Job title: Head of Program Implementation
Firm: Save the Kids
Job description: Job Description:JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: Head of Program Implementation (HOPI)
REPORTS TO: Deputy Director Programme Operations – Humanitarian (DDPO – Humanitarian)
GRADE: NAT2
REPORTING TO POST
Instantly: 5 Sector Managers, Programme Operations Coordinator, Neighborhood Mobilization Coordinator
Not directly: initiatives’ groups
LOCATION: Maiduguri, Borno state, Northeast Nigeria with frequent journey to distant and insecure areas. Offers technical assist to groups in Yobe and Adamawa
DURATION: 12 months
CHILD SAFEGUARDING
Degree 3. The obligations of this publish could require the publish holder to have common contact with kids and younger folks. Within the abroad context, all posts are thought of stage 3.
INTRODUCTION
Save the Kids Worldwide is a ‘twin mandate’ organisation and as such equal precedence is given to each humanitarian and improvement work. That is the one approach we will be certain that a few of the basic rights that we consider kids have, similar to survival, security and fixed entry to safety and training could be assured. Save the Kids will assist programmes in each sudden onset and power emergencies as a part of a dedication to work with kids by means of humanitarian interventions.
Save the Kids in Nigeria has skilled a fast scale-up of its humanitarian response over the previous 4 years. The response is concentrated on the northeast of Nigeria, which skilled a large humanitarian disaster because of the insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, coupled with local weather change impacts, pure disasters, illness outbreaks and acute malnutrition disaster. Save the Kids humanitarian response within the northeast focuses on sectors like FSL, Diet, Training, WASH and Baby Safety.
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ROLE
The HOPI is chargeable for the direct oversight and general administration of SC’s humanitarian initiatives in northeast Nigeria. The HOPI helps the Deputy Director Programme Operations (Humanitarian) and the Director Programme Operations by offering data on the progress of the programmatic interventions, offering course to particular person Sector Managers on their initiatives and making certain a multi-sectoral and/or built-in method throughout programmes the place possible.
The post-holder will develop a response technique, establish wants and assets and elaborate programme suggestions for the emergency response according to Save the Kids Nigeria SMT and regional response priorities. In coordination with the PDQ Workforce (TAs), the HOPI will assist Sector Managers to include the related thematic advisory to supply applicable design, coaching and MEAL features for programming in Northeast Nigeria. The HOPI will set up working relations with different businesses, searching for alternatives for partnership and harmonisation of method and with donors to make sure assets are made accessible to the response.
The HOPI will negotiate the positioning of the humanitarian response throughout the Nation Programme and guarantee appropriate resourcing of the response, handle programmes or nation assist features, negotiate, and community at a global stage. HOPI will be certain that all related Save the Kids insurance policies and procedures with respect to youngster safeguarding, security and safety, code of conduct, equal alternatives and different related insurance policies are in place. The publish holder will play a strategic function in defining the efficient scale-up and administration of the Save the Kids emergency programme to maximise affect and allow constructive change for kids.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Programme Help:
- In collaboration with the Deputy Director Programme Operations (Humanitarian), assume general oversight of the programmatic facet of the SC Nigeria humanitarian response in Borno.
- Lead and handle a number of grants (throughout the 5 sectors), and contribute to the achievement of the response technique by making certain strict compliance of programme actions with Save the Kids nationwide and international insurance policies and procedures and with related donor rules and agreements, SPHERE tips and the NGO code of conduct.
- Guarantee the combination of different sectors to strengthen the standard and geographical protection of the humanitarian response to incorporate new areas of want and extra sectors like early restoration/resilience
- Take general management and oversight on the administration of response budgets of yearly US$ 34 million, maintaining related stakeholders knowledgeable and making certain any corrective actions are taken to satisfy donor tips
- Assessment all donor undertaking experiences as per the reporting matrix and work with the respective Sector Managers to finalize drafts on the discipline stage earlier than submitting them to CO and SC Member
- Guarantee all donor undertaking experiences meet the respective donors’ tips
- Help on the revision of the response grasp finances for the Nigerian response, based mostly on course from the Deputy Director Programme Operations (Humanitarian).
- Coordinate with the sector managers, TAs, and the awards workforce to make sure the preparation of well timed programme and donor experiences on undertaking actions in compliance with inner SC necessities and any related exterior donor necessities.
