Job Vacancies at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE: 

Under the Child Health and Immunization Specialist, the Child Health and Immunization Officer will support the implementation of the technical and research aspects of the programme within the state. S/he will be accountable for the quality of interventions and for the capacity building of health workers health facility level. S/he will be responsible for ensuring timely provision of high-quality technical assistance by project staff in the state.  S/he will contribute to the efficient and effective planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as donor reporting functions so that the project can achieve its purposes and outputs. 

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Programme Quality

• Provides technical expertise to ensure programs are of high quality and comply with the country and SCI standards.
• Contributes to the identification of expertise gaps and support the mobilization of technical assistance from in-country and UK based technical advisers and external consultants as needed. 
• Supports the development of high-quality programming, annual plans, and budgeting processes for the programme, as and when necessary.
• Contributes to the formulation of key program questions that will help to advance the evidence base and leads design of targeted evaluations.
• Support the Child Health and Immunization Specialist in the coordination of the programme’s operational and analytical research, publication and dissemination of results.  
• Actively contribute to the process of learning, evaluation, capturing and disseminating lessons from the programme for continuous improvement of programme performance and overall outcome
• Contribute to the preparation of quality quarterly and annual reports and timely submission of deliverables.
• Any other duty assigned by the Child Health and Immunization Specialist

Capacity Building:

• Build capacity of health facility workers to implement quality programs

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Represent the programme in stakeholders’ forums at LGA and community levels. 
• Create partnerships with relevant community-based organizations, traditional and religious leaderships, development and other social groups at the LGA and community levels to ensure adequate community involvement and participation in project activities. 
• In collaboration with the Advocacy team, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all  levels.
• Ensure that learning, experiences, and evidence generated on the research component of the project is documented and presented to the right forum, particularly at the LGA and community levels.

Safeguarding

• Support safeguarding team in carrying out safeguarding risk assessment and develop a mitigation plan when needed.
• Flag safeguarding concerns noticed during programme implementation as well as share good practices identified in the field.
• All children and programme beneficiaries are provided with ongoing, age-appropriate verbal or written information in relevant languages about Save the Children’s Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• This position supports the Child Health Specialist in ensuring that the project team and SCI programmes in the assigned state are implemented with the highest standards and safe programming 
• 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 AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in medicine, health, public health or registered nurse/midwife or related field is required; a health professional (MD or nurse) with clinical training skills (pre-service and/or service clinical training) preferred. 
• Minimum of 3 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 of child survival and strong experience in immunization service delivery. program design and implementation required; must have experience facilitating training, supportive supervision.
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills.

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

Under the Child Health and Immunization Specialist, the Child Health and Immunization Officer will support the implementation of the technical and research aspects of the programme within the state. S/he will be accountable for the quality of interventions and for the capacity building of health workers health facility level. S/he will be responsible for ensuring timely provision of high-quality technical assistance by project staff in the state.  S/he will contribute to the efficient and effective planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as donor reporting functions so that the project can achieve its purposes and outputs. 

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Programme Quality

• Provides technical expertise to ensure programs are of high quality and comply with the country and SCI standards.
• Contributes to the identification of expertise gaps and support the mobilization of technical assistance from in-country and UK based technical advisers and external consultants as needed. 
• Supports the development of high-quality programming, annual plans, and budgeting processes for the programme, as and when necessary.
• Contributes to the formulation of key program questions that will help to advance the evidence base and leads design of targeted evaluations.
• Support the Child Health and Immunization Specialist in the coordination of the programme’s operational and analytical research, publication and dissemination of results.  
• Actively contribute to the process of learning, evaluation, capturing and disseminating lessons from the programme for continuous improvement of programme performance and overall outcome
• Contribute to the preparation of quality quarterly and annual reports and timely submission of deliverables.
• Any other duty assigned by the Child Health and Immunization Specialist

Capacity Building:

• Build capacity of health facility workers to implement quality programs

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Represent the programme in stakeholders’ forums at LGA and community levels. 
• Create partnerships with relevant community-based organizations, traditional and religious leaderships, development and other social groups at the LGA and community levels to ensure adequate community involvement and participation in project activities. 
• In collaboration with the Advocacy team, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all  levels.
• Ensure that learning, experiences, and evidence generated on the research component of the project is documented and presented to the right forum, particularly at the LGA and community levels.

