Company Address: Address Save the Children U.S. Headquarters 501 Kings Hwy E – Suite 400, Fairfield, CT 06825 1.203.221.4000

Chief of Party, USAID Advancing Nutrition Kenya

Background
USAID AN is the USAID’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, led by the JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), and a diverse group of partners. USAID AN implements multi-sectoral nutrition interventions and provides technical support to USAID and its partners. USAID and build local capacity, support behavior change, and strengthen the enabling environment for nutrition. Save the Children is the lead implementing partner for USAID AN in Kenya.
USAID/Kenya engaged USAID Advancing Nutrition for a two-year Activity to support the capacity of local stakeholders and organizations to implement multi-sectoral nutrition agendas and plans at the national and county levels. USAID would like the project to help amplify the voices of the vulnerable at county and national levels and strengthen the capacity of stakeholders to advocate for improved nutrition for the most vulnerable. The project will be implemented in Kakamega, Kisumu and Kitui. USAID AN will also support national level coordination of multi-sectoral nutrition and facilitate provision of technical support by the national government during implementation of the project.

USAID AN has undertaken scoping and landscape analysis exercise and the findings will be validated and enhanced during a co-creation process with USAID/Kenya and in-country stakeholders, including county and national government, private sector, and civil society. The expected outcome of co-creation sessions will be a jointly created work plan including activities, monitoring and evaluation, and budget, to be approved by USAID/Kenya.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Master’s degree in nutrition, public health, social sciences, international development, or a related field; Ph.D. or M.D. preferred.
At least 10 years of experience leading, managing and implementing large international development projects in nutrition, health policy, capacity strengthening, governance, behaviour change communication, community development, food security and/or agriculture.
At least 8-10 of professional experience working in Kenya, especially with the Ministry of Health and county governments.
Strong knowledge of multi-sectoral nutrition programming and coordination mechanisms in Kenya, including the health system; health facility- and community-based nutrition services; and nutrition-sensitive agriculture and livelihood interventions.
Demonstrated success across project management: co-creation process; strategic program planning; work planning and budgeting; financial, administrative, contractual management and oversight; relationship management with multiple clients; oversight of program monitoring and evaluation; and documentation of results for USAID-funded programs.
Superior leadership, management and communication skills to lead a USAID-funded multi-sectoral nutrition project. This includes professional experience interacting with the USAID/KEA Mission, Kenya national and county government, and other relevant stakeholders.
Demonstrates strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
Proven ability to supervise and mentor staff from different cultures.
Working knowledge of virtual communication platforms: Microsoft Teams, Google Meets, Zoom; Microsoft software packages: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Excellent English language skills, both written and spoken with strong presentation skills.
Ability to prepare and disseminate project findings, success stories and other documents effectively.

The Organization

Save the children international employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the rights of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

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October 28, 2024
Social Behavior Change (SBC) Officer

Role Purpose
The SBC Officer will implement all adolescent sexual reproductive health (ASRH) SBC related interventions in Turkana and Samburu. The SBC Officer will support in the designing of the overall SBC strategy and integrated umbrella campaign. S/he will ensure that all SBC activities support the achievement of health & nutrition targets in the project sites. The position will be responsible for the timely implementation of all SBC related activities based on state of the art SBC practices and capture lessons learned. The SBC officer will also take a leading role in coordination with all project staff and partners in the consortium to adhere to the SBC strategy and approach in their respective Counties. S/he will work closely with project technical and management staff to generate stakeholder inputs, support in development of implementation plans and suitable knowledge management and measurement.
NAWIRI is a 5 year U.S. Government (USAID and Food For Peace) funded project designed to tackle persistent acute malnutrition rates in northern Kenya. The project is co-created, co-implemented, and co-measured to address problems and solve them at the county level. Save the Children is a member of the Mercy Corps-led consortium and will be implementing in Samburu and Turkana counties.
Key Areas of Accountability
Technical assistance and capacity building

