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Ongoing Recruitment at Save the Children (Updated)

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Save the Children is a leading international organization helping children in need around the world. First established in the UK in 1919, separate national organizations have been set up in more than twenty-eight countries, sharing the aim of improving the lives of children through education, health care and economic opportunities, as well as emergency aid in cases of natural disasters, war and conflict. In Nigeria, Save the Children has been working since 2001. The early focus was on getting children actively involved in shaping the decisions that affect their lives. Today, Save the Children is working in seven federal states - Zamfara, Yobe, Jigawa, Katsina, Kano, Bauchi and Kaduna - focusing on providing basic healthcare and protecting children. We are recruiting to fill the positions below:         Job Title: Senior Gender Equality Advisor Location: Nigeria Role Purpose

• The Senior Gender Equality Advisor is responsible for supporting the integration of a strong gender equality perspective on the “Reaching and Empowering Adolescents to make Informed Choices for their Health” (REACH) project.
• This may include ensuring gender mainstreaming throughout the project’s results based management frameworks, strengthening and supporting gender equality strategies and facilitating gender equality capacity strengthening for field teams via training and tool development.
• The post holder also provides technical support to the REACH project on gender equality, both remotely and via travel to work with field teams. Additionally, as part of this role, the Senior Gender Equality Advisor will work closely with Save the Children Canada and all members of the project team.
• In addition, as the focal person for gender for the country office will support the Deputy Director Programme Quality and Development in promoting gender mainstreaming.

Key Areas of Accountability As a member of the REACH Project team, the Senior Gender Equality Advisor will:

• Demonstrate behaviours that are consistent with Save the Children’s Mission, Vision and Values and ensure their broader application by staff across the programme.
• Contribute to a conducive and productive work environment in a way that promotes accountability and high performance, encourages a team culture of learning, creativity and innovation

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide high quality technical assistance to REACH program delivery teams, building a solid evidence base to support the development implementation and evaluation of gender-transformative approaches
• Supports REACH program staff and partners, as well as the Country Office team, to strategically integrate gender equality through training and knowledge sharing activities.
• Supports integration and collection of appropriate gender equality indicators and collaborates to monitor and evaluate to ensure that gender equality outcomes and results are achieved and documented, including for a baseline gender analysis.
• In collaboration with project staff, develop and pilot social and behavior change communication approaches, materials and tools.
• Support REACH program teams to review project deliverables and donor reports from a technical quality control perspective
• Creates high quality narrative reports and documents that are complete and timely.
• Supports the development and roll out of gender sensitive program/project management tools and results-based frameworks.
• Supports the development and implementation of the Save the Children International Gender Equality Principles and the roll out of Save the Children’s Gender Equality Program Guidance and Toolkit.
• When requested, represents the country office at relevant conferences and workshops.
• Build gender equality networks; Liaises with other donors, program staff of other agencies and members of Save the Children International as appropriate

Qualifications and Experience Essential:

• A post graduate University degree in Social Sciences with academic training in women’s studies, gender and development or a relevant field.
• 5-7 years’ work experience with an international development organization, with focus on women and girls/gender equality programming.
• Proven experience working on normative change for gender equality and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in sensitive contexts
• Proven experience in designing, implementing and evaluating gender-transformative social and behavior change communication interventions
• Experience in implementing gender-transformative approaches to health
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team setting with minimal supervision
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced work environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Specific knowledge of international development and gender equality issues; experience engaging children and other community members on gender equality issues desirable.

Desirable:

• Strong organizational skills to work effectively to support multi-tasking.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead and inspire others.
• Adaptability and flexibility to adjust to changing schedules and priorities.
• Effective critical information gathering to create accurate reports.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, in English.
• Excellent analytical skills, and demonstrated experience with gender analysis.
• Fluency in any one of Hausa or knowledge of related languages an added asset.
• Good familiarity, networking and working relationships with relevant organizations.
• Ability to travel within the country.
• Programming experience in the North of Nigeria.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to Apply for this Position                 Job Title: Education in Emergencies Sector Coordinator Location: Borno Role Purpose An estimated 19,000 teachers have been displaced since 2009 and 645 killed and approximately 1,200 schools damaged or destroyed. Schools have been used for military purposes and teachers have been harassed as a result of the conflict that started in 2009. Save the Children is piloting Schools as Zones of Peace and at the same time engaging the government through the EiEWG to commit to the Safe Schools Declaration and make schools safe for both children and teachers and to ensure continuity of learning even in places affected by conflict. Save the Children (SCI) and UNICEF share global responsibility for the coordination of Education in Emergencies as part of the UN humanitarian reform and the Cluster system. The Education in Emergencies Sector Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating and supporting on-going Education in Emergencies Sector partners and activities in North East Nigeria and for strengthening sector coordination nationally in Nigeria, according to the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Cluster/Sector approach. Scope of the Role

• Reports to: SCI Deputy Team Leader in Maiduguri (Administrative matters);
• UNICEF North East Education Specialist and SCI Nigeria Head of Education Advisor (Technical Matters)
• The Coordinator will be provided office space in both SCI and UNICEF and will share his/her time evenly between the two offices.

Dimensions:

• Number of direct reports: UNICEF Education in Emergency (EiE) Specialist in as supporting co-lead and UNICEF Emergency Specialist
• UNICEF Education Specialist in Borno as State-level EiE Sector working group lead and SCI Education Manager inBorno as State-level working group co-lead;
• OCHA and other Cluster/Sector coordinators in Nigeria as part of the Inter-Cluster Coordination mechanisms(esp. Child Protection sub-Sector and WASH Cluster);
• Education in Emergency Working Group (EiEWG) – co-led by UNICEF and SCI - as overarching education coordination forum in, and channel for EiE and response coordination.
• ETWG Sub-Working Groups established for EiE and Disaster Risk Reduction in Education
• All Sector members implementing education in emergency-affected areas of North East Nigerian States.
• Key Government contacts (MoE and other departments) at the national and State levels where appropriate and feasible

Key Areas of Accountability

• The overall aim of the SZOP is to ensure that Schools are safe from any form attach and use for military purpose to ensure continuity of the teaching and learning process for the children affected by the conflict. On the other hand, the EiE Sector in Nigeria is to ensure a timely, coherent and effective education response by mobilising and coordinating stakeholders to respond in a strategic manner to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Nigeria which has resulted in the current displacement of 1.8 million people, 20,000 death and 4,000 abduction in North East States and to develop Sector preparedness capacity to effectively respond to man-made or natural hazards resulting in new disasters
• In order to achieve this aim, the Education in Emergencies Sector Coordinator will be accountable for collaborating with key stakeholders on the implementation of the following core EiE Sector functions at State level:

To support roll out & implementation of SZOP in North East Nigeria:

• Support schools to conduct a child centred hazard, vulnerability and capacity assessment and develop Disaster Risk Reduction and Management plans.
• Taking lead in supporting the target schools to rollout SZOP activities as agreed in the School DDR plans.
• As SZoP Coordinator together with the EiEWG members advocate for the signing of the Safe Schools Declaration by the government.
• As SZoP coordinator, review target school Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) plan and provide support in the improvement of the strategy.
• Based on the school based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management plans, monitor progress of plan implementation and support schools to keep on track or revise strategies.
• Through the EiEWG advocate for ratification of Safe School Declaration by the government.

Cluster Coordination:

• Assume overall responsibility for co-ordination of the Education Cluster.
• Work closely with other key members of the Education Cluster, including school officials, National, Provincial or Local Governments, OCHA, UNICEF and all other cluster members.
• Secure commitments from humanitarian actors responding to or supporting the emergency response.
• Support both multi-sector and education specific needs assessments and utilise existing secondary to inform sector response planning.
• Lead development of the Education Cluster work plan, and co-ordinate the harmonisation of response activities, ensuring that activities prevent overlap and duplication.
• Ensure that inter-agency response strategy for Education reflects key findings from needs assessments, identifying gaps, and formulating a sector-wide interagency response plan, taking into account the cross-cutting areas from other sectors or clusters
• Ensure that information is shared amongst cluster members, and that information from other sectors and clusters is made available to cluster members in order to improve planning, integration and implementation.
• Ensure clear and effective communication occurs between the field and the national cluster.
• Contribute to regular OCHA Sitreps, and take an active part in OCHA co-ordination meetings.
• Ensure education is explicitly included and prioritized in all multi-sector assessments and reports, including OCHA Sitreps.
• Ensure cluster members are aware of relevant Minimum Standards, policies and guidelines with apply to all agencies.
• Track and monitor cluster members fundraising for Education specific interventions, and ensure that members are aware of funding opportunities.
• Consult and identify how the education cluster should facilitate the move towards early recovery and plan an exit strategy for the cluster.

Capacity Building:

• Where appropriate, ensure that capacity building of country programme staff occurs in order to ensure on-going sustainability and quality of the response
• Identify learning and training opportunities for Education cluster members and work in increase capacity in preparedness and response within the cluster.

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 orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, and preferably post-graduate university degree, in subject related to role. (Substantial experience can be considered in lieu of academic qualifications.)
• Solid experience of Education Cluster/Sector coordination at the national level in similar context (chronic emergencies).
• Demonstrated skills, experience, and knowledge of Education in Emergencies, particularly in a protracted displacement context
• Experience in establishing and managing education in emergencies programmes with participatory approach to government authorities and community leaders
• Experience and knowledge of effective financial and budgetary control and managing grants.
• Ability to analyse information, develop information management tools and consolidate the existing ones with the support of GEC, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically.
• Ability to, and experience of, identifying and addressing capacity gaps including delivering training in thematic area.
• Solid proposal development and review skills.
• An in-depth understanding of national and international development issues related to the thematic programme, including cross-cutting issues (conflict sensitivity, gender, disability particularly important)
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills and the ability to lead and motivate others.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Commitment to and understanding humanitarian principles, the convention on child rights and the Cluster approach and relevant standards (Sphere and INEE)
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally as may be required.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to Apply for this Position   Application Deadline   4th December, 2017.         Job Title: Food Security and Livelihood Coordinator Location: Borno Role

• To support implementation of FSL component of project for FFP.

Main Responsibilities The post holder will receive a context specific ToR for each deployment, which will draw upon the responsibilities outlined below: Programme Support (typically will be at field level):

• Support field level technical assessments in coordination with the FFP Program Manager and other SC thematic areas and/or other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs.
• With support from the FFP PM and/or other senior programme staff, develop project plans and budgets, contributing towards an overall project implementation.
• With support of FSL officers and FFP PM ensure adequate supervision of all FSL activities in communities with proper community mapping and identification.
• Ensure proper identification of beneficiaries and baseline with support from FSL officers and MEAL and community committees are in all communities.
• Liaising with Nutrition FFP team to ensure caregivers of children identified with SAM are registered for food vouchers on the program.
• Working with FSL officers and other program staff to ensure program beneficiaries have adequate information about the food voucher program including location of vendors, prices of items and checking balancing and complaint mechanism.
• With support from the lead FFP PM and/or other FSL officers, support with inputs in development of high quality concept notes and proposals.
• With the support of FFP PM, support project implementation to ensure timely delivery of project activities (for example, monitoring against log frames, individual performance management work plans).
• Working closely with the FFP PM and/or other senior programme staff, support timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• Ensure success stories that have been identified on the program are documented with good practices shared among staff.
• With support from the Monitoring & Evaluation team support the M & E plan implementation within the FSL projects, ensuring this links to reporting requirements, and capacity build technical field staff in carrying out the work.
• With support from the Accountability Lead ensure accountability is enforced in all project activities as well as ensuring that feedback from children and their families is considered in project design/implementation
• Work closely with partners and their staff to ensure project activities are implemented in time and within the stipulated quality.
• To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.

Capacity Building:

• Identify learning and training opportunities for partner staff and communicate this to the Field manager or FFP DPM.

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and support Interagency Coordination forums, advocating for the specific needs of children. This may involve supporting coordination working groups within the IDP camps and host communities or target project sites.
• Contribute to communications and media work as required through correction of data and information and sharing with the project heads.

Core Behaviour:

• Understanding humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:
• Ensures that programme goals and activities uphold the principles of the key national and international humanitarian frameworks, codes and commitments
• Integrates beneficiary accountability principles into the approach
• Participates in disaster coordination mechanisms and interagency cooperation

Achieving results effectively:

• Ensures efficient and transparent use of resources in accordance with internal controls
• Establishes staff engagement mechanisms.
• Addresses difficult situations and makes tough decisions confidently and calmly
• Considers the wider impact of decisions to be made in the short and long-term.
• Continuously provides feedback and updates to achieve improved results
• Coordinates with stakeholders to avoid duplication and maximise resources
• Documents lessons learned and applies them to future projects

Maintaining and developing collaborative relationships:

• Actively listens to different perspectives and experiences of stakeholders
• Actively participates in networks to access and contribute to good practice
• Establishes and maintains clear communication and dialogue with disaster and conflict affected people and other stakeholders
• Establishes clear objectives with teams and individuals and monitors progress and performance

Operating safely and securely:

• Identifies and communicates risk and threats and minimises these for oneself and the agency
• Takes measures to do no harm and to minimise risks for partners and the communities
• Reduces vulnerability by complying with safety and security protocols set by the organisation
• Demonstrates an understanding of wider UN/NGO security coordination and how the organisation can benefit from, and contribute to, those mechanisms.

Managing yourself in a pressured and changing environment:

• Helps team members to practise stress management through prioritisation of workloads and modelling of appropriate self care
• Remains effective and retains perspective in the face of difficult or demanding situations
• Demonstrates personal integrity by using one’s position responsibly and fairly
• Maintains ethical and professional behaviour in accordance with relevant codes of conduct
• Plans, prioritises and performs tasks well under pressure
• Takes responsibility for own work and for the impact of own actions

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
• Makes positive statements about work
• Effectively influences others by understanding their interests and showing how they will be met by own preferred solution
• Gives constructive feedback to enhance capabilities and responsibilities to another for the purpose of his/her development.

Qualifications & Experience Essential:

• Substantial experience of working in FSL, including prior internationally based experience
• Education to B.Sc/BA level in a relevant subject or equivalent field experience
• Previous experience of project management and implementation
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation
• Experience of training and capacity building staff
• Some experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
• Knowledge of institutional donors and experience of developing proposals
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
• Excellent communication and strong influencing skills
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• A high level of written and spoken English
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely 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

Desirable:

• Knowledge of EMMA and market analysis tools
• Familiarity with FSL and nutrition surveys
• Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts
• Knowledge of consortia working
• Experience in gender mainstreaming within FSL programming.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to Apply for this Position Application Deadline   29th November, 2017.         Job Title: Deputy Team Leader - Programme Operations Location: Borno Job Type: Full-Time Project Summary

• 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.

The Role

• The Deputy Team Leader- Programme Operations (DTL-P) is responsible for the direct oversight and overall management of SC’s humanitarian projects in northeast Nigeria. The DTL-Programme Operations supports the Humanitarian Response Team Leader (RTL) by providing information on the progress of the programmatic interventions, providing direction to individual project managers on their projects and ensuring a multi-sectoral and/or integrated approach across programmes where feasible.
• The DTL-Programme’s role includes supporting the Humanitarian RTL to identify needs and resources and elaborating programme recommendations for the emergency response in line with Save the Children Nigeria SMT and regional response priorities.
• The post-holder will take part in developing the response strategy and identification of the necessary resources for the response.
• In coordination with the Humanitarian PDQ Manager, the DTL-Programme Operations will support project managers to incorporate the relevant thematic advisors to provide appropriate design, training and MEAL functions for programming in North East Nigeria.
• The DTL-P will establish working relations with other agencies, looking for opportunities for partnership and harmonisation of approach and with donors to ensure resources are made available to the response.
• The DTL-P will negotiate the positioning of the humanitarian response within the Country Programme and support the Humanitarian – RTL to ensure the suitable resourcing of the response, manage programmes or country support functions and negotiate and network at an international level.
• They will ensure that all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to child safeguarding, safety and security, code of conduct, equal opportunities and other relevant policies are in place.
• The post holder will play a strategic role in defining the effective scale up and management of Save the Children emergency programme to maximise impact and enable positive change for children.

Main Responsibilities Programme Support:

• In collaboration with the Humanitarian Response Team Leader, assume overall oversight of the programmatic side of the SC Nigeria humanitarian response
• Ensure the large number of multiple grants (across the 5 sectors), contribute to the achievement of the response strategy ensuring strict compliance of programme activities with Save the Children national and global policies and procedures and with relevant donor regulations and agreements, SPHERE guidelines and the NGO code of conduct.
• Ensure the integration of other sectors to strengthen the quality and geographical coverage of the humanitarian response to include new areas of need and additional sectors like early recovery/resilience
• Take overall leadership and oversight on the management of response budgets of US$ 10-20 million of annual budget, keeping relevant stakeholders informed and ensuring any corrective actions are taken to meet donor guidelines
• Review all donor project reports as per the reporting matrix and work with the respective project managers to finalize drafts at field level before submitting to CO and SC Member
• Ensure all donor project reports meet the respective donors’ guidelines
• Support on the revision of the response master budget for the Nigerian response, based on direction from the Team Leader and Director for Humanitarian Programme.
• In coordination with the TAs and the awards team, ensure the preparation of timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• Work with the TAs develop scaling up plans for programming, based on existing Nigerian experience and the experience during the early months of the response
• Establish project monitoring plans and systems for identifying and tracking the indicators and develop processes/procedures and forms to support monitoring and inform learning.
• Ensure optimal safety and security management procedures and practices are in place for the emergency response programme and continually monitor the safety and security situation, adapting staff safety and security procedures accordingly in collaboration and cooperation with the Safety and Security Coordinator in Borno.
• Through embedding direct and remote processes into each sector programme design, ensure strong accountability to beneficiaries
• Plan, identify and resource appropriate and effective structure & staffing needs for entire response (including ensuring that personnel policies are in accordance with national laws)
• Perform other tasks as outlined by the line manager

Capacity Building:

• Coach and train project managers on PCM to ensure coherent project management
• Ensure that all programme designs and budgets sufficiently incorporate pre-deployment training requirements and capacity building plans and performance management systems are in place. Ensure training plans include capability statements and measuring systems to allow the development of the requisite competencies in staff at each level to ensure timely delivery of a quality of response
• Coach and mentor international and national staff and partners and link in to wider organisational talent development mechanisms.

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Represent Save the Children’s emergency response on a national, regional and international level to donors, the media and members of the humanitarian community.
• Help shape broader sector strategies through influence of and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed
• Regularly undertake high level representation and advocacy with Government partners and officials as well as donor representatives. Establish systems for communication with local Government partners, relevant line departments and community representations in the project area(s).
• Lead on organisational level operational practice, innovation and learning in consultation with Humanitarian team.
• Oversee the implementation of Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to child rights and safeguarding, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies

Core Behaviours Understanding humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:

• Demonstrates strategic leadership in disaster coordination mechanisms and interagency cooperation
• Applies humanitarian principles to complex situations to generate both short and long-term organisational and sector-wide strategies

Achieving results effectively:

• Leads strategically on accountability initiatives, ensuring accountability processes are in place and achieving results
• Builds consensus and ownership around difficult decisions and/or complex courses of action
• Maintains focus on strategic issues and overall organisational and sector-wide impact

Maintaining and developing collaborative relationships:

• Quickly builds and leads high performing teams
• Applies distributed leadership amongst a team
• Shares success whilst being accountable for difficult outcomes

Operating safely and securely:

• Monitors security risks and ensures organisational protocols are consistently followed by staff
• Takes appropriate action and provides appropriate direction and support to team members in the event of a critical incident
• Reduces vulnerability by complying with safety and security protocols set by the organisation

Managing yourself in a pressured and changing environment:

• Ensures that wider team remains positive and focussed on the objectives and goals in a rapidly changing environment
• Able to proactively build & maintain levels of resilience in others
• Adapts leadership approach to the situation
• Communicates humanitarian values and motivates others towards them
• Maintains simultaneously a broad strategic perspective and awareness of the detail of a situation
• Demonstrates personal integrity by using one’s position responsibly and fairly

Leadership: Action; Thinking; Self; Inspiring; Developing Others:

• Removes obstacles to ensure strategic objectives are met
• Aligns ideas and solutions to strategic imperatives
• Uses global networks to influence strategy or action
• Demonstrates managerial courage by willingness to confront difficult situations, take potentially unpopular decisions and communicate clearly to create consensus notwithstanding difference
• Creates a team environment where team members feel able to contribute, champion or challenge decisions
• Continual efforts at self improvement in evidence
• Creates and communicates a compelling vision which inspires others
• Ensures processes are in place across the team to strengthen the capacity of staff and partners in line with individual and organisational objectives

Qualifications and Experience Essential:

• Extensive experience (3-5 years) of working within a middle or senior management role within a complex country programme with an iNGO  in an emergency response or fragile state
• Previous experience of managing programme teams in large-scale first phase emergency response is essential
• Education: MA / MSc level (or equivalent field experience)
• Middle or senior management experience of multi-national, multi-sector team.
• Experience of managing multi-donor, multi-site programmes (including ECHO, DFID and OFDA) of USD 5m+ in a first phase response at regional or country level
• Multi-site security management in insecure environments
• Experience of international level representation with key stakeholders, and co-ordination with other NGOs/UN
• Experience of international media representation and advocacy
• Experience of M&E and beneficiary accountability systems in large complex programmes
• Experience of developing and negotiating successful partnerships with institutional donors
• Proven ability to influence change at an operational and strategic level
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• Proven reporting and communication skills
• A high level of written and spoken English
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely 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

Desirable:

• Knowledge in Hausa language
• Previous experience in northeast Nigeria or the Lake Chad basin
• Previous experience with Save the Children

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to Apply for this Position         Job Title: National Social Safety Net Programme - Gender Analysis (Consultant) Location: Abuja Job Type: Temporary Background The Nigerian government has recently rolled out a comprehensive National Social Safety Net Programme (NASSP) as part of the Social Investment Programmes. The sum of Five Hundred Billion Naira has already been approved in the 2016 Appropriation Act to finance NASSP, with a corresponding amount committed by the World Bank. The intended outcome of the NASSP is to accelerate growth and development through addressing unemployment and improving the living conditions of vulnerable and extremely poor Nigerians. The NASSP specifically targets caregivers within targeted households - primarily women - with three interventions: cash, capacity building and livelihoods. Recognizing that the target beneficiaries are caregivers, which is a role primarily filled by women, the focus of the Gender Analysis will be on women. However, it will pay particular attention to the engagement of men as enablers to ensure that in cases where men are caregivers, they have equal access to and benefit from the NASSP. It will also analyse intersectionality of other exclusion factors, recognizing that caregivers’ vulnerabilities will be exacerbated and compounded by different factors including: age, disability and ethnicity. Rationale

• The research will provide a guide for NASSP to develop valuable linkages with other relevant national programmes, in order that beneficiaries can benefit from integrated interventions which can meet multiple needs and address poverty in a holistic manner.
• The research will enable the federal Government to redesign, implement and monitor the programme in a way that reduces exclusion errors and ensures meaningful inclusion so that vulnerable households have meaningful and equal access to, and benefit from, the programme.
• The research will identify opportunities for empowering female - and other at risk - caregivers to meaningfully benefit from the cash interventions and training opportunities through reduction of risk and increased voice and decision making.
• The research will ensure that discriminatory gender norms are identified and addressed through relevant and context-specific recommendations - including through the possibility of adapting conditionalities to challenge existing norms. The research will identify what package of activities is necessary to ensure that cash interventions strengthen women’s voice and decision making.
• The research will enable the federal Government to capture and amplify the voices of vulnerable communities, NASSP and therefore role-model the meaningful engagement of vulnerable communities. This will then translate into strengthened voice of women at all levels, including in the household.
• To identify relevant indicators to track that NASSP is contributing to gender equality.

Purpose

• To generate findings and provide SMART recommendations to ensure vulnerable households have equal and meaningful access to, and benefit from, the National Social Safety Net Programme through the reduction of risk and the empowerment of caregivers.

The Gender Analysis will:

• Identify existing women’s empowerment programmes across the country fostering women’s development.
• Identify existing vulnerabilities (including intersectionality) and develop agreed selection criteria;
•  Identify risks, challenges and opportunities for households to access the NASSP;
• Identify the needs and interests of the proposed target group (Households);
• Identify effective approaches for mainstreaming gender in programme design, implementation and monitoring; and
• Ensure that vulnerable individuals have equal opportunities to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from the NASSP.

The Gender Analysis will focus on three stages of the Programme Cycle: Design; Implementation and Monitoring. Within these stages, it will assess and analyze the following:

• Design: selection process, eligibility criteria, participation and consultation
• Implementation: distribution mechanism, training sessions (content, facilitation, engaging men), control over resources and access to market
• Monitoring: inclusion of excluded voices, gender-based violence

Approach and Methodology

• This research will be carried out by consultant(s) or a local research organization.

