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

Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning(MEAL) Intern

Job description
The MEAL function is part of the Program Development and Quality department in the Regional office that supports country programs to embed MEAL systems so as to drive program quality improvement, generate evidence of the impact of our work and foster learning.
Role Purpose:
This is an exciting opportunity for young dynamic upcoming professional seeking to obtain on the job experience in MEAL while working with a motivated multinational team. It requires a dedicated and highly motivated individual who is willing to learn at the same time offer creative ideas to achieving the goals of MEAL
Qualifications and Experience

University degree in any field of social development
Prior training in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning and Knowledge Management
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
Demonstrated interpersonal skills, including the ability to collaborate effectively in networks and communities of practice
Computer literacy (MS Word, Excel, Access, and Power Point)

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
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 and does not act through recruitment agents

October 26, 2024
Finance Intern

Role Purpose: As part of the Finance team, the finance intern will be responsible for supporting effective Financial management and administration processes for the Somalia Programme.
He/She will support Nairobi Finance team in areas of; Invoice tracking, Suppliers Accounts reconciliations, Updating DMS System other Finance Administrative duties as per SCI guidelines. The Finance intern will effectively interact with a diverse group of stakeholders, manage expectations and duties according to the agreed timelines. This role will liaise with the RO administration, logistics and finance departments to ensure a delivery of quality and timely results.
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.
Contract Duration: 3 months
Qualifications and Experience

Accountant in training who wishes to gain some practical experience
Recently completed or studying for a Degree in finance, accountancy or Professional Accounting qualification such as CPA/ACCA.
Excellent computer skills especially in MS Excel spread sheets and MS Word
Some experience with computerised accounting packages will be desirable.
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.

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 www.savethechildren.net/jobs
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.
Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified talent.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
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 and does not act through recruitment agents

October 26, 2024
Regional Safeguarding Development Manager

The purpose of this role is to work closely with the Regional Child Safeguarding Director and Regional HR Director to support country offices and ensure that that child safeguarding is prioritized and embedded in awareness, reporting and response. The role has a key role in supporting our accountability to donors for the quality of our safeguarding provision and support Country Offices with the implementation of audit action plans.
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.
Qualifications and experience

Education to degree standard with a professional qualification in a relevant field
Experience of child protection and child safeguarding within humanitarian settings
Strong interpersonal, negotiation and diplomacy skills and ability to bring people from different cultures on-board
Practical field experience and proven track record in strengthening organizational capacity in a field
Multi-disciplinary experience of working successfully with senior managers in other parts of own / partner’s organisation to deliver major operational change with a track record of delivering results to high standards
Extensive experience of planning and undertaking training programmes/workshops/trainings in child protection/safeguarding at a range of levels (e.g. field workers, mangers, senior managers and decision makers)
Self-sufficient, collaborative, proactive self-motivating work styles
Ability to deliver results against demanding timetables and in the face of competing demands and organizational skill
Ability to travel and work within challenging environments, such as conflict locations
Awareness of own strengths and weaknesses and evidence of commitment to self-managed personal development
Significant experience in CSG including investigation/case management and sector best practice
Strategic and analytical approach to CSG
Project management skills to ensure completions of tasks
Understanding local context of East and Southern Africa

Contract length: 1 Year
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 workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

October 26, 2024
Health and Nutrition Technical Lead

Role Purpose:
Save the Children is seeking a Health and Nutrition Technical Lead for the anticipated 5 year USAID Food for Peace (FFP) Development Food Security Activities (DFSA). S/he will take overall responsibility of Save the Children’s deliverables in the project. The position holder will provide overall leadership and technical direction for the project, ensuring achievement of project deliverables. The project focuses on sustainably reducing persistent acute malnutrition rates in two target counties in Northern Kenya. The project will be implemented in two phases whose objectives are to research, test approaches, and collaboratively design a context-sensitive, multi-sectoral activity that sustainably reduces acute malnutrition; and to implement and adapt, in conjunction with Kenyan system s, a multi-sectoral systems-driven activity to reduce acute malnutrition; and strengthen relevant systems and institutions to manage and scale nutrition activities. This position is contingent upon donor approval and funding.
Key Areas of Accountability

