Jobs at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE: 

As part of our humanitarian ambition and 2030 global strategy, Save the Children has implemented the Global Expertise Humanitarian Surge Platform (GEHSP) to further improve the efficient deployment of high-quality surge staff to support the delivery of our Humanitarian Responses directly and in collaboration with SCI partners. This role will be rapidly deployed by the GEHSP to support the implementation of the response team activities in quickly developing humanitarian-responses.

The Emergency Health Unit (EHU) was established in 2015 as a dedicated humanitarian operational capability within Save the Children (SC). It consists of experienced multidisciplinary and operational technical teams that are internationally mobile and who can provide timely, high quality health interventions in some of the hardest places to work, where the needs for children are the greatest.

In 2018, the EHU developed a dedicated field hospital capability in recognition of the unmet needs by actors delivering secondary and primary level care during humanitarian responses. The focus of the field hospital is on the provision of specialist Maternal, New-born and Child Health care, which complements their already pre-existing primary health care capability. The field hospital can provide inpatient care for mothers, newborns, and children, with a specialist emergency obstetric surgical capability, alongside emergency and outpatient care (more information the EHU Field Hospital see here).

The post holder must be willing to deploy at short notice (< 72 hrs) for up to 12 weeks at a time

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Up to date evidence of current licence and registration to practice.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience practising independently as an anaesthetist (i.e., does not require supervision)
• Minimum of three months’ work/volunteering in Field hospital or Low middle Income Countries (LMIC)
• Ability and willingness to travel to remote and insecure locations for periods of time and on short notice
• Willingness to work in unstable areas
• Evidenced of in date training in advanced life support (adult, paediatric and neonatal) or equivalent.
• Strong communication skills, with an excellent level of spoken and written English.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Flexible and able to manage stress.
• Ability to work and maintain a positive team dynamic in an insecure environment.
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships both inside and outside the organization.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently under difficult conditions.
• Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources
• Ability to reflect and learn from personal and program performance and act on lessons learned.

Desireable

• Familiar with anaesthesia in austere environments.
• Previous experience of NGO work in humanitarian settings.
• Experience supervising medical teams.
• Working knowledge of French, Arabic or Spanish
• Experience in other relevant area: general practice, general medicine, or nutrition
• Strong knowledge of Save the Children systems and ways of working

Closing: 1 May 2023

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

The WASH Manager will be responsible for all technical aspects supporting the WASH activities for an effective Emergency Response including WASH facilities for Save the Children (SC) Primary Health Care facilities and Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) treatment facilities or Cholera Treatment Centres (CTCs) or other infectious disease outbreak responses.

The WASH Manager is also tasked with recruitment and training of WASH officers, Health Promoters, and Hygienists on operation and maintenance of WASH facilities, outreach, disinfection (including chlorine preparation) and liaising with SC’s Health staff to ensure implementation of appropriate protocols and effective health promotion.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Experience working within a senior management role within a complex country program in an emergency response including in first phase emergency response.
• Masters degree in Public Health, Water Engineering, or a related subject, or equivalent field experience
• Experience working with infectious diseases, particularly in CTCs or with Ebola/ haemorrhagic fever.
• Experience managing PHC facility water, sanitation, wastewater and waste disposal systems.
• Experience managing a WASH team at national level, including national and international staff members
• Experience of WASH project management and program coordination, implementing WASH program within donor constraints, on time and within budget
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
• Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation skills
• Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff in WASH technical skills
• Experience representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
• Experience preparing successful funding proposals for donors
• 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 the aims and principles of Save the Children. In particular, a good understanding of the Save the Children’s mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support

Desireable

• Strong knowledge of Save the Children systems and ways of working.
• Proficiency in a second language such as French, Spanish or Arabic

Closing: 1 May 2023

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KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY 

• Plan and organize integrated health and nutrition outreach sites at designated  sites in liaison with the nutrition Coordinator 
• Liase with the Nutrition Coordinator and Programme Manager to plan for logistics for various integrated health and nutrition outreaches. 
• Ensure that SCI and MoH outreach protocols/Sops are applied to integrated outreaches.  
• Work with MoH staff and officials to ensure all aspects of the program are understood and agreed by MoH and appropriate referrals take place to and from MoH and the OTP/SFP 
• Ensure cases not meeting admission criteria return home as early as possible and understand why their child is not admitted 
• Coordinate referrals for children with complications.  
• Screen children five years and pregnant and lactating women for malnutrition using MUAC and Z score.  
• Coordinate with sub-county MoH teams to ensure adequate supplies (RUFT, RUSF, CSB)  for the outreaches.  
• Request specific children to be followed up as required (newly enrolled children, sick children, long stay children / children not gaining weight, children with social problems etc). 
• Provide appropriate orientation for all voluteers engaged in the outreach programme receive appropriate orientation and supervision. 
• Provide appropriate training to outreach team members (orientation and regular training) 
• Establish team coordination, collaborative team work, internal information sharing (daily briefings weekly coordination meetings, etc) with constant focus on improving the effectiveness of outreach teams collaboration  
• Maintain constant focus on improving outreach information sharing (timely and relevant information)  
• Ensuring outreach teams are equipped with adequate portable devices to support efficient and effective information sharing  
• Collect outreach monitoring data for reporting purposes and sharing and coordination internally and externally (Daily report, Weekly/Biweekly report, Case studies, monthly reports) 
• Local level awareness raising on best feeding practices for infants and young children amongst other humanitarian actors in the locality. 
• Supports the Child Safeguarding focal point to ensure that child safeguarding and safe programming is embedded in the project and considered throughout implementation to ensure that we do all we can to ensure children in our programs are safe, in line with our child safeguarding policy. 

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Health / Public Health / Nutrition  BSc or equivalent 
• Qualified nurse/Nutritionist with primary health care / community health care experience 
• Experience of emergency nutrition work (preferably CMAM) and implementation of feeding programs, including monitoring and evaluation 
• Experience in conducting nutrition assessments and an understanding of nutritional surveillance and information systems 
• Proven capacity of management, leadership and teamwork 
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathizes with all beneficiaries and their carers 
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions 
• Demonstrable ability at report writing  
• Prepared to live and work in an uncertain security environment 
• Ability and willingness to frequently travel and stay at the field 
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles  
• Fluency in written and spoken English and local languages 
• Experience of working with Microsoft’s office word, excel, PowerPoints and SPSS  
• Very good knowledge, commitment and understanding of Child Safeguarding Policy, the aims and principles of Save the Children, 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

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KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY 

• Plan and organize integrated health and nutrition outreach sites at designated  sites in liaison with the nutrition Coordinator 
• Liase with the Nutrition Coordinator and Programme Manager to plan for logistics for various integrated health and nutrition outreaches. 
• Ensure that SCI and MoH outreach protocols/Sops are applied to integrated outreaches.  
• Work with MoH staff and officials to ensure all aspects of the program are understood and agreed by MoH and appropriate referrals take place to and from MoH and the OTP/SFP 
• Ensure cases not meeting admission criteria return home as early as possible and understand why their child is not admitted 
• Coordinate referrals for children with complications.  
• Screen children five years and pregnant and lactating women for malnutrition using MUAC and Z score.  
• Coordinate with sub-county MoH teams to ensure adequate supplies (RUFT, RUSF, CSB)  for the outreaches.  
• Request specific children to be followed up as required (newly enrolled children, sick children, long stay children / children not gaining weight, children with social problems etc). 
• Provide appropriate orientation for all voluteers engaged in the outreach programme receive appropriate orientation and supervision. 
• Provide appropriate training to outreach team members (orientation and regular training) 
• Establish team coordination, collaborative team work, internal information sharing (daily briefings weekly coordination meetings, etc) with constant focus on improving the effectiveness of outreach teams collaboration  
• Maintain constant focus on improving outreach information sharing (timely and relevant information)  
• Ensuring outreach teams are equipped with adequate portable devices to support efficient and effective information sharing  
• Collect outreach monitoring data for reporting purposes and sharing and coordination internally and externally (Daily report, Weekly/Biweekly report, Case studies, monthly reports) 
• Local level awareness raising on best feeding practices for infants and young children amongst other humanitarian actors in the locality. 
• Supports the Child Safeguarding focal point to ensure that child safeguarding and safe programming is embedded in the project and considered throughout implementation to ensure that we do all we can to ensure children in our programs are safe, in line with our child safeguarding policy. 