Safeguarding

• Support safeguarding team in carrying out safeguarding risk assessment and develop a mitigation plan when needed.
• Flag safeguarding concerns noticed during programme implementation as well as share good practices identified in the field.
• All children and programme beneficiaries are provided with ongoing, age-appropriate verbal or written information in relevant languages about Save the Children’s Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• This position supports the Child Health Specialist in ensuring that the project team and SCI programmes in the assigned state are implemented with the highest standards and safe programming 
• 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 AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in medicine, health, public health or registered nurse/midwife or related field is required; a health professional (MD or nurse) with clinical training skills (pre-service and/or service clinical training) preferred. 
• Minimum of 3 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 of child survival and strong experience in immunization service delivery. program design and implementation required; must have experience facilitating training, supportive supervision.
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills.

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

Under the guidance of the ACSM Coordinator, the SBC Officer will be responsible for field implementation of the community mobilization and social and behavioural communication activities as captured in the workplan, with focus on strategies and approaches targeting communities with zero-dose and under-immunized children. S/he will support the ACSM Coordinator to implement innovations in the delivery of primary health care with focus on improving quality and access to immunization services, strengthening the health system, enabling policy and social environment, community involvement and removing the social, cultural and behavioural barriers to immunization service uptake.  

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Programme Quality

• Contribute to the planning, costing and implementation of ACSM components of the project and contribute to the overall key programme planning, coordination and reporting activities.
• Support the ACSM Coordinator in documenting success stories and contribute to the writing of reports, case studies, briefing papers and presentations for internal and external audiences as relevant
• In collaboration with the MEAL coordinator, support the ACSM Coordinator in collecting data and analyzing the progress of project’s ACSM activities.
• Use and adhere to available implementation technical documents (ToRs, tools, SoPs, training manuals, guidelines and protocols) assiduously to ensure programs are of high quality and comply with the country, SCI standards and best practices. 
• Actively contribute to the process of learning, evaluation, capturing and disseminating lessons from the programme for continuous improvement of programme performance and overall outcome

Social and behavioural communication (SBC)

• As part of the ACSM strategy, contribute to the development and implementation of a tailored SBC approach that will foster an improved individual and community understanding and perception around vaccination and health services
• Support the conduct of caregiver profiling, community and stakeholders mapping and lead in the development and production of evidence-based and audience-sensitive communication messages and materials (e.g posters, jingles, leaflets, scripts etc) on promoting the benefits of immunization over social barriers and misconceptions
• Implement dissemination and monitoring plans for communication materials and messages, including mass and social media broadcast and community events and campaigns either as stand-alone or to mobilise for an outreach programme
• Contribute to the development of communication training materials and support the conduct of training for relevant influencers and change agents such as traditional and religious leaders, CBOs, CSOs, journalists, professional bodies etc
• Support the ACSM Coordinator to build and maintain excellent relationships with relevant journalists, broadcasters and commentators in the local, national and international media and widen interest in immunization of under-immunized and zero-dose children
• Support innovations aiming at increasing community participation in and ownership of quality immunization and health service delivery
• Lead in engaging with platforms to improve positive social and gender norms to create an enabling environment for positive practices within households and at community levels. These platforms include but not limited to forums for men and women, mother-to-mother support groups, cooperative societies, traditional birth attendants (TBAs) etc 

Social Mobilization

• As part of the ACSM strategy, contribute to the development and implementation of social mobilization approach to increase the participation of an all-inclusive traditional and religious institutions (TRI), Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Faith Based Organizations (FBO )in immunization planning, activities and accountability
• Conduct capacity building in form of training, awareness creation and mentorship for social groups and individual champions (including children) on the dissemination of immunization messages

Safeguarding

• Support safeguarding team in carrying out safeguarding risk assessment and develop a mitigation plan when needed.
• Flag safeguarding concerns noticed during programme implementation as well as share good practices identified in the field.
• Ensure that all children and programme beneficiaries are provided with ongoing, age-appropriate verbal or written information in relevant languages about Save the Children’s Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in the social or behavioural sciences, public health, health education, health promotion, development studies, development economics, rural development/sociology or other related fields. 
• Any training on Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization be an added advantage
• Minimum of 3 year-experience in health financing, health governance, enhanced voice and accountability or similar roles, three of which should be at managerial level
• Fluency in English language. Knowledge of local languages (Lagos-Yoruba and Kano-Hausa) will be an added advantage
• Strong analytical framework to clearly articulate and communicate our policy positions
• Ability to be proactive when required to be able to keep communication plans dynamic and aligned to new policy and cultural developments
• Ability to clearly communicate and easily relate to federal and state authorities 
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment
• Comply with the requirements of Save the Children’s commitment to protect children in accordance with the Child Safeguarding Policy.

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

Under the guidance of the ACSM Coordinator, the SBC Officer will be responsible for field implementation of the community mobilization and social and behavioural communication activities as captured in the workplan, with focus on strategies and approaches targeting communities with zero-dose and under-immunized children. S/he will support the ACSM Coordinator to implement innovations in the delivery of primary health care with focus on improving quality and access to immunization services, strengthening the health system, enabling policy and social environment, community involvement and removing the social, cultural and behavioural barriers to immunization service uptake.  

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Programme Quality

• Contribute to the planning, costing and implementation of ACSM components of the project and contribute to the overall key programme planning, coordination and reporting activities.
• Support the ACSM Coordinator in documenting success stories and contribute to the writing of reports, case studies, briefing papers and presentations for internal and external audiences as relevant
• In collaboration with the MEAL coordinator, support the ACSM Coordinator in collecting data and analyzing the progress of project’s ACSM activities.
• Use and adhere to available implementation technical documents (ToRs, tools, SoPs, training manuals, guidelines and protocols) assiduously to ensure programs are of high quality and comply with the country, SCI standards and best practices. 
• Actively contribute to the process of learning, evaluation, capturing and disseminating lessons from the programme for continuous improvement of programme performance and overall outcome

Social and behavioural communication (SBC)

• As part of the ACSM strategy, contribute to the development and implementation of a tailored SBC approach that will foster an improved individual and community understanding and perception around vaccination and health services
• Support the conduct of caregiver profiling, community and stakeholders mapping and lead in the development and production of evidence-based and audience-sensitive communication messages and materials (e.g posters, jingles, leaflets, scripts etc) on promoting the benefits of immunization over social barriers and misconceptions
• Implement dissemination and monitoring plans for communication materials and messages, including mass and social media broadcast and community events and campaigns either as stand-alone or to mobilise for an outreach programme
• Contribute to the development of communication training materials and support the conduct of training for relevant influencers and change agents such as traditional and religious leaders, CBOs, CSOs, journalists, professional bodies etc
• Support the ACSM Coordinator to build and maintain excellent relationships with relevant journalists, broadcasters and commentators in the local, national and international media and widen interest in immunization of under-immunized and zero-dose children
• Support innovations aiming at increasing community participation in and ownership of quality immunization and health service delivery
• Lead in engaging with platforms to improve positive social and gender norms to create an enabling environment for positive practices within households and at community levels. These platforms include but not limited to forums for men and women, mother-to-mother support groups, cooperative societies, traditional birth attendants (TBAs) etc 

Social Mobilization

• As part of the ACSM strategy, contribute to the development and implementation of social mobilization approach to increase the participation of an all-inclusive traditional and religious institutions (TRI), Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Faith Based Organizations (FBO )in immunization planning, activities and accountability
• Conduct capacity building in form of training, awareness creation and mentorship for social groups and individual champions (including children) on the dissemination of immunization messages