The SBC Officer will implement the SBC approach, support branding campaign platforms and work with all purpose leaders (Governances, health & nutrition, WASH and Livelihoods) to ensure they are using state-of-the-art SBC approaches linked to the overall strategy and work with them to support the development of SBC content and implementation (i.e. trigger videos, forum theatre, experiential fairs, radio diaries) as appropriate.
Support in provision of state of the art and evidence based technical inputs and guide priority setting for the research agenda and activities in collaboration with the SBC Advisor and other technical teams.
Support in designing strategy and umbrella campaign with stakeholder input and audience testing
Support in actively identifying direct technical inputs from all technical areas to ensure effective support for their targets; coordinate project SBC activities in respective Counties and provide direct technical support to other technical counterparts as needed.
Cultivate strategic relationships with government ministries, and other stakeholders for the smooth implementation of program activities in their assigned County
Coordinate monitoring of SBC activities with other staff according to the M&E framework and assess if targets are achieved and document results in their assigned County.
Ensure the timeliness and quality of all SBC content for reports and meet all reporting requirements.

Representation and advocacy

Represent NAWIRI in relevant internal and external fora as required.
Represent Save the Children in relevant internal and external fora as appropriate
Work closely with the Health and Nutrition team and any other project and operations teams in advocating for the survival of the child in line with the Country Strategic Plan and global strategy of Save the Children
Work with consortium members to further Save the Children’s mission for children

Capacity Building, Mentorship and development

Lead and motivate the community own resource persons (e.g. CHVs) to ensure effective project implementation.
Work with Civil Society Organizations(CSOs)/Sub grantees (e.g. Local implementing partners, community based organizations (CBOs), Faith based Organizations(FBOs) to define expectations, provide leadership and support as needed, and evaluate performance regularly
Capacity built the CSOs, CBOs, FBOS, Community own resource persons to ensure they have the requisite skills and knowledge to be able to implement projects as required.

Assessment, monitoring, evaluation and documentation

Participate in the annual work planning process in close collaboration with USAID & FFP, MOH and County health teams and the project staff
Prepare narrative reports for the donor(s) and Save the Children as required, ensuring these are of a high quality and submitted for review in a timely manner. This will involve compilation of information from a range of project staff and MoH partners
Monitor program outputs and results and work closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Research team to ensure that results are documented and reported accurately and in a timely manner
Work closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Research team and ensure that all monitoring plans, baselines, reviews and evaluations are in line with the project design and donor guidelines and are being implemented as required.
Facilitate appropriate dissemination of research findings and good practices documentations in the project internally and externally to donors, governments, consortium partners and other key actors for immediate and sustainable development of children in Kenya
Escalate complaints and feedback of a serious nature to field manager/Technical Head and child safeguarding focal point.

Knowledge management

Serve as a technical knowledge, skills and experience hub for the sector in your County in documenting and sharing best practices and innovations for replication and advocacy together with quality programme team.
Work with technical resources among Save the Children members to facilitate sharing and learning in child survival and nutrition good practices and leverage their support for strengthening related studies, assessments, innovations, advocacy and capacity building in favour of children in Kenya

Contract Duration: 1 year with possibility of extension
Number of Vacancies: 2
Work Location: Turkana and Samburu
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Minimum Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or related field
Experience implementing SBC, ASRH, health promotion, social marketing, child health, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene or similar programs in Kenya. Knowledge of and ability to implement using the Human Centred Design would be an advantage.
Minimum of 5 years of experience required in health communication, public health promotion, health or behavioural sciences, or related field and demonstrated experience in community-based and inter-disciplinary teams.
Demonstrated ability to implemented effective behaviour change campaigns, including community engagement and experiential activities in Kenya; prior experience working in Northern Kenya highly desired
Demonstrated abilities and experience in SBC strategy and materials development, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of SBC interventions; (innovative radio and experiential program design preferred, e.g., trained in radio diaries production)
Experience of working with local/national governments and capacity building of systems, partners and staff
Demonstrated problem solving skills, collaboration experience, creativity and willingness to innovate;
Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively in team situations;
Familiarity and understanding of USAID & FFP policies and procedures, or those of other donors, or those of donor-funded projects or community-based projects;
Highly developed interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills including participatory approaches, influencing and negotiation.
Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international and matrix management environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets
Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner
Outstanding report writing skills
Experience implementing the HCD approach will be an added advantage.
Demonstrates Save the Children’s core values of accountability, collaboration, integrity, ambition, and creativity.
Fluent oral and strong analytical, written English communication skills is required
Qualified native candidates from Turkana and Samburu counties are encouraged to apply.