Technical assistance and capacity building

Provide programmatic and strategic leadership, setting priorities in designing and managing the implementation of the project’s activities in collaboration with the other technical advisors and the implementation team
Provide overall technical guidance and leadership for implementation of health and nutrition activities
Provide technical leadership for health system strengthening and capacity building approach of health and nutrition activities
Provide leadership for Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement measures in health and nutrition
Contribute to health and nutrition formative research and pilot research design and implementation
Work with the project System Strengthening and Institutionalization Lead and contribute to the development and execution of health and nutrition systems strengthening and capacity building efforts
Review and analyze data for performance monitoring and utilize the data to take corrective actions.

Representation and advocacy

Represent the project in relevant internal and external fora including donor meetings (as appropriate).
Represent Save the Children in the project internal fora and management (as appropriate).
Work closely with the Head of Health and Nutrition, Head of Advocacy and Campaigns, PDQ and operations teams to develop policy research and advocacy strategy in health and nutrition 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.

People management, mentoring and development

To have overall management responsibility for the Save the Children team in the project. Lead and motivate the team to ensure effective project implementation.
Ensure the recruitment, training, and promotion of staff as appropriate; ensure availability of and support appropriate professional development opportunities for staff in the project.
Incorporate staff development strategies and Performance Management Systems into team building process.

Assessment, monitoring, evaluation and documentation

Facilitate the annual work planning process in close collaboration with the prime, government teams and the project staff.
Ensure technical and administrative compliance with donor requirements.
Prepare narrative and financial reports for 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 government partners.
Monitor health and nutrition 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 take a lead in ensuring that all health and nutrition components have robust monitoring plans, baselines, reviews and evaluations in line with the project design and donor guidelines.
Work with the project Research and Design Lead to contribute to the health and nutrition researches and pilots.
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 strategic for immediate and sustainable development of children in Kenya.

Knowledge management

Serve as a technical knowledge, skills and experience hub for the sector in the project 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 health and nutrition good practices and leverage their support for strengthening health and nutrition related studies, assessments, innovations, advocacy and capacity building in favour of children in Kenya

Nationality: Kenya Nationals only.
Contract Duration: 5 Years
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Degree in Nutrition/ Medicine/ Clinical Medicine/Nursing with a post graduate degree in public health/global health; and experience in project planning and management techniques.
Knowledge of current global and regional public health debates in health and nutrition.
Recommended a minimum of seven years of relevant technical experience including at senior level. Experience working within the devolved Kenyan health system is a must.
Up-to-date knowledge and skills on nutrition, including IMAM, MIYCN, BFHI/BFCI, supportive supervision and quality improvement systems.
Proven experience and skills in research and advocacy and influencing institutional, private and/or corporate donors and writing up high quality donor reports
Experience of working with local/national governments and capacity building of systems, partners and staff.
Ability to extensively travel for project monitoring and provide on-site technical support to field teams.
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
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 mindsets.
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.
Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required
Commitment to Save the Children values.

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.
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 and does not act through recruitment agents
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

October 26, 2024
Regional Evidence and Learning Specialist

Job description
ROLE PURPOSE
As a member of the East and Southern Africa Program Quality team, the Regional Research and Evidence Specialist provides leadership to brings consistency, quality and strategic direction to the use of evidence in our work in East and Southern Africa. The role will support Country Offices to monitor, report on and improve programme quality based on evidence generated of what works for children. The position will institutionalize evidence uptake and learning practices for adaptive Child Rights Programming geared towards achieving lasting outcomes for children. He/She will support alignment and tracking of strong country strategic plans, annual plans and reports that demonstrate progress in achieving our Breakthroughs in survival, learning and protection. A strong Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) system will be supported in each country to demonstrate impact, specifically aligned to our Global Results Framework, from which this position will build effective evidence and learning systems.
The position contributes to the following components of program quality as supported by the regional office:

Ensuring development and monitoring of clear country strategic and country annual plans, including assisting country offices to effectively utilise reporting tools to articulate impact;
Developing and tracking a relevant regional research strategy and plan, leading to multiple learning opportunities for COs, and effective representation of CO programme outcomes and impact in regional and global forums;
Facilitating learning within countries based on their research strategy, but also across countries in the region and externally; and
Coordinating inputs to global reports, initiatives and evidence agendas to learn and demonstrate results.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
QUALIFICATIONS

7-10 years expertise, and doctoral level academic competence is a plus, Master’s level required.
Demonstrated credibility and influence (externally and internally) through depth and breadth of expertise; ability to give professional support and direction to senior country office staff.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Knowledge of international humanitarian and development systems, institutions and donors, and of procedures, accountability frameworks and best practices.
Proven intellect, creativity and judgement: original ideas; creative approach; sound judgement and ability to encourage ideas, initiative and innovation in others.
Personal effectiveness/self-management: ability to work under time pressures, but also to allow flexibility and adapting of the research and learning agenda.
Leadership and vision: clear vision; ability to secure commitment to vision; experience in initiating and managing change; inspiring to colleagues and model of integrity and honesty.
Considerable proven experience in undertaking and leading the production of policy, research and evaluation outputs in similar organisations similar to Save the Children, or other development settings.
Knowledge and demonstrated experience of designing and managing high level research and evaluations, including RCTs.
Extensive experience in analysing the situation of children using the child rights programming/principles framework.
Demonstrated ability to think critically, strategically and analyze complex information and offer creative, practical and effective solutions.
Ability to quickly and competently consolidate and summarise information across multiple data sources.
Strong written and verbal skills in English.
Ability to make compelling and informative oral presentations.
Demonstrated ability to thrive in a matrix management environment.
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
Commitment to Save the Children values, including safeguarding of staff and children.
Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours when essential to success of endeavours.
Willingness to travel within the region.

Contract length: 12 months

October 26, 2024
Investment in Children Coordinator

Role Purpose:
The post holder will work closely with the Advocacy and CRG Technical Specialist, Programme Development and Quality colleagues, and Advocacy Coordinators to identify opportunities of engagement in budget advocacy. The scope of the role will include development and implementation of a national resource mobilization advocacy plan focused around; identifying and participating in national/ county level budget advocacy with a special focus on domestic resource mobilization, identifying targets and processes to use learning to influence policy formulation/policy change/policy implementation; developing a research agenda to advance learning and policy on issues on child friendly budgeting and domestic resource mobilization, packaging information/research findings and developing appr opriate communication channels for dissemination of information/research findings; project documentation and dissemination; capacity building, learning and knowledge management. Ensure clear understanding and documentation of enterprise business intelligence and reporting requirements across the organization.
Key Area of Accountability

Strategy development and implementation

The Investment in Children Coordinator will be responsible for providing strategic budget advocacy, with a focus on domestic resource mobilization both at the national and target county levels.
Maintain an in-depth understanding of key budgetary cycle moments, law and policy reform initiatives at the County.
Supports senior leadership in high-level advocacy towards Government agencies, UN agencies, donors and national actors.
Ensures that all advocacy messages and documents are evidence-based and of high quality.
Develop and implement relevant context specific strategies for effective child participation within the advocacy activities in collaboration with the field office teams and relevant staff at the country office.
Formulate budget advocacy messages and targets from lessons learned, assessments, research and evidence gained through project implementation.
Support budget advocacy and budget tracking to improve revenue generation and resource allocation for child survival interventions at county level in collaboration with other CSOs.

