatives, donors, and other stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and writing skills.
• Demonstrated experience in project and time management.
• Familiarity and understanding of donor policies and procedures is a plus.