Job
Title: Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) Project
Coordinator
Place
of Work:Mandera County (Based in Takaba)
Post
Type: National
Line
management Responsibilities: Partner
RMNCH Project officers (2)
Budget
Accountabilities: None
Child
Protection Level: Level
3
Job Purpose
Under the general guidance of Health and Nutrition Program manager, the RMNCH Project Coordinator will be responsible for the overall coordination of an up-coming 2½ year EC-funded project on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Mandera County.
Job Purpose
Under the general guidance of Health and Nutrition Program manager, the RMNCH Project Coordinator will be responsible for the overall coordination of an up-coming 2½ year EC-funded project on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Mandera County.
The
RMNCH project has a full range of interventions in the areas of basic and
emergency obstetric care, safe birthing and motherhood, immunization,
nutrition, reproductive health, and community-based interventions aimed at
increasing uptake of health services.
These
interventions will adopt a health systems strengthening approach. SC’s
interventions are integrated with and aim to complement the work of the
Ministry of Health.
The
RMNCH Project Coordinator’s role will support two implementing partners (IPs)
to deliver high quality project activities with evidence-based impact and
outcomes to further reduce maternal and child mortality in Mandera County.
Key Accountabilities
Key Accountabilities
- Coordinate
all aspects of the EU-funded RMNCH project in the county to meet project
objectives.
- Ensure
quality compliance of day-to-day project implementation as outlined in the
detailed implementation plan (DIPs).
- Responsible
for planning and delivery of high-quality training of formal health
workers and community health workers through effective liaison with
accredited trainers.
- Coordinate
the project activities with the 2 implementing partners in the county,
including needs assessments, trainings, supervisions, supplies
distribution tracking and utilization etc
- Provide
direct technical management to the IPs RMNCH field officers.
- Work
closely with the Health and Nutrition Programme Manager in managing the
RMNCH project budget according to Save the Children and donor.
- Assist
in development of detailed health programme plans for the designated
programme area in line with county health plans.
- Provide
regular field reports to the Programme Manager - Health and
Nutrition
- Develop
BCC strategy and community outreach strategy to increase demand and uptake
of services.
- Work
with Master Trainers to ensure that training of health workers is
appropriate to the needs of the trainees and that each training module is
appropriate to the needs of the participants
- Take
the lead in developing/ adopting training modules, manuals, handouts and
other materials ensuring their appropriateness to the needs of the target
trainees and coordinate the scheduling of trainings and ensure that
trainings occur according to pre-agreed training calendar.
- Monitor
the effectiveness of training methods and processes and evaluate the
outcome of health workers trainings
- Ensure
that delivery of trainings planned in the project proposal is of high
quality and meets pre-defined training objectives and outcomes
- Work
with trainers and the DHMTs to ensure that all planned trainings adhere to
standards including meeting criteria for selection of training
participants, use of participatory methods, emphasis on training outcomes,
use of evaluations and certification, and effective employment of lessons
learned from previous trainings
- Participate
in knowledge management processes, including the contributions to project
publications and documentation and establish and maintain database of
accredited trainers and trainees who qualify from Save the Children
supported training programmes.
- Responsible
for coordinating with other actors working in Save the Children
operational areas and those providing health care in other areas to ensure
that Save the Children’s Programmes are coherent and appropriate
- Work
closely with Save the Children’s logistics department to guarantee that
the materials required for the RMNCH project are available on site at the
right time
- Represent
Save the Children in relevant RMNCH coordinating structures and technical
working groups in the County including DHMT meetings, stakeholders’
forums, MCH policy advocacy forums and private sector partnerships, among
others; participate in joint agency assessments, task-force teams and
workshops, technical committee meetings, and coordination groups.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Bachelor
of Science degree in public health or nursing
- Additionally,
you will have a minimum of 5 years recognized expertise and significant
experience and achievement in managing and working in RMNCH programs.
- Experience
in health systems strengthening focusing on health services and service
delivery.
- Demonstrated
familiarity with the structure, systems, and policies of the public and
private health sector in Kenya.
- Demonstrated
knowledge of Health Information Systems, and Primary and Reproductive
Health Care concepts.
