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  • Posted: Sep 9, 2021
    Deadline: Sep 15, 2021
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    Community Mobilization Assistant

    Job ID: 210006LD
    Location: Damaturu, Yobe
    Employee Status: Fixed Term
    Grade: 5
    Reports to: Community Mobilization Officer
    Staff directly reporting to this post: None
    Team / Programme: Nigeria Country Programme

    Child Saveguarding

    • 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 State 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 development 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 WASH, child Protection, Food security 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 the state
    • Actively participate in all Save the Children and CSO Coalition driven activities in the state
    • Establish as well as sustain existing synergy among coalition
    • 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 Local consultants – Community support
    • In collaboration with the rest of the Programme team, prepare and facilitate training sessions.

    Skills and Behaviors (our Values in Practice)
    Accountability:

    • 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:

    • Zeal to work with Children
    • 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 systems
    • Willing to take disciplined risks

    Integrity:

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

    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 development 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 Yobe state culture and the diversity of ethnic groups
    • Ability to speak in at least 2 of the Local languages (Hausa, Kanuri, Fulfulde, Kare-Kare, Gizim, Bade and Bolawa etc.

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    Safety and Security Coordinator

    Job ID: 210006LE
    Location: Ogoja, Cross River
    Employee Status: Fixed Term
    Grade: 3
    Reports to: (Direct) Field Manager, Ogoja; (Indirect) National Safety and Security Manager, CO
    Staff directly reporting to this post: Security Guards
    Team / Programme: SC Nigeria
    Contract Length: National Fixed Term

    Child Saveguarding

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

    Role Purpose

    • The Safety and Security Officer will work closely with the National Safety & Security Manager and Ogoja Field Manger to carry out safety and security assessments, make recommendations and provide support for their implementation by country programmes.
    • 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.
    • He/She will also take forward the organisational security ethos. While on assignment the post holder will play a key role in the capacity building of Safety & Security Focal Points.
    • They will be expected to undertake a leadership role in an emergency and support the team leaders and team at a senior level.

    Key Areas of Accountability

    • Engage country programme management and staff as well as staff at all levels to facilitate the adoption and compliance with the Save the Children’s Safety and Security Policy and Standards
    • Undertake Security Risk Assessments for any and all emergency responses and humanitarian operations
    • Undertake implementation and compliance with Save the Children’s Safety and Security Policy and Standards
    • Develop and deliver capacity building in safety and security training for staff
    • Provide safety security management advice, guidance and support to the Ogoja Office
    • Provide technical assistance and guidance to Ogoja Office in implementing action plans based on Safety & Security Manager assessments and recommendations
    • Assess and evaluate country/programme security guidelines and make recommendations for improvements using the Standards in the Save the Children Policy and Standards for security management plans, evacuation contingency plans and standard operating procedures
    • Enforce SC Nigeria Standard Operating Procedures, and provide recommendations to Field Manager for improvement
    • Promote the concept that safety and security plans and guidelines should be jointly developed by the whole team to create ownership and encourage compliance
    • Promote the concept that safety and security is an integral element of programme design and operations and should be amongst the first planning considerations
    • Help manage safety and security for day-to-day operations any and all emergency responses and humanitarian operations
    • Undertake implementation and compliance with Save the Children’s Safety and Security Policy and Standards
    • Ensure the physical site security of all offices and program locations under the jurisdiction of the Lagos Field Office
    • Oversee the contract management and daily management of guards
    • Track daily field missions and movements of all staff
    • Report and assist in managing safety and security incidents
    • Report on safety and security at weekly meetings, and provide updates and information, verbally and in writing
    • Assist Field Manager in organizing the core Crisis Management Team and rehearsing and executing contingency plans.

    Skills and Behaviors (our Values in Practice)
    Accountability:

    • Understands and respects the need for procedures, policies and planning for safety and security management in delivering humanitarian assistance
    • Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
    • Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
    • Creates a managerial environment across the team to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding

    Ambition:

    • Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
    • Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a country-wide scale

    Collaboration:

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

    Creativity:

    • Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

    Integrity:

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

    Qualifications

    • Formal security qualification or Advanced Security Management Training
    • Bachelor’s Degree in a related field
    • Advanced level of understanding with the philosophy and mode of operation of NGOs

    Experience and Skills:

    • Recommended a minimum of 5 years field based experience in complex and insecure settings
    • Ability and willingness to travel within Cross-River, Benue and Taraba states in Nigeria is essential
    • Experience in liaising with civilian, police and military government authorities, as well as with regional, national and international institutions
    • Experience of incident reporting, incident mapping, intelligence collation and analysis functions, set up and execution of an incident warning system (warden system), compilation of security reports and assessments
    • Strong analytical capacity, resourcefulness and creativity in developing the role of security within programmes and ensuring the most effective support to line management
    • Ability to balance demands of beneficiary and security actors while maintaining appropriate contextual NGO security advice and coordination
    • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
    • Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
    • Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner

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    Note

    • 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.

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