Vacancies: Child Safeguarding Advisor, Compliance and Awards Coordinator
Save the Children works in over eight states in Nigeria with a current staff complement of approximately 123 staff and current expenditure of approximately G8P 6.8 million each year. Our programme implementation is focused in the Northern States including Katsina, Kebbi, Zamfara where we have offices and in Jigawa, Gombe, Yobe, Bauchi and Kaduna where we work with and through partners
Save me Children is about to launch an exciting new project in two states in Northern Nigeria, The project aims to provide up to 60,000 vulnerable families with regular cash transfers to reduce poverty and improve their ability to buy nutritious food.
In order to contribute to this and strengthen the impact of our programme on children we are looking for committed, effective and efficient candidates to fill five positions in our Child Development Programme (CDGP).
Position: Child Safeguarding Advisor – Abuja
Role Purpose:
The Child Safeguard (CS) role will take lead in institutionalizing child safeguarding and code of conduct into the Nigeria countrywide programme, ensure that the country programme has a clear complaints, reporting and investigating mechanisms, and monitor compliance and accountability. The role has overall responsibility for ensuring that partners, suppliers and others associated with SCI are aware of and are compliant with the child safeguarding policy.
In order to be successful within this position, you will ideally have:
- Degree level qualification in Social Work or equivalent Health, Education or other relevant professional qualification working experience
- Minimum 5 years direct experience of child protection practice and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Up to date working knowledge of child care law, child protection policies and practice and current issues in relation to safeguarding children within Nigeria and West African context
- A general appreciation of the issues concerning the sector, both development and humanitarian issues
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Preparing written reports or materials to a publishable standard in the English Language
- Planning, delivering and evaluating training, capacity building, coaching and mentoring skills
- Organizing and managing a complex and demanding workload and working on own initiative
- Influencing practice and policy, including communicating effectively and persuasively at all levels
- Facilitating learning, development and change for individuals and/or groups/organizations
- Coordination skills, especially in relation to cross-departmental working and external networks
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches
- General appreciation of the issues concerning the NGO sector, both development and humanitarian issues
- Good analytical skills, Effective negotiator
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including right-based approaches
Position: Compliance and Awards Coordinator – Abuja
Role Purpose:
To ensure the maintenance and administration of a robust and an effective grants management system that is compliant to Save the Children grants systems and guideline and meet donor requirements.
In order to be successful within this position, you will ideally have:
- A Bachelors degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Commerce or Finance with a recognized professional certificate in accounting-Part II ACA, ACMA, ACCA
- Substantial management experience of at least 3 for the non-profit sector
- Experience of managing institutional donor contracts such as DFID, EC, ECHO, USAID
- Proven experience in strategic financial management and producing appropriate management information to support strategy development and decision-making by management
- Proven training experience to all levels of staff, both informal (on the job coaching) and formal (structured training courses)
- Proven analytical skills and ability to translate analysis into appropriate, feasible and practical implementation plans and goals
- An understanding of development work in order to communicate effectively with donors and programme staff on funding sources and programme issues
- Experience of developing guidelines and formats to support staff in donor applications and reporting with particular reference to DFID grants
- Knowledge of major donor funding sources and grant application processes
- Ability to recognize and interpret funding trends and make recommendations on implications for funding
- Experience of managing or supporting programmes in each stage of the project cycle, including development of funding proposals, budgeting, technical and financial monitoring in the context or grant/restricted funding sources
- Thorough understanding of interdepartmental relationships, dynamics and functioning in an overseas program mo setting
- Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children
- Ability to translate complex, technical and financial issues into a language understandable by non-finance staff
- Willing to travel to field offices and work in difficult environment from time to time
- Ability to work within a multicultural and multi-religious settings
- Experience of Save the Children UK financial accounting packages, policies, systems and procedures
- International experience preferably gained within an INGO in a relief/emergency setting
- Experience or knowledge of wording in the region or country programmes
- Proven experience in grants auditing especially of DFID grant audits
Method of Application:
Kindly send your CV and covering letter on or before 14th February, 2013 explaining why you are suitable to Nigeria.Recruitment@savethechildren.org. State position clearly in the subject field as applications without appropriate subject will be disqualified. Also, applications received after the deadline will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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