The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
Violence against children is no longer tolerated

Please apply in English saving your CV and covering letter as a single document, including your salary expectations for this role. To see a full a job description, please visit our website atWe need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Employment is subject to our Child protection standards including background checks and adherence to our Child Safeguarding Policy.Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best-qualified talent.Female Candidates are encouraged to apply.Disclaimer:Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process, nor request for medical examination or records and does not act through recruitment agents whatsoever.

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October 28, 2024
Head of Supply Chain

Role Purpose
This role will be instrumental in strengthening systems and procedures of the Supply Chain function in the Save the Children Kenya and Madagascar, reinforcing the local capacity of staff and partners and ensuring an organised working system is in place aiming at efficiency, effectiveness and quality in satisfying the programmatic needs for all project implementation. The Head of Supply Chain will provide leadership to the supply chain team, ensures support and performs controls over all aspects of the supply chain function across the whole country office. The role holder well be in charge of the Supply chain team in Nairobi, and is technical referent for all Supply Chain Staff and functions at field locations including Madagascar. The role holder will also be responsible to coordinate with all relevant stakeholders and functions within the Country Office, by ensuring positive collaboration dynamics are in place, and that planning for ongoing critical activities performed together with all key colleagues involved in project implementation. Additionally, the role holder will assist the Director of programs operations and other members of the senior management team in ensuring the application of and adherence to all relevant SCI policies; provides technical lead in managing risks linked to supply chain management. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the post holder will work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:

Post graduate degree in Supply Chain Management, business administration, procurement or related field or a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience with at least 5 years senior level management including both development and humanitarian contexts.
At least 5 years of experience in supply chain management in INGOs and/or complex /large scale programmes in humanitarian emergency response environments;
Professional supply chain qualification from recognised institution/Membership of a professional body i.e. KISM or CIPS.
Proven experience in all technical areas of logistics and supply chain, including procurement, transportation and distribution, warehousing and inventory management, fleet management, assets management, Experience in medical supply chain management etc.
Experience in managing complex sub-contracting activities, especially for high-risk areas such as construction and Cash transfer interventions.
Experience in strategic thinking and planning with respect to strengthening existing logistical systems.
Experience in managing supply chain teams especially centralised structure, including senior roles at managerial level;
Experienced in team development and capacity building.
Ability to synthesize and analyse complex information quickly and clearly and make informed decisions.
Ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of people, both internally and externally, and across departments and programmes.
Excellent capacity for planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organize a high workload composed of diverse, complex tasks and responsibilities.
Strong communication skills (written and oral) in English.
Knowledge of computers, especially MS Word MS Excel, PowerPoint and MS Outlook software.
Understanding and commitment to the goals, values and principles of Save the Children.

Desirable:

Experience in specific areas of supply chain, system rollout out (ERP) or process automation.
Strong analytical skills, and capacity to make analysis and provide key data-based inputs to country office management team

The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at .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. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best-qualified talent.Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process, nor request for medical examination or records and does not act through recruitment agents whatsoever.

