Current Jobs at Save the Children Nigeria 2018

Save the Children is a leading international organization helping children in need around the world. First established in the UK in 1919, separate national organizations have been set up in more than twenty-eight countries, sharing the aim of improving the lives of children through education, health care and economic opportunities, as well as emergency aid in cases of natural disasters, war and conflict.

In Nigeria, Save the Children has been working since 2001. The early focus was on getting children actively involved in shaping the decisions that affect their lives. Today, Save the Children is working in seven federal states – Zamfara, Yobe, Jigawa, Katsina, Kano, Bauchi and Kaduna – focusing on providing basic healthcare and protecting children.

We are recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Humanitarian Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) Officer

Location: Calabar – Cross River
Contract Duration: January to May 2018

Role Purpose

• The CPiE Officer will generally be deployed to the field as the lead technical Adviser in a small or medium-sized emergency The overall aim of the Child Protection Adviser will be to assess, design and guide staff to initiate interventions to address violations of children’s rights to protection from abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect. 
• The post holder is responsible for ensuring that quality programmes are initiated and capacities developed to provide these kinds of protection to children in a range of Save the Children’s emergency responses world-wide. 
• The post holder will be expected to lead on sectoral assessment, programme design , implementation, capacity building of Officers, stakeholders and local partners setting up child protection department, and master budgeting, coordination, and support fundraising, recruitment and procurement.

Key Areas of Accountability

• Lead on child protection assessments using SC assessment processes and tools and the Inter-agency Child Protection Assessment Resource Toolkit. Adapt the Assessment Tool as necessary. Coordinate with other SC thematic areas and/or the Child Protection Working Group or other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a disaggregated analysis of children’s needs.
• Working with the Child Protection Manager to develop child protection response plans and  budgets.  Initiate programming in the following areas as appropriate:
  • Support in the establishment of community child protection systems
  • Support to the psychosocial (physical, social, emotional) wellbeing of children and their families. By anchoring the establishment of safe spaces for children affected communities
  • Build capacity of community in Emergency family tracing interventions and alternative  options for unaccompanied and separated children.
  • Support communities in the prevention and response to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and gender-based violence (GBV)
  • Prevention and response to the main risks for children’s exposure to physical harm
  • Prevention and response to all forms of exploitation including harmful child labour and child trafficking
  • Integration of child protection in to other core sectors
• Working closely with senior staff, support fundraising for child protection, including development of high quality concept notes and proposals, and engagement with donors’ technical advisers.
• Support the child protection manager in the Prepare and ovepreparing and overseeing  programme implementation to ensure timely delivery of programme activities (for example, monitoring against log frames, individual performance management work plans).
• Prepare timely programme and donor reports on child protection project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• Working closely with the HR team, identify child protection staffing needs (both national and international) for emergency programmes, and ensure rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff.
• Identify child protection programme supplies needs and coordinate with the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan.
• Ensure comprehensive  community case management systems are in place to support UASC and at risk children
• Provide supervision and monitor quality of child protection activities implemented on field
• Ensure coordination of case management and CPIMS database activities for quality reporting
• Ensure confidentiality and do no harm is integrated into programming
• Working closely with the Accountability lead put in place accountability activities for child protection, ensuring that feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered in programme design.
• Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings, the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.

Capacity Building:

• Identify learning and training opportunities for Save the Children staff and partners and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.
• Building capacity of CP assistants.
• Build capacities of Government and Ministries
• Build capacity of local partners
• Build capacity of other core sectors for fluid integration.

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Ensure that Save the Children’s work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government.
• Take steps to document lessons learned for wider dissemination.
• In collaboration with senior programme staff, assist in child protection advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all levels.
• In collaboration with SC Child Protection colleagues, feed in learning, experiences and evidence to relevant global child protection advocacy objectives.
• Identify opportunities and material to contribute to communications and media work, acting as a spokesperson when required.

General:

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Education to M.Sc/MA/MEng level in Social Work, Human rights Law, International Relations, Development Studies or similar, or equivalent field experience.

Experience and Skills
Essential:

• Experience working in an emergency response contexts or fragile states
• Previous experience in Child Protection at community level
• Ability to identify the main gaps in child protection in the given context to inform a holistic response for children.
• Good knowledge of and experience in using established inter-agency standards and guidelines in child protection, such as the Inter-agency Guidelines on Separated and Unaccompanied Children, the Paris Principles, MRM, SC Child Friendly Spaces Handbook, and the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Settings.
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating child protection programmes in emergency, transition and development contexts
• Experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong influencing skills and experience in advocacy
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• A high level of written and spoken English
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• Commitment to and understanding of child rights, the aims and principles of SC, and humanitarian standards such as the Sphere Charter and the Code of Conduct. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support.

Desireable:

• Good working knowledge of  Cross River  state.
• Experience or knowledge of working and living in remote communities.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online 

Job Title: Consultant – Research Coordination for the Child Development Grant Programme

Location: Abuja

Background
The Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP) is a flagship nutrition-sensitive social protection programme funded by the United Kingdom’s Agency for International Development (UKAID), operating in Jigawa and Zamfara states of Nigeria.  The CDGP provides a monthly unconditional cash transfer of 4, 000NGN to pregnant women from the time their pregnancy is confirmed until their children are two years old, targeting the critical first 1,000 days of a child’s life. The cash transfer is accompanied by nutrition education and Behavioural Change Communication (BCC) to the beneficiaries. The programme started in April 2013 and will run to July 2019.

