Jobs at Save the Children

The Senior Social Protection Technical Advisor will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for Child Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) in East and Southern Africa. The role will lead strategy development and the technical design and implementation of high-quality programmes that deliver change for children in both emergency and development programming. The Social Protection Advisor will ensure that all social protection programming is of excellent technical quality and contributes significantly to Save the Children's strategic objectives, national/global learning and advocacy. The role supports Child Poverty team members in national advocacy and influencing, and driving strategic partnerships for new business development. The role will provide technical advice in the design and implementation of social protection programming and also supports the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners. This role includes a focus on training and coaching country office staff for external representation on priority issues including improving coverage and impacts for children through social protection systems, with a view towards supporting progressive realization of Universal Child Benefits, as well as nutrition-sensitive and shock responsive social protection, and poverty graduation discussions, among others.

The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children Members, PDQ teams, advocacy colleagues, other Regional Technical Advisors, technical counterparts in the Country Offices, Centre, and other organisations, donors, academia, etc. The role is also expected to engage with internal technical working groups and communities of practice.

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

Essential/Desired

• Master's degree in Economics, Social Protection, Social Policy or a related field as well as equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 7 years' experience working nationally and internationally on social protection policy, research and programmes, including design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience in social protection sector in East & Southern Africa desirable
• Demonstrated understanding and experience of life-cycle and rights-based approach to social protection and how it contributes to outcomes for children.
• Understanding and experience of analysis of national social protection systems.
• Ability to analyze complex data in relation to social protection and poverty.
• Experience with complementary/cash "plus" approaches to social protection to improve impact on children.
• Ability to establish and maintain relationships with high level government officials.
• Diplomatic/negotiation skills to advocate for policy change.
• A demonstrated background or experience working on shock-responsive social protection, adaptive social protection and/or graduation would be an advantage.
• Track record in successful business development/fundraising for research or programming, specifically with large institutional and bilateral donors such as FCDO (formerly DFID), USAID, World Bank or UN Agencies.
• Demonstrated experience in successful programme design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
• Experience of strategy development and planning.
• Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at regional/international level in order to hold duty bearers to account to children's right to social protection.
• 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 children.
• Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
• Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery.
• Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring.
• Fluent in spoken English and high level of English writing skills.
• Willingness to travel regularly to countries in the East & Southern Africa region

Closing date: 30 May 2022

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

The purpose of this role is to support the development, rollout and maintenance of processes, tools and ways of working to strengthen Save the Children’s use of data to inform strategic and operational decision making, in order to deliver high-quality responses for children effected by humanitarian crisis.

The Humanitarian Performance and Operational Data Analyst is an important role within the humanitarian team, responsible for enabling performance, insight and continuous improvement practices, using internal and external data to identify key trends and opportunities for improvement across the global humanitarian function.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to closely analyse data and evidence, to identify trends, draw out implications, and make recommendations for improvement to key processes.
• Ability to capture and interpret users’ data requirements in order to present data in a clear and compelling way which assists business decision making
• Creative with strong data visualisation skills. Demonstrable experience of using data visualisation tools effectively, including Power BI.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Able to work with and analyse large volumes of incomplete data from disparate sources and identify trends and patterns.
• Ability to extrapolate data to predict trends over time.
• Outstanding attention to detail. Ability to assess data confidence level and adjust approach to analysis based on the quality of the data.
• Experience improving data quality over time through continuous improvement.
• A critical thinker with an analytical approach to problem solving
• Excellent communication skills (written & oral English) including the ability to communicate and present both at a technical and non-technical level.
• Self motivated with the ability to maintain focus when completing mundane tasks.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence the development of data solutions which best meet business requirements.
• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally

Desirable

• Experience of working in humanitarian responses/development work at a country or head office level with a broad understanding of humanitarian operations.
• French or Arabic as a desirable

Closing date: 16 June 2022

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Role Purpose:

To lead Save the Children’s Global Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, in line with our mission, and contribute to creating a high performing top team with both general leadership and sector-specific knowledge, insight and networks at the highest levels.

Save the Children’s 2022 – 2024 strategy explicitly recognises and emphasises the significance of advocacy and campaigning as critical to driving lasting change for children. We can achieve significant change for children through the foundation of our direct programing, but we will not change the world one programme at a time. Advocacy and campaign efforts leverage evidence gathered from our and our partners programmes and research to ensure governments invest in children and strengthen their own laws, policies and programmes to help secure children’s rights. That is how we achieve impact at scale.

As we work with civil society organisations, social movements, the media, the public and others (including children themselves) to generate crucial commitments to children, we amplify the results of our work exponentially and far beyond our own sphere of control. Engaging and building broad support for our work ensures Save the Children remains a relevant, high impact organisation that challenges the power structures to stop the marginalisation and deprivation of children.

The post holder is responsible for ensuring that our policy, advocacy and campaigns efforts are strategic, aligned with the 4 global goals and well-resourced in country offices as well as the centre and in members, in order to achieve the organisation’s Ambition for Children 2030. This entails working closely with stakeholders across a global federated organisation, strengthening Save the Children’s engagement with the public, championing innovation and thought leadership, and helping drive one consistent voice across Save the Children.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Proven global leadership at the highest levels
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing
• Experience of successfully operating in a complex global organisation and an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Experience of building, leading and developing staff with different backgrounds and expertise
• Experience of building personal networks at senior levels, resulting in securing significant new opportunities for the organisation
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Experience of advocacy and campaigning resulting in significant impact
• Experience of, and willingness to travel in, developing countries

Closing date: 6 June 2022