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The SBC Officer will implement Health, Nutrition and adolescent sexual reproductive health (ASRH) SBC related interventions in Turkana. The SBC Officer will support in the designing of the overall SBC strategy and integrated umbrella campaign. S/he will ensure that all SBC activities support the achievement of health & nutrition targets in the project sites. The position will be responsible for the timely implementation of all SBC related activities based on state of the art SBC practices and capture lessons learned. The SBC officer will also take a leading role in coordination with all project staff and partners in the consortium to adhere to the SBC strategy and approach in their respective Counties.  S/he will work closely with project technical and management staff to generate stakeholder inputs, support in development of implementation plans and suitable knowledge management and measurement.

NAWIRI is a 5 year U.S. Government (USAID and Food For Peace) funded project designed to tackle persistent acute malnutrition rates in northern Kenya. The project is co-created, co-implemented, and co-measured to address problems and solve them at the county level. Save the Children is a member of the Mercy Corps-led consortium and will be implementing in Samburu and Turkana counties.

Key Areas of Accountability

Technical assistance and capacity building

• The SBC Officer will implement the SBC approach, support branding campaign platforms and work with all purpose leaders (Governances, health & nutrition, WASH and Livelihoods) to ensure they are using state-of-the-art SBC approaches linked to the overall strategy and work with them to support the development of SBC content and implementation (i.e. trigger videos, forum theatre, experiential fairs, radio diaries and other participatory approaches) as appropriate. 
• Support in provision of state of the art and evidence based technical inputs and guide priority setting for the research agenda and activities in collaboration with the SBC Advisor and other technical teams.
• Support in designing strategy and umbrella campaign with stakeholder input and audience testing
• Support in actively identifying direct technical inputs from all technical areas to ensure effective support for their targets; coordinate project SBC activities and provide direct technical support to other technical counterparts as needed.
• Cultivate strategic relationships with government ministries, and other stakeholders for the smooth implementation of program activities in their assigned County
• Coordinate monitoring of SBC activities with other staff according to the M&E framework and assess if targets are achieved and document results in their assigned County.
• Ensure the timeliness and quality of all SBC content for reports and meet all reporting requirements.

Representation and advocacy

• Represent NAWIRI in relevant internal and external fora as required.
• Represent Save the Children in relevant internal and external fora as appropriate
• Work closely with the Health and Nutrition team and any other project and operations teams in advocating for the survival of the child in line with the Country Strategic Plan and global strategy of Save the Children
• Work with consortium members to further Save the Children’s mission for children

Capacity Building, Mentorship and development

• Lead and motivate the community own resource persons (e.g. CHVs) to ensure effective project implementation. 
• Work with Civil Society Organizations(CSOs)/Sub grantees (e.g. Local implementing partners, community based organizations (CBOs), Faith based Organizations(FBOs) to define expectations, provide leadership and support as needed, and evaluate performance regularly
• Capacity built the CSOs, CBOs, FBOS, Community own resource persons to ensure they have the requisite skills and knowledge to be able to implement projects as required.

Assessment, monitoring, evaluation and documentation

• Participate in the annual work planning process in close collaboration with USAID, MOH and County health teams and the project staff
• Prepare narrative reports for the donor(s) and Save the Children as required, ensuring these are of a high quality and submitted for review in a timely manner. This will involve compilation of information from a range of project staff and MoH partners
• 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 ensure that all monitoring plans, baselines, reviews and evaluations are in line with the project design and donor guidelines and are being implemented as required.
• Facilitate appropriate dissemination of research findings and good practices documentations in the project internally and externally to donors, governments, consortium partners and other key actors for immediate and sustainable development of children in Kenya
• Escalate complaints and feedback of a serious nature to field manager/Technical Head and child safeguarding focal point.

Knowledge management

• Serve as a technical knowledge, skills and experience hub for the sector in your County in documenting and sharing best practices and innovations for replication and advocacy together with quality programme team.
• Work with technical resources among Save the Children members to facilitate sharing and learning in child survival and nutrition good practices and leverage their support for strengthening related studies, assessments, innovations, advocacy and capacity building in favour of children in Kenya   

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or related field
• Experience implementing SBC, ASRH, health promotion, social marketing, child health, nutrition or similar programs in Kenya. Knowledge of and ability to implement using the Human Centred Design would be an advantage as experience in water, sanitation, and hygiene.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience required in health communication, public health promotion, health or behavioural sciences, or related field and demonstrated experience in community-based and inter-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ability to implemented effective behaviour change campaigns, including community engagement and experiential activities in Kenya; prior experience working in Northern Kenya highly desired
• Demonstrated abilities and experience in SBC strategy and materials development, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of SBC interventions.
• Experience of working with local/national governments and capacity building of systems, partners and staff
• Demonstrated problem solving skills, collaboration experience, creativity and willingness to innovate;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively in team situations;
• Familiarity and understanding of USAID & FFP policies and procedures, or those of other donors, or those of donor-funded projects or community-based projects;
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills including participatory approaches, influencing and negotiation.
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner
• Outstanding report writing skills
• Experience implementing the HCD approach will be an added advantage.
• Demonstrates Save the Children’s core values of accountability, collaboration, integrity, ambition, and creativity.
• Fluent oral and strong analytical, written English communication skills is required
• Qualified native candidates from Turkana County are encouraged to apply.