Proposed Methodology Desk review:

• Mapping of existing national women’s empowerment programmes (e.g Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund and Nigerian Women’s Empowerment Fund) to enable improved linkages and integration across programmes
• Mapping of national and global gender-sensitive cash transfer programmes to draw lessons learned and best practices
• Existing data on gender equality:

Field research:

• Key Informant Interviews (inc. religious leaders and other opinion-shapers)
• Focus Group Discussions: both those included and excluded from the NASSP
• Direct observational monitoring in Target locations
• Ensure close collaboration and engagement with the National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office (NASSCO) and National Cash Transfer Office (NCTO)

The research will capture and represent the diversity in Nigeria by ensuring data is collected in the North/South/East/West, covering all six geo-political zones, humanitarian and development, indigene and non-indigene and rural, semi-urban and urban, and migrant and non-migrant. Outputs, Deliverables and Reporting During the consultancy the following is expected:

• Inception report (including timeframe and detailed methodology - all instruments used including a list of documents reviewed and tools etc)
• Initial Briefing with Steering Committee to review approach, interviewees, interview guide, and site visits etc
• Draft report
• Final report that responds to comments or questions from Steering Committee within 5 days
• Presentation

At the end of the consultancy, the following deliverables are expected:

• Final report (maximum 30 pages): Executive Summary, Findings, Conclusion, Recommendations
• PPT presentation

Who to Apply

• Application are welcome from international based gender specialists who have access to local based gender specialist and women’s right organizations in Nigeria.
• The selected international gender specialist will be expected to partner with local structures (National gender based specialist or women organization) to carry out the assignment.
• Save the Children is looking for researchers with expertise in gender analysis and generating recommendations of relevance to policy-makers and practitioners.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to Apply for this Position   Application Deadline   8th December, 2017.           Job Title: Mainstreaming Disability in CDGP (Consultant) Locations: Abuja Project Summary The Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP) is a DFID Funded program that provides an unconditional cash transfer of 4,000 NGN per month to pregnant women and women with children under the age of two (2) in Zamfara and Jigawa. It is delivered in partnership with Action Against Hunger (AAH)). The programme is being implemented in close collaboration with state governments and is aimed at reducing the prevalence of stunting and improving food security. The overall anticipated outcome is: A scalable programme showing how cash transfers can bring cost-effective immediate and long-term food security and nutrition benefits to eligible households with young children in poor communities in northern Nigeria:

• Output 1: Secure payments mechanism providing regular, timely cash transfers to pregnant  women and women with under-2s
• Output 2: Effective system for mobilisation, targeting and delivering complementary interventions established.
• Output 3: Enhanced government capacities for and engagement in managing social protection and cash transfers in focus states.
• Output 4: Evidence of cash transfer modalities and impacts provided to policymakers and practitioners at State and Federal levels.

DFID, SCI and AAH, through the CDGP, aim to secure increased political and institutional commitment by the Zamfara and Jigawa state governments to implement effective state-wide social protection to deliver improved nutrition, food security and poverty reduction for women and children at scale. The CDGP is accompanied by an independent evaluation that will provide rigorous evidence on impact that will be used at a variety of stages through the life of the programme to influence Zamfara and Jigawa state governments to adopt and scale up state-wide the approaches used in CDGP.  The programme also aims to inform the design and roll out of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) and specifically their flagship programme, National Social Safety Net programme (NSSNP). Objective and Overview of the Consultancy

• The CDGP was designed as a learning programme expected to produce evidence of programme impact as well as deliver lessons on how the programme delivery could be strengthened. In this universally targeted programme it is expected that communities that are benefitting from the programme would have residents that are disabled and eligible to enrol in the CDGP.
• Mainstreaming disability was not a part of the programme design but it is now recognised that not doing so may lead to the unintended exclusion of people living with disabilities or limit their participation in various programme activities.
• To address this, CDGP is looking for a partner to lead in this consultancy.

The objectives of the consultancy are to:

• Conduct an assessment of disability in the program in both states. The assessment would include adults and children in our programme areas and would use the Washington Group of Questions (modified to the Nigerian environment) for the adults, and child development milestones for children
• Conduct mapping in the five LGAs to enable CDGP to refer beneficiaries for addressing identified needs that are disability specific
• Train SCI Country Office and CDGP staff on disability and build capacity
• Potentially there may be an opportunity for a fourth objective which is to support NSSNP in designing and integrating disability in their program.

Key Competencies

• At least 5 years’ experience developing programmes that mainstream disabilities ideally in an international development context
• 5 years’ experience working with CSOs of People Living with Disabilities
• Experience in resource development and training

Expected Deliverables:

• A working definition of Disability in CDGP Assessment report
• Frameworks for assessing and managing beneficiaries living with disabilities
• A training that will cover the main objectives of the disability framework
• Pilot training/workshop

Tasks & Timeline for proposed work:

• The work should commence by 3rd January, 2018 and is expected to be completed by 21st February, 2018.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to Apply for this Position   Application Deadline   8th December, 2017.           Job Title: Consultant - National Social Safety Net Programme: Political Economy Analysis (PEA)  Location: Abuja Context