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Health / Public Health / Nutrition  BSc or equivalent 
• Qualified nurse/Nutritionist with primary health care / community health care experience 
• Experience of emergency nutrition work (preferably CMAM) and implementation of feeding programs, including monitoring and evaluation 
• Experience in conducting nutrition assessments and an understanding of nutritional surveillance and information systems 
• Proven capacity of management, leadership and teamwork 
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathizes with all beneficiaries and their carers 
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions 
• Demonstrable ability at report writing  
• Prepared to live and work in an uncertain security environment 
• Ability and willingness to frequently travel and stay at the field 
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles  
• Fluency in written and spoken English and local languages 
• Experience of working with Microsoft’s office word, excel, PowerPoints and SPSS  
• Very good knowledge, commitment and understanding of Child Safeguarding Policy, the aims and principles of Save the Children, 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

Closing: 5 April 2023

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

As a key member of the Global Safety and Security (GSS) team, the GSS Risk Lead provides high-level advice, supporting the Director, GSS and team to function effectively and efficiently in the enabling of delivery of quality programs and impact through its Centre, Regional and Country Offices. S/he provides cross-functional Risk Management advice in relation to Global Safety and Security, Health and Safety, Travel Risk Management, and at times Region and Country Offices. The incumbent will monitor t RO’s compliance with SCI Safety and Security Policy, and Safety and Security Risk Management but most importantly, s/he will occasionally deploy, and be directly involved at the field level in ensuring that countries mitigate operational risks and institutionalize an organisational culture, and practice of safety and security. The GGS Risk Manager will co-lead on risk management with the DGSS for the GSS department.

This is a new and exciting role and although not limited to, the likely tasks led by the role holder would include; independent research, production of person or virtual briefings, briefing papers, bulletins, reports and other products on safety and security risk management across international programmes. The role holder will also assist GSS and SCI to develop, and lead specific partnerships with key safety and security risk forums, academics, analyst groups, and think-tanks.

QUALIFICATIONS EXPERIENCE

• Significant leadership and risk and safety and security management experience in a large and complex international NGO or organization
• A sound understanding of risk principles, and modern safety and security risk thinking and execution
• Significant experience managing risk and safety and security in field operations, across the full spectrum of programming from humanitarian assistance to development, with an understanding also of institutional needs supportive of the global mission
• Ability to deliver cross functional projects on time and on budget, using project management processes and tools including risk management, benefits management, financial management and quality assurance
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to influence others, to liaise with a wide range of people at all levels and across different cultures and to act with credibility, tact and diplomacy
• Excellent planning, management and coordination skills. Strong time management skills with an ability to plan ahead, anticipate requirements, problems and obstacles. Ability to juggle competing priorities successfully, and to work to tight deadlines with the capacity to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
• Experience in solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Excellent business partnering, communication and relationship building skills. Demonstrated ability to develop and manage productive relationships with SCI member agencies and senior staff
• The highest level of expertise in representation & negotiation
• Post-graduate qualifications or equivalent experience in safety and security, risk management, international development or a related discipline
• Strong and clear commitment to Save the Children’s values
• Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours in the event of major events & crises, including travelling at short notice

Closing: 5 April 2023

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ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children International (SCI) is looking for a Senior data analyst (Finance) to lead on developing visual, self-service information assets for Finance on Power BI.

 

The current Finance Reporting suite predominantly consists of SQL reports drawing data from the transactional Finance system. These reports challenge the performance of the Finance system, are inflexible, and in many cases data in-or exclusions and calculation of the reported measures are not fully understood.
Over the next 1-2 years, we are planning to move the majority of Finance reporting away from the Financial system to a Data Warehouse solution (Azure), with Power BI as analytics and visualisation tool

 This role will:

• Lead on developing visually intuitive information assets for Finance end users on Power BI
• Introduce best practices for information visualisation in the Finance context
• Educate the Finance Reporting team and Finance super users in developing information assets
• Provide input and play a significant role in moving Finance Reporting to the DWH
• Help transform the Finance Reporting team into an innovative central information service for Finance that anticipates Finance information needs and provides options for all Finance stakeholders to access available information.
• Contribute to the wider SCI data analytics community and SCI’s data analytics maturity
• Be accountable for providing key financial information which informs far-reaching decisions by senior decision makers on Programmes, in Country, Regional and Centre (e.g. investment decisions or rightsizing decisions by CDs/ CFOs/ Operations Directors; RDs/ RFDs / Regional Ops Directors; SCI CFO, COO)

