Project management

• Provide technical support and supervision on efficient and effective implementation of assigned projects as per work plans, M&E plans, budgets, timelines, and contractual obligations.
• Design relevant technical monitoring and implementing materials to ensure quality project implementation.
• Manage project teams to ensure delivery of agreed deliverables, plans and strategies as per SCI policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ensure project activities are on track, including developing and implementing solutions as necessary.
• Manage project budgets and spending under BVAs, adherence with donor and SCI procedures and policies.
• Conduct capacity-building and/or mentoring activities for project staff and/or NGO partners as required.
• Facilitate team building and cohesive working among team members.
• Review and support the elaboration of project documents and reports.
• Maintain project transparency and accountability within the country team and with donors.
• Support the Project manager in relevant tasks of project management, including resource allocation and ensuring appropriate controls are maintained at all levels!
• Provide feedback to the project team to ensure optimal performance.
• Frequent travel to other project locations to attend project sites and provide support to the team as needed.
• Coordinate with project partners to ensure collaboration in proper efforts and roles well join to enhance project performance to meet objectives,
• Leads training and awareness needed to build the capacities of partners and target communities,
• Perform actively with all actors to enrich the project activities particularly the indigenous communities’ anticipatory actions.
• Aware with early warning indicators to monitor changes and deviations from normal situation to easily highlight for thresholds in each disasters expected,
• Has good scoop to participate in assessment to measure quantitative as well qualitative indicators in data collection,

Donors visit support:

• Support all donor visits by ensuring proper donor quality and compliance checklist is in place.
• Prepare local communities for all donor visits and ensure the right community representatives are ready.
• Ensure donor visibility is well placed and visible for all.
• Main strong connections with key stakeholders in the served community and facilitate donor visits, accordingly, including government officials.
• Facilitate the obtaining of all necessary documents including permission for the donor visits.

Reporting and Support MEAL function:

• Support the facilitation with the MEAL team to ensure all monitoring and evaluation activities are conducted most efficiently.
• Lead the process of the key assessment and evaluation activities including baseline, midterm, and end-line assessment.
• Conduct regular visits to target localities and obtain key observations and views of target groups to improve the quality of implementation.
• Facilitate the process of Quarter, mid-project and end-project evaluation in the target localities.
• In close work coordination with the Data Management focal point ensure data reported reflect the actual status of the project.
• Conduct monthly reviews for the IPTT against the actual monthly implementation.
• Monitor the implementation of key implementing partners and provide relevant feedback.

Risks and Compliance:

• Conduct monthly visits to project locations and ensure high-quality standards of project activities are maintained.
• Identify and the unsafe programming issues in all project locations report them to relevant stakeholders.
• Provide recommendations and action to improve the unsafe programming.
• Conduct monthly BvA revision and provide prompt feedback on the spending.
• Conduct monthly review for the transaction list and provide feedback and comments for necessary adjustment.
• Sign of a monthly BvA review and transaction list to respective HPI, Finance Manager, and DDPO notifying the GFFO Project Manager.

External Coordination and Communication

• Represent SCI in coordination meetings, FSL sector meetings and external relationships.
• Maintain organizational consistency through the maintenance of strong and positive relations with field teams and CO.
• Participate in the Coordination meeting and provide feedback on the status of overall program implementation in different areas.

Capacity Building:

• Supervise the overall implementation of target localities and provide on-the-job training for the project partners/community facilitators to improve the implementation.
• Lead project training activities with partners and target communities,
• In coordination with HPI, DDPO and Project Manager, specify relevant SCI and partner staff for capacity-building opportunities.

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:

• Ensure that Save the Children’s planning and work is coordinated with other agencies and Government and take a leadership role in meetings with the State Ministry of Production and Economic Resources, Metrological dep. RS university and MoH meetings/forums, and other relevant forums.
• Taking the lead to document lessons learned and success stories especially for wider dissemination.
• Work in a coordinated manner with the other projects, and sectors to create synergies and integrate cross-cutting issues.
• Manage and oversee all aspects regarding AA Project Campaigns and Advocacy activities including negotiating agreements, and MoUs, developing implementation plans, contracting consultants, as well as evaluation and reporting.
• Develop and implement innovative strategies for maximizing the effectiveness of the campaigning and advocacy activities using a wide variety of tools/ including e.g. digital/ new technology tools.
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practices for child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

Other tasks:

BEHAVIOURS (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.

Ambition:

• Set ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, take responsibility for their personal development and encourage their team to do the same.
• widely shares their vision for Save the Children and engages and motivates others.
• Future-orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintain effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
• values diversity and sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develop and encourage new and innovative solutions.
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity;
  

  Requirements:

• Degree in Agriculture or related field, Social Sciences, Public Health and nutrition master’s degree is preferable.
• Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children. A good understanding of the Save the Children mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working with INGOs in community mobilization approaches and management of projects.
• Previous experience in managing a team as well as extensive project management skills.
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability,
• Experience of data collection and community training to develop their CAP, and other related views tasks,
• Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation skills.
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff.
• Experience in representation, including sector coordination, and ability to represent effectively in external forums.
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessments and project reports.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong influencing skills and experience in advocacy
• A high level of written and spoken English is crucial for this position.
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.