Advocacy and Communications

Lead the county level monitoring and evaluation of advocacy-related objectives, mapping of key opportunities and events, organisation of Save the Children ‘moments’ and events.
Linking to international process and in collaboration with field office staff and technical specialists oversee the development of advocacy materials – including policy briefs, position papers, press releases, Questions and answers and opinion pieces for county and national advocacy.
Formulate, consolidate and support key policy and advocacy messages (including direct communication and advocacy) for health and nutrition generated from programme managers/Technical Specialists to influence county and national government, donors and other implementing actors.
Develop good knowledge of county government structure, political processes and key decision making structures and how to influence them on issues related to nutrition for mothers and children. Conduct power mapping to identify and engage key influencers in the County for increased resource mobilization and allocation to child survival interventions.
Undertake a range of lobbying, communications and other activities to inform and persuade policy makers, including donors and politicians, of the value of Save the Children’s policy recommendations for improving child survival interventions.
Build systems for research, analysis and documentation that underpin evidence based advocacy and influencing at county level. This will include undertaking audience research and knowledge services mapping to inform communication and advocacy work.
Support area offices to build partnerships with communities and programme beneficiaries in establishing accountability mechanisms, capacity building and knowledge management.
Support the capacity building of programme and field staff and key partners on advocacy through training, sharing best practices and supporting learning and knowledge management.

Programme Development & Management

Participate in proposal development processes, in particular liaising with relevant Technical Specialists and programme staff to ensure that advocacy approaches are integrated within and contribute to the achievement of project results and objectives and that sufficient funds are budgeted for implementation.
Participate in Save the Children programme meetings and related sessions to draw out research-based advocacy messages in programmes. Keep abreast of current research, national and donor policies and debates in Kenya, relevant to advocacy for nutrition

Nationality: Kenya Nationals Only
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential

At least 3 years’ experience in advocacy work, as well as contributing to the development and implementation of advocacy strategies. Experience working within Kenya Health systems is an added advantage.
Excellent understanding of Kenya’s budget cycle.
An understanding of policy and legislative development processes at both national and county levels.
Superior written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex arguments into accessible English for a non-specialist audience, and the ability to write articles that would be published in the mainstream press.
Knowledge of the devolution processes, and its impact on the health sector.
Excellent verbal communication skills, appropriate for high-level external representation (for example lobbying county governors, ministers, MCAs)
Experience of developing advocacy strategies, knowledge and understanding of a range of advocacy techniques
Experience of effective team work and outstanding inter-personal communication skills.
Experience of coalition building and working with civil society actors to deliver change.
Excellent understanding of Sustainable Development Goals, Vision 2030, policy and legal provisions in support of child survival.
Fluency in spoken and written English and Kiswahili.
Commitment to Save the Children’s mission and values.

Desirable

An academic qualification directly related to Political Science, Governance, International development or Community development.
Experience and training on policy and advocacy.
Good knowledge of the nutrition and health field, including the work of academic/research contacts, NGOs, UN agencies.
Good presentation and persuasion skills.
Experience of policy research, having written and published policy reports and briefings and evaluating evidence of their impact.

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.
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 and does not act through recruitment agents
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

October 26, 2024
Regional Supply Chain Intern

Team / Programme: Regional Procurement Unit
Location: East Africa Regional Office – Nairobi
Grade: Intern
Type of Contract: National
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people
Role Purpose: 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
Scope of Role:
Reports to: Regional Procurement Coordinator
Dimensions: Save the Children works in 8 countries in East Africa (Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Ethiopia) with a current staff complement of approximately 3500 staff and current expenditure of approximately $200 million each year
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Key Areas of Accountability:

Assist the Regional Procurement Coordinator in ensuring that filing functions of the RPU is done in an accurate and timely manner.

Filing of all general correspondences.
Filing of procurement related documents.

Assist in the procurement functions of the RPU.

Assist in processing PR/PO and ensuring signing of the same is done in a timely manner and all supporting documentation is in place.
Assist in updating the procurement tracker on a weekly basis.
Assist in receiving deliveries of goods from the supplier and doing relevant inspection.
Receiving and confirmation of all supplier invoices and attaching supporting documentation for onward payment processing.

Assist in Warehousing and Dispatch.

Assist in preparation of Goods in transit for dispatch.
Assist in filling in the relevant documentation required for dispatch of goods
Liaising with transporter, clearing and forwarding agent to ensure timely dispatch of goods

Assist in Conducting Assessments.

