Job Opportunities at Save the Children Nigeria

 
Job ID: 200001VU
Locations: Benue & Cross River States
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Duration: 20 Working Days
Cluster: Child Protection including SGBV
Work with: Child Protection Coordinator
Organization: Save the Children
Reporting to: Program Manager  with Technical guidance from CP TA

Introduction

• The humanitarian crisis and security situation in Cameroon continues to be a growing concern to international bodies. An estimated 42,610 Cameroonian refugees have been registered in Akwa Ibom, Benue, Cross River and Taraba. Of these, 21,808 of them are registered in the Adagom, Okende settlements in Cross River State and in the Anyake settlement in Benue State.
• The majority of these people are women and children, including unaccompanied and separated minors. Cameroonians arriving in Nigeria are forced to rely on scarce local resources, and there is insufficient amounts of food and access to public services.
• Through the intervention of UNHCR, many of the refugees have been relocated to refugee resettlements located at least 50km from the Nigerian border with Cameroon. Lifesaving interventions have been provided to the refugees while in the host community and at the new settlements with a concentration of humanitarian assistance at the settlements.
• Tensions between new arrivals and host communities have risen as Nigeria struggles with its own conflict, internal displacements and widespread poverty. Although there is willingness to respond, the governments of Cross River and Benue states have limited capacity to respond to the needs of the refugees.
• SC with funding from US Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (BPRM) is working to provide quality management of child protection cases through direct case management support from SCI caseworkers and technical team and through referrals to government and other partners. As part of its objectives, the project aims to strengthen existing capacities of line ministries to identify and respond to child protection and GBV cases that affect refugee and other vulnerable children in Cross River and Benue states.
• The capacity assessments will provide information on existing capacities of the ministries and insight on the capacities of governments and relevant partners in both states to prevent and respond to issues of child protection including S/GBV.
• The assessment will also seek to identify pre-existing and available resources and services for use by social workers at state LGA and community level. Government at state and LGA level will be engaged with for the purpose of the assessment.

Key Objectives:

• To map up formal and informal Child Protection service providers particularly government line ministries, International Non-Governmental Organizations -INGOs, Civil Society Organizations – CSO, Community Based Organizations- CBOs protecting children from all forms of abuse, violence, neglect and exploitation and identify gaps in referral for services in Cross River and Benue States.
• To assess and analyze the functional relationship between government line ministries; MWASD, Min. of education, Ministry of Youth etc at state and LGA level in Cross River and Benue States. mandated on children issues and rights, identifying strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and recommend potential areas for improving the robustness of relationship
• To identify existing knowledge and skills levels as well as related gaps of the targeted government partners involved in Child Protection program.
• To analyze line ministries institutional structure and systems in relation to promotion and protection of children rights in programming, mental health and operations

The specific tasks of the consultant will be to:

• Carry out a desk review of relevant documents agreed upon and made available prior to the implementation of the assessment
• Produce an inception report detailing the methodology including the sample framework that the consultant is planning to use for the assessment
• Suggest and design the capacity assessment tools for data collection and share with SCI for approval
• Undertake field-based consultations and interviews with selected government institutions in Makurdi, Calabar, Ogoja, Obanliku and Kwande LGAs.
• Identify key line ministries /stakeholders in the state; both Government and none state actors and provide detail on services they provide.
• Analyze the data collected during the desk review from the relevant documents as well as from the field consultations and interviews.
• Develop a package of capacity strengthening plan for targeted ministries including MEAL and suggest an implementation work plan to address the gaps
• Debrief SCI on the process and preliminary findings of the assessment
• Share draft mapping and capacity assessment report to SCI for review
• Conduct validation workshop and present assessment finding with SCI and ministries
• Prepare and submit comprehensive report from mapping and assessment  

Methodology:

• A review of current and up to date secondary data regarding the targeted locations, especially in terms of specifying the targeted group and the local stakeholders
• Design mapping and assessment tools
• Focus group discussions
• Key informant interview

Key Deliverables:

• Report on existing referral pathway for the provision of services to child survivors of Gender-Based Violence(GBV) and identified gaps
• Report on informal and formal Child Protection structures with full SWOT analysis of identified stakeholders
• Based on the findings propose capacity strengthening/Training action plan that will guide capacity development intervention of the ministries.
• Recommend new and emerging opportunities or methods of capacity development in the Child protection sector
• Final assessment report

Time Frame and Work Schedule:

• The duration of the consultancy will be 20 days). The start date will be the date indicated in the Contract. See below the survey schedule;

Activities - No of Days:

• Travel Days - 4
• Consult experts in the field and local Stakeholders for additional resources and grey literature - 2
• Search and writing of findings of specific evidence and global standards for the sector - 2
• Analysis and conclusions of literature review - 1
• Reviewing draft report and getting input from SCI / Finalize literature review - 1
• Feedback on mapping tool -  
• Training of 15 field assistants and enumerators - 2
• Mapping of all Child Protection and SGBV service providers in each site and mapping of all health facilities providing SGBV services - 2
• Capacity needs assessment for all Government line Ministries providing Child Protection services - 3
• Writing up / documenting the findings of the mapping and capacity needs assessment - 1
• Incorporating feedback from SCI on mapping and capacity needs assessment report - 1
• Finalizing Report - 1
• Total number of days - 20

General Conditions of the Consultancy:

• Meals and other incidentals will be the responsibility of the consultant while in the primary location of the consultancy
• The consultant will conduct his / her work using his/her own computer equipment.
• Other miscellaneous costs directly related to the task that can include photocopying of questionnaires etc. shall be covered by SCI. Any cost needs to have prior approval from SCI.
• The movement of the consultant and team to and from the field will be facilitated by the consultant
• The cost related to travel from/ to Field of the survey teams will be covered by the consultant.
• Payments will be paid in three installments: First installment 30% paid upon finalization of inception report; 30% paid upon submission of first full draft of the report; the remaining 40% paid upon validation of the report by SCI.

Technical Competencies:

• The consultant must have a strong background in working with vulnerable children and specifically Child Protection in Emergencies statistics and data analysis.
• Excellent reporting and presentation skills.
• Excellent knowledge of and experience with humanitarian guidelines and principles.
• Willingness to travel extensively and work under pressure & meeting deadlines
• Ability to work in a multicultural and inter-sectoral environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively as a team with the other team members.
• Ability to coordinate, direct and supervise others to achieve a common goal.
• Ability to live and work in an isolated area in conditions of limited comfort
• The candidate must present an approved final report of the most recent SMART/related survey that he or she has conducted.

Specific Professional Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in programmes related to the following sectors such as Child Protection, SGBV, Childcare, education, health, women empowerment and health, among others.
• Computer literacy (minimum MS Word, Excel, MIS).

Important Information

• Interested candidates should submit their Applications (CV, and technical proposal detailing survey methodology, work plan and budget).
• Copies of relevant previous evaluation reports (to be kept confidential)

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Job ID: 200001VP
Location: Lagos State
Grade: 3
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Reporting to: Project Manager

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3.  The responsibilities of this post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children and young people. In the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3.
• As part of these responsibilities the post holder will support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children (by our own staff and/or as a result of how we do our work) is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis.  
• The post holder should report and respond to interventions as determined by position related responsibilities identified in the Child Safeguarding Policy.

Role Purpose

• The Child Health Advisor provides overall leadership and oversight for the programmatic, technical and research aspects of the programme.
• S / he will oversees the day-to-day implementation of the programme and will be accountable for the quality of interventions and for the capacity building of health workers at state and LGA level.
• S / he will be also responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality technical assistance by in-country and UK based technical advisers and external consultants (if appropriate).  
• S / he will support the State Programme 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 outputs.  
• S / he develops and promotes widespread application of evidence-based program standards and guidance that reflect Save the Children and global best practice

Key Areas of Accountability
Programme Quality:

• Provides advanced technical expertise and oversight to ensure programs are of high quality and develops new state of the art approaches
• Coordinates in-country and UK based technical advisers and external consultants (if appropriate).
• Supports the COP and State Programme Manager in the development of high quality programming, annual plans and budgeting processes for the programme, as and when necessary.
• Plays significant role in strategic thinking and leadership in advancing child health programs.
• Support the implementation of evidence based child health interventions including the GAPPD, IMCI, ICCM, REW approach and so on
• Ensure the implementation of key family and community practices with special emphasis on IYCF, WASH (soft part of the programme), care seeking behavior, and immunization.
• Establish necessary community infrastructure to support the implementation of the child health activities
• Support the government in the MNCH weeks and other important child health events
• Strengthening relevant health systems for effective delivery of the pneumonia related interventions
• Actively contribute to the process of learning, evaluation, capturing and disseminating lessons from the programme for continuous improvement of programme performance and overall outcome
• Work closely with the programme team to ensure that other technical sectors are coordinated, integrated and support each other to optimise the project purposes and objectives.
• Prepare quality quarterly and annual reports and timely submission of deliverables.
• Any other duty assigned by the Chief of Party

Capacity Building:

• Identify learning and training opportunities for Save the Children health staff and partners and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.
• Build capacity of health workers and other sector staff to implement quality programs

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Represent the programme on all 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-mIn collaboration with the SC Health colleagues, feed in learning, experiences and evidence to relevant akers at all levels.
• global advocacy objectives.

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

• Master’s Degree in Public Health is required; a health professional (MD or nurse) with clinical training skills (pre-service and / or service clinical training) preferred.
• Minimum of 7 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 IMCI / ICCM program design and implementation required; must have experience facilitating clinical training, supportive supervision.
• Conversant with evidence based child health approaches such as the ICCM, IMCI, GAPPD, 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

Core Behaviours
Achieving results effectively:

• Ensures beneficiary and partner feedback is incorporated into programme design, planning and learning
• Demonstrates flexibility to adapt plans and make decisions in rapidly changing environments
• Actively manages risk and takes action to reduce risk
• Makes changes to improve performance as a result of information received
• Documents lessons learned and applies them to future projects

Maintaining and developing collaborative relationships:

• Develops strategies for teams to work across traditional boundaries, working in diverse environments
• Establishes clear objectives with teams and individuals and monitors progress and performance
• Fosters collaborative, transparent and accountable relationships through partners
• Uses negotiation and conflict resolution skills to support positive outcomes

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 better understand their own strengths and weaknesses
• Openly talks about doing things differently, pushing the boundaries and ways of working
• Gives constructive feedback to enhance capabilities and responsibilities to another for the purpose of his/her development
• Works to ensure that the workplace is inclusive and the talents of individuals are harnessed to achieve business success