- Proven
strategic planner and team leader with strong technical knowledge,
conceptual and analytical ability. You will have proven operational skills
and experience in working in hard to reach areas (particularly pastoralist
areas) and in implementing community-based interventions and desirably,
experience in implementing EC funded projects.
- You
will have demonstrated strong written and verbal communication skills
including public speaking, and demonstrated capacity to oversee
development of work plans, monitoring and evaluation and reporting. You
will be available to be based in and travel within Mandera County 70% of
your time.
- Ability
to produce well-presented project reports
- Excellent
spoken and written English and Swahili
- Strong
organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills taking into
account cultural difficulties
- Understanding
rights based approaches and participatory concepts and practical
experience in similar context.
- Excellent
understanding of the Community Health Strategy
- Strong
capacity building skills and proven success in training formal and
informal health workers
- Sensitive
to issues affecting children and committed to Save the Children’s Child
Safe Guarding policy.
Nutrition
Advisor - Kenya Country Office
Team
/ Programme:Programme Development and Quality
Location: Nairobi
Grade:
TBC (Competitive Package)
Post
Type: National
or International
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:
Role Purpose:
Under
the general direction and guidance of the Director of Programme Development and
Quality ensure all nutrition programming is of excellent technical quality,
attracts significant donor funding and contributes significantly to Save the
Children’s strategic objectives, national/global learning and advocacy.
The
Nutrition Advisor is expected to provide technical advice and support to
project staff to ensure programming objectives are successfully achieved.
He/she
shall also contribute to the development and implementation of the country
office nutrition strategy, closely linked to WASH and health programming and
the Hunger Signature Programme.
The
Nutrition Advisor must be willing to embrace a child rights programming
approach and represent Save the Children in national forums and working
groups.
He/she
will support the overall country strategic intent to focus on risk reduction,
adaptation and resiliency in light of a changing context in East Africa.
Scope of Role:
Reports to: Director Programme Development and Quality
Dimensions:
Scope of Role:
Reports to: Director Programme Development and Quality
Dimensions:
Save
the Children has been operational in Kenya since 1984, providing support to
children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered
both directly and through local partners.
Current
programming focuses on child protection, child rights governance, education,
health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods, nutrition and WASH.
Save
the Children has an operational presence in Dadaab Refugee Camp, Eldoret,
Habaswein, Mandera, Meru and Wajir and has a logistics hub in Garissa.
Currently,
we have a staff complement of approximately 370 staff and expenditure of
approximately US$30 million this year.
Staff directly reporting to this post: Nutrition Specialist
Key Areas of Accountability:
Strategic Planning and Programme Development
Staff directly reporting to this post: Nutrition Specialist
Key Areas of Accountability:
Strategic Planning and Programme Development
- Be
fully aware of and actively participate in the development and review of
country strategy and thematic programme plans. Specifically lead the
development and implementation of the nutrition component of the Save the
Children Kenya Newborn and Child Survival strategy and stand-alone
nutrition strategy.
- Build
on technical knowledge, personal understanding of the operation of
nutrition policy and services in Kenya, current/previous programming to
develop proposals for new programming in close coordination with the
programme staff. Ensure all new programming supports the achievement of
Save the Children strategic and thematic objectives, specifically
improving Newborn and Child Survival, Food Security, Resilience and
Adaptation in Kenya.
- Analyse
donor priorities and positions on issues related to nutrition; identifying
institutional funding opportunities and developing and maintaining
contacts with potential donors, partners and key technical agencies.
Ensure that new partnerships in this technical area reflect the programme
quality we expect of ourselves.
- Ensure
that programme strategy supports and demonstrates good practice in child
safeguarding.
- Using
a child rights programming lens, ensure that our nutrition programming is
built around the Theory of Change and aligns with Newborn Child Survival
nutrition strategies.
Advocacy and Policy Development
- Be
fully aware of national policies, strategies and other initiatives and
developments by government and other stakeholders relating to the
nutrition, and related health and Child Survival and/or food security
issues. Regularly assess and communicate the implications for Save
the Children’s programme and priorities of any changes in the operating
environment relevant to this theme in close collaboration with the
relevant advisor(s).
- Help
to clearly articulate the nutrition advocacy messages for the Kenya
country office. Develop an advocacy plan (with timeline and key
outcomes) with the Nutrition and Food Security Advocacy Advisor.
Ensure implementation of nutrition advocacy strategy.
- Develop
policy briefs and position papers as and when required related to the
nutrition programme in coordination with the Nutrition and Food Security
Advocacy Advisor and EVERYONE Campaign Manager. This may require
technical support from other technical advisors within the country office
or within the SC Members.
- Represent
and advocate for Save the Children with UN agencies, donors, Kenyan
Government, NGOs and others at the highest levels in both verbal and
written communications to ensure Save the Children is seen as the lead
international agency in terms of innovation and quality of implementation
that focus on child survival, food security and resilience.
Specifically ensure the following:
- Participation
in monthly Nutrition Technical Forum meetings at the MoH
- Participate
in Regional Food Security and Nutrition Working Group meetings
- Nutrition
Information Working Group
- Ensure
presence at relevant to UN/UNICEF coordination meetings at national and
regional levels
- Advise
field teams to ensure adequate field visibility through technical
attendance and technical meetings at district level
- Ensure
active dissemination of programmes findings and lessons learned through
the production of high technical quality lessons learned documents and
their effective dissemination to key stakeholders.
Programme Quality
- Monitor
and provide timely, relevant, accurate input on overall technical aspects
of Save the Children nutrition programme work in Kenya. The position
will be required to travel 30-40% of the time to Save the Children field
locations.
- Liaise
with the Programme Operations departmentto ensure all nutrition and other
programme staff receive the necessary and appropriate technical support.
In consultation with staff and project managers agree on the range of
advice, support, training and/or other assistance required from you to
facilitate high quality programming. This will involve regular
visits to Save the Children operational areas.
- Assist
in the development of tools for project staff and partners to improve the
quality of nutrition work. Where necessary provide technical
training for project staff and partners as required (IMAM; IYCF; KAP and
nutrition surveys, other monitoring and evaluation; etc …).
- Where
external consultants (local or international) are required to technically
support or monitor and evaluate projects, lead the recruitment and
subsequent management of contracted consultants as per the recruitment
guidelines.
- Review
relevant monitoring reports to donors to ensure that technical debates are
well articulated and reports are of acceptable quality before submission.
Provide support where necessary to improve report writing
skills.
- Provide
input on partner selection, and provide technical coaching of partners in
nutrition.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Ensure
the development of an M&E framework and key indicators for nutrition
that helps each project improve quality of reporting, clearly articulate
progress and impact of projects, identify issues for advocacy and new
programmes/projects in the future.
- Participate
in the design of baseline, mid-term and end of project evaluations for
nutrition programmes, or nutrition components of multi-sectoral
programmes. Monitor the evaluation process and provide input and clarification
as needed. Review evaluation findings and ensure that lessons and
recommendations are captured in the Lessons Learned database.
- Regularly
review and monitor programmes for child safeguarding issues. Take
corrective action in modifying programme activities and/or report
incidents.
Other
- Participate
actively in PDQ programme meetings, planning and review activities,
providing enhanced insight into nutrition programming.
- Actively
participate in key relevant internal meetings such as Programme Review
Meetings, Senior Management Team or Area-based meetings as required.
Participate in any Donor visit to project(s) within the country office
portfolio, as required.
- Ensure
the recruitment and training of nutrition programme staff in technical
areas of expertise as appropriate and ensure availability of appropriate
professional development opportunities.
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
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
Integrity:
- Honest,
encourages openness and transparency
Qualifications and Experience
- A
nutrition professional with a Masters Degree in nutrition or equivalent.
- Significant
professional experience, at least 3 years, of working at a senior advisory
level in nutrition for international NGOs or the private sector in Kenya.
- Excellent
understanding of the nutrition sector within the Kenyan context,
particularly maternal, newborn and child nutrition issues.
- Clear
understanding of hunger and food security issues in Kenya, particularly in
the context of Northern Kenyan.
- Proven
representation and advocacy skills.
- Strong
commitment to capacity building of national staff and partners with
willingness to adