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  • Finance Manager – Financial Accounting,Controls and Compliance Global TE Architecture Workstream Lead – TE Transformation (Maternity Cover)

    Finance Manager – Financial Accounting,Controls and Compliance Global TE Architecture Workstream Lead – TE Transformation (Maternity Cover)

    KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
    Financial systems and procedures

    Assist the Finance Director in ensuring smooth implementation and updating of robust and adequate financial systems and procedures in line with SCIs finance Policy and good accounting practices
    Develop and update the finance diary that covers all the required activities on a monthly basis and lead staff to ensure that the diary is strictly adhered to.
    Ensure that all financial transactions are fully supported and that they are all captured in AGRESSO on a daily basis; make sure that regular backups are taken and stored off site.
    Prepare monthly and quarterly financial diaries for both AGRESSO and sub-office finance systems and ensure its strict adherence to the HQ deadlines
    Maintain and ensure the integrity of the SCI’ computerized accounting systems and liaising with Regional Finance Team for any required support

    Financial records and transactions

    Carry out sensibility and control checking before and after posting sub-office transactions into AGRESSO. The post holder is expected of travelling to review financial records maintained in the field offices in compliance with managing member’s policies and procedures
    Follow up HQ transactions from London and make sure that all are processed in the time and accurately.

    Financial reports

    Responsible for timely, accurate and efficient financial reporting (both electronic and manual field returns) to head office
    Responsible for ensuring that reconciliation of balance sheet/control accounts are carried out on monthly basis and ensuring that year-end accounting procedure are met consistently and that any discrepancies are reported to the Finance Director.

    Financial and system controls

    Ensure safe security of cash in the office and coordinate weekly and monthly cash counts, including spot counts
    Ensure that systems are put in place to assure document security for a complete audit trail from the AGRESSO records to supporting documentation and vice versa.
    Ensure the effective and efficient use of all Save the Children resources in order to keep costs low and ensure the security of staff.
    Ensure payroll is completed on time and accurately, with robust controls in place.
    Coordinate Solving of country programme System issues (Pro-Save and Accounts Payable) between Finance and Supply Chain teams
    Ensuring that all System Payments are cleared within the month
    Ensuring that online Scheme of Delegations is updated on Monthly basis and shared with all the stakeholders
    Overseeing and monitoring System (Pro-save) KPI targets and ensuring payment performance KPI targets are met.
    Ensure that all financial transactions are recorded in an accurate and consistent manner and in accordance with agreed timelines and ensure that the monthly financial work plan is adhered to.
    Monitor coding of expenditures and ensure timely adjustments when activation of new awards with relevant audit trail
    Check the correctness of payment vouchers and supporting documentation for all the area offices and/or local implementing partner, recommend the necessary improvements and follow up actions and ensure the supporting documents are fully compliance with SCI and donor requirements

    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
    Essential

    Minimum of 5 years management experience in a corporate or an NGO environment, of which three at a management level within a finance department
    Strategic mindset with the ability to lead, inspire and achieve results in a challenging context
    Strong team player
    Excellent inter-personal skills and able to communicate with diverse set of stakeholders
    Strong analytical, decision making and strategic planning skills with the ability articulate complex information in an easy to understand manner
    Solutions focused with ability to identify weaknesses and drive continuous improvement
    Ability to prioritise, plan ahead, and manage a complex and diverse workload with tight deadlines
    Ability to coach, mentor, delegate appropriately and provide developmental guidance to supervised staff.
    Self starter who is willing to go the extra mile to get the job done
    Excellent understanding of business and financial planning including strategic modelling.
    Excellent understanding of financial systems, controls and procedures.
    Excellent understanding of computerised accounts packages, Excel, PowerPoint and Word
    A full appreciation of the value of co-operation, both internationally and within a team environment.
    Understanding of Save the Children’s vision and mission and a commitment to its objectives and values.
    Written and verbal fluency in English

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  • Senior Policy and Legal Advisor – Accountability for Grave Violations Affecting Children

    Senior Policy and Legal Advisor – Accountability for Grave Violations Affecting Children

