Driver
TITLE: Driver
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Operations
LOCATION: Dar Es Salaam with frequent travel to the field
Grade: 6
POST TYPE: National
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3:
the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people
either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four
days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country
programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are
responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
Under
the guidance of Supply Chain Officer, the driver will be responsible to
provide safe and reliable transport service to the designated staff and
guests on official businesses for Save the Children International (SCI)
in a highly professional and efficient manner. At the same time, adhere
to the organization policies and follow road safety standards.
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Supply Chain Coordinator
TITLE: Supply Chain Coordinator (Sourcing)
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Operations
LOCATION: Dar es Salaam with frequent travel to the field
GRADE: 3
POST TYPE: National
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level
2: either the post holder will have access to personal data about
children and/or young people as part of their work; or the post holder
will be working in a ‘regulated’ position (accountant, barrister,
solicitor, legal executive); therefore a police check will be required
(at ‘standard’ level in the UK or equivalent in other countries).
ROLE PURPOSE: The
Supply Chain Coordinator (Sourcing) acts as a crucial component in the
Tanzania SCI Supply Chain team which aims to deliver quality goods and
services across Save the Children beneficiaries. The Procurement
Coordinator (Sourcing) is responsible for coordinating sourcing for
Tanzania CO, including
TITLE: Head of Supply Chain
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Operation LOCATION: Dar Es Salaam
GRADE: 2
POST TYPE: National
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level
2: either the post holder will have access to personal data about
children and/or young people as part of their work; or the post holder
will be working in a ‘regulated’ position (accountant, barrister,
solicitor, legal executive); therefore a police check will be required.
ROLE PURPOSE:
This
role is in charge of managing and strengthening the systems and ways of
working of the Procurement function in the Save the Children Country
Office, reinforcing the capacity of staff and partners to efficiently
and effectively satisfy the programmatic and office/function supply
needs of the country.
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TITLE: Supply Chain Coordinator-Buying (Consultants, Construction and General services)
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Operations LOCATION: Dar Es Salaam
GRADE: 3
POST TYPE: National
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 2: either the post holder will have access to personal data about
children and/or young people as part of their work; or the post holder
will be working in a ‘regulated’ position (accountant, barrister,
solicitor, legal executive); therefore a police check will be required
(at ‘standard’ level in the UK or equivalent in other countries).
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Procurement Coordinator (Buying) acts as a crucial component in the
SCI Supply Chain team which aims to deliver goods and services across
Save the Children beneficiaries. The Procurement Coordinator (Buying) is
responsible for:
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SOCIAL WORKER FOR NDUTA AND NYARUGUSU
JOB TITLE: Social Worker – 2 Position
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Humanitarian emergency response for Burundiani and Congolese refugees Kigoma Tanzania
LOCATION: Nduta and Nyarugusu
GRADE: 3
CHILD SAFEGUARDING: The responsibilities of the post requires the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.
Background
Due
to political unrest in Burundi and Congo high numbers of refugees
escaping into neighbouring countries of Uganda, Rwanda & Tanzania.
The current Burundian and Congolese refugee population in Tanzania is
over 265,831 as of June 2019 of which over 55% are children. SCI is
implementing a child protection and education programme in refugee camps
and wishes to scale up the response in refugee camps.
ROLE PURPOSE:
Work
closely with local implementing partners, SC Education staff, and
members of the child protection sector working Group, UNHCR and other UN
agencies, to ensure that the programme goals are achieved. Specific
areas of concern are the provision of Psychosocial support (PSS) and
case management services within Child friendly spaces (CFS), Early
Childhood Care and Development (ECCD), schools and communities in
refugee camps. At programme level, he/she ensures that SC vision and
overall program goals related to the sector are met. He/she is
responsible for implementation of project activities and administrative
support to other partner staff during the implementation of an
integrated program. For purposes of ensuring healthy collaboration
between SC’s response and other actors in refugee education/protection,
the social worker will actively participate in child protection-related
activities and meetings in designated refugee camps.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: CP Officer
Dotted Line: CP Coordinator
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
•
Supervise child protection and PSS activities in CFS ensuring
activities are implemented in a timely manner to meet program goals.
• Organise and facilitate Capacity building and supervision of community structures in all their duties within the community
•
Assist in the facilitation of parents and community meetings for Child
Protection Committees (CPC) and Centre Management Committees (CMC)
• Screen for and monitor protection needs and gaps in and around the CFS and Schools.
• Ensure the participation of all groups of children, especially children living with disabilities
• Conducting interviews with children and their families to assess and review their protection concerns
• Undertaking and writing up assessments in collaboration with other staff, which meet specified standards and timescales.
•
Conduct outreach and awareness activities to identify and facilitate
assistance to vulnerable children persons at zone level to ensure case
management, referral procedures and standards are met.
• Assist facilitators in solving problems arising in CFS and schools
• Assist facilitators in working with children and develop new creative activities as appropriate
•
Facilitate inter-agency referrals for vulnerable children and families
and carry out follow ups and provide prompt feed backs on referred cases
to responsible agencies
• Establish and maintain a database of children identified, assessed and supported with services within the camp
• Collaborate with other team members in implementation of project activities
• Participate in report writing, developing concept notes and proposal development.
• Conduct any other related activities as deemed necessary by the Child Protection sector that may arise from time to time
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice)
Accountability:
• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds self-accountable to information confidentiality of children reported with concerns
Ambition:
• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Collaboration:
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues and with relevant external partners.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to during the course of work.
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
• University Degree in Social Sciences or related technical field.
• Knowledge in Child Protection, Child´s rights, Child Friendly Space, programming and mainstreaming
• At least 1 year work experience within a similar context.
• Commitment to and understanding of child rights, Save the Children’s aims, values and principles and humanitarian standards as Sphere Charter and Code of Conduct
• Ability and skills to conduct child friendly interviews, communication skills and child protection needs assessments.
• Demonstrate ability to adapt to changing programme priorities and emergency priorities that may arise
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge in animating/organizing play activities with children in the centre and out of the centre
• Strong self-starter, able to take initiative and adapt to changing circumstances and priorities
• Experience in capacity building and in strengthening various duty bearers understanding of and response to child protection through Child friendly spaces.
• Self-awareness and proven ability to operate successfully in different cultural environments
• Ability to manage stress, be flexible and accommodating in difficult and frustrating working circumstance.
• Have undertaken approved Safety and Security Training in accordance with member and Save the Children required minimum standard.
• Understanding of Kirundi language will be an asset
Date advertised: 13 Aug 2019
Closing date: 25 Aug 2019 – 23:59 EAT
Location: Kigoma, Tanzania, United Republic of
Department: Programme Operations
Type: Fixed-term contract
Schedule: Full-time
Desired:
• Background in Emergency/Refugee programming is an asset.
• Fluent Kirundi, both spoken and written
Date advertised: 13 Aug 2019
Closing date: 24 Aug 2019 – 23:59 EAT
Location: Kigoma, Tanzania, United Republic of
Department: Programme Operations
Type: Fixed-term contract
Schedule: Full-time
Accountability:
• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds self-accountable to information confidentiality of children reported with concerns
Ambition:
• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Collaboration:
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues and with relevant external partners.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to during the course of work.
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
• University Degree in Social Sciences or related technical field.
• Knowledge in Child Protection, Child´s rights, Child Friendly Space, programming and mainstreaming
• At least 1 year work experience within a similar context.
• Commitment to and understanding of child rights, Save the Children’s aims, values and principles and humanitarian standards as Sphere Charter and Code of Conduct
• Ability and skills to conduct child friendly interviews, communication skills and child protection needs assessments.
• Demonstrate ability to adapt to changing programme priorities and emergency priorities that may arise
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge in animating/organizing play activities with children in the centre and out of the centre
• Strong self-starter, able to take initiative and adapt to changing circumstances and priorities
• Experience in capacity building and in strengthening various duty bearers understanding of and response to child protection through Child friendly spaces.
• Self-awareness and proven ability to operate successfully in different cultural environments
• Ability to manage stress, be flexible and accommodating in difficult and frustrating working circumstance.
• Have undertaken approved Safety and Security Training in accordance with member and Save the Children required minimum standard.
• Understanding of Kirundi language will be an asset
Date advertised: 13 Aug 2019
Closing date: 25 Aug 2019 – 23:59 EAT
Location: Kigoma, Tanzania, United Republic of
Department: Programme Operations
Type: Fixed-term contract
Schedule: Full-time
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Job Title: Accountability Assistant
TEAM/PROGRAM: Programme Development and Quality LOCATION: Kibondo, Kigoma
GRADE: TBC POST TYPE: National
Child Safeguarding:
Level
3 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to
have regular contact with or access to children or young people
ROLE PURPOSE:
The
Accountability Assistant will be a part of the Monitoring, Evaluation,
Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team, supporting implementation of
the overall emergency response MEAL system. He/she will assist the MEAL
team with activities and being one of focal point for accountability and
feedback mechanism. The Accountability will support all efforts for
promoting a high level of beneficiary accountability and will manage the
feedback mechanism. Working closely with the MEAL Officer to support
data entry and data management as needed. Generally support the MEAL
team and programme team to ensure learning and accountability systems
are working effectively in emergency response.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Implementing Accountability mechanisms
•
Conduct community visits, focus group discussions with beneficiaries
and non-beneficiaries to receive feedback on SC programmes via available
channels i.e. Toll Free Number, suggestion Box, meeting and Focus Group
Discussions (FGD)
• Manage feedback received and ensuring a timely and appropriate follow-up if needed
• Documenting feedback and follow-up actions taken
•
Support programming and field staff to ensure that projects are carried
out with participation from all affected communities (including
children) and that information is shared with affected communities.
• Conduct field monitoring visits as appropriate
• Work closely with field staff to collect data and implement activities to support beneficiary accountability
•
Ensure that accountability mechanisms is maintained in accordance with
SCI Accountability Framework, Core Humanitarian Charter and Humanitarian
Accountability partnership standards
•
Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to
child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal
opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures
Child Safeguarding
•
All staff have an obligation to ensure they fully understand the
provisions of the Child Safeguarding Policy, the Code of Conduct and
related policies. They must conduct themselves in accordance with the
rules of the Child Safeguarding Policy, in their personal and
professional lives – which includes reporting suspicions of child abuse.
•
All staff must ensure the way they are carrying out their work is not
putting children and community at risk (or further risk).
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
Accountability:
•
Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources
efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds self-accountable and have confidentiality for the feedback received from beneficiaries and community at large
Ambition:
•
Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves, takes
responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others
to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Collaboration:
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues and with relevant external stakeholders
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
Integrity:
• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
• University or College qualification and minimum of three years professional experience with education work and child protection work
• Good knowledge and understanding of Accountability Mechanisms.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong verbal and written English, Kirundi and Kiswahili skills
• Strong interpersonal skills the ability to work collaboratively with others
• Strong reporting skills
• Good computer skills (MS Office, including Outlook for email)
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches
• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
• University or College qualification and minimum of three years professional experience with education work and child protection work
• Good knowledge and understanding of Accountability Mechanisms.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong verbal and written English, Kirundi and Kiswahili skills
• Strong interpersonal skills the ability to work collaboratively with others
• Strong reporting skills
• Good computer skills (MS Office, including Outlook for email)
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches
Desired:
• Background in Emergency/Refugee programming is an asset.
• Fluent Kirundi, both spoken and written
Date advertised: 13 Aug 2019
Closing date: 24 Aug 2019 – 23:59 EAT
Location: Kigoma, Tanzania, United Republic of
Department: Programme Operations
Type: Fixed-term contract
Schedule: Full-time
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Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Specialist
Date advertised: 15 Aug 2019
Closing date: 18 Aug 2019 - 23:59 EAT
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of
Department: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
Type: Fixed-term contract
Schedule: Full-time
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Development and Quality
LOCATION: Dar-es-Salaam with frequent travel to the field
Child Safeguarding:
Level
2 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to
have regular contact with or access to children or young people
ROLE PURPOSE:
The
MEAL Specialist represents a crucial aspect of programme quality
management within Save the Children. He/she oversees the MEAL system,
manages MEAL staff, feeds into country office strategy & planning,
participates in proposal development & leads on reporting to donors
and Save the Children’s annual report. He/she rolls out a system for
monitoring organisational progress against the Programme Quality
Standards, and develops and implements a realistic MEAL dashboard of
indicators to regularly feedback on quality, ensuring that such systems
are institutionalised within the existing thematic programme cycle
framework and country strategic plan, and that staff have the capacity
to implement the systems. The MEAL Specialist also designs
accountability systems for all field offices and specific programme
components, ensuring that child’s participation in all feedback
mechanisms is relevant and meaningful. Critical to this role is an
ability to coordinate inputs (e.g. Total Reach and reporting to Save the
Children) from other large projects operated independently within the
country office, such as Global Fund.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Director of Programme Development & Quality
Dimensions: The
MEAL Specialist is responsible for ensuring the country programme’s
MEAL system encompasses the following key components required of Save
the Children globally: culture and function; design/programming support;
monitoring; evaluation and research; accountability; and, knowledge
management and learning.
Staff directly reporting to this post: None.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
System Design and Promoting MEAL
- Lead on the development and oversee the roll-out of an organisational MEAL strategy (including M&E systems for Humanitarian Emergencies) in line with Save the Children’s quality standards and ensuring accountability to donors and beneficiaries.
- Ensures establishment of key indicators for each project and tracking of data across projects to establish the broader impact on children from all interventions, using a regular dashboard approach for Senior Management monitoring.
- Promote all aspects of MEAL to support the creation of an organisational culture which prioritises quality programming, including alignment with Save the Children’s Programme Quality Framework.
- Build strong relationships with colleagues and provide support as required to ensure MEAL system is understood and supported at country office level.
- Work closely with the field office teams to ensure that MEAL becomes an integral element of project implementation leading to enhanced quality, accountability, management and impact, including feeding into new proposal development and sharing lessons learned.
- Designs and implements systems for sampling and verifying data quality across projects and thematic programmes.
- Ensure that Technical Specialists develop thematically appropriate checklists and verification tools for standard programme activities (e.g. trainings, Children’s Council meetings, nutrition sessions).
Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development
- Provide management and leadership to the MEAL team in the Tanzania country programme, forming a solid team with clear objectives around data quality, evaluation standards, accountability and learning. This requires creating cohesion with the field MEAL staff working in different geographic areas who have dotted line management by Field Managers on a day-to-day basis.
- Oversee the recruitment of appropriate MEAL staff in the Tanzania Country Office.
- Manage the MEAL team to ensure that the MEAL system operates effectively with the support and resources required and that there are clear links and reporting lines between field and Dar-es-Salaam level and between PDQ and other country office departments.
- Support the MEAL team progress on specific projects, providing management oversight on progress and problem-solving in case of challenges, particularly for baseline/endline research, assessments and operational research.
- Manage the performance of direct reports in the MEAL unit through performance management, coaching, mentoring, training and development.
- At the organisational level, devise and manage a MEAL training programme with the goal of increasing capacity and awareness of MEAL for all staff aligned to the MEAL strategy. Assess training needs and engage MEAL team staff to roll-out the training programme, especially to orient new project staff and managers.
Internal Reporting
- Responsible to ensure that the organisation delivers on all internal M&E requirements (including any Humanitarian Response reporting) in a timely manner and with high quality information.
- Develop systems for monitoring and reporting on Save the Children global indicators and quarterly reports, total direct and indirect reach data. Develop systems for ensure monitoring of child participation and advocacy.
- Receive regular field monitoring and accountability reports from MEAL staff through the dashboard approach (and other forums for data review) and circulate to the country office teams, ensuring that action plans are included and followed up and that SMT reviews reports regularly.
- Ensure that the field offices manage a clear system of feedback and response from key stakeholders, particularly children, and presents the information to SMT for decision making purposes.
Promoting Learning for Strategy Development and Decision Making
- Ensure that data is brought together and findings from across thematic and operational regions (through evaluations and project reviews) is consolidated and shared to allow analysis of impact and promotion of learning and strategy development for the whole organisation.
- Lead on technical support, including formation of TOR and selection of consultants, for evaluations and provide technical review of progress and final reports. Synthesise this information to improve organisatonal performance and impact for children.
- Communicate top level learning / analysis reports and monitoring data to ensure that management is able to make informed decisions on a timely basis to scale up and face operational challenges.
- Organise all project evaluation and review in-brief and debrief sessions, with lessons learned shared, in collaboration with the respective project manager.
- Support the Director of PDQ to analyse progress against organisational objectives and strategies.
External Reporting and Representation
- Ensure external accountability to donors through the implementation of timely and quality MEAL activities leading to timely and accurate reporting
- Ensure that high quality analysis reports demonstrating Save the Children’s impact and assessment findings are produced, including evidence of good practice and replicable programmes, and that they are communicated at appropriate events.
- Ensure that Save the Children is represented at relevant inter-NGO and government level meetings (related to MEAL) to enhance inter-agency best practices sharing and learning.
Programme Design and MEAL Resources
- Ensure that MEAL is an integral part of the programme design stage and features in all proposal development.
- Reviews and approves all questionnaires and sampling plans for baseline/endline with consultants and relevant staff.
- Maintains databases and data analysis software usage and storage with ICT.
- Ensure that MEAL resources are included in proposal development and work creatively to secure funding from diverse sources, to ensure that MEAL is integrated in emergency and development programmes in a sustainable way.
Other
- Initiate operations research to test new innovations, identifying better opportunities and approaches and roll out into Country Office programmes.
- Test and integrated Save the Children Programme Quality Framework elements into programme design, delivery and evaluation.
- Ensure that child participation and child safeguarding is integrated into solid design and delivery.
- Participate in PDQ meetings, quarterly review meetings, planning and other country office forums, as requested.
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Holds the organisation accountable to children through the development of effective accountability and feedback systems
Ambition:
Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Future orientated, thinks strategically
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
Demonstrates flexibility and new thinking in the MEAL activities and planning
Integrity:
Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Ensures quality of data and methods through recommended practices and policies
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Accountability:
Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Holds the organisation accountable to children through the development of effective accountability and feedback systems
Ambition:
Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Future orientated, thinks strategically
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
Demonstrates flexibility and new thinking in the MEAL activities and planning
Integrity:
Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Ensures quality of data and methods through recommended practices and policies
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Masters degree in an area of social development or equivalent.
- Recommended a minimum of five years experience working in MEAL roles including in a senior management position, preferably with solid experience in more than one of the Save the Children priority sectors: education, protection, child rights governance, health and nutrition.
- Experience of working on all elements of MEAL including designing, rolling out and managing systems.
- Experience of securing resources from donors for MEAL activities/staffing and budget management.
- Proven experience in designing Terms of Reference and managing large-scale evaluations. Ability to design and review evaluation tools and approaches, including operations research.
- Awareness of international quality standards (Red Cross Code of Conduct, SPHERE Standard, HAP Standard) and proven experience of using these standards in practical ways to promote quality and accountable programming.
- Direct experience of working with communities in participatory activities, including confidence in working with children and an understanding of child-friendly participatory methodologies.
- Proven success in managing a team and dedication to staff development.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
- Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
- Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets
- 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
- Ability to travel to the field approximately 20-25% as well as travel to participate in regional meetings and learning events
- Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies
- Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required. Swahili preferred.
- Commitment to Save the Children values, including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy.
