Job Openings at Save the Children

Role Purpose: 

The role holder will be responsible for implementing better health and nutrition among communities through nutrition education, surveillance  and supporting the MOH in increasing uptake of MIYCN (Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition), IMAM surge approach scale up, Promote community led complimentary feeding and Roll out community/mother led MUAC screening. In close liaison with MEAL, support in collection, processing and verification of reports/forms and maintains programme/projects databases

Key Areas of Accountability

Nutrition Education trainings

• Participate in the development of training curriculum and tools and facilitate/co-facilitate all nutrition education trainings
• Provide technical, logistical and any other support for the trainings in the various divisions.
• Liaise with relevant ministries and partner agencies in selecting participants for trainings while ensuring that priority is given to the staff working in the key agreed areas
• Liaise with the ministry and other partners in ensuring that nutrition education are comprehensively done following set guidelines
• Maintain a data base of the trained and active nutrition educators in the community
• Identify needs for and participate in refresher training sessions
• Identify a number of community leaders who will work closely with the program at the village
• Participate in evaluation of the outcomes of the trainings

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Participate in the design, development and implementation of an M&E framework for all nutrition related activities.
• Write reports to document the process of implementation, lessons learnt and good practice and ensure information is widely disseminated
• Prepare monthly activity reports as well as quarterly donor reports.
• Take lead in all nutrition monitoring and evaluation activities e.g. Coverage assessments, SMART surveys 

Supervision

• Develop a comprehensive plan for supervision of all the field nutrition activities
• Assist the community health extension workers (CHEWs) implementing nutrition activities to develop monthly work plans.
• Mentor the Sub county nutritionists to ensure that they support and supervise the community health extension workers in their areas of coverage as required
•  Ensure regular meetings with the Sub County nutritionists and community health extension workers
• Document and share lessons learnt in a comprehensive and detailed manner to enable track trends on changes on a timely basis 

Development of nutrition education training and counselling materials

• Participate in the design/adaptation of appropriate nutrition education and promotion methods and tools, and pre- testing them with the team and community members.
• Liaise with the health education department at the Ministry of health to adapt and produce appropriate nutrition education materials
• Participate fully in reviewing the community training guides and counselling cards
• Identify and document locally available foods and develop recipes
• Oversee and guide staff in providing on-site cooking demonstrations and workshops 

Network and coordinate with the relevant sectors and agencies in implementing nutrition activities at national and community level

• Identify areas of synergy in the field with the Ministry of Health and other implementing agencies working with communities. 
• Come up with a comprehensive plan of activities within the identified areas of synergy with the actors named above.
• Actively participate in coordination meeting

Implement Community Mobilization Activities

• Carry out community based nutritional promotional activities targeting community groups. Activities to mainly include MIYCN sessions, community feedback meetings and social mobilization
• Liaise and establish strong links with existing community structures including mother to mother support groups, community units, youth groups, village elders and religious leaders.

Implement the development and maintenance of a referral system

• Work with Nutrition workers to develop and maintain a referral system at community level in which community health workers refer malnourished children and mothers needing special attention to the health facilities.

Contract Duration: 5 Months

Work Location: Turkana.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Food & Nutrition or equivalent
• At least two (2) years’ work experience in community nutrition work and implementation of nutrition education programmes, including monitoring and evaluation 
• Understanding of community management of acute malnutrition
• Excellent understanding of SQUAEC, SMART methodologies
• Experience of and commitment to utilizing participatory approaches.
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach local staff and community workers.
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathies with children and their careers.
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions.
• Prepared to live and work in an uncertain security environment.
• Ability and willingness to frequently travel and stay at the field.
• Strong research and data analysis skills.
• Strong report writing and computer skills .
• Fluent in written and spoken English, Kiswahili and local languages. 
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.

Desired

• Qualified nutritionist with nutrition education/MIYCN experience
• Experience in implementing promotion of community led complimentary feeding 
• Experience in rolling out community/mother led MUAC screening. 

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Are you look for a new challenge of joining an organization that is currently mid-way through an ambitious transformation to ensure that it’s IT fit for the future and delivers the intelligence of its business needs?