The CDGP aims to reduce malnutrition and stunting in children. CDGP also seeks to boost federal and/or state political and institutional commitment to adopt the programme or implement some key learnings from the programme to ensure improved nutrition, food security and poverty reduction for women and children. This will ensure sustainability of social protection for women and children when UKAID funding ends in 2019. 

The CDGP is implemented by Save the Children International and Action Against Hunger.

Rationale

• CDGP is approaching its final year and is committed to strengthening the results achieved, improve quality, strengthen its processes, disseminate and share its lessons locally, regionally and internationally as well support the federal government’s programme to adopt relevant component of the CDGP.
• CDGP will be disseminating the lessons and results from 5 years of programme implementation, as well as lessons from studies and evaluations; to an array of local and international audiences and stakeholders.
• Extra support is required to complete the planned studies and rollout the dissemination to the identified stakeholders with the short timeframe.

Purpose

• This job holder is responsible for research and study coordination, including field research coordination and liaison with key stakeholders; and other key deliverables around research and study operations and roll out.

Roles and Responsibilities
Specific responsibilities will include the following:

• Conduct background research to be used in developing study and consultancy terms of references;
• Support Lead consultants on researches undertaken by them, by ensuring that there is synergy in their work and that they deliver research of the highest quality;
• Coordinate all researches undertaken by CDGP, by providing input into the design, planning, conduct, analysis and reporting.
• Support the team in developing budgets for researches.
• Liaise with the research leads to distil the policy findings and key lessons learned from documents including the Project Completion Reports, to be used in reporting to Donors, Government and other key stakeholders.
• Support the KM advisor and lead Research in the design and dissemination of key research findings, for example, policy briefs, facts sheets, preparing media briefing packs and press releases;
• Help with organization and execution of CDGP events especially stakeholders’ engagements and research findings dissemination;
• Support the KM advisor with the follow up activities required after CDGP events, to ensure we are building up a solid database of names, contact details, as well as PowerPoint presentations and reports produced saved on the server under the correct files.
• Support the KM advisor in ensuring that CDGP’s research findings and or abstracts are published in major journals both local and international, also that CDGP research findings are presented at both local and International events.
• Support the KM advisor in coordinating research/study capacity building initiative that CDGOP might undertake from time to time with its partners.
• Any other duties assigned by the KM Advisor or the National Programme Manager.

The following reports will expected from the role holder:

• Monthly report;
• Other reports related to the deliverables.

Skills, Experience and Qualification Required
Essential:

• A University Degree in Public Health, Health Economics, or any related social Sciences.
• Substantial experience in research and study management.
• Excellent interpersonal, team work and communication skills
• Demonstrable experience in people management and leadership including remote support and capacity development
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Commitment to and understanding of SCI and AAH aims, values and principles.

Desirable:

• Experience in working with international agencies.

Working Conditions:

• Ability and willingness to travel within Nigeria.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Consultant – National Social Safety Net Programme: Gender Analysis

Location: Abuja

Background
The Nigerian government has recently rolled out a comprehensive National Social Safety Net Programme (NASSP) as part of the Social Investment Programmes. The sum of Five Hundred Billion Naira has already been approved in the 2016 Appropriation Act to finance NASSP, with a corresponding amount committed by the World Bank. 

The intended outcome of the NASSP is to accelerate growth and development through addressing unemployment and improving the living conditions of vulnerable and extremely poor Nigerians. The NASSP specifically targets caregivers within targeted households – primarily women – with three interventions: cash, capacity building and livelihoods.

Recognizing that the target beneficiaries are caregivers, which is a role primarily filled by women, the focus of the Gender Analysis will be on women. However, it will pay particular attention to the engagement of men as enablers to ensure that in cases where men are caregivers, they have equal access to and benefit from the NASSP. It will also analyse intersectionality of other exclusion factors, recognizing that caregivers’ vulnerabilities will be exacerbated and compounded by different factors including: age, disability and ethnicity.

Rationale

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

Purpose

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

The Gender Analysis will:

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

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

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

Approach and Methodology:

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

Proposed Methodology
Desk review:

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

Field research:

• Key Informant Interviews (inc. religious leaders and other opinion-shapers)
• Focus Group Discussions: both those included and excluded from the NASSP
• Direct observational monitoring in Target locations
• Ensure close collaboration and engagement with the National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office (NASSCO) and National Cash Transfer Office (NCTO)
• The research will capture and represent the diversity in Nigeria by ensuring data is collected in the North/South/East/West, covering all six geo-political zones, humanitarian and development, indigene and non-indigene and rural, semi-urban and urban, and migrant and non-migrant.

Outputs, Deliverables and Reporting
During the consultancy the following is expected:

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

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

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

Eligibility

• Applicationa are welcome from international based gender specialists who have access to local based gender specialist and women’s right organizations in Nigeria.
• The selected international gender specialist will be expected to partner with local structures (National gender based specialist or women organization) to carry out the assignment.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Deadline: 22nd January, 2018.