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stcuk.taleo.net

October 28, 2024
Regional Cash and Voucher Assistance (Readvertised)CVA) Adviser

An experienced Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Technical and Operations Advisor to provide remote and in-country expertise to support design and implementation of CVA programmes so they are appropriate, timely, accountable to beneficiaries, donor-compliant and cost-effective, across the region. The Regional CVA advisor will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical and operational expertise, and relationship building skills to provide a critical link between Save the Children’s global and country level technical work while supporting response planning, quality program implementation, preparedness, and advocacy. The role will contribute to building capacity and fostering networks across country office staff. The role supports regional advocacy and influencing, and contributes to strategic partnerships for new business development. It provides input into the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across country offices, and ensuring quality of our programmes. The position will work closely with the Cash and Markets Humanitarian Technical Working Group (HTWG) to ensure global and country office experts are collaborating and sharing learning, best practices, and working towards a comprehensive and unified strategic approach to CVA for child outcomes.
This position will be part of the East and Southern Africa Regional Office team, with extensive travel throughout the region (up to 50% of time), but can be based in any of our country offices.
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, either through remote support or in-country deployments.
The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Food Security and CVA TAs in Save the Children Members, the SCI central Programme Quality & Impact team, the Head of Regional Supply Chain, Head of Cash Transfer Programme Operations, advocacy colleagues, Regional Advisors in other sectors, technical counterparts in other organisations, regional donors etc. In particular it is expected to be an active member of the Cash & Market Humanitarian Technical Working Group while developing and nurturing regional communities of practice.
In order to be successful you will bring/have:
Essential

Master’s degree in economics, international development, public administration, agriculture and food security, or equivalent experience.
Certified CaLP trainer (preferable)
At least 5 years’ experience of working internationally in Cash & Voucher Assistance in emergency and development settings, for a broad range of institutional donors and sectors
Understanding of Cash & Voucher Assistance in East and Southern Africa, especially in humanitarian crises
Experience with various cash and voucher modalities, including digital, mobile, card, paper voucher, and cash in envelopes
Previous humanitarian response experience
Management experience of operational aspects of cash and voucher interventions
Experience in the introduction of internal controls systems to support cash and vouchers delivery in the areas of financial management, logistics, security and programme delivery
Demonstrable understanding of M&E, beneficiary accountability, and learning
Familiar with the CaLP Programme Quality toolbox; the Sphere Standards; market tools such as RAM, MIFIRA, MARKit; Household Economy Analysis; and other industry best practices.
Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring
Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights.
Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children
Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery
Track record in successful business development/fundraising and donor engagement, especially with ECHO, FCDO(DFID), USAID/BHA (OFDA/FFP previously), UN (WFP, UNICEF, OHCA), and BPRM.
Experience of strategy development and planning
Fluent in English with high level of English writing skills.
Experience of the regulatory environment, audit and particularly Risk Management.

**This is a regional role, but will focus on countries with specific cash transfer portfolios: Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, and Zimbabwe**
Contract duration: 2 years, with possibility of extension
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at careers
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.
All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.
Disclaimer:
Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents

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stcuk.taleo.net

October 28, 2024
Senior Research and Strategy Coordinator (Migration and Displacement)

The Senior Research and Strategy Coordinator leads the research & learning and strategy definition activities in the Migration and Displacement team. He/she will be responsible for strategy visioning, designing, managing and conducting research with the aim of strengthening the Regional Programming Unit’s (RPU) role in gathering and publishing evidence and contributing to regional and global conversations about protecting migrant children. He/she will be key in ensuring that research and learning activities produce robust outcomes, especially evidence that can inform strategy, business development, evidence-based programming, by providing technical support throughout the research and strategy process by working closely with programme teams and managing research partnerships and South Africa strategy definition process. He/she will use their expertise in the area of research and migration towards this goal, engaging with partners and stakeholders, participating in a research community of practice, building upon the gains of monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning, to ensure that both internal lessons and external research are sighted and shared within the organization – both with implementing country offices, partners and the RPU – and to bring in external capacity as needed.
They will engage in high level inter-agency liaison as pertains to technical and advocacy collaborations around regional consultative processes, whenever these relate to the specific expertise and knowledge. They will also leverage the research and knowledge expertise on migration and displacement to support programme quality and development, especially supporting proposal writing, external knowledge and information dissemination, and MEAL activities.
In order to be successful you will bring/have:
Essential

7 years (with Master’s degree) or 5 years (with Doctoral degree) of experience in conducting social science research, with a clear track record of research in the areas of migration and displacement;
5-7 years of experience in designing, managing, conducting research using both quantitative and qualitative research methods and developing recommendation and guidance for programming based on evidence;
Experience in research, evidence and learning in the NGO sector, with regional experience being an advantage;
Proven track record in ability to write to a publishable standard, with publications in development or academic outlets being an advantage;
Strong awareness of child protection issues in the area of migration and displacement;
Strong awareness of child protection issues in research, including the use of participatory methods;
Strong verbal and written English communication skills;
Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in whilst presenting complex information in a succinct manner;
Strong interpersonal and communication skills including communicating, sharing and training in research;
Willingness to travel up to 20% of time to support country offices and partners in the implementation on research and learning activities;
Commitment to Save the Children values, including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding and other relevant policies.

Desirable

Experience developing projects in the development and humanitarian sector;
Experience in working in regional and multi-country settings, including conducting research in multiple countries.

Contract duration: 12 months with possible extension

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October 28, 2024
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Technical Expert

The SRHR Technical Expert will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to provide a critical link between the Save the Children’s global and country level technical work, strengthening the technical offer at the regional level.

In order to be successful, you will bring/have:
Essential:

You have a relevant academic background in SRHR or other related subject (e.g. Master’s degree in international health studies, international development studies, or social science) (Substantial relevant working experience in an international environment may be accepted in lieu.)
At least 8 years international experience with SRHR programming, in development contexts (experience in humanitarian contexts highly desirable)
Extensive knowledge on and application of international and regional policies on SRHR, in particular adolescent SRHR and CSE
Knowledge of and experience in applying and sharing technical and professional expertise on SRHR, preferably adolescent SRHR
Experience of providing successful technical assistance and manoeuvring well in a complex advisory role
Strong facilitation skills and experience in delivering high quality, interactive trainings to a variety of target groups
Demonstrated experience with programme management cycle, proposal writing, monitoring and report writing
Experience in analysing and integrating diverse and complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources
Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work
Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources
Experience in a technical advisory role, capacity development role and/or research role
Fluent in written and spoken English

Desirable:

Understanding and experience of SRHR work in the East and Southern Africa context
Knowledge on family planning commodities and supply chains
You have working knowledge of additional languages used in the regio

Contract duration: Fixed term 1 year to be reviewed)
Location: Save the Children operates in 12 Countries within the East and Southern Africa Region i.e. South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
This role will be based in any Country Office with SCI Presence under National Contract terms
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Apply via :

stcuk.taleo.net

October 28, 2024
Regional Advocacy and Campaigns Manager

Our vision is that Save the Children be the leading voice for Children and their rights in the Eastern and Southern Africa region, while including also linkage with Bangladesh, Asia.
The Regional Advocacy and Campaigns Manager under the guidance of the Head of Advocacy, Campaigns, Communication and Media, ESA will support efficient and effective implementation of Advocacy and Campaigns Country Plans in the East and Southern Africa region. She/he will be responsible in tracking and supporting the development and implementation of campaign strategies that will engage the public to influence governments and other institutional policies and practice to achieve positive and lasting changes to influence children’s survival, learning and protection. She/he will be responsible to ensure a child centred lens to all campaigns and clear connection related to priority thematic and policy advocacy.
The Regional Advocacy and Campaign Manager will play a key role to enable the implementation by Country Offices of creative and impactful campaigns which lead to positive changes for the most deprived and most marginalised children across Eastern and Southern Africa. He/she will provide support to Save the Children Country Offices in the development and implementation of their campaign and popular mobilisation plans. She/he will be responsible in tracking and supporting the development and implementation of campaign strategies that will engage the public to influence government and other institutional policies and practice to achieve positive and lasting changes to fulfil children’s rights.
This role will also serve as the Right2Grow (R2G) Advocacy Liaison Officer. R2G is a Strategic Partnership between Action Against Hunger, the Centre for Economic Governance and Accountability Africa (CEGAA), Max Foundation, Save the Children, The Hunger Project and World Vision. With funding from the Dutch Government (Civil Society Strengthening – Power of Voices), R2G will collaborate with communities, community-based organisations and civil society organisations in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mali, South Sudan and Uganda from 2021-2025, to advocate for coordinated policies and actions in the domains of Nutrition and WASH (Nutrition-WASH nexus).
Lobby and Advocacy are at the heart of the R2G programme, and especially covering as an overall umbrella the activities in the six countries. Based on the global lobby and advocacy strategy, as well as the country plans, the role will support and feed the global lobby and advocacy activities. At the same time, the position will ensure collaboration with the Global Lead on Lobby and Advocacy, the Dutch Advocacy Lead and the CSO Mutual Capacity Support on L&A, where required, as well as with the Communication Lead.
Advocacy is central to Save the Children’s theory of change and to achieving our ambitious goals for children. Evidence-based advocacy, supported by popular awareness and mobilisation, can lead to improved policies and programs that result in improved outcomes for Children. Most advocacy and campaign activities are delivered nationally by our Country Offices and Partners, but a dedicated regional capacity is essential to help catalyse, support and coordinate this work, as well as engage with regional institutions where this adds value. It is important to build the capacity of all Staff and Partners involved in national and regional advocacy, and to use evidence from program work to inform national, regional and global advocacy.
The post holder will also play a representational role at times.
In order to be successful you will bring/have:
Essential

