Job Vacancies at Save The Children

Job ID: 19000288
Location: Abuja  Application Link

Location: Ogoja, Cross River  Application Link
Grade: 5
Team: Supply Chain Unit
Post Type: National, full time
Employee Status: Permanent
Reports to: Logistics Assistant

Child Safeguarding

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

Role Purpose

• Support the program, The driver will be responsible for transporting SCI staff and visitors between office and other locations, as well as equipment’s and materials, also maintaining the vehicles, updating log sheet and vehicle report.

Key Accountabilities

• Assist in ensuring that sub grantees (CSOs) have clear roles and responsibilities, and a strong understanding of all of Donor’s and Save the Children’s regulations and policies, especially the core policies such as; Child Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct, Fraud & dishonesty policies, Anti-bribery and corruption policy and whistle blowing policy.

Documentation:

• Maintain the vehicle log and fuel consumption documentation
• Keep the Vehicle Documents Folder up-to-date:
• Support the Fleet Assistant with the Vehicle Usage report, including trip use, mileage and fuel consumption.
• Maintain a valid driver license, registration and valid permits all the time

Control of Vehicles:

• Ensure that all vehicle journeys are authorized in advance by Line Managers.
• Ensure that all vehicle journeys are to be recorded in the log book at the start and completion of the journey
• Ensure that the keys and vehicle documents are kept in a secure place when the vehicle is not in use.
• Ensure that s/he wears the vehicle safety belt and all passengers also wear seat belts before driving the vehicle.

On the Road:

• Drive all SCI vehicles on the approve speed limit of SCI
• Ensure that the line manager is immediately informed of any accidents, the Accident report is filled immediately and the accident reported to the police as soon as possible.
• Ensures the safety of passengers at all times
• Safe transport of all staff, equipment, and materials

 Vehicle Checks:

• Check the vehicle prior to its use in the morning and after use
• Check the vehicle before departing from work.
• Upon taking over a vehicle, check that items listed in the Vehicle Check List and the items listed in the Vehicle Tools and Materials Inventory are present and in full functioning order

Vehicle Defects:

• Check for vehicle defects, damage to the vehicle, and ensure reports are made to the line manager. After consulting a mechanic, the line manager will make the decision of taking the vehicle off the road for repair
• Report and supervise all maintenance and repair needs of assign vehicle

 Cleanliness & Visibility:

• The driver is responsible for ensuring that his/her vehicle is kept clean on the outside and inside at all times
• The driver is also to keep the vehicle tidy and ensure that all rubbish is removed from the vehicle after each journey
• The driver is to ensure visibility protocols are adhered to at all times

Emergency Preparedness and Response:

• In case of emergency, prepare and contribute to delivery of an appropriate and timely response.

Skills & Experience
Essential Criteria:

• Must have qualified Secondary School Certificate Examination
• 2 year working experience working as a driver with reputable organizations (INGOs, Corporate, Government)
• Trade test certificate desirable
• Experience as a mechanic or auto-electrician highly desirable.
• Possession of valid driving licence
• Excellent verbal communication and listening skills.
• Experience working in in a relatively insecure location
• Able to communicate with English and other Nigerian languages
• Computer literate (Word, Excel, Powerpoint at basic level, etc.)

Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Hold self-accountable o vehicle management and records.
• Achieving and role modelling SCI values

Ambition:

• Set ambitious and challenging goals.
• Take responsibility of personal development

Collaboration:

• Build and Maintain effective relationship with the team and colleagues
• Value diversity and good listener and easy to talk.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners

Creativity:

• Develop new innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

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Ref No: 220002ZN
Location: Ogoja, Cross River
Employment  Type: Contract
Contract Lenght: 6 months
Team / Programme: BPRM
Grade: 5
Reports to: BPRM Project Manager
Staff reporting to this post: None
Budget Responsibilities: None

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Role Purpose

• Support the BPRM project team to ensure commitment and involvement of local authorities and community members in the programme; and support community mobilization to ensure participation, sustainability of the refugee response programme as well as that the voices of community members, including women and children are heard.
• 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.

Key Areas of Accountability
Strategy Development:

• Identify policy and practice change, based on Save the Children’s experience that would promote and protect the rights of children.
• Support in formulating key advocacy messages and targets from lessons learned, assessments, research and evidence gained through project implementation on Child Protection, Education, WASH, et al
• Ensure that voices of children form the basis of Save the Children’s advocacy strategy.
• Acquire information and understanding of social policy and adapt strategies as necessary.
• Ensure Save the Children visibility is seen in areas of implementation
• Actively participate in all Save the Children, partners and CSO Coalition driven activities in the state
• Establish as well as sustain existing synergy among community groups and coalitions
• Engage with the state and local governments in policies review when needed
• Facilitate meetings of the coalition groups
• Prepare monthly reports of activities carried out

Influencing:

• Develop good knowledge of local and national government structures, parliamentary and political processes and key decision-making structures and how to influence them.
• Initiate and support lobbying, communications and other activities to inform and persuade policy makers, including donors and politicians, of the value of Save the Children’s policy recommendations.
• Support in building systems for research, analysis and documentation that underpin evidence-based advocacy and influencing at state and national levels.
• Produce reports, briefing papers and presentations for internal and external audiences, as directed.

Collaboration & Representation:

• Develop and sustain strategic relationships with other agencies engaged in advocacy and policy work.
• Support in maintaining a network of external contacts with key individuals in the government, NGO sector, civil society and the media.
• Support in facilitating capacity building of staff from Save the Children and partner agencies in advocacy and communications.
• As a spokesperson for Save the Children to a variety of external audiences including policy makers and the media, as directed.

Programme Development:

• Provide technical support on voice and community mobilization to State programme team
• Develop a community mobilization strategy in collaboration with the team and ensure implementation
• Train and mentor community volunteers – Community support
• In collaboration with the rest of the Programme team, prepare and facilitate training sessions.

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

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength 
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Additional Job Responsibilities:

• 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.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills
Essential:

• A good First Degree or HND in Health, Social Work, Psychology, Communications or related Social Science field.
• Entry level skills in advocacy and policy development / research in the humanitarian context.
• Good understanding of the possibilities and tactics for influencing decision and policy makers, politicians, donors, and other key actors.
• Knowledge of the media and its role in raising awareness and shaping public policy.
• Good understanding of strategies for achieving child protection, Psychosocial programming policies through participatory processes, and the links with gender, diversity and other aspects of identity.
• Excellent conceptual and analytical skills and demonstrable ability to think strategically, innovatively and practically to ensure achievement of desired change objectives.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences at local, state and national levels.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with partner agencies and key contacts in the government, NGO, civil society (coalitions) and media sectors.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to effectively handle multiple tasks and meet strict deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, flexibility, adaptability and ability to work effectively as a member of a team.
• Good computer skills (word processing, spreadsheets, email / internet) and ability to be self-supporting in most administrative tasks.
• Fluent English language skills (written and verbal).
• Commitment to the values, mission, aims and policies of Save the Children.

Desirable:

• Training skills in advocacy techniques and influencing tactics.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of Cross River state culture and the diversity of ethnic groups and People of Concern.
• Ability to speak Local languages

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.

Health and Safety:

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

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Reports to: State Project Manager
Employee Status: Contingent

Background
Save the Children has been working in Nigeria since 2001 in Lagos and several other states in Nigeria with a focus on child survival, maternal, newborn and child health, nutrition, education and child protection. Since 2011, Save the Children Nigeria has been supporting development activities in Lagos State, in thematic areas ranging from health system strengthening to capacity building and technical support, in partnership with the Lagos State Government through its various Ministries, Departments and Agencies. In 2018, the Integrated Sustainable Childhood Pneumonia and Infectious Diseases Reduction in Nigeria (INSPIRING) project kicked off with fund support from GSK, and a focus on the prevention and control of childhood Pneumonia in two project states, Lagos and Jigawa State. In Lagos state, the project focuses its implementation primarily in Ikorodu Local Government Area.

As the project implementation draws to a gradual close, there is a need to fill the gap with a Child Health and Immunization consultant to steer the clinical and child health sub-component of the project for the next 6-month.

Scope of the Role

• The Child Health and Immunization Consultant will provide leadership and oversight for the programmatic, technical and research aspects of the clinical program.
• He / She will oversee the day - to - day implementation of the project’s clinical component, and will be accountable for the quality of interventions, and for the capacity building of health workers at State and LGA levels.
• He / She will support the State Program Manager to ensure that planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, as well as donor reporting functions are executed efficiently and effectively so that the project achieves its purposes and objectives.