Safeguarding

• Support safeguarding team in carrying out safeguarding risk assessment and develop a mitigation plan when needed.
• Flag safeguarding concerns noticed during programme implementation as well as share good practices identified in the field.
• Ensure that all children and programme beneficiaries are provided with ongoing, age-appropriate verbal or written information in relevant languages about Save the Children’s Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in the social or behavioural sciences, public health, health education, health promotion, development studies, development economics, rural development/sociology or other related fields. 
• Any training on Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization be an added advantage
• Minimum of 3 year-experience in health financing, health governance, enhanced voice and accountability or similar roles, three of which should be at managerial level
• Fluency in English language. Knowledge of local languages (Lagos-Yoruba and Kano-Hausa) will be an added advantage
• Strong analytical framework to clearly articulate and communicate our policy positions
• Ability to be proactive when required to be able to keep communication plans dynamic and aligned to new policy and cultural developments
• Ability to clearly communicate and easily relate to federal and state authorities 
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment
• Comply with the requirements of Save the Children’s commitment to protect children in accordance with the Child Safeguarding Policy.

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

The Supply Chain Officer is responsible for managing staff, vehicle fleet, assets, and procurement properties to ensure effective, transparent and accountable supply chain and logistics support to the Save the Children programs in SC Nigeria. Liaison with program teams to ensure adequate supply and logistical consideration for coordination and planning of program implementation. Provide technical support and guidance to program teams on logistical elements of distribution and procurement planning.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Transport & Fleet

Asset & Facility Management

• Maintaining up-to-date control of all assets including tracking donor, value, and location, managing staff issue, and recording all asset movements and disposals
• Oversee the issuance and return of assets to/from staff.
• Ensure good condition of assets and maintain asset condition reports.

Procurement and Supply

• Oversee procurement requirements of the Field Office; implement procurement as per approved guidelines, procedures, and forms (Purchase Requests, Purchase Orders, Goods Received Notes, etc.)
• Check the availability and prices of requested items in the local market; liaise with the country office if procurement must be conducted there.
• Prepare a weekly summary of all outstanding purchase requisitions, showing the current status of the items and the date on which, they are expected to be supplied to the projects.
• Prepare monthly summary reports on the procurement and logistics support functions, identifying problems in operations and solutions proposed.
• Monitor procurement and logistics support costs in liaison with the Field Accountant to ensure that expenditures remain within approved budgets. 

• Managing and tracking all vehicles on the fleet, including movement planning and day-to-day allocation 
• Manage, maintain, and repair vehicles in safe and efficient working order.
• Ensure that vehicles are checked daily and that regular service and maintenance are carried out as per the agreed schedule.
• Responsible for administering litigations and traffic offenses.
• Ensure vehicles have current and lawful documentation.
• Manage service agreements related to vehicle maintenance and fuelling. Monitor fuel consumption and submit monthly reports.
• Receive travel requests and maintain trip schedules and Staff Movement Board.
• Coordinate with incoming and outgoing travellers on pick-up and drop-off times ensuring drivers are briefed on movement plans

Administration & Reports

• Maintain all logistics and procurement files in an organized, accurate and up-to-date manner
• Line manages, coordinates, monitors, and guides the work of the drivers, and supply chain assistant
• Produce weekly procurement tracker and send it to program manager and country office
• Produce logistics and procurement site report, vehicle and generator cost performance report.
• Update Asset Register and send to country office every month
• Update the vehicle cost schedule and produce regular vehicle performance and cost reports and send to the country office once per month.
• Comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures concerning child protection, code of conduct, fraud, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies
• Work in close collaboration with the finance and administration departments to ensure effective operations and strong team spirit
• Carry out any other tasks required by the line manager.

Safeguarding

• Ensures all suppliers and service providers understand SCI safeguarding policies before they are engaged.
• Oversees vehicle operations and drivers’ performance to minimize/eliminate accidents.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Administrative & General Skills

• Level of Education – Degree
• Communication & Interpersonal Skill Level - Excellent
• Language Requirements – English - Excellent
• Level of IT Expertise Required - Good

Experience Expectations

• Desired Number of Years Prior Experience in a Similar Role – 3
• Experience in procurement and logistics with INGO
• Experience in a relatively insecure field-based environment

Educational Qualification requirement

• Bachelor's degree (BSC) or Higher National Diploma (HND), a Postgraduate qualification in related fields is desirable but not mandatory.
• Membership of professional supply chain organization is desirable.