Closing: 20 July 2022

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

As a movement Save the Children generates vast quantities of information that is used for multiple purposes. From information gathered that is reused to build evidence into the design of our programmes; to information used to optimise interactions with our supporters and through to data that describes our internal operations. We have a number of systems used to capture and store this information with pockets of capability and processes focussed on driving operational improvement.

As Save the Children moves into the next strategy period, we have identified the need to better use our information to prioritise and improve our decision making; to support the most marginalised and deprived children through our breakthroughs.

With an aligned and forward looking data and analytics strategy our ambition is to enable better decision making, reduce the administrative burden on our operations and ensure we operate in a cost-efficient and effective manner.

Working with functional experts from across the movement, this role will be responsible to oversee and coordinate improvements to how we evidence the cost efficiency and effectiveness of our global programs, focusing in particular on enabling efficient extraction of data from source systems, to provide integrated analysis and comparison of cost-related metrics across interventions, regions and countries.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Ability to understand and manage stakeholder requirements/drivers and project expectations
• Proven business requirements gathering and process/workflow analysis skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to transform MEAL & cost data into existing Power BI dashboards to track unit cost per output/outcome by thematic portfolio
• Experience of designing replicable prototypes of cost models for the software developers
• Excellent technical documentation skills including data cleaning and transformation steps to identify cost drivers, outliers, expenditure trends & opportunities for cost-saving/avoidance
• Experience of creating standardised data analytical models and charting templates for automation/repeated use
• Ability to create spot check mechanism to identify margin of error in calculating cost per output/outcome, cost benchmarking analyses and cost projections for scale-up/replication
• Excellent communication skills (written & oral English), including the ability to communicate and present both at a technical and non-technical level
• Demonstrable ability to write high quality requirements / user stories and experience coordinating with a Scrum Master, Software developers and other supporting departments to collect, write and priorities user stories to deliver minimum viable products
• Advanced analytical and problem solving skills and proven ability to analyse and interpret financial data and models
• Ability to support the creation of compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimations
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to negotiate/mediate; to facilitate the resolution of conflicting business requirements
• Excellent understanding of business complexity and project interdependencies
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas
• Proven experience in facilitating productive workshops, preferably in multi-cultural contexts
• Ability to effectively prioritise work and agree priorities with the Project Manager
• Experience working with a standardised Business Analysis methodology and associated processes and tools
• Strong remote-working abilities and self-motivated
• Demonstrates a strong work ethic and able to take the initiative and ownership to deliver value to the business
• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally

Desirable

• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience (especially international development projects)
• Domain knowledge of value for money or economic evaluation in international development, and particularly the “4Es” framework
• Experience working on digital transformation projects
• Knowledge of Azure/AWS text labelling process to prepare cost models for machine assisted learning programmes
• Second language – French, Spanish or Arabic
• ACCA or CIMA qualification

Closing: 15 July 2022

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

The Sustainability Manager supports the implementation of SCI’s Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change policy working with the different functions to ensure key elements of the policy are embedded in Save the Children’s Quality Framework. Save the Children recognizes that its activities have an impact on the environment and wants to minimize that risk by ensuring that all countries improve their environmental performance by minimising the negative environmental impact of our programmes, operations and supply chains and contributing positively to environmental sustainability and climate change action. The role will foster strong internal and external relationships to drive this agenda and will lead on behavioural change initiatives related to sustainability.

The Sustainability Manager will be a member of the Climate Crisis Task Force. The Task Force coordinates, facilitates and supports Save the Children’s climate change work in programs, advocacy, operations and fundraising.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Significant experience in carbon accounting and sustainability including a sound understanding of technical matters relating to environmental management and the public sector and of the opportunities for improvements
• Experience with ISO 14001 Environmental Management standard desirable but not required
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring skills, including the ability to both lead and be a member of a team, and of delivering significant results.
• Proven technical knowledge on sustainability
• Excellent writing, communications, facilitation, capacity building and networking skills in English. Knowledge in Spanish, French or Arabic is an asset.
• Strong ability to mobilize, build partnerships, solve problems, guide and motivate people toward the achievement of agreed goals.
• Experience in policy, advocacy and/or fundraising is desirable.

Personal specifications required

• Commitment to child rights and to the aims and objectives of Save the Children.
• A full appreciation of the value of co-operation, and team-work.
• Personal maturity and social competence and diplomatic skills.
• Ability to prioritize especially when working under pressure.
• Trustworthy and transparent in all aspects of the role.
• Self-motivated and able to work with high degree of autonomy
• Significant experience of delivering child protection programmes in developing countries and/or in humanitarian contexts
• Demonstrable experience in policy development, ensuring engagement and buy-in, particularly in relation to child protection system strengthening
• Ability to support high level policy and management committees
• Proven leadership skills in a large, international, networked organisation
• Able to think creatively and strategically, to overcome obstacles to cooperation and progress
• Experience of building personal networks at senior levels, resulting in improved engagement
• Proven experience in conducting or overseeing research (preferably both qualitative and quantitative)
• Previous experience of overseeing the capacity development of a large organisation or group of staff. This may be through direct HR responsibility of through holding a senior management role
• High degree of business and people acumen, and the ability to demonstrate presence and credibility across the organisation
• Willingness and ability to travel overseas for up to 25%
• Exceptional oral and written communication and interpersonal skills

Closing: 26 July 2022