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Ref No: 210001E7
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Employee Status: Permanent
Grade: 6

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

• The driver is responsible for the safe driving of Save the Children International vehicle, staff and Assets.
• The Driver will ensure cleaning, proper maintenance of vehicles in compliance with the Driver’s handbook and safe driving standards, ensuring the vehicle is fuelled in time for trips and the proper management of the fuel supply for that vehicle. The driver should do so in accordance with SCI policies and procedures.
• 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.

Scope of Role:

• Reports to: Supply Chain Coordinator, Yobe
• Staff directly reporting to this post: None

Key Accountabilities
Documentation:

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

Control of Vehicles:

• Ensure that all vehicle journeys are authorized in advance by Budget Holders and Cleared by the Security Team.
• Ensure that all vehicle journeys are to be recorded in the logbook 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:

• 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 safety of passengers at all times
• Safe transport of all staff, equipment, and materials
• Save the Children International has a no passenger policy – this relates to all non-agency personnel and is for reasons of safety, the continuance and equity of the programme.
• Save the Children International may give lifts to agency and Governmental staff on occasion for the benefit of the programme – see passenger policy for details.
• SCI reserves the right to refuse entry to a vehicle any staff member without identification documents or who cannot be identified by SCI staff.
• In the event of a medical emergency lifts may be given on prior approval of the programme manager – see passenger policy for details.

Vehicle Checks:

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

Vehicle Defects:

• A driver is to check for vehicle defects and damage to the vehicle and ensure that he reports them to his line manager. After consulting a mechanic, the line manager will make the decision as to whether the vehicle should be taken 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 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 a journey.
• Driver is to ensure SCI visibility protocols are adhered to at all times.

Other:

• Follow and abide by the traffic rules, SCI regulations, driver safety manual and any other instructions given by the Line Manager
• Maintain all vehicle’s safety equipment, as per vehicle safety kit, in liaison with the Fleet Officer/Log. Focal point – including first aid kit, communication equipment, tow rope and fire extinguisher.
• Support with car hire administration
• Work after duty hours or holidays as and when required and with prior notice from Line Manager
• Perform any other relevant and appropriate duty as may be requested by the Line Manager.

Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Hold oneself accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children
• Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for oneself and the team, take responsibility for his/her own personal development and encourage the team to do the same.
• Future orientated, think strategically and on a country programme wide scale.

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
• Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.

Creativity:

• Develop and encourage new and innovative solutions to problems faced
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

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

Skills & Experience
Administrative & General Skills:

• A valid and clean driver’s license
• Should have 3-5 years experience of professional driving.
• Prior experience as a driver in an international NGO, UN agency or private company
• Ability to multi-task and work calmly under pressure is essential for this position.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively in insecure environments is critical.
• Some practical experience of user vehicle maintenance.

Personal Qualities:

• A proactive and flexible approach to work
• An ability to work with minimum supervision
• A systematic approach to work
• A people orientated person who enjoys working in a team
• A keen interest in self-development
• A reliable, polite and professional attitude to ensure SCI is perceived as such.
• Working knowledge of the Save the Children Emergency Manual, Sphere, and Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• Strong oral and written English language communication skills required.
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and frustrating working circumstances is required.

Desirable:

• Any additional skills and/or experience that could be used by Save the Children would be taken into account in the selection process
• A valid driving license.

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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Employment Type: Contract
Consultancy: Preventing and mitigating consequences of violence against women and girls and addressing possible drivers of child early and forced marriage
Period of Performance: April 1, 2021 – September 30, 2021

Description of Services

• Save the Children US (SCUS), as part of the USAID funded MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) project, is hiring a consultant based in Nigeria who will work with three implementing agencies to lead formative assessments needed to unpack the specific, social factors that drive gender-based violence (GBV), child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) and early adolescent pregnancy to inform the social and behavior change action plans to be implemented by local partners.
• The consultant will work directly with implementing organizations based in Ebonyi state to conduct participatory exercises to identify key influencers and the social norms that drive the key behaviors of interest.

Scope of Work for Consultant:

• The consultant will work closely with the implementing organizations to unpack, understand and analyze the various social norms that influence the adoption of family planning among adolescents and youth, prevention of gender-based violence (GBV), child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) and meet the specific norms, context and needs in the communities using the participatory, qualitative approaches outlined inThe Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET).
• The implementing organizations will lead the SNET, community entry and engagement activities under the scope of MCGL with close collaboration with the consultant in Ebonyi state.

To support the SNET, the Consultant will:
Provide technical and capacity development assistance on SNET through series of workshops, ongoing mentorship and engagement with the implementing partners. Specifically, the consultant(s) will:

• Conduct a series of workshops with the local partners to train them on the SNET:
  • Lead orientation workshop on social norms as it relates to intimate partner violence (IPV), adoption of early family planning, CEFM with the local partners
  • Develop and review SNET workshop training plans with key stakeholders in the implementing states.
  • Supervise the screening and identification of participants for the SNET training workshop.
  • Lead a 5-day training and piloting of tools and the use of SNET for the local partners
• Support implementation of the SNET through collaborative adaptation of the SNET tools to the specific target populations and behaviors of interest by:
  • Supporting MCGL with development or adaptation of exploration exercises and assessment tools to be used for the SNET
  • Co-developing IRB protocol and tools with MCGL and facilitating submission of IRB documents to local ethics review body
  • Assisting local partners with selecting main populations and determining number of communities and participants to engage in the SNET, for each of the behaviors of interest
  • Leading the development of work plans and timelines for SNET field work
  • Overseeing the data collection process to ensure information is being gathered per the protocol
  • Contributing to and supporting MCGL with the development of analysis tools and plan
  • Leading participatory data analysis workshop to support local partners with analyzing information gathered for each behavior of interest
  • Leading synthesis of findings to identify the priority norms and reference groups that emerge to inform programming.
  • Validate and disseminate findings from the SNET field work with wider stakeholders.
  • Support activities to capture and translate SNET and other formative assessment frameworks into SBCC strategies
  • Support the co-creation process for interventions.

Deliverables:

• Research protocol and tools
• Social norms orientation workshop
• SNET training workshop
• Fieldwork plan
• Supervise data collection activities
• Participatory data analysis workshop
• Report of key findings

Consultant Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Public Health, Gender or related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• Minimum 5-7 years’ relevant experience
• Familiarity with local context (Ebonyi state) and willingness to travel and work in the state
• Expertise on social and gender norms, gender-based violence, child and early forced marriage and family planning research and programming
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to collaborate, learn and adapt programme interventions in varied contexts
• Excellent social and emotional intelligence skills
• Demonstrated experience developing qualitative research protocols and tools
• Demonstrated experience conducting qualitative data collection and analysis
• Experience with partnering with community-based organizations/civil society organizations/faith-based organizations to implement research studies and interventions at community level
• Demonstrated workshop planning and facilitation experience
• Experience designing and facilitating capacity strengthening workshops
• Familiarity with USAID and USAID’s adolescent and youth priorities.

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to "Alicia Hurlburt" via: ahurlburt@savechildren.org using the Job Title as the subject of the email.