We are revamping all of our key systems and applications, from best in-class IT systems (Oracle HRIS, SAP Ariba) to in-house NGO-specific systems for Awards and Program management, as well as introducing a state-of-the-art, cloud-based integration platform.

The environment in which we operate also offers unique challenges from a technical point of view: will our solutions operate effectively worldwide, even in a refugee camp? Are we designing the systems to protect our beneficiaries' personal data with the utmost care? Are we designing a cost effective solution, bearing in mind that each dollar has been donated to us? Are we accountable for how we spend the donations? Are we making sure that the precious data we collect from the field becomes a source of understanding and better decisions?

Role Purpose:

The post holder will maintain and enhance existing applications based on Microsoft technologies. These will initially include our Humanitarian Response and Travel Request applications, with a roadmap for new applications already in place. She/he will be a member of a team based out of Nairobi and London.

Reports to: Head of Software Development.

Staff reporting to this post: No direct reports.

Budget Responsibilities: No direct budget responsibility.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Computing degree - BSc, BA or equivalent experience
• Highly Desired: Microsoft Certified (e.g. MCSD)
• Experience as a Net or Application Developer (e.g. C#, ASP.Net, .Net Core, MVC)
• Experience with O365 development tools and frameworks (including SharePoint Online, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, Office Add-ins, Microsoft Graph etc)
• Experience with client side development languages, concepts and frameworks (Javascript/TypeScript, React, Angular)
• Attention to detail, excellent troubleshooting and communication skills

Desirable:

• Familiarity with architectural styles/APIs (REST, RPC, CQRS, MicroServices)
• Database design/development experience (SQL Server, T-SQL)
• Experience with Microsoft Azure platform and services (including Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Automation)
•  Experience/exposure in SDLC and Agile methodology.
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience

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Are you look for a new challenge of joining an organization that is currently mid-way through an ambitious transformation to ensure that it’s IT fit for the future and delivers the intelligence of its business needs?

We are revamping all of our key systems and applications, from best in-class IT systems (Oracle HRIS, SAP Ariba) to in-house NGO-specific systems for Awards and Program management, as well as introducing a state-of-the-art, cloud-based integration platform.

The environment in which we operate also offers unique challenges from a technical point of view: will our solutions operate effectively worldwide, even in a refugee camp? Are we designing the systems to protect our beneficiaries' personal data with the utmost care? Are we designing a cost effective solution, bearing in mind that each dollar has been donated to us? Are we accountable for how we spend the donations? Are we making sure that the precious data we collect from the field becomes a source of understanding and better decisions?

Role Purpose:

To lead and provide high quality operational and technical application and systems support to Save the Children International’s customers and internal business functions. Minimising the adverse impact of Incidents and Problems on the business, preventing reoccurrence of Incidents, and ensuring release management is followed to allow the safe deployment of changes to production systems. Owner of the Problem Management process, ensuring reduction in recurring issue goals are achieved.

Location: Nairobi with travels outside the country

Reports to: Global Applications Team leader

Staff reporting to this post: None

Budget Responsibilities: None.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Computing degree - BSc, BA or equivalent experience.
• Strong web/collaborative development and support experience required.
• Strong experience on system support and system Administration.
• Strong experience with SharePoint 2010 and/or 2013 for example experience and knowledge of key SharePoint functional abilities such as sites, communities, content editing, search, term sets, my sites, etc.
• Use of SharePoint Designer and InfoPath to create and rapidly deploy business solutions.
• Excellent knowledge of Active Directory and DNS.
• Good experience with collaborative/training applications such as Skype For Business
• Knowledge of relational databases (eg. MS SQL server)
• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering global web solutions that cater for local needs for example area with poor bandwidth, multiple character sets, etc.
• Good communication skills (written & oral English), including the ability to communicate and present both at a technical and non-technical level
• Able to demonstrate instances of initiative that have delivered organisational benefits
• Outstanding customer service orientation and follow-up skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work independently without direct supervision
• Ability to learn new web/collaborative systems and applications quickly
•  Ability to work well under pressure
• Understanding of basic networking / infrastructure knowledge.
• Experience with Microsoft IIS and/or Apache
• Agresso Knowledge is an added Advantage 

Desirable:

• MCITP qualified (Microsoft Certified IT Professional SharePoint 2010/2013)
•  ITIL Experience.
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience