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Job ID: 200002NJ
Employee Status:  Fixed Term
Grade: TBC
Team / Program: Programme Development and Quality (PDQ)
Contract Length: 2 years
Reports to: Director for Programme Development and Quality (DPDQ)
Staff reporting to this post holder:  HEA Coordinator, HEA Assistant,

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people regularly

Role Purpose

• The Head of Food Security and Livelihoods provides strategic and technical support to Save the Children Nigeria’s Food Security and Livelihoods programming.
• The post-holder will ensure the quality and impact of the design and delivery of FSL programming across both humanitarian and development contexts, with a particular focus on ensuring innovative quality approaches in nexus programming.
• The post-holder will ensure sectoral representation and coordination with the government and fellow development and humanitarian actors, including donors and multi-lateral institutions.
• The post-holder will also play a leading role in identifying and developing private sector partnerships.
• The post-holder will lead on sectoral needs assessments, facilitate cross-sectoral programme design and budgeting, ensure linkages amongst FSL, education, adolescent development and nutrition programming and support fundraising, program kick-offs, recruitment and procurement processes.
• The post-holder will be expected to analyze capacity building needs of existing project teams and design and support capacity building plans and trainings for those staff.

Scope of the Role

• Reports to: Director for Programme Development and Quality (DPDQ)
• Staff reporting to this post holder:  HEA Coordinator, HEA Assistant,

Key Areas of Accountabilty
Programme Development and Quality Programming Support:

• Provide overall strategic leadership on Save the Children Nigeria’s Food Security and Livelihoods portfolio across the development and humanitarian context, including youth empowerment and employment, resilience, and social protection sub-themes.
• Lead, in close collaboration with other thematic/technical teams and the Operations team, to ensure that high quality, cost-effective, innovative, and sustainable private sector-oriented FSL programmes are developed and implemented in line with Country Annual Plans and the Country Strategic Plan.
• Lead on defining the strategic axis of interventions on resilience, early warning systems, social protection, and on youth and vulnerable population livelihood support, encompassing the preparation of situational and needs analyses, gathering and analysing primary and secondary data, producing policy formulations, as well as establishing indicators, across the FSL portfolio.
• Work with other thematic leads, the Head of Business Development, Operations, and field teams to develop sector response plans, new proposals, and master budgets.
• Lead on technical FSL assessments, including market and service provider assessments, ensuring assessment findings are thorough and documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs; work to ensure coordination and learning from multiple assessments led by other government, UN and NGO parnters
• Working closely with the PDQ, Ops and Field teams, support program development and resource mobilisation for FSL programming, including the development of high quality concept notes and proposals, and engagement with government, strategic partners and donor Technical Advisers in country.
• Support Operations and Field Teams to ensure timely and quality programme implementation to ensure impactful and timely delivery of programme activities, including monitoring against logframes, contributing to individual performance management and work plans.
• Lead on technical programme review processes and participate in integrated programming reviews.
• Work and support field teams to prepare timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• Work closely with the Operations and HR teams to identify FSL staffing needs (both national and international) for emergency programmes, and contribute to ensuring rapid and comprehensive recruitment, induction and training of new staff.
• Identify programme supply needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a timely procurement plans.
• Work with procurement, operations, finance and other teams to ensure appropriate modality of aid transfer and an accountable cash transfer mechanism is in place.
• Work closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team to 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.
• Work closely with the Head of MEAL to 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 the Core Humanitarian Standards.

Capacity Building:

• Identify learning and training opportunities for Save the Children staff and partners and work as a coach, mentor and role model for the FSL team.

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with Government plans and the efforts of other agencies.
• Take a leadership role within interagency coordination fora, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed. This may involve acting as a co-lead in coordination working groups.
• Develop and oversee the technical components of Save the Children Nigeria's FSL, youth empowerment and employment, and social protection research agenda in collaboration with the MEAL team, ensuring the publication of results and use of generated research and evidence.
• Work in close collaboration with the Advocacy and Campaign Department to advocate for relevant policy change, regulation and local ordinances with national and local government stakeholders and civil society
• In collaboration with senior programme staff and partners, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all levels.
• Contribute to learning, experiences and evidence relevant to global advocacy objectives.
• Contribute to communications and media work, acting as a spokesperson when required, identifying opportunities, material and information for communications work..

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.

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 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 their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others future oriented, thinks strategically and at-scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues 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

• Education to MSc / MA / level in a relevant subject or equivalent field experience

Experience and Skills:
Essential:

• Significant senior level experience working in FSL programming, including direct experience in implementing cash transfer programmes, youth programming, market analysis and economic recovery, including project management.
• Proven experience in developing and managing high quality, innovative and cost-effective technical FSL projects in nexus programming, preferably protracted crises areas and with International NGOs.
• Previous first phase emergency response experience
• Previous experience in managing a team and coaching
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
• Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation skills
• Ability to work in both an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff
• Experience of representation 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 with a high level of written and spoken English
• Strong influencing skills and experience in advocacy
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• The capacity and willingness to be 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

Desireable:

• Familiarity with market system development, value chains and private sector engagement
• Familiarity with Food security and nutrition surveys
• Specific experience in designing and managing DFID, USAID, OFDA, BPRM, EU and ECHO projects
• Specific experience of working in consortia projects

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Job ID: 210004I9
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Grade: 3
Team: Nigeria Country Office
Post Type: National
Reports to: Director Program Development and Quality
Staff directly reporting to this post: 1

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3- The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children or young people and, in the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3 posts in view of potential situations which may allow staff unsupervised access to vulnerable children and young people.

Role Purpose

• Technical lead for development and management of accountability structures and systems across the country program. The role is responsible for ensuring fully embedded practical and effective mechanisms for accountability to children within the country program, via capacity building, championing and supporting implementation.

Key Areas of Accountability
Leadership and Strategy:

• Support the development of and provide inputs to Nigeria’s Country Strategic Plan.
• Lead on strategies and provide guidance related to the CO’s accountability systems.

Accountability to Affected Population:

• Champion accountability to children and communities and child participation across programs and support all program team to understand their roles and responsibilities in this area.
• Support programs to develop and implement a strategy that is informed by children’s voices and promotes their rights.
• Ensure plans to promote accountability to affected populations (AAP) and child participation are documented in the strategy and adequately budgeted for in the master budget.
• Contribute to program strategy development by advising leadership to identify appropriate AAP and child participation approaches for different phases of the response (from the initial phase to longer term recovery efforts), recognising that approaches should evolve over time.
• Champion the use of accountability data and child/community participation analysis to influence strategic decision-making and advocacy.

Information Sharing:

• Support accountability focal points to analyse information needs and appropriate and trusted information sharing approaches. This may be done through use of secondary data or/and through integrated information needs assessment
• Support focal points to establish appropriate information sharing channels for children and communities based on identified preference.
• In collaboration with child safeguarding and the communications team, lead on the development of child-friendly information sharing materials for all programs to ensure that children and communities are aware of Save the Children, its work and what they should expect (including expected behaviour of staff and volunteers).
• Advise thematic and project teams on good practice in child-friendly information sharing.

Child and Community Participation:

• Foster an environment of innovation and creativity in community participation especially child participation
• Build capacity of accountability focal points on child participation
• Provide support to focal point to conduct quarterly child consultation sessions in programs
• Coordinate, consolidate and document lessons learned and best practices of child participation and share with relevant stakeholders.

Feedback and Reporting Mechanisms:

• Use analysis of the context and community preferences to design appropriate feedback and reporting channels that are accessible to children and deprived and marginalised groups.
• Work with the focal points to develop a Feedback Handling Standard Operating Procedure and ensure that feedback is handled in line with it, with consideration of appropriate data protection procedures.
• Support the focal points to analyse and present feedback data to help inform decision-making and improve programme quality.
• Provide technical support to focal points and Programme Implementation teams to ensure the feedback loop is closed meaningfully, in a timely manner and with quality.

Manage Country office toll free line:

• Manage toll free number and other means of CRM and ensure all CRMs (hotline, complaint box, hoarding board) are functional at State, LGA and community levels

• Manage Complaints and Response Mechanism Central Database; aggregate complaints/feedbacks from field level databases into the central complaints database.
• Periodic supervision of all CRM personnel to ensure complaints are logged in a professional and timely manner and beneficiaries are communicated with the in a dignified manner regarding their complaints/feedback
• Provide CRM Report on a quarterly basis to PDQ Director for dissemination to SMT .
• Support MEAL Coordinators/Accountability focal points conduct survey for Complaints Satisfaction Assessment
.
• Coordinate, consolidate and document lessons learned and best practices and share with relevant stakeholders.

Coordination with Program Team:

• Work closely with accountability focal points to ensure timely information sharing and active participation of beneficiaries.
• Work closely with program staff to ensure quality are met in child participation.
• Ensure that Program Staff handle and document complaints as per CRM Design specifications.
• Support Program Team in verification of complaints registered & ensure the timely resolution of the complaints & completion of CRM database.

Skills & Experience
Administrative and General Skills
Essential:

• At least a Bachelor’s Degree in related field and 7 years of professional experience.
• Previous experience with other local and international NGOs.
• Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peers.
• Displays a commitment to the safe, meaningful and ethical participation of all children.
• Builds the understanding and capacity of others in child participation.
• Promotes an enabling environment for participation, and accountability to children.
• Demonstrates an understanding of how to include the voice of children in programme and advocacy work.
• Influences others to adopt good practices in relation to safeguarding.
• Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalised children.
• An aptitude for reviewing, synthesizing and analysing information/ data and producing quality reports.
• Demonstrable ability to design gender aware and/or transformative approaches and strategies within sector programs and humanitarian programs.
• A proven track record in conducting program-based gender analysis, preferably using participatory methodologies.
• Extensive experience and understanding of programming cycles and key milestones and processes.
• Advanced computer literacy (MS Office applications, web-based applications and advanced statistical package utilization e.g SPSS,STATA-12,DHIS etc)
• Good interpersonal skills and influencing skills
.
• Ability to work within a team setting
.
• Independence, adaptability and flexibility
.
• Ability to work in partnership with government and other NGO’s staff.
• Ability to mobilise people – to develop and maintain relationships with staff and communities to ensure their participation in Save the Children’s ways of working.
• Knowledge and experience of child safeguarding policies and procedures.

Desirable:

• Good understanding of accountability principles in terms of donors and organisational management but critically also to beneficiaries.

Skills and Behaviours (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:

• 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.

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.

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.