Save the Children recrute pour ces 3 postes (28 Novembre 2022)

The role

Save the Children is seeking an Education Lead for an anticipated five-year Resilient Education for Crisis-Affected Children activity in Burkina Faso. The purpose of this activity is to increase primary education completion, particularly for displaced and host community learners who have been marginalized due to conflict and crisis conditions, with improved foundational skills and wellbeing, even in the face of shocks and stressors. A disproportionate number of Burkinabe primary school-aged children are unable to complete their primary school education, nor receive quality instruction, and therefore struggle to acquire foundational skills. Insecurity, displacement and climate risks further exacerbate poor education conditions for both host community and displaced learners. This activity has been designed to support the Government of Burkina Faso’s Education Sector Plan (2017-2030).

The Education Lead is responsible for overseeing the technical delivery of the program to ensure education opportunities that are accessible, relevant and of high quality. They will adopt a people-centered approach in all program activities and promote the resilience and wellbeing of children, teachers and communities affected by crisis and conflict. They will also promote the acquisition of foundational skills for all children based on the national curriculum but including international best practices. They will collaborate with all relevant stakeholders to strengthen education systems as well as support the design of service delivery strategies, track progress towards program goals, and adapt as necessary.

Qualifications and experience

Required Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree in education, international development or related field.
• Minimum of five years of experience with progressively increasing responsibility for the design, management and implementation of complex education programming in developing countries involving multiple stakeholders and implementing partners.
• At least three years of experience providing technical leadership on large-scale USAID-funded projects and designing and implementing education programming, preferably in West Africa.
• Commitment to child rights, gender equality and Save the Children’s values.
• Expertise in any of the following areas: foundational skills, social emotional learning (SEL), soft skills, and building resilience capabilities and assets.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in building Ministry of Education (MOE) capacity to provide safe education opportunities in formal and non-formal school settings.
• Ability to collaborate and liaise with senior MOE officials, other USAID implementing partners, relevant education sector stakeholders, and senior members of the donor community.
• Proven track record managing a project team composed of technical experts from multicultural backgrounds and fostering team work.
• Strengths in inspiring and enabling others through training and capacity building to realize objectives.
• Ability to gain support from staff across teams and to build the capacity of others.
• Sound strategic thinking and planning skills, including ability to think creatively and innovate and to set manageable priorities and work plans and evaluate progress.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively in team situations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in French.
• Personal commitment to gender equality, child rights and social inclusion. 
• Ability and willingness to be very flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes dangerous working circumstances.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in education, international development or related field.
• Teaching experience.
• Other experience within the Ministry of Education (e.g., school principal, teacher trainer).
• Experience in promoting girls’ and women’s equality in education and in the work environment.
• Strong experience of working within a complex national program in the context of an emergency intervention or in conflict/fragile state contexts.
• Familiarity with the political, social, and cultural context of Burkina Faso.
• Excellent level of English, written and spoken.
• Knowledge of local languages.
• Personal commitment to gender equality, child rights and social inclusion.

Contract length: 12 months

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Application Information:

Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. 

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

The role

Save the Children is seeking a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Lead for an anticipated five-year Resilient Education for Crisis-Affected Children activity in Burkina Faso. The purpose of this activity is to increase primary education completion, particularly for displaced and host community learners who have been marginalized due to conflict and crisis conditions, with improved foundational skills and wellbeing, even in the face of shocks and stressors. A disproportionate number of Burkinabe primary school-aged children are unable to complete their primary school education, nor receive quality instruction, and therefore struggle to acquire foundational skills. Insecurity, displacement and climate risks further exacerbate poor education conditions for both host community and displaced learners. This activity has been designed to support the Government of Burkina Faso’s Education Sector Plan (2017-2030).

The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Lead develops, implements, and continuously improves M&E systems for all project activities. They will be responsible for ensuring development and operationalization of high-quality M&E systems and reporting on a large-scale USAID education project. They will incorporate best practices to ensure information collected is accurate, timely and disseminated appropriately in high-quality reports. The M&E Lead will use these findings to improve the program and achieve the objectives. They will also be actively involved in promoting learning through documentation of lessons learned and developing approaches for community analysis and using data for decision making. The MEAL Lead will also need to establish an effective accountability system at the community and school levels that will provide feedback on our actions to improve participative programming.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics or related field is required.
• Advanced training in quantitative methodologies, including database management.
• Minimum of five years of experience in monitoring and evaluation related to education, literacy or other related fields.
• Experience with qualitative research approaches and methodologies.
• Knowledge of gender equity and transformative concepts.
• Prior experience overseeing and ensuring the success of M&E systems in USAID education projects including ensuring approval of the M&E plan, reporting on approved education projects, and successfully completing annual data quality assessments.
• Strong analytical skills and an understanding of monitoring, evaluation and assessment tools to promote evidence-based learning.
• Ability to analyze complex data and summarize it for a range of audiences.
• Expertise in data visualization and GIS
• Ability to gain support from staff across teams and to build the capacity of others.
• Sound strategic thinking and planning skills, including ability to think creatively, innovate, set manageable priorities and work plans, and evaluate progress.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively in team situations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and French required.
• Familiarity with the political, social, and cultural context of Burkina Faso.
• Personal commitment to gender equality, child rights and social inclusion.
• Prior work experience in the monitoring and evaluation of non-formal education programs and assessing student learning outcomes.
• Experience in systems thinking and application of complex adaptive systems methodologies would be advantageous.
• Strong experience working within a complex national program in the context of an emergency intervention or in conflict/fragile state contexts.
• Research experience with communities and youth.
• Strong in Accountability System establishment and follow up
• Ability and willingness to be very flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes dangerous working circumstances.