Key Areas of Responsibilities
The Child Health and Immunization Specialist (Consultant) will be responsible for the following:Programme Quality:

• Provides advanced technical expertise and oversight to ensure programs are of high quality and develops new state of the art approaches
• Supports the Chief of Party and State Program Manager in the development of high quality programming, quarterly plans and budgeting processes for the program as and when necessary.
• Support the government in planning and delivering the MNCH weeks and other important child health events
• Strengthening relevant health systems for effective delivery of the pneumonia related interventions
• Support in procurements of clinical activities
• Prepare quality quarterly and annual reports and timely submission of deliverables.
• Any other duty assigned by the Chief of Party or the state project manager

Capacity Building:

• Develop the capacity of health workers in Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, Nutrition, Immunization and possibly Oxygen trainings.
• Conduct post training supervision and on the job monitoring.

Representation & Advocacy & Organizational Learning:

• Represent the program on all health technical working groups, partners and stakeholders’ forums.
• Create partnerships with Ministries of Health and other relevant organizations, WHO, and UNICEF to maximize program impact and harmonize agendas.
• Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and take a leadership role within the Health Sector, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed.
• In collaboration with the Advocacy Advisor, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all levels.
• Liaison with SMOH, HSC, PHCD Board
• Engagement with MOH and Ikorodu LGA officials.

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.

Project Duration

• The duration of consultancy will last 6 month starting from 1st May - 30th October 2022.
• In case of exit from the organization before contract closure, the selected candidate is expected to give a two weeks’ notice before exit.

Requirements, Qualifications and Experience

• Required Master’s Degree in Public Health required; a Health professional (MD or nurse) with clinical training skills (pre-service and/or service clinical training) preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience implementing and delivering technical assistance to maternal, newborn and child health programs in developing country settings.
• Demonstrated expertise in program development and management child survival and strong experience in PHC and ICCM program design and implementation required; must have experience facilitating clinical training, supportive supervision.
• Conversant with evidence-based child health approaches such as the Integrated Community Case Management, Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, etc.
• Ability to lead and produce project proposals, implementation plans, monitoring frameworks, and write succinct reports on program success; excellent writing and oral communication skills.
• Ability to travel 35-40% of time.

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Ref No: 220002WL
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Contract Lenght: Permanent
Team / Programme: Nigeria Country Office
Grade: 3
Reports to: Human Resources and Administartion Director
Staff reporting to this post: Safeguarding Officers and Assistants
Budget Responsibilities: N/A

Safeguarding

• Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Role Purpose

• Save the Children International is committed to strengthening our Child/Adult Safeguarding work in development and humanitarian settings - with robust mechanisms for awareness, prevention, reporting, responding and offering support to survivors, promoting a child and adult safe environment, and holding those responsible for abuses to account.
• Reporting and responding to concerns forms the cornerstone of the safeguarding mechanism, for which the Country Offices are the primary leads.
• The Safeguarding Coordinator play’s a key role by providing oversight, quality control, coaching to Safeguarding Focal Points in field offices and ensuring effective response and communication with the Senior Management and Regional Safeguarding team on all cases of safeguarding incident or concerns in the Nigeria Country Office.
• The Safeguarding Coordinator will provide capacity building support to the country programmes to strengthened the survivor support mechanisms, implement lessons learned from cases, and strengthen field office systems to prevent future incidents, address gaps in safeguarding system and feed to Thematic Leads and Programme Development teams to improve program design.
• This role will liaise regularly with staff across the organisation including, country and field office programme and support staff.
• The post holder may also represent Save the Children at external fora, including on relevant UN sector and cluster teams, PSEAH taskforce groups and other inter-agency meetings specific to a humanitarian response.
• We are looking for an ambitious, social and talented colleague with eye for detail, a drive to learn and passion for safeguarding children/adults from sexual explaoitation, abuse, and harrssment.