    The Policy and Legal Advisor is part of the One Humanitarian Team and will contribute to the development of our work on accountability. The post will report to the Senior Programme Manager-Accountability lead, participate in the Accountability working group and support the implementation of some of the activities as designed in the programme approach.
    The role will contribute to provide legal advice and develop policy positions and discussion papers on issues related to our accountability work, ensuring that the organisation contributes to the strategic debates in the sector and positions itself to remain fit for purpose.
    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

    Excellent knowledge of International Criminal Law, International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law and issues related to accountability and fight against impunity. Strong knowledge of children’s rights is desirable;
    Excellent knowledge of the institutional and legal framework governing international judicial and non-judicial accountability mechanisms;
    Strong analytical skills, and an ability to distil large amounts of information and communicate it effectively;
    Minimum 5 years of related experience, including in the NGO sector;
    Track record of developing and influencing policy;
    Significant ability to produce high-quality policy documents (briefs, key messages, guides, etc.) with short deadlines;
    Attention to detail and ability to follow tasks and ideas through to completion;
    Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills to tackle complex problems; 
    Able to operate effectively and flexibly within an evolving portfolio of work;
    Excellent interpersonal skills, able to communicate with colleagues in a dispersed, creative and multicultural professional environment;
    Strong organisation skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines;
    Self-motivated and able to take initiative, working with limited supervision
    Ability to maintain high attention to detail in pressurised environments. 
    Ability to work on own initiative with a ‘can do’ attitude.
    Fluency in English; other languages desirable
    Commitment to the values and principles of Save the Children

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  • Service Quality Manager

    Service Quality Manager

    Role Purpose:
    The primary purpose of the Service Quality Manager is to ensure that the services and support provided to SCI Centre, ROs, COs and Members across the SCI IT teams are effective through identification of the root cause and ensuring resolution of issues at source.
    The Service Quality Manager will be senior (CXO) stakeholder facing, taking a leading role in incident and problem resolution with members and SCI functions on behalf of the Director of Technology Services. In doing so they will be expected to be able to apply strong communication, team working and problem solving skills, to manage incidents and problems satisfactorily.
    This role will own all major IT incidents and coordinate IT’s response to major incidents not owned by IT, coordinating the resources needed, lead the response planning and manage communications in line with SCI IT major incident management plan. They will own and maintain the major incident management plan, ensuring it is current, effective and accurate.
    The Service Quality Manager will be responsible for identifying, analysing and managing the resolution of key problems across the technology function including (but not limited to):

    high severity and high impact incidents
    repetitive and high volume incidents
    cross-functional and complex incidents
    escalated and high profile incidents
    service delivery and satisfaction issues
    service improvement

    They will work closely across SCI IT functions to identify root cause, assess options for remediation and agreeing solutions, and be accountable for ensuring satisfactory resolution
    is achieved for stakeholders in COs, ROs and Members
    The role will contribute to development of application and technology roadmaps , identifying and prioritising improvements and will engage in the service planning for new services and project cutovers to assess and identify potential impact on existing services and service delivery.
    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
    Essential

    Minimum 10 years’ experience of IT applications and technology support at scale in a complex organisation
    Effective problem solver that uses structured methods and approaches
    Able to work effectively and calmly in pressure situation and times of critical failure or outage
    Ability to lead, mentor and coach others to achieve successful delivery and resolution
    Ability to think long term strategically and operationally and able to improve systems and processes
    Experience of leading problem resolution in large scale complex application architectures
    Understanding of system architectures, data structures, and good understanding of core back office applications
    ITIL experienced
    Highly experienced in incident management, service management and service delivery in a international organisation
    A proven ability to resolve issues swiftly and decisively whilst safeguarding standards and procedures
    Presents sufficient confidence, gravitas and presence to reassure stakeholders in problem resolution and engender trust
    The ability to motivate and mobilise individuals outside their reporting line in a multinational environment
    Management and influencing skills with experience of working with senior level stakeholders
    Ability to communicate effectively to senior stakeholders
    Logical and structured in approach and able to turn technical discussions into clear decision points and plans

    Desirable

    Relevant experience of working with the key components of SCI application and technical environment
    Experience of implementing managing technical solutions in a international environment
    Experience of outsourced service delivery
    Non-profit sector knowledge/experience

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  • Director of Global Campaigns Legal Counsel