• The Federal Government of Nigeria has committed to implementing Social Protection (SP) initiatives as an instrument for poverty reduction.  One major intervention is the World Bank supported National Social Safety Net Programme (NASSP), a flagship programme under the Social Investment Programme.
• This programme will receive $1.3 billion from the Government of Nigeria as well as $500 million support from the World Bank. The programme is intended to benefit 1,000,000 poor and vulnerable households per year across all the 36 states starting with 30% of poorest LGAs, then 50% and the last 20%.
• Additionally, the Federal Government is embarking on a process to build a comprehensive social protection system through inclusion of $2.5 billion per year in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and the development of social investment programmes.
• In addition, a Social Protection Policy was passed recently in July 2017 to strengthen the delivery and impact of interventions on poverty reduction.
• At the same time, over the last five years Save the Children in partnership with DFID and Action Against Hunger have been implementing the Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP)- a large-scale nutrition-sensitive cash transfer programme targeting 90,000 beneficiaries in the North-Western Zone.
• The programme has been implemented in Jigawa and Zamfara states with a vision to support the local state governments to maintain it and to support the development of a nutrition-sensitive national-level social protection system that, amongst other interventions, provides regular cash transfers accompanied by nutrition interventions to vulnerable women and children in the first 1000 days of their life.
• In order to support the development of an effective and sustainable social protection system in Nigeria, NASSCO (the implementing body of NASSP) and CDGP are jointly commissioning a political economy analysis to better understand the contextual and institutional dynamics around social protection system development at the national and state levels in Nigeria and how best to contribute to positive change in the sector, including integrating local and global best practices and ensuring a nutrition-sensitive approach.  Additional key stakeholders supporting this objective include DFID, the World Bank, and UNICEF.

Objectives The main objective of this analysis is to:

• Investigate the political dynamics and institutional factors (national and state level) that influence the establishment of a high quality, sustainable, and well targeted cash transfer programme in Nigeria as well as the development of stable and capable institutions to carry this out;
• Findings and recommendations should focus on how to influence the development of a national strategy to support a multi-stakeholder SP programme delivered by the government with maximum impact. This should include a clear approach to develop state-level champions for the programme.
• An additional objective of this exercise is to increase the familiarity and capacity of key stakeholders including CDGP and NASCCO to manage and conduct this type of analysis going forward. It is therefore expected that the consultant(s) will work collaboratively with personnel as may be assigned in a manner to be agreed and reflected in the inception report in order to support this objective.

Deliverables The following key deliverables are anticipated:

• An inception report, to be submitted 1-2 weeks after the commencement of the assignment, including but not limited to: preliminary summary observations/analysis; detailed methodology, report outline and timeline; planned questions to be covered; planned stakeholders to engage and ways of working. This should be followed up with a workshop/ seminar with Client/ key stakeholders.
• A draft PEA report for comment
• A final PEA report, including specific recommendations (maximum 60 pages plus annexes inclusive of a 15 page Executive Summary).
• A PowerPoint presentation for key stakeholders effectively communicating the key observations and recommendations for future reference
• A brief list of key issues/questions that may require further analysis/investigation or that merit continued future tracking
• Some options and supporting material that can be used to support NASSCO and its allies to regularly update the PEA analysis going forward, such as: contact list of stakeholders interviewed; questionnaire/reporting format used; and other relevant tools or frameworks used.

Overall, it is expected that the work will be implemented in five phases:

• Phase 1: Develop an agreed approach and analytical framework
• Phase 2: Conduct a literature review with recommendations to guide the field based research
• Phase 3: Carry out the analysis, develop recommendations, and draft the PEA
• Phase 4: Feedback, reporting and finalising
• Phase 5: Dissemination to key stakeholders

The PEA Consultant(s) will work closely with a Steering Committee. An agreed approach with consultants will outline mode and frequency of engagement from agreeing a contract to presentation of a final report to client. Scope of Work

• You will conduct a PEA on NASSP in the context of social protection delivery in Nigeria. For instance, how can NASSP be most effective and be sustained beyond a specific political period? What should NASSP focus on in the roll out to the states?  How could NASSP be nutrition-sensitive? Etc.
• The main focus of analysis will combine an analysis at the national level and case studies from at least two states across all six geopolitical regions.

The PEA should include:

• Foundational factors: literature review of long-term structural and contextual factors (factors that are unlikely to change or may only do so very slowly) that might affect the sustainable implementation of NASSP as a vehicle for poverty reduction in Nigeria. These may include geography, demography, gender norms and inequalities, political system (including gendered divisions of political power and influence), natural resource endowment, economic integration, sources of revenue, historical legacies and influences, etc.
• Institutional factors: Dynamics of institutions relevant to the management and delivering of social protection, including formal laws and regulations and informal social, political, and cultural norms and values that shape power and economic relations. These may specifically include the political dynamics and influence of partisan politics on the sustainability of the programme; buy-in and leadership at the senatorial level; state ownership, incentives, and constraints; dynamics related to the roll-out of a centrally driven programme at state level; functionality of the current institutional set up at the national, state, and LGA level for effective delivery; and assessing the current political space for influence.
• Current issues: Including the upcoming elections in 2019, the position of political parties on social protection especially on the implementation of NASSP ahead of the general elections, and any other relevant current events or trends.
• Stakeholder Analysis: Analysis of specific stakeholders influencing the development and implementation of NASSP at both national and state levels. Some of the issues will include:
• What are the formal and informal roles and mandates of key government apparatus (national and state executive, legislature, LGAs) in shaping and influencing the sustainability of the programme? What is the balance of power? How do the existing power dynamics support or inhibit change?
• Interests and incentives that shape behaviour towards a strong and grounded social protection programme targeted at the poor and excluded. What/who are the blockers? Where are the opportunities and risks to the change envisaged?
• Identify the most influential actors, what are their specific interests and incentives, how do these shape the overall delivery of NASSP, and how could they be harnessed to support or inhibit sustainability and progress in the sector.
• Issue Analysis: Analysis of potential support for nutrition-sensitive cash transfer programmes targeted at pregnant women and children in their first 1000 days of life.