BA or Masters Degree in related field.
Strong background in advocacy leadership at a senior level on international issues, including policy development and supporting advocacy as part of programmes- at least seven years of demonstrated experience.
Practical experience of building networks and engaging with coalitions.
Experience of campaigning for and with Children with demonstrable understanding and experience of how to connect Children’s issues with public opinion and actions.
Experience of public campaigning in a corporate or an NGO environment, with proven record in successfully leading the development and implementation of successful advocacy and campaign strategies to achieve policy and normative change.
Highly developed analytical writing skills and ability to analyse complex data and to summarise and communicate them in ways that are accessible to a range of audiences from different cultural backgrounds.
Excellent training, facilitation, and team building skills.
Knowledge of the regional institutions and the way they function.
Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind sets.
Fluency in written and spoken English is essential; skills in other languages would be an advantage.
Makes independent decisions and solves problems on new and complex issues, requiring creative and systems thinking to find best solutions.
A high level of computer literacy.
Experience of, and willingness to travel in, a broad range of developing countries, sometimes at short notice and for extended periods of time.

Contract duration: 2 years
Location: Open
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday.
All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
Violence against children is no longer tolerated.

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Apply via :

stcuk.taleo.net

October 28, 2024
Regional Security Specialist (RSS), Nairobi

The Regional Security Specialist (RSS)- position has been created to provide support to ESARO Country Offices (12) through increasing capacity and offering technical support and advice on all aspects of staff safety and security and by ensuring appropriate systems are in place at country level.
The RSS supports the Regional Safety and Security Director (RSSD) in supporting the Region’s Country Office safety and security management improvements consistent with SC Safety and Security Policy by conducting safety and security assessments; and reviewing and analysing incident reports and security updates. In addition, the RSS will be available to deploy, sometimes at very short notice, to SCI declared emergencies to ensure safety and security management is addressing emergency response. The RSS will be an experienced Trainer, with proven skills and ability to facilitate both Face to Face Training and also Virtual Training for Regional Office and Country Office staff throughout East and Southern Africa Region.
In order to be successful you will bring/have:
Essential

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent from a recognized university/institution.
Not less than five (5) years’ experience working for INGO or UN in relevant fields – three (3) years of which is at regional/senior level position.
Effective technical/instructional writing skills.
Fluency in English.
Strong analytical and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple complex tasks independently.
Strong leadership and communication (interpersonal, verbal and written) skills.
Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children. In particular, a good understanding of the Save the Children mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin all aspects of the job.
Excellent computer skills with solid knowledge of Microsoft software.
Experience in Training Adults using modern methods-including Virtual Training; completion of Training Facilitator’s course preferred.
Experience and willingness to travelling to foreign countries preferred.
Experience in a multi-cultural environment necessary.
Experience in conducting Security Assessments is essential.
Experience of having worked in High Risk Country/Countries is an added advantage (e.g. South Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria etc).

Contract duration: 2 year
Location: Save the Children operates in 12 countries within the East and Southern Africa Region i.e. South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
This role will be based in any Country Office with SCI Presence under National Contract terms.