- Work with the Sector Managers and TAs to develop scaling up plans for programming, based mostly on current Nigerian expertise and the expertise through the early months of the response
- Set up undertaking monitoring plans and techniques for figuring out and monitoring the symptoms and develop processes/procedures and varieties to assist monitoring and inform studying.
- By embedding direct and distant processes into every sector programme design, guarantee robust accountability to beneficiaries
- Carry out different duties as outlined by the road supervisor
Capability Constructing:
- Coach and prepare Sector Managers on PCM/PMM to make sure coherent undertaking administration
- Make sure that all programme designs and budgets sufficiently incorporate pre-deployment coaching necessities and capability constructing plans and efficiency administration techniques are in place. Guarantee coaching plans embody functionality statements and measuring techniques to permit the event of the requisite competencies in workers at every stage to make sure well timed supply of a high quality response
- Coach and mentor worldwide and nationwide workers and companions and hyperlink into wider organisational expertise improvement mechanisms.
Illustration & Advocacy & Organisational Studying:
- Characterize Save the Kids’s emergency response on a nationwide, regional and worldwide stage to donors, the media and members of the humanitarian neighborhood.
- Assist form broader sector methods by means of affect of and management inside inter-agency coordination boards, making certain the precise wants of youngsters are being addressed
- Recurrently undertake high-level illustration and advocacy with Authorities companions and officers in addition to donor representatives. Set up techniques for communication with native Authorities companions, related line departments and neighborhood representations within the undertaking space(s).
- Lead on organisational stage operational observe, innovation and studying in session with the humanitarian workforce.
- Oversee the implementation of Save the Kids insurance policies and procedures with respect to youngster rights and safeguarding, well being and security, equal alternatives and different related insurance policies
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Important
- Substantial administration expertise (i.e., a minimum of 5 years) in a humanitarian setting together with vital discipline operations expertise in each emergency and improvement programmes
- Sturdy expertise in emergency programme cycle administration, and expertise in working inside a fancy organisation construction
- Expertise in worldwide humanitarian techniques, establishments, and donors, and procedures, accountability frameworks and finest practices in emergency administration
- Training: MA / MSc stage (or equal discipline expertise)
- Expertise in managing multi-donor, multi-site programmes (together with ECHO, FCDO, NORAD, ECW and BHA) of USD 10m+ within the first part of response on the regional or nation stage
- Expertise in worldwide stage illustration with key stakeholders, and co-ordination with different NGOs/UN
- Expertise in worldwide media illustration and advocacy
- Award administration and expertise. Good understanding of donors ‘requirement
- Expertise in growing and negotiating profitable partnerships with institutional donors
- Confirmed means to affect change at an operational and strategic stage
- Confirmed reporting and communication abilities
- A excessive stage of written and spoken English
- The capability and willingness to be extraordinarily versatile and accommodating in troublesome and generally insecure working circumstances.
- Dedication to the goals and rules of SC. A great understanding of the SC mandate and youngster focus and a capability to make sure this continues to underpin our assist
Fascinating
- Earlier expertise in northeast Nigeria or the Lake Chad basin
- Earlier expertise with Save the Kids
About Us:The Group
We make use of roughly 25,000 folks throughout the globe and work on the bottom in over 100 international locations to assist kids affected by crises, or people who want higher healthcare, training and youngster safety. We additionally marketing campaign and advocate on the highest ranges to understand the best of youngsters and to make sure their voices are heard. We’re working in the direction of three breakthroughs in how the world treats kids by 2030:· No youngster dies from preventable causes earlier than their fifth birthday
· All kids be taught from a high quality primary training and that,
· Violence towards kids is not toleratedWe all know that nice folks make an ideal group, and that our staff play an important function in serving to us obtain our ambitions for kids.We worth our folks and supply a significant and rewarding profession, together with a collaborative and inclusive office the place ambition, creativity, and integrity are extremely valued.Software Info:
Please apply utilizing a canopy letter and up-to-date CV as a single doc. Please additionally embody particulars of your present remuneration and wage expectations. A replica of the complete function profile could be discovered at We have to maintain kids secure so our choice course of displays our dedication to the safety of youngsters from abuse.
Anticipated wage:
Location: Nigeria
Job date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:59:15 GMT
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