    Director of Global Campaigns Legal Counsel

    The Director of Global Campaigns is responsible for driving, leading and managing Save the Children’s child campaigning through a networked structure of members, countries and regions. It will ensure consistent delivery of our Generation Hope campaign plans by coordinating the Generation Hope leadership group; developing effective campaigning networks and partnerships that advance our campaign goals and supporting the Comms & Engagement team to build strong public support for our issues around the world. 
    In order to be successful you will bring/have:
    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
    Essential

    Experience of developing and delivering high ambition public campaigning and engagement approaches and strategies in a global context across a range of countries and cultures
    First class strategist: Proven experience in leading campaign strategy development, planning, delivery and evaluation, and mobilising resources behind its execution
    Excellent, collaborative leadership style and ability – proven campaign leadership at a senior level for at least 5 years, in a global context; ability to lead, convene and inspire in a complex networked organisation across a range of cultures
    Strong, proven experience in movement building campaigns approach, including sparking and nurturing partnerships with external networks / organisations to deliver campaign impact;
    First class high level project management skills – ability to hold and delivery complex campaign projects under pressure
    First class communication skills: the ability to communicate complex information verbally and in writing in a clear, simple way to wider staff, partners and campaigns audiences
    Creative flare, with experience of a range of campaigning techniques and approaches; with strong digital literacy in approaches to inspiring change
    A mature understanding of campaign and social movement trends and landscape
    Problem solver: Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in; ability to operate and make clear decisions in an environment of some uncertainty.
    Willingness and ability to conduct some international travel (once coronavirus restrictions are lifted)
    Passion for and ability to work effectively in a diverse setting
    Understanding of and commitment to Save the Children’s values and ways of working

    Desirable

    Experience of designing and leading campaign training and capacity building programmes.
    Strong experience in public engagement and mobilisation through digital approaches and tactics
    Experience of overseeing campaign contributions from a range of functional experts (advocacy, comms etc) including matrix management of staffed in dispersed team.
    Lived experience of delivering campaigning in diverse contexts, ideally Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East
    Experience of supporting child or youth campaigning / activism

    Closing: 9 Mar. 2023

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  • Technical Lead Sponsorship Award Manager

    Technical Lead Sponsorship Award Manager

    The project aims to improve children’s holistic learning and wellbeing through strengthening of the quality and equity of the teacher professional development system in refugee hosting counties in Kenya, while also being responsive to learning environments, especially catering to teachers’ and children’s needs as shocks and stressors arise.
    Contract Duration: 5years
    Location: Nairobi 50% & Dadaab 50%
    Reports to: The Technical Steering Committee
    KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
    Technical assistance and capacity building

    Provide overall technical leadership of the programme, setting priorities in designing and overseeing the implementation of the project’s activities in collaboration with the technical and operations team
    Facilitating the Technical Steering Group consisting of the technical staff that aims to ensure smooth coordination and technical coherence across the programme
    Working with the technical staff across the partners, ensuring shared, harmonised, and integrated technical learning approaches across the partners as well as capacity development for the local partners
    Review and analyze data for performance monitoring and utilize the data to take corrective actions.
    Ensure that adaptive learning is embedded in all technical aspects of the programme, and that programmes are able to adapt quickly to changes in context and build on continuous lessons learned.

    Oversight and Management Project Operations 
    Responsible for overall coordination, line management and support of the Project, and ensure that:

    Project teams receive appropriate and timely support from technical advisers and programme quality teams for program technical design and strategy, MEAL, and advocacy.
    Principles of child safeguarding and ‘do no harm’ are embedded in all project planning, implementation and reporting and that staff receive regular, up to date training on it.
    Inclusion and gender are adequately mainstreamed within the programme and staff receive regular training.
    Ensure transparency in targeting beneficiaries, delivery of services and participation of beneficiaries and partners in planning and monitoring of process is reflected in programme delivery

    Oversight of Grants and Finance Management:

    In close coordination with Award and Finance team, ensure that all project programmatic reporting requirements including donor reports have strong technical coherence and are completed within time, budget, and quality.

    Representation and advocacy

    Represent the project in relevant internal and external fora including donor meetings (as appropriate)
    In coordination with the Project Director, support stakeholder engagement with communities, local partners, national and county Governments and foster strong relationships and collaboration of other key stakeholder groups
    Work with consortium members and relevant stakeholders to further the project’s vision.

