Career Opportunities at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

The Nutrition Coordinator, OFDA, will play a key role in the successful implementation of the OFDA project by leading effective, efficient and quality CMAM and IYCF-E nutrition activities. The Nutrition Coordinator will hold overall accountability for ensuring the Save the Children nutrition response is implemented with high quality and best practices, following international, national and donor guidelines for CMAM/IMAM and IYCF-E. The Nutrition Coordinator will be responsible for day to day operations of the OFDA nutrition response and will be held accountable for timely and quality implementation, budget management, logistics and HR as it relates to OFDA nutrition response. She/he will be expected to represent Save the Children externally and maintain close working relationships with Ministry of Health and other stakeholders and partners. The post holder will be the driver of Save the Children's OFDA nutrition strategy and will represent Save the Children's interest and values in all aspects of their work.

Contract Duration: 9 months

Location: Lodwar

Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

• University Degree in Health/Public Health/Nutrition/Agriculture or equivalent
• At least three (3) years' experience of emergency nutrition work and the design and implementation of feeding programmes (ideally CMAM including monitoring and evaluation)
• Proven experience in Project Management
• Experience in conducting nutrition assessments and an understanding of nutritional surveillance and information systems
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions.
• Proactive approach and demonstrable ability function well under pressure.
• 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.
• Experience and ability to represent SC nutrition work in external meetings.
• Demonstrable ability at report writing and excellent communication skills.
• Computer literate.
• Fluency in written and spoken English, Kiswahili and local languages.

Desirable:

• Qualified Nutritionist with primary health care/community health care experience.
• Budget management and operational experience an asset.

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Role Purpose:

Save the Children seeks to build its capacity to implement Cash Transfer Programmes (CTP) throughout the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region to support its ability to respond rapidly to disasters but also to use CTP as a modality to deliver its recovery and long term programming.

The purpose of this position is to support the operational implementation of humanitarian and development cash transfer programmes, to ensure their timely, accountable, donor-compliant and cost-effective delivery across the region. The ESA region therefore seeks an experienced CTP Operations Advisor to provide remote and in-country technical support to CTP in the region to support their operational set up and ongoing delivery. This position will be based at the ESA Regional Office in Nairobi, with extensive travel throughout the region (up to 50% of time). The position will report to the Regional Head of Supply Chain with a dotted line to Senior Cash Transfer Ops Advisor at SCI Centre.

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.

Contract Duration: 1 Year

Location: East and Southern Africa Regional Office - Nairobi, Kenya. Up to 50% international travel

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Minimum 5 years field-based experience in setting up, implementing and monitoring cash transfer programs using varied modalities and delivery mechanisms (in particular e-transfers and e-vouchers).
• Cash Transfer Programme budget management experience including institutional donors
• Substantial experience of designing and implementing emergency programmes and Emergency Preparedness for an international organisation, probably in a managerial role
• Management experience of operational aspects of Cash Transfer Programming (e.g. design and implementation of standard operations procedures, FSP procurement and contracting, etc.);
• Proven record or flair for strategic planning and/or project management
• Demonstrated experience in programme assessment that includes needs, market, and CTP feasibility considerations
• Experience in building and developing local partnerships, including with the private sector.
• Experience in coaching, mentoring and training staff.
• Willingness to travel (the position will be based in ESA and will require 50% + international travel)

• Designing and and delivering of cash transfer programming training

  Desirable

• Familiarity with Save the Children's programming and operating model

• Project Management qualification.

• Working knowledge of child protection / food security / health or education sectors

• A good understanding of market assessments and analysis
• Sound knowledge of the wider humanitarian sector, including personal or professional networks, and the current emergency institutional, legal and policy environment
• Experience of working in insecure environments, and drawing up or revising security guidelines
• Experience in or familiarity with disaster management or response in humanitarian operations
• Minimum of 3-5 years relevant international (field-based) experience in disaster response, project design, monitoring and evaluation, participatory needs assessment, data collection and analysis.
• Knowledge of Portuguese language would be an added advantage