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: 

The Project Manager is responsible for the overall activities’  planning,  execution, and reporting. He/she is directly assigned to,  work with and link to other livelihoods programme to deliver a broader package of support that help beneficiaries build stronger livelihoods, as building beneficiaries’ ability to increase their incomes is expected to enhance purchasing power. SC will regularly assess the adequacy of the transfer value. Provide multi-purpose cash transfer to address the immediate non-food needs of drought-affected vulnerable HHs.  Provide 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 responsible  for the  supervision  of all logistics,  Staff, financial and overall functioning aspects of this project.

SCOPE OF ROLE: 

Reports to: Office Manager

Dimensions:

Number of direct reports: FSL Officer X2

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Under the direct supervision of the Field Manager and in link with the FSL Technical Advisor, he/she provide overall managerial oversight and designsthe detailed workplan in linewith the project guidelines and description, guaranteeing the smooth implementation of all the activities on-time, on-quality and on-budget;
• Plan and integrate evidence from Cash project into concurrent programming and future planning and resilience building programme for development and replication;
• Conduct feasibility and market assessment as well as risk assessment.
• Awareness raising session on financial and digital literacy for MPCA beneficiaries
•  Establish complaints and feedback mechanism and communication
• Conduct MPCA Transfer
• Conduct PDM
• support targeted 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.
•  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
• Maintains a list of CAHWs that have received training from a recognized entity (e.g. government, NGOs, etc.).
• Keeps a log of drug sales to individual CAHW clients.
• Has a system in place for assisting to CAHWs for difficult cases.
• To be open to providing technical support to the CAHWs purchasing veterinary products from their outlets.
• Enter an agreement with approved vendors for supply of approved products to be used for the project
• To ensure the approved vendor will supply approved pharmaceuticals to registered/licensed PVPs, who will store and supply approved pharmaceuticals to project CAWHs. The PVPs will give each CAHW their initial veterinary drugs allocation. SC staff and woreda administration and livestock offices will witness and verify veterinary drug provided to CAHWs by PVPs at distribution sites
• 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 withthe project staff,plans and monitors the activities’ progress, in compliance with the donor regulations and contract signedwith the donor,with donor’s and Savethe Children ’s procedures, and with the specific ProjectStructure and ReportingLines definition, makinguse 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;
• Coordinates the overall project: supervises the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the staff; monitors the accuracy and efficiency of activities;
• Represents SC with the local / Stateauthorities and partnersat Coordination meeting
• Manages the goodspurchased for the project; for all goods purchased by the project,support updates of the inventory and guarantee the respect of the policiesand guidelines, in cooperation with the Logistics Office;
• In collaboration withthe Program Coordinator and in synergywith the specific reporting lines of the projects, promotes and manages relations with the local government institutions, NGOs, and other localpartners available in the area;
• Ensure compliance withthe fund and timely fulfilment of project is reporting requirements.
• Executes any othertask necessary to good and timely completion of the projects, identified in mutualagreement.
• In coordination with the Administrative team, supports in hiring of new staffdirectly related to the projectand conducts staffappraisals Upholds SC’s mission and Charter of Values;
• Follows and enforces all SC codesof conduct andpolicies (globally andin-country);
• Performs any other duties as requested by the supervisor

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:

• Master’s degree/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 ECHO, WFP, USAID projects is a +
• Proven interest & commitment to humanitarian and development principles and a 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 writingand verbally)
• Proven abilityto prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
• team player,effective communicator, successful negotiator, creative and analytical thinker, activelearner, able to work in a multicultural environment
• Excellent communication skills, calm, witha good sense of workingin an   inter-cultural environment
• Provencommitment to accountability practices
• Ability to function effectively under stressful conditions such as heavyworkloads, and deadlines.
• Excellent Microsoft Office applications skills (Excel, Word, Power point, Emails, Skype, Web researchers)
• Knowledge of andadherence to SC Code of Conduct, understands other international development guidelines

Desirable 

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