Contract length: 12 months

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Application Information:

Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. 

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

TITLE:  MHPSS Assistant
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Humanitarian    LOCATION: Borno
GRADE: 4    CONTRACT LENGTH: 1 Year

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3.  The responsibilities of this post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children and young people. In the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3.

As part of these responsibilities the post holder will support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children (by our own staff and/or as a result of how we do our work) is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis.  The post holder should report and respond to interventions as determined by position related responsibilities identified in the Child Safeguarding Policy.
ROLE PURPOSE:
Save the Children is an International Organization with a dual mandate of humanitarian and development work. It has been working for the rights of Children globally for over 90 years. Save the Children has been working in Nigeria since 2001 and has presence in 20 states. Save the Children launched the humanitarian response in the North East Nigeria in 2014 and since then has drastically expanded its capacity to provide lifesaving assistance to people affected by the conflict. Its humanitarian response currently delivers integrated programmes to enhance food security, restore livelihoods, reduce malnutrition, improve psychosocial wellbeing, protect children, and improve access to education and water, sanitation and hygiene services. SC currently works in six LGAs in Borno, Maiduguri (MMC), Kaga, Magumeri, Mafa, Jere and Konduga, with past work in Biu and plans to expand to include Rann.

•    The purpose of this position is two-fold: 1) to support the MHPSS unit to oversee quality improvements in Save the Children’s mental health and psychosocial support interventions for children affected by the conflict in NE Nigeria; and 2) to assist the MHPSS unit in providing clinical intervention to children in distress.
•    The Child Protection Psychologist Assistant is required to travel to field sites regularly. 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.

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.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: MHPSS Specilaist
Staff reporting to this post:
Budget responsibility: none

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Support to MHPSS programming activities to with CP.

•    Support to MHPSS programming activities within Child Protection Sector.
•    Provide support, in the MHPSS Programming which include:
•    Ensuring assistance is provided to children affected by the conflict in a dignified, respectful, equitable and inclusive manner that supports their resilience
•    Assisting children in acute distress and alleviating their stress, for instance ensuring that all staff / partners are trained on PFA and feel confident to use it
•    The mainstreaming of inter-agency guidelines (e.g. IASC MHPSS guidelines) and standards (e.g. CPMS) across the different sectors of programme activities delivered by SC and its partners
•    The use of structured and manualized MHPSS techniques
•    The participation of parents and caregivers in MHPSS activities
•    Support structured MHPSS activities for groups of boys and girls of different age groups, with particular attention to survivors of SGBV, unaccompanied children and other children who present with signs of poor mental health and distress
•    Identify MHPSS service providers and agree referral pathways for children with severe mental disorders

Proposed Outputs:
•    Individual counselling sessions with children and beneficiaries where required to discuss complex cases.
•    Be available on call/skype if any urgent matters arise that a staff would like to share regarding their casework or his/her personal well being
•    Bi -monthly progress reports to the MHPSS Coordinator to highlight needs and gaps.
•    Development of peer/reflective practices with teams
•    Support current MHPSS practices, reflecting on a cross-sectoral approach.
•    Structured MHPSS activities for boys and girls, organized in age appropriate groups with a clear methodology or curriculum to promote mental well-being. Such activities must align with donor commitments in already-funded projects.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
•    holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
Ambition:
•    sets ambitious and challenging goals for him or herself and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
•    widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
•    future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
•    builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
•    values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
•    approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
•    develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
•    willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
•    honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS  AND EXPERIENCE

Essential
•    Minimum of BSc in Psychology, Psychiatriic Nurse, and Medical social worker.
•    Minimum 4 years post NYSC  cognant experience in clinical setting, NGO and INGO
•    Experience in Psychological First Aid, and other psychosocial support (MHPSS) activities
•    Experience working in Child Protection programs, including those with MHPSS component
•    Fluent in English and Hausa is desirable
•    Working knowledge of Kanuri and Shuwa is an advantage
•    Excellent attention to detail, organisational skills and discretion with confidential information
•    Ability to work independently and proactively

Desirable
•    Experience in humanitarian emergencies and/or a refugee/displacement-setting
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
THE ORGANISATION
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better health care, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
•    No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
•    All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
•    Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children.
We undertake rigorous procedures to ensure that only people suitable to work with children are allowed to join our organization and all candidates will, therefore, be subject to this scrutiny.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Applicants are advised that Save the Children International does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process. Any request in this direction should be immediately reported as it is contrary to the values and practices of our organization.
Due to the volume of applications received, Save the Children may not provide feedback to all applicants. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed as received. Save the Children reserves the right to change the closing date, if considered necessary.