The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts. After passing a century, which it celebrated in 2019, it is now a global movement made up of 29 national member organizations which work in 120 countries.

ROLE PURPOSE: 

FSL Officer   is responsible for the overall activities’ planning, execution, and reporting. He/she is directly assigned to, such as voucher-based animal treatment service delivery system along with supplementary livestock feed as a strategy to improve utilization of the feed and create veterinary service access to vulnerable drought affected households in project target area. Provide multi-purpose cash transfer to address the immediate non-food needs of drought affected vulnerable HHs.

SCOPE OF ROLE: 

Reports to: Food Security and Livelihood Manager

Dimensions:

Number of direct reports: N/A

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• To ensure the selected beneficiaries for both MPC and Animal treatment as well as supplementary feeding will be registered on paper (although there will be a database of beneficiary profile) and provided with cards for future verification and monitoring purposes.
• Conduct Beneficiary verification and registration simultaneously or during separate community visits. The Beneficiary Registration List is a critical document, linking specific beneficiaries to their cash transfers.
• Plan and integrate evidence from Cash project into concurrent programming and future planning and resilience building programme for development and replication.
•  To increase child sensitivity, the MPC should be link to key services for children such as health, nutrition protection and education.
• To help ensure that the MPC meets children’s needs, SCI will strengthen existing/establish community-based case management systems/ structures to support better follow up, monitoring and referrals for children to specific services.
• The MPC will also be accompanied by a strong SBCC component to influence behavior and decision making for children’s wellbeing at household level.
• provide supplementary animal feed (total mixed ration-TMR) households.
• will support targeted voucher-based animal treatment service delivery system along with supplementary livestock feeds.
• Awareness raising on the importance destocking, and conditional supplementary animal feed transfer linking to destocking.
• Identify interested private livestock traders, bringing together the livestock traders and beneficiaries.
• Support voucher-based animal treatment service along with supplementary livestock feed to improve utilization of the feed. The households targeted for supplementary livestock feed will also receive voucher-based animal treatment services.
• Incorporate analysis and lessons learned into new strategies, proposals and activities.
• Support learning from relevant best practice internally and externally, especially Save the Children international’s child-sensitive livelihood guidelines (particularly on implementing livelihood and other programs to strengthen better outcomes for children);
• Ensure programming interventions are implemented in cooperation with targeted communities and include the participation of children in their design.
• In cooperation and synergy with the project staff, plans and monitors the activities’ progress, in compliance with the donor regulations and contract signed with the donor, with donor’s and Save the Children ’s procedures, and with the specific Project Structure and Reporting Lines definition, making use of the financial instruments provided by the organization.
• In collaboration with the Administrative and the Logistics team, plans and monitors the expenditures in line with the project’s implementation needs.
• In cooperation with the Program Coordinator, finalizes the data provided by his/her team, supports the preparation, in compliance with the deadlines, of the narrative reports expected by the donors and by the partners.
• Represents SC with the local / State authorities and partners at Coordination meeting.
• Manages the goods purchased for the project; for all goods purchased by the project, support updates of the inventory and guarantee the respect of the policies and guidelines, in cooperation with the Logistics Office.

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 capacity to improve performance and applying appropriate measures when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for himself/herself (and their team).
• Takes responsibility for his/her own personal actions and encourages others to do the same.
• Widely shares his/her personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future-orientated, thinks strategically.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, his/her 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 risk

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

To be considered for the position, applicants should have:

• BA degree in food security/nutrition and/or Humanitarian/ Development Studies or any related field.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• At least 3 years of working experience in/with INGO. In the FSL area. Experience managing projects is a +
• Proven interest & commitment to humanitarian and development principles and demonstrable understanding of conflict/post-conflict development contexts
• Experience in data collection, analysis, and report writing including post-distribution monitoring (PDM)
• Excellent in written and spoken English.
• Ability to plan, organize work, communicate and report effectively (both in writing and verbally)
• Proven ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
• team player, effective communicator, successful negotiator, creative and analytical thinker, active learner, able to work in a multicultural environment.
• Excellent communication skills, calm, with good sense of working in an   inter-cultural environment.
• Proven commitment to accountability practices
• Ability to function effectively under stressful conditions such as heavy workloads, and deadlines.
• Excellent Microsoft Office applications skills (Excel, Word, Power point, Emails, Skype, Web researchers)
• Knowledge of and adherence to SC Code of Conduct, understands other international development guidelines.

Desirable 

• Knowledge of the area and region where the post is located.