    People management, mentoring and development

    Ensure and manage appropriate staffing within the project
    Manage the team; define expectations, provide leadership and technical support, and evaluate direct reports regularly
    Incorporate staff development strategies and Performance Management Systems into team building process.  Establish result based system and follow up
    Manage the performance of  his direct line reports through:

    Effective use of the Performance Management System including the establishment of clear, measureable objectives, ongoing feedback, periodic reviews and fair and unbiased evaluations;
    Coaching, mentoring and other developmental opportunities;
    Recognition and rewards for outstanding performance;
    Effective and timely management of poor performance

    Ensure appropriate gender and ethnic diversity within the Project programme teams;

    Assessment, monitoring, evaluation, and documentation

    Ensure technical and administrative compliance with donor requirements
    Oversee technical narrative and financial reports for donor(s), ensuring these are of a high quality and submitted for review in a timely manner
    Monitor technical 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 with the monitoring, evaluation and research, and wider programme team to analyse programme data and identify and implement real-time iterations to programme design, including support to teachers and key stakeholders
    Facilitate appropriate documentation and dissemination of learnings, analyses, and good practices documentations in the project internally and externally to donors, governments, consortium partners and other key actors

    BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
    Accountability:

    Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
    Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

    Ambition:

    Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
    Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
    Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

    Collaboration:

    Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
    Values diversity sees it as a source of competitive strength.

    Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

    Creativity:

    Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
    Willing to take disciplined risks.

    Integrity:
    Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
    Essential

    Bachelor’s / post graduate degree or PHD in education, public administration, development studies or any relevant qualification
    Recommend a minimum of 10 years of relevant technical experience in education, teacher professional development, refugee education, and primary/junior secondary education in Kenya including working with the Ministry of Education, Teacher Service Commission, and a strong understanding of Kenya’s Competency Based Curriculum, gender and inclusion, play based learning, WASH, humanitarian response, and MHPSS/SEL.
    Recommend a minimum of 10 years of expertise managing large and complex grants (ideally LEGO), managing multiple partners, and working in consortia
    Excellent experience in external representation with donors, local/national governments, communities, and partners
    Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, adapting and innovating where necessary, and defining a clear way forward and ensuring buy in, as well as working on agile programme management
    Ability to extensively travel for on-site technical support to field teams 
    Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
    Highly developed cultural and political 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
    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
    Understanding of Save the Children’s vision and mission and a commitment to its objectives and values

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  • Project Coordinator (NextGen) Global Partnerships Communications Manager

    Project Coordinator (NextGen) Global Partnerships Communications Manager

    Role Purpose:
    The Next Generation Transformation Programme (Next Gen) is a series of initiatives aimed at leveraging key enablers to transform the Save the Children Movement and unlock greater reach, outcomes and impact for children, including:

    Digital – Embedding digital enablers to drive quality, efficiency and scale
    Data – Leveraging data to drive needs-based decision-making
    Localisation – Transform to deliver on locally-driven priorities

    This role will support the projects within the Next Generation Transformation Programme (Next Gen), with general project coordination and administration. This will be a key role to support delivery of these critical initiatives and will have the opportunity to learn and develop across a range of different project types working with Senior Level staff from across Transformation Delivery and beyond.
    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

    Previous experience in an office administration, Project Coordinator or similar role, preferably in an international environment
    Experience of planning and organising meetings and events, with a strong attention to detail
    Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
    Strong planning/anticipation skills. Experience of planning and organising meetings and events, with attention to detail
    Sound judgement and an ability to effectively prioritise multiple tasks in a constantly changing environment
    Ability to adopt a pro-active approach and offer solutions as appropriate
    Strong written and oral communication skills, fluent in English, with an eye for detail
    Ability to liaise and communicate effectively with a broad range of people at all levels, across different cultures and to act with credibility, discretion, tact and diplomacy both within and without the organisation
    Ability to work to tight deadlines with strong attention to detail
    Maintain a calm disposition and positive outlook particularly when working under pressure
    Self- motivated with ability to work autonomously
    Commitment to the mission, vision and values of Save the Children

    Closing: 23, Feb, 2023

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  • Project Director Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, & Learning (MEAL) Lead Finance Manager

