Job Openings at Save The Children

The Senior Advisor, Adolescent Family Planning and Maternal & New-born Health (FP/MNH) will provide technical expertise to projects focusing on FP and MNH for adolescents and youth in several countries. You will provide capacity strengthening and ongoing coaching for country-based teams working on community- and facility-based FP and MNH interventions specifically tailored to adolescents and youth. You will advance global thought leadership on key aspects of adolescent FP and MNH, contribute to establishing and advancing project learning agendas, and will lead documentation and sharing efforts through technical and peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations. You will also contribute to new business development opportunities through proposal development, strategic positioning, and partnership development.

Reports to: Lead Advisor, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

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

Essential

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least seven (7) years of relevant experience
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
• Proven proficiency in design, implementation, and monitoring of FP and MNH programs, particularly for adolescents and youth, in low- and middle-income countries
• Demonstrated experience working within health systems in low- and middle-income countries
• Proven experience in strengthening the capacity of Ministry of Health and other local partners in FP and MNH for adolescents
• Demonstrated knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods and interpretation
• Demonstrated experience with applying implementation learning and applying evidence and learning to rapidly adapt programming, such as through collaborating, learning, and adapting approaches
• Demonstrated commitment to innovating and adapting, delivering results, creativity in problem solving and decision-making
• Experience with developing technical products (briefs, reports and manuscripts)
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 25%

Desirable

• Clinical degree (e.g., nursing, midwifery or medical)
• Personal and professional commitment to FP and MNH for adolescents and youth
• French proficiency
• Experience with global, multi-country projects funded by USAID and/or Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Contract duration: 24 months(renewable)

Location: Save the Children operates in 12 Countries within the East and Southern Africa Region i.e. South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

This role will be based in any Country Office with SCI Presence under National Contract terms

The Organisation

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

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

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

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

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Reports to: Head of Program Development

Staff directly reporting to this post: None

Dimensions: Save the Children has been working in Somalia for more than 60 years. The Country Office has over 600 staff across 14 field offices (Boroma, Burao and Hargeisa in Somaliland; Bossaso, Garowe, Galkayo and Gardo in Puntland; Beletweyne, Adaado, Abudwak, Baidoa, Kismayo, Dhobley and Mogadishu in southern states). Our Country Office coordination and administration base is in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2017, as a result of significant scale up for the countrywide drought response, our annual spend FY2017 was US$117 million and we reached more than 2 million people through our humanitarian and longer-term development work in Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), Education, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Child Protection and Child Rights Governance. The Country Office manages 61 active awards totalling US$165 million from a range of governmental/institutional donors, including DFID, ECHO, EU, FFP, OFDA, and DANIDA being some of our largest.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Proposal Development Officer will support the Head of PD , and other country programme staff to grow Save the Children funding and partnerships at country level in order to resource the Country Strategic Plan.

To achieve the country’s programme ambitions in line with SC’s Global Breakthroughs, the Country Office Program Development Officer will be responsible for managing the proposal development process and ensuring the final product is responsive, competitive, and timely. S/he will be responsible for working with the PDQ, TE, and Supply Chain/Operations team to coordinate the proposal design process and collaborating with the Finance team to integrate the proposal budget into the final submission to the donor. The Country Office Program Development Officer will be responsible for inputting into the capture planning and continuous learning processes where applicable.

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.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Background in proposal development and coordination required.

Required

• Demonstrated experience in coordinating and facilitating the development of medium to major proposals to institutional donors, multilateral agencies, corporate donors, and/or foundations.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex issues through critical thinking, analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.
• A high degree of attention to detail and the ability to lead key tasks (e.g. proposal development) to on-time completion under significant pressure.
• Highly developed networking skills and ability to form productive working relationships with a wide range of internal colleagues and stakeholders (e.g programme, technical, awards, REALM, compliance, finance, program operations).
• Good personal organisational skills, including time management, and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills including communicating with impact, influencing, negotiation, and coaching.
• A high degree of flexibility and adaptability in order to respond to changing needs.  Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours in the event of major emergencies including travelling at short notice and for extended periods of time.
• Fluency in English

Desirable

• INGO, NGO, or non-profit experience and an excellent grasp of operational issues.
• Experience in developing project or proposal budgets including for Nordic donors and the UN bodies.
• Familiarity with Somalia/Eastern Africa context and funding landscape
• Proven ability to write persuasive, competitive, and compliant narrative proposals for institutional donors. 
• A detailed understanding on funding mechanisms for development work such as Save the Children’s.