How Change could Happen:

• Given the political and implementation constraints and opportunities identified from the analysis, what are the critical and realistic pathways of change to influence national and state ownership of the NASSP?
• How do we mitigate and/or leverage the risks and opportunities to bolster the implementation and sustainability of the programme?
• Are there any reforms - sector, institutional structure or legal frameworks that will reinforce impact and sustainability? Which interest groups may support or oppose reform?
• Are there any specific considerations that could impact different groups’ ability to embrace reform and change at different levels? What opportunities are there to strengthen effective targeting of the most excluded and marginalised in the poverty bracket?

Recommendations:

• The PEA will provide recommendations relevant to NASSCO, key stakeholders and development partners and stakeholders committed to contributing to a robust social protection system that delivers relevant and impactful programmes towards poverty reduction. In particular, recommendations should be developed to give guidance to NASSCO, CDGP, and partners on how to influence a political and policy environment that supports the development of an effective and sustainable social protection system, especially for children, marginalised and excluded in line with the leave no one behind principle of the SDGs, and that effectively addresses the pressing concerns of malnutrition and stunting.
• Additionally, how can the NASSP be improved to increase the quality of programme delivery for high impact. Recommendations should:
  • Provide an in-depth analysis on the relevant contextual and institutional factors including likely future changes or developments.
  • Identify pathways of change and entry points to better inform strategic programming through the identification of feasible, realistic recommendations
  • Identify key interest groups and stakeholders who have an incentive to support continued positive reforms for the implementation of  NASSP and other social protection interventions and could form a coalition/interest group
  • Identify critical factors that are likely to support or impede significant change in the future
  • Lay out a nuanced approach to increasing access and dialogue with government and stakeholders with the hope to stimulate desired change
  • Provide a menu of specific political challenges and opportunities that could help influence uptake and delivery at all levels.

Methodology:

• The PEA at national level and the 6 geopolitical zones may be carried out by a consultant bearing in mind the approach to ensure that the timeliness of the end product is assured.
• Proposals may also be submitted by a network, or a consortium. It is critical that where it is several individual consultants delivering on this, there would be a synchronised approach to delivery to ensure coherence and a consolidated analysis where applicable.
• The detailed methodology will be defined by the consultant(s) and should be spelled out clearly in the inception report, but is expected to make use of a problem-driven political economy analysis framework.
• The analysis should include a combination of desk based research and field work, making full use of existing literature sources on PEA, existing relevant programme documents (programme appraisal documents, evaluation documents).

Key Activities:

• Develop tools for data and evidence generation including approaches and techniques to be employed for both quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Desk review of available literature related to the political economy of social protection with specific emphasis on cash transfer programmes in Nigeria both at national and state levels. This should also scan the existing analysis on the governance of social protection programmes at both the national and state levels.
• Interviews/engagement with (individually and/or in groups) a range of actors including but not limited to:
• Government officials (state and national level)
• Government institutions (state and national level)
• legislators (national and state)
• Civil society groups
• Donors and other development partners
• Political parties
• Experts on institutional /political reform
• Private sector stakeholders
• Regular coordination and updates with the Steering Group to jointly shape the focus and outcome of the exercise.
• Workshops at the inception phase and validation phase
• Other, as needed or articulated at the inception phase.

Timeline Start:

• Inception report: within 1-2 weeks of commencement
• Final report: End March 2018
• Completion of all responsibilities: End April 2018
• Total work days: x (approximately) across national and state level delivery.

Key Relationships:

• The Consultant will work within a construct that includes the following for effective delivery of a fit for purpose product.
• The NASSP Steering Committee
• International lead consultant
• CDGP
• NASSCO

Required Skill and Experience

• University Degree (Master's preferred) in International Relations, Development, Political Science Or Economics
• Experience completing political economy analyses in Nigeria (preferable) or developing country contexts
• Experience working on social protection programming or other relevant sectors
• Proven ability to work in a collaborative manner and to facilitate constructive dialogue, and willingness to support the capacity building objective of the PEA
• Knowledge of and experience working in Nigeria with excellent understanding of the federal system
• Strong writing and communication skills

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to Apply for this Position Application Specifications

• Details on understanding of the ToR, scope of work, draft methodology to be used and key selection criteria
• Understanding of the subject area and the recent development on the topic in Nigeria
• Demonstrating your approach to delivering the study that has national representation and credibility with details on how you propose to effectively execute this at national and state levels.
• Timeline, with specific dates from commencement to final submission of deliverable
• Detailed budget breakdown with workplan based on expected daily rates and all likely expenses with clear distinction on cost of delivery at the national and state level.
• CV of the lead researcher and other contributing individuals (if planning to work in a team)
• Cover Letter
• Names, Organisations, and Contact details of three Referees whom we may contact
• Sample of at least 2 political economy analysis (or similar piece of writing) produced by Consultant / Company

    Application Deadline   8th December, 2017.  

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