Assist with preparation of Questioners for relevant assessment that RPU will be conducting.
Assist in dispatch/sending of the questioners and managing correspondence with the interviewees.
Assist with compilation of the reports.

Perform any other related tasks as may be assigned.

Skills and Behaviours (our 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.
Creates a managerial environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding

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
Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.

Creativity:

Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach

Integrity:

Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
Displays consistent excellent judgement

Qualifications and Experience

A Logistics trainee who wishes to gain some practical experience
Degree in Logistics, procurement or equivalent
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.

October 26, 2024
Child Protection BID Officer Regional Supply Chain Intern Business Intelligence Architect

Role Purpose:
The role will primarily focus on quality and timely processing of Best Interest determination (BID) cases for children in the refugee camp in the pursuit of durable solutions to the issues faced by children. This will require close coordination and liaison with UNHCR protection unit as well as the members of CPWG. The holder of this role will also provide leadership to the BID team and ensure teams are fully supported and enabled to deliver.
Key Roles include:
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Manage and support the individual case management through BIA & BID development processes in the field offices.
Provide mentorship and support to the community supervisors and workers through on the job training and guidance to enhance their case management skills and competencies.
Design a capacity building strategy for BID community workers and other stakeholders involved in the of BIA & BID process.
Actively participate in interagency coordination meetings such as BID panels, CPWG and Case conferences both at DMO and in the field office.
Analyse training schedules for the BID community workers and provide technical support and guidance for effective implementation of BID/BIA process.
Ensure timely management of data and documentation of cases at camp level; and through coordination with MEAL assistants ensure children records, data are accurately recorded in the CPIMS database and updated regularly with case progress.
Contribute to the design of an overall programme contingency plan when needed.
Provide BID Supervisors with technical support regarding complex cases or specific technical difficulties.
Produce timely progress reports, including both quantitative and qualitative information, on Child Protection activities and input into regular situation reports, monthly and quarterly reports.
Ensure correct management of BID/BIA documentation at camp level.
Manage and coordinate the planning of the Camp Child Protection activities to ensure minimal disruption to programme Activities-Including staffing issues and office administration; to ensure effective management of programme resources.
Facilitate regular interviews and home visits with relevant persons who can give information on the child (the child, his/her family, leader, teacher, neighbour).
Participate in camp level interagency meetings and engage in the identification and building of linkages with other partners/agencies, the Government and the community to ensure that issues related to child protection are raised and addressed.
Comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies.
Manage BID community workers staff annual leave and time off ensuring minimal disruption to programme activities.
Collect required data and coordinate with the MEAL team on a monthly basis and ensure data is correctly captured.
Identify and build links with other partners, ensuring that issues for child protection are raised and addressed
Coordinate the identification, follow up of children in alternative care and, monitoring of foster parents/Guardianship.
Ensure the placement of children in alternative care adhere to SCI procedure and with the Kenya alternative care guidelines (Guidelines for Alternative Care of Children in Kenya 2011)

Contract Duration: 9 Months with possibilities of extension subject to availability of fund and performance.
Location: Dadaab
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential
Good communication skills with fluency in written and spoken English and Kiswahili.
Demonstrated ability to handle to a large BID/Case management case load.
Graduate degree in social work / social sciences or equivalent with preferably 5 years work experience in social work or with development-related organisations.
Good IT skills including the use of Word and database software.
Demonstrable ability to adapt to changing programme priorities and emergency priorities that may arise.
Strong self-starter, able to take initiative and adapt to changing circumstances and priorities.
Positive attitude towards community work with emphasis on the ability to learn from communities and support innovative approaches to problem solving.
Commitment to Save the Children’s Child Protection Policy.

Desirable

Experience and skills in management of staff
Strong understanding and experience of Case management process.
Experience in designing and facilitating training sessions.
Experience in working in an insecure environment.
Experience in documenting and presenting BID cases in an inter agency panel.

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.
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 and does not act through recruitment agents
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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October 26, 2024
Finance Officer – Account Payables

Job description
Role Purpose:
The Finance Officer – Payables will support the Head of Finance Planning and Reporting in delivering the Finance teams objectives in a timely and accurate fashion. This is a key role, as it will pivotal in ensuring timely payment processing of all payables and liabilities in the centralized model of the Country Office. The Finance officer will be responsible for;

Account Payables

Receives all 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.
Maintain a schedule of recurrent expenditure for the Country Office i.e. Utilities such as Electricity Bills, Water Bills, Internet Bills, and Security, Cleaning services to ensure that they are all paid and accrued on a timely basis.
Timely preparation of statutory deduction payments.
Preparation of withholding tax payments.

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 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

Controls and Reporting

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.
Internal and external audit support.
Participate in Procurement committees in the Country Office.Ensure internal controls are maintained.

Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development

Support new SCI staff finance induction
Working with other teams (HR, Supply Chain, Awards, field teams etc.) to enhance efficient processes
Supervise and motivate the three finance officers.
Manage performance of Finance Officers through:
Effective use of the Performance Management System including the establishment of clear, measureable objectives, ongoing feedback, periodic reviews and fair and unbiased evaluations;
Provide training, capacity building and ensure the team has the right working tools.
Coaching, mentoring and other developmental opportunities;
Recognition and rewards for outstanding performance;
Documentation of performance that is less than satisfactory, with appropriate performance improvements/work plans

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential

Recommended a minimum of 2 years’ experience in Accounting/financial management; payroll, purchase ledger, cash / bank reconciliations.
Strong working computer skills especially in accounting packages.
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international 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.
Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies.
Fluency in English, both verbal and written, preferred.
Commitment to Save the Children values.

Desirable

Bachelors of Commerce degree in Finance or equivalent.
Professional qualifications in Accounting (CPA II section finalist or ACCA II)

October 26, 2024
Meal Officer

Role Purpose:
Smooth functioning of MEAL system in all projects of the designated area. Conduct frequent quality monitoring visit against Quality Benchmarks randomly and build capacity of the program team in data collection and reporting as well as update Output Tracker (OT) during emergencies and Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTTs) of all existing projects in the designated area. Support baseline surveys, formative and operational researches, and program reports etc. Make sure the complaints & feedback mechanisms in the field office are functional; strengthen coordination and collaboration with all program team and partner staffs. Ensure that MEAL is visible within projects.
Key Areas of Accountability.
A. Monitoring:

Ensure that the projects have solid MEAL plans, Indicator Performance Tracking Tables and log frames.
Support the project leads in updating the indicator tracking tables and provide necessary MEAL guidance regarding project performance.
Functioning CPIMS and EMIS (education in emergencies information management system).
Ensure systematic filling for child protection cases are in place.
Lead in the development of tools and guidelines for data collection, collation and reporting, for instance ensure that projects have clear MEAL plans, IPTT as well as tracking of total beneficiary reach.
Maintain the field office database for all projects and ensure that the databases are updated regularly.
Capacity building of program staff on project related M&E templates/forms for data collection; Output tracker (OT) and Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT) etc.
Organize field visits to monitor program activities / interventions against Quality Benchmarks/Quality Checklists and produce & share reports with program team as well as management team based on quality and accountability findings.
Support program staff to strengthen joint planning and monitoring with stakeholders.
Contribute to the quality of program design – reviewing log-frames, results frameworks, project plan, strategic plans, MEAL Plan etc.
Lead in conducting data quality assessment to ensure that data reported is validated, is accurate and consistent while providing feedback as necessary to program teams;
Analysis against the performance indicators and targets on periodic basis.
Lead the country annual reporting processes for Total Reach and Global indicators reporting at field level.
Ensure the quality of reporting data and verify the data and information from sources periodically on sample basis.
Lead the review & reflection of whether the DIP is followed as per the plan or not during all staff meeting.
To carry out follow-up monitoring visits to materialize action agreed in action plan also update and ensure close follow up of Monitoring-Action Plan Tracker’ at field level.
Maintain close coordination with field manager at field level and Head of MEAL on Quality and Accountability issues. Share all information (monitoring reports, CFM database preliminary inquiry reports) with Head of MEAL while keeping the field manager in the loop.

B. Research and Evaluation

Update the online evaluations tracker on a regular basis and ensure that it is up to date with all the studies and evaluations that are implemented in the field office.
Participate in inter-agency assessments on CP, education and the annual participatory planning meeting led by UNHCR.
Provide a synthesis of all evaluations conducted and share recommendations with program teams.
Provide support for all needs assessments, formative and operational research and evaluations.
Manage and supervise external consultants while they are in the field office for data collection.
Assist MEAL Manager/Program Manager in preparing and conducting baseline studies.
With support from communications, research and learning manager and programs teams develop quality case studies.

C. Accountability

Build strong and functional accountability mechanisms and ensure that these are continuously monitored.
With support of project leads ensure that project information is correctly shared with beneficiaries through the most appropriate mechanisms.
Data protection and confidentiality for CP cases in the camps.
Ensure beneficiaries actively participate in project activities.
Maintain and update a complaints and response mechanism database for tracking feedback from communities and ensure that the feedback/complaints are responded to.
Build capacity of other program staff to undertake accountability including ensuring participation of communities and sharing information with communities as well as undertake accountability assessments.
Ensure the Complaint Feedback Mechanism (CFM) are functional and accessible to beneficiaries.
Develop regular trend analysis of complaints at organizational level and share these with program team as per protocols.
Support in carrying out preliminary first verification report in case of serious nature of complaints filed by beneficiaries/communities and support for investigation of that types of complaints as per CFM protocol.
Ensure that the agreed action plans are followed in timely manner by program team.
Share all information (monitoring reports, CFM databases, preliminary verification reports, case studies) in the support of MEAL Assistant with Head of MEAL.
Share MEAL findings & CFM issues in each monthly meeting
Ensure that the CFM guidelines are followed by all staff.

D. Learning:

Conduct comprehensive analysis of evaluation and research findings; provide summary of findings, learning and recommendations and share these with program staff.
Support program teams in developing quality program reports.
Professionally document and proactively share information and learning from projects with Save the Children staff and stakeholders as necessary.
Take an active role in ensuring that staff are compliant in uploading data and reports into share point and other relevant online systems and maintain such database systems.
Ensure the key learning’s are incorporated in upcoming plans and interventions.

E. Others:
1. Collaboration

Builds and maintains effective relationships with entire team members of organization, colleagues, members and external partners, supporters and stakeholders.
Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

2. Reporting

Produce and share MEAL monthly, and cumulative yearly annual reports with the head of MEAL and Field Manager as well as program teams through proper channels.
Ensure that all the data related to MEAL action Plan tracker & CFM database are recorded and updated in a timely manner.
Coordinate closely with the all SC staff updated complaints registered, their resolution process, Action plan tracker & other MEAL related issues.
Carry out dual responsibility in case of big emergency as per organizational requirement

Contract Duration: 10 Months
Nationality: Kenyans Only
Location: Dadaab

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential

Minimum three years’ practical experience in M&E system implementation in a large international non-governmental organisation or other international relief/development body.
Excellent knowledge of information technology systems and proficient in the use of ODK/Kobo and data analysis programmes e.g. SPSS and Stata.
Demonstrable track-record in data management, with the ability to manage large databases.
Ability to analyse and disseminate complex information to a range of stakeholder audiences.
Computer literacy, particularly in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Trained in data management and with at least one year experience working with Excel managing databases.
Experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection (M&E methods) and data analysis.
Enthusiasm, motivation, self-confidence, and a proactive approach to problem solving.
Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills in English, with experience working in multicultural, multi -location, values driven teams.

Desirable

Previous experience working with humanitarian programmes in Northern Kenya.
Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Statistics or related field with preferably 3 years relevant work experience
Good working knowledge of English.

October 26, 2024