    Project Director Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, & Learning (MEAL) Lead Finance Manager

    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 technical and operational staff
    Provide overall operational and technical guidance and leadership for implementation of activities
    Working with the operational and technical staff across the partners, ensuring shared, harmonised, and integrated technical learning approaches across the partners
    Review and analyse data for performance monitoring and utilize the data to take corrective actions.
    Provide leadership in ensuring the project is implemented on budget, on time and with quality, and runs in an agile manner

    Oversight and Management Project Operations
    Responsible for overall coordination, line management and support of the Project, and ensure that:

    Project has an up-to-date work plan, in line with the approved annual Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) and phased budget.
    Project receives adequate support from Country office support functions (supply chain, HR, Admin, Awards and Finance) to deliver high quality programme. Also ensure gaps are identified, prioritized, and communicated to the stakeholders effectively.
    Project has standardized systems, policies and procedures in place, well understood by all staff and implemented accordingly in the project.
    Project teams receive appropriate and timely support from technical advisers and programme quality teams for program design and strategy, MEAL, advocacy and planning as well as the support functions (Finance, Supply Chain and Human Resources & Admin teams).
    Project holds monthly award progress review meetings and update actions /issues are addressed.
    Principles of child safeguarding and ‘do no harm’ and inclusivity are embedded in all project planning, implementation and reporting and that staff receive regular, up to date training on it.
    Ensure transparency in targeting beneficiaries, delivery of services and participation of beneficiaries and partners in planning and monitoring of process is reflected in programme delivery.

    Oversight of Grants and Finance Management:

    In close coordination with Award and Finance team, ensure that all programs progress in accordance with grant agreements, are completed within time, budget, and quality.
    Ensure compliance with all grant provisions and timely fulfilment of all project programmatic reporting requirements including donor reports and internal reports such as pipeline analyses and monthly reports.
    Oversee the development and successful implementation of work plans linked to indicators and budget for the project; 
    Oversee timely expenditure of approved budgets, avoiding under both spending and overspending on grant line items, and implementing plans for expenditure modification.
    Coordinate activities and prepare results reports, resource request and pipeline analyses

    Representation and advocacy

    Serve as main focal person for all engagement with LEGO
    Chairs the Programme Steering Committee
    Represent the project in relevant internal and external fora including donor meetings (as appropriate)
    Lead stakeholder engagement with national and county Governments and foster strong relationships and collaboration of other key stakeholder groups e.g ministries, regional bodies, humanitarian organizations, development agencies, teacher unions, the Teacher Service Commission, and local community-based groups.

    People management, mentoring and development

    To have overall management responsibility for the consortium team in the project, and manage and track all terms of sub agreements with consortium partners. 
    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 the government teams and the project staff
    Ensure technical and administrative compliance with donor requirements
    Oversee narrative and financial reports for donor(s), ensuring these are of a high quality and submitted for review in a timely manner.
    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 take a lead in ensuring that all the project’s components have robust monitoring plans, baselines, reviews and evaluations in line with the project design and donor guidelines
    Facilitate appropriate documentation and dissemination of learnings, analyses, and good practices documentations in the project internally and externally to donors, governments, consortium partners and other key actors.

    BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
    Accountability:

    Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
    Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

    Ambition:

    Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
    Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
    Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

    Collaboration:

    Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
    Values diversity sees it as a source of competitive strength.

    Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

    Creativity:

    Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
    Willing to take disciplined risks.

    Integrity:

    Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
    Essential

    Bachelor’s / post graudate degree or Ph.D in education, public administration, development studies or any relevant qualification
    Recommend a minimum of 10 years of relevant technical experience in education, teacher professional development, refugee education, and primary/junior secondary education in Kenya including working with the Ministry of Education, Teacher Service Commission, and a strong understanding of Kenya’s Competency Based Curriculm, gender and inclusion, play based learning, WASH, humanitarian response, and MHPSS/SEL.
    Recommend a minimum of 10 years of expertise managing large and complex grants (ideally LEGO), managing multiple partners, and working in consortia
    Excellent experience in external representation with donors, local/national governments, communities, and partners
    Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, adapting and innovating where necessary, and defining a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
    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 and political 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
    Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner
    Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required
    Understanding of Save the Children’s vision and mission and a commitment to its objectives and values