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Head of Finance Strategy and Transformation

Role Dimensions:

The information assets the post-holder will design and produce will serve a wide range of stakeholder groups, predominantly in Finance (SCA, SCI centre, regions, countries, programmes, potentially on-boarded members), but also including budget holder’s country and regional / functional leadership;

These tools will provide key financial information to inform financially critical decisions, and will improve the organisation’s capability to manage the approx. $2bn SCI programme portfolio. The role holder will also interact with leaders of the SCI/SCA’s data analytics community and support the development of BI standards.

Staff directly reporting to this post: none presently, but with a potential to lead 1-2 junior staff:
But this role will be guiding 2 senior team members in using new techniques introduced by this role, and will be supervising the output of 2 junior team members and super users.

Team size: currently 3, with a potential to grow to 5-6 over the next 1-2 years

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

 Finance information strategy: 

• Introduce innovation to improve data visualisation and information sharing and to make information intuitive and easily understandable for all skill levels
• Develop best in class formats to convey information effectively to stakeholders (Board, Senior leadership teams in Centre, Region, Countries, operational Finance teams, budget holders
• Drive data democratisation through self-service
• Continuously improve reporting and information sharing processes and tools

Data modelling, analysis and visualisation with Power BI: 

• Review data modelling approach in DWH and advise on optimising the overall data modelling approach between DWH and Power BI
• Design visually intuitive, flexible Power BI assets, aligned to audience needs; assets include dashboards and reports for end users ranging from senior management to operational staff, as well as and self-service tools (data marts / data flows) for more advanced Finance analysts;
• Apply best practice UX (User experience) visualisation principles, optimizing Usability, Usefulness, Accessibility, User delight, potentially including visualisation on mobile devices
• Build proof of concept tools
• Be accountable for high quality and timely delivery of key Finance information to senior decision makers on programme, country, regional and Centre leadership teams

Education and community

• Take a leading role in cross-functionally developing and aligning design and visualisation principles and data templates, working with the wider SCI data analysis community (Various functional data analytics teams, BI team, Data governance team, …)
• Instruct Finance reporting team members / Finance super users in building information assets and tools via Power BI, including data modelling, data analysis, data visualisation, UX (User Experience) design best practices
• Advise on best practice training methods for end user audience groups
• Create an active Finance BI community, driving data democratisation, establishing standards and supervising outputs to ensure high reporting quality using DWH data via Power BI

Reporting suite and processes: 

• Analyse existing reporting needs and identify opportunities to meet existing information needs or to adding additional value (new information, more accessible information) via Power BI
• Advise on how to replace existing reports through visually intuitive, flexible tools with the objective to replace multiple Agresso reports through BI tools
• Guide and advise MI solution managers in their data visualisation outputs, supervise and review outputs of Junior data analysts, any Finance super users once self-service is established

Project Support

• Provide support to strategic finance projects (e.g. HPO)
• Support the on-boarding of BAU reporting changes driven by strategic projects

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI 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, budget holders, 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

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

Qualification:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Business Information Systems or similar disciplines.
• Professional qualifications or related certificates in the following in Data analytics, Finance (e.g. bachelor) and qualifications on Power BI would be an added advantage

 Skills:

• 7 years+ experience in designing and building data assets for business stakeholders
• Expert knowledge of techniques, best practices and trends in
  • data modelling, data base design and data warehousing
  • data analysis and data reconciliation
  • data visualisation and UX
• Expert knowledge of Power BI Platform including Power Apps, DAX, Integration with Office 365 apps, Desktop and Mobile, Report Server, Report Builder
• Good understanding of Finance processes, stakeholders and related information requirements
• Demonstrated leadership and passion for advancing BI in an organisation; future orientated, strategic thinking
• Demonstrated ability to translate Finance requirements into specifications required for their production, and to manage production stakeholders across Finance and IT
• Analytical approach to problem solving, excellent prioritisation and time management skills
• INGO Sector knowledge would be an added advantage
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Experience with training approaches for roll-out of Finance BI tools

Closing: 4 April 2023