Scope of the Role

• Raise awareness on SC zero tolerance to child abuse by working with HR to conduct briefing & inductions for new hires, train staff, volunteers and partners on SC’s Child Safeguarding policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harrasemnt (PSEA)H),  Code of Conduct, and Anti- Harassment, Bullying and Intimidation to help minimiSe the risks of abuse and exploitation of child and adult beneficiaries.
• Promote safe programming concept of all SC’s programs by ensuring child safeguarding risk assessment is conducted by all programs and work with the Director PDQ to integrate safeguarding in proposals.
• Lead on investigation of cases of SEA linked to staff, partners and representatives.
• Coordinate, support and identify capacity gaps of the Safeguarding Focal Points across the partner organisations.
• Develop and support the implementation of capacity development trainings, coaching and mentoring for Safeguarding Officers, Safeguarding Assistants and nominated Safeguarding Focal Points in field offices.
• Ensure quality and robust case management (quality reports and documentation of decision-making process and actions).
• Lead on the development and implementation of the Annual Safeguarding Action Plans and following up from country safeguarding self-assessment reviews and audits relating to safeguarding.
• Update the SCI safeguarding case management database system (DATIX) and promote the popularisation of the use of the system for staff reporting.
• Review and update referral pathway on an annual baisis that will feed into SCI’s Letter of Assurance (LoA) and local safeguarding procedures.
• Maintain, update and disseminate induction and training materials to field offices, implementing partners and and implementation sites.
• Work with HR to strengthen the recruitment processes in terms of safeguarding communities and colleagues from potential abusers/exploiters.
• Build the capacity of programme thematic teams to work with different stakeholders, in particular, children’s parliaments, adolescent/child friendly space and advocacy team to develop key success indicators to ‘safeguard children and vulnerable adults’, which will be used in monitoring and evaluation.
• Work with MEAL unit to establish child-freindly feedback reporting mechanism as well as tools to evaluate the impact of the Safeguarding Protocol’s on programmes.
• Lead the review of safeguarding incidents and concerns with progarmm teams and consolidate Lessons Learned to improve programme quality.
• Lead in the organisation of annual safeguarding and code of conduct induction/sensitisation and in-service re-fresher trainings for staff, partners and key stakeholders, including beneficiaries.
• Ensure compliance and minimum standards are met in Safeguarding and Safe Programming.
• Promote best practice, and adherence to the Child Safeguarding policy, PSEAH policy and CoC.
• Organise and faciliatate SG Focal Points training of trainers and annual Focal Points workshop.
• Ensure annual refresher training is carried out and support senior leadership to create space for staff to discuss issues around safeguarding and include sessions during team meetings.
• Represent the agency at inter agency forums within the Country and the region
• Keep up to date on trends and new safeguarding approaches and share knowledge.
• Participate at the Annual Safeguarding Regional Workshops, webinars and other events.
• Provide any other adhoc functions as required.

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.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or Master's in Gender, Child Protection, Human Rights, Humanitarian Action, International Development, International Relations, Law, Public Administration, Public Policy, Advocacy or related degree.

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Degree or higher Diploma level qualification in social work or equivalent, legal/human rights, education or other relevant professional qualification and working experience.
• Significant direct experience in safeguarding or protection sector.
• Up to date working knowledge of Child Right Act, sexual harassment, child protection policies and practice and current issues in relation to safeguarding children and adult within Nigeria as well as relevant international polices and protocols such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
• Firm and confident personality - able to stand up against more experienced and senior collegues
• Excellent communication and listening skills in English with proven writing and numerical experience in writing/editing, e.g. for briefing documents, monitoring reports and investigation reports.
• Proven attention for detail and ability to effectively manage a high volume of data and information.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills in order to deal tactfully and sensitively with a wide range of people in a large organisation, very often at a distance.
• Good team member skills, including the ability to be part of and organise, support, manage and develop a small team;
• Experience in designing and delivering training or workshops to diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to manage stress, be flexible and accommodating in difficult and frustrating working circumstance.
• Commitment to and understanding of child rights, as well as of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
• Ability to take a proactive approach to problem solving, to recommend and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
• Willingness and ability to travel abroad at short notice.
• Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours in the event of major emergencies including travelling at short notice and for extended periods of time
• Ability to critically analyse written material including evidence, reports, policies
• Strong organisational skills and ability to meet regular and recurring deadlines

Desirable:

• Significant experience in CSG/PSEAH including investigation/case management and sector best practice
• Strategic and analytical approach to Child/Adult Safeguarding
• Substantial experience of safeguarding, child protection, PSEAH, SGBV or MEAL issues and practice, within humanitarian or insecure settings, including leading or participating in investigations.
• Experience living or working in a development context, emergency response contexts or fragile states.
• Experience living or working overseas in insecure locations.
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and/or Learning (MEAL) experience.
• Knowledge of Save the Children’s key sectors
• Legal expertise
• Strong presentation skills.
• Commitment to Save the Children values.
• Knowledge of international humanitarian systems, institutions and donors.
• Understanding local context of ESA

Behaviours (Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for completing tasks on time, 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 colleagues, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their colleagues to do the same
• Widely shares their 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 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.

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.