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  • Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Technical Specialist

    Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Technical Specialist

    ROLE PURPOSE:
    The Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Technical Specialist will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical and practical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for advancing gender equality and social inclusion in Kenya and Madagascar.   The role will lead strategy development and the technical design, implementation and measurement of high-quality programmes that advance gender equality and social inclusion, and ensure that girls and boys can equitably access, participate within, benefit from and act as decision makers for both emergency and development programming. The role supports national advocacy and influencing, while driving strategic partnerships to advance gender equality. 
    It provides leadership to ensure our work is grounded on intersectional gender and power analysis and supports the design and implementation of gender transformative monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners.  The role will work closely with operations (programme implementation) colleagues and with partners, especially women’s/girls’ rights and gender equality-focused organizations, in Kenya, fostering the building of ownership and agency of local and national actors. It will provide leadership to design/adapt and deliver gender transformative content for capacity building and system strengthening of staff and partners. This role includes a focus on external representation on priority issues including child-centred gender and power analysis, girls’ empowerment, gender-based violence and other topics central to gender transformative child rights-based approaches across thematic areas. 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.
    KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
    Strategy & Technical Leadership:

    Provide technical leadership for gender equality and social inclusion for the Country Office and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider global strategy, Country priorities, and supporting the organization to implement Save the Children’s Global Gender Equality Policy.
    Provide technical leadership to establish/support/monitor a Gender Equality Action Plan for the for-Country Offices, grounded in Save the Children’s Gender Equality Self-Assessment and other tools.
    Stay abreast of technical developments and trends in gender equality and social inclusion  disseminating information to Country Office technical experts to access, understand, utilize, and contextualise global guidance, evidence, materials and tools
    Build capacity of staff and partners across the Country  Office in key technical approaches related to advancing gender equality and social justice via developing and facilitating high quality training via workshops, webinars, etc., as well as providing ongoing high-quality technical assistance and coaching.

    Resource Mobilization & Programme Design:

    Work closely with New Business Development team at the Country Office to serve as the technical lead on key strategic gender equality and social inclusion  funding opportunities, including but not limited to scoping, capture planning, positioning, information gathering, partnership brokering etc
    Provide technical assistance to the Country Office on design to fashion a high quality, holistic gender-transformative and gender-equality focused programs grounded on intersectional gender and power analysis, upholding accountability for Save the Children’s global Gender Equality Marker (development or humanitarian), and incorporating best practices, evidence-based solutions and innovation for gender equality;
    Work with Child Rights Governance colleagues to ensure that a rights based approach is reflected in our programme design and implementation (in line with our child rights programming approach), with a strong focus on meaningful and equitable child participation
    Promote a Systems Strengthening approach as the overarching framework that supports working in collaboration and partnership with governments and local partners and working towards impact, scale and sustainability.

    Programme Quality during Implementation:

    Provide oversight and guidance to programme implementation teams to ensure that thematic programme components are technically sound and grounded on gender and power analysis, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.
    Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of gender sensitive and transformative programmes at the community level. Contribute to strengthening the use of equality-focused programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.
    Contribute to the development, dissemination, monitoring and evaluation of innovative program quality tools and resources focused on advancing gender equality
    Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
    Support Humanitarian colleagues (as needed) to develop gender sensitive and transformative emergency preparedness plans, and conduct intersectional, sectoral assessments (including gender and power analysis, using SC assessment processes and tools) and to design and deliver gender sensitive/transformative emergency response and recovery programmes. Build capacity on gender equality and gender-based violence among humanitarian teams involved in different sectors. Ensure synergies between humanitarian gender equality teams, disaggregated data and gender sensitive/transformative programme design.
    Monitor trends in humanitarian crises in order to ensure early, gender sensitive/transformative action; and lead technical design and implementation and technical coordination of humanitarian responses

    Research, Evidence & Learning:

    Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out gender and power analysis, and conduct quality monitoring against international standards through participatory methodologies that promote gender equality and social justice (including child-friendly and gender sensitive/transformative methodologies).
    Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of disaggregated data, evidence and analysis and understands its link to quality and accountable programming.
    Contribute to organisational learning on gender equality, ensuring that learning and evidence generated from our programmes is distilled into succinct and compelling programmatic guidance and thought leadership, and shared within Country Offices and with our partners, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global gender equality community within Save the Children via Technical Working/Leadership Groups and Communities of Practice and externally.
    Provide technical leadership and coordination to nurture a thriving Country Gender Equality Community of Practice, strengthening quality, cross-pollination of learning, alignment across the region, and creating links between local, regional and global work.
    Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centres of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country is shared with others and global lessons brought back.