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stcuk.taleo.net

October 28, 2024
Finance Officer- Maternity Cover

Reporting to: Finance Coordinator
Location: Nairobi
Nationality: Kenya Nationals only
Key Areas of Accountability
Internal Controls and Reporting

Support country office in maintaining high standard financial management, ensuring compliance to local statutory law and donors regulations and consistent with Save the Children accounting policies, procedures and tool
Preparation of Monthly Financial Report (MFR).
Balance sheet Review
Support with the monthly, Quarterly, and Annual Total Inventory management (TIM) monthly Reconciliations coordination with Supply chain department
Support with the monthly, Quarterly, and Annual Leave Reconciliations in coordination with Human Resource department.

Account Payables

Receives finance documents from the field offices.
Review and register the completeness of documents received from the field and report on any omissions/missing documentation to the support services officer.
Prepare payment vouchers for all payments received and ensure that they have been signed-off as per the scheme of delegation.
Sign off documents as per Scheme of Delegation.
Preparation and Validation of Mpesa payments before payment.
Timely preparation of statutory deduction payments, this is withholding tax and PAYE

Accounting

Register all documents through the accounts payable module in the Financial Management System or prepare accompanying GLACOS and submit the payment vouchers for review by the line manager for posting and further processing.
Processing the payroll, international staff tax and annual leave GLACOs for review and posting by the line manager or appointed designate.
Perform aging analysis and supplier reconciliations.

Balance Sheet Accounts Reconciliation;

Single Account Reconciliation as directed by the line manager
Perform Monthly Bank Reconciliations for approval by the line manager
Perform Monthly MPESA Reconciliations for approval by the line manager

Audit

Support the FM in the preparation of statutory and donor audits in the country office including preparation of financial statements as per the auditor’s requirement.
Ensure clear audit trail of processed transactions and their linkage to the accounting system
Implementation of any accounting and financial audit recommendations.

Other

Provision of information to field offices on the status of payment for each of their requests.
Back stop for Finance Officer Treasury.
Participate in Procurement committees in the Country Office.
Any other budgeting related issues.

Qualifications and Experience

Undergraduate degree in Accounting/finance or equivalent.
Professional Accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA) (a must)
Minimum three-year’s relevant experience in Finance support Services within a busy organization preferably an INGO
Highly skilled in financial statement preparation for purposes of audit.
Excellent understanding of business and financial planning including strategic modelling.
Computer fluency; highly competent using Microsoft Excel and other MS applications.
Familiarity with computerised accounting systems
Ability to gather facts and data, scrutinise with ease, determine a logical solution and resolve issues with minimal supervision.
Proven ability to handle challenging workload.
The highest level of integrity and commitment to prevent corruption and Fraud.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with all departments in the Regional.
Willingness to undertake occasional travel to the Country Offices for training, support and
Experience working with colleagues based in complex country contexts would be an asset

The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
How to Apply.
Please apply in English saving your CV and covering letter as a single document, including your salary expectations for this role. To see a full a job description, please visit our website at . We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Employment is subject to our Child protection standards including background checks and adherence to our Child Safeguarding Policy. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.
Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best-qualified talent.
Shortlisting well be done on rolling basis and may fill the position before the closing date.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply
Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents.

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stcuk.taleo.net

October 28, 2024
Supply Chain Intern

The Opportunity – Regional Supply Chain Intern
The Regional Procurement Unit is a part of Save the Children’s East Africa Regional Office. The Supply Chain intern will provide support to the Regional Procurement Coordinator and other members of the Regional Procurement Unit Team
In order to be successful you will bring/have:
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Fresh graduate with a Degree in Supply Chain Management, either in Procurement, Logistics or equivalent.
Ongoing CIPS will be an added advantage
Excellent computer skills especially in MS Excel spread sheets and MS Word
High level of integrity and ability to work as part of a professional team
Excellent communication skills
Proven ability to handle challenging work load
Cross-cultural experience, understanding and sensitivity;
Excellent interpersonal and written and oral communication skills;
Commitment to Save the Children values.

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector. This role is offered on the basis of national terms and conditions only.
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Apply via :

stcuk.taleo.net

October 28, 2024