    Networking & External Engagement:

    In alignment with Country Office strategy, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and governments, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in gender equality programming.
    Foster partnership with feminist organisations focused on women’s and girls’ rights, engaging men and boys, equal rights and advancing gender equality. 
    Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others to advance gender equality through Country technical coordination and networking bodies such as clusters and working groups focused on gender equality and gender-based violence or focused on specific thematic areas and requiring a strong gender equality lens (education, child protection, sexual and reproductive health and rights, etc.).
    Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes for advancing gender equality and eliminating gender-based violence, including ending child marriage, through working closely with advocacy and child rights governance colleagues. Ensure that the diverse voices of children, girls and boys are equitably heard and represented across thematic advocacy work.
    Ensure the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports, prioritizing and embedding gender equality across framing and content, working closely with awards, programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.

    BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
    Accountability:

    holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
    holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

    Ambition:

    sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
    widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
    future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

    Collaboration:

    builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
    values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
    approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

    Creativity:

    develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
    willing to take disciplined risks.

    Integrity:

    honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

    The post holder must commit to work in an international agency that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion and fights racism, gender inequality and discrimination in all forms, including based on sexual orientation; and to model positive behaviours that demonstrate a commitment to equality and respect to all colleagues, partners and communities.
    QUALIFICATIONS 

    Master’s degree in Women and Gender Studies or related degree with focus on gender equality in international development, social work, public health, sociology, anthropology or related area, or equivalent experience

    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

    At least 7 years’ experience (including field experience) providing technical leadership for the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes focused on advancing gender equality.
    At least 5 years’ experience of leading the design and implementation of humanitarian and development Disability Inclusive programmes will be an added advantage.
    Strong understanding of gender equality principles and practices, the gender equality sector, policy priorities and key gender inequalities impacting children in Kenya.  
    Proven senior level experience leading diverse, complex initiatives and virtual teams to achieve agreed objectives; including demonstrated experience designing, implementing and reporting upon thematic/cross-cutting strategies and/or policies
    Significant experience in gender equality training, capacity building and mentoring, and a demonstrated ability to make complex concepts compelling and accessible
    Demonstrated knowledge and skills related to intersectional gender and power analysis, and to the design, piloting, implementation and evaluation of innovative technical tools and resource to advance gender equality 
    Track record in successful business development/fundraising, designing and pitching gender transformative approaches, models and programs
    Demonstrated strong knowledge and skills related to gender sensitive and transformative program design, monitoring and evaluation, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.  
    Experience of strategy development and planning to advance gender equality and social justice
    Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, grounded on intersectional gender and power analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to advance gender equality and 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 transforming the root causes of harmful gender norms and promoting gender equality for and with children
    Demonstrated thought leadership expertise such as contributions to academic journals, books, articles; speaking engagements, workshop facilitation, leading conference presentations and panels
    Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: resilience and climate change; adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
    Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery

    Additional job responsibilities
    The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

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    kenya.savethechildren.net

  • Global Multimedia and Digital Content Manager

    Global Multimedia and Digital Content Manager

    Role Purpose:
    The role of the Global Digital and Multimedia Content Manager is to obtain digital and broadcast media coverage for Save the Children across the world to ensure visibility of issues affecting children as well as Save the Children’s work. The role will act as producer for content (film and photography), develop and lead across digital production for the Global Media Unit, working in a high-paced news environment to produce world-class content for international media, members, and social media channels across the organisation. You will also find new ways to improve media engagement with Save the Children’s digital platforms.
    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.
    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

    Essential Excellent and proven multimedia skills, including photography, filming, editing, audio production
    Excellent relationship building skills in order to build and maintain a strong network of contacts with international journalists as well as identify and build key international partnerships
    Strong knowledge and strategic use of social media
    An initiative-taking, proactive, inspiring attitude with the ability to prioritise an unpredictable workload, spot good news angles, and solve problems quickly with limited support
    Ability to manage several products at once, manage consultants and working across divisions working under tight deadlines and under pressure
    Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
    A commitment to Save the Children’s vision, mission, values and approach and commitment to safeguarding children in accordance with our Child Safeguarding Policy 

    Desirables:

    Languages an advantage

    Apply via :

    kenya.savethechildren.net

  • Localisation Initiative Director Global New Business Development (NBD) Lead for Private Partnerships Global CMS Product Owner

    Localisation Initiative Director Global New Business Development (NBD) Lead for Private Partnerships Global CMS Product Owner

    Role Purpose:
    In order to achieve our global breakthroughs for children by 2030, the Save the Children movement has committed to significantly changing the way we work – a core component of which is to shift power to local and national actors. Our Localisation ambition – ‘Local to Global for Impact’ – is an ambitious, multi-year, transformational journey that will see us – and the wider sector – deliver more, better, and fairer impact through context-responsive, locally-designed, locally-led and locally–owned programs for children. We will achieve this by addressing fundamental challenges in the way current aid is delivered to enable and facilitate local actors’ own access to global resources for maximum impact – and we will overcome blockers within our own organization that currently prevents this from happening.
    The Localisation Initiative was originally formed to define the strategic approach to Localisation and the high level roadmap for its realization. We are now entering the next phase of the transformation – with the team being given a mandate to accelerate the pace at which we will be able to meet the movement’s Localisation ambition. It consists of a small number of dedicated resources tasked with overcoming a number of blockers to Localisation that currently exist across the movement.
    The Localisation Initiative Lead will be accountable for ensuring the timely and quality delivery of key outcomes across prioritised workstreams, as well as to ensure meaningful engagement and buy-in from key stakeholders across the movement. The 3 priority areas of focus in 2023 will be – Culture and Organisation, Funding and Compliance. This role requires both high-level engagement with Member CEOs and Senior Leadership Teams at country, regional and global levels to generate strategic buy-in, as well as hands-on project management skills to ensure the delivery of tangible results in terms of removing the current blockers to Save the Children meeting our Localisation ambition.
    The immediate focus will be to establish and mobilise the initiative team and setup the required governance to deliver the priorities. The Localisation Initiative Lead will ensure that identified key stakeholders at all levels understand requirements and expectations on them to fully engage in delivering 2023 localisation work packages. S/he will ensure leadership alignment and understanding on the global ambition, strategic direction, and roadmap to mobilise organisational-wide resources and support for this multi-year transformation. S/he will be responsible for project management by ensuring resources are well-planned and managed; initiative plan is regularly reviewed; initiative team members are well supported to deliver their tasks; risks and issues are identified and addressed; and key outputs and outcomes are delivered according to plan.
    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
    Essential

    Experience leading a project focused on making changes to operating structures and procedures for an organisation across multiple geographic locations including those with complex labour laws. It is essential this includes experience managing the associated legal, staffing and system requirements
    Experience leading the rollout of a global standardised process and solution in Save the Children or equivalent type of organisation
    A track record of successfully managing projects in terms of core Project Management activities as well as managing the associated change
    Demonstrable experience and in-depth knowledge of programme and project practices and standards
    A proven ability to deliver projects on time / on budget, using project management processes and tools including risk management, benefits management, financial management and quality assurance
    Proven experience of using and leading change management activities including change impact
    A proven ability to apply excellent analytical and problem solving skills, and to work collaboratively to deliver of effective solutions to project related issues. This will include taking on hands on analysis activities to support the wider (small) team as required
    Highly developed organisational awareness and ability to understand sensitivities within a complex multi-stakeholder structure; and think creatively and strategically to overcome obstacles to cooperation and progress
    Team leadership capabilities to support and guide team members and ensure they are clear on their responsibilities and are held to account for their delivery
    Strong business requirements collection, and process/workflow analysis skills
    Excellent communication skills (written & oral English), including the ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organisation
    Able to demonstrate instances of initiative that have delivered organisational benefits
    Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally 

    Desirables:

    Experience of working on Organisation Design projects
    Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
    Proficiency in a second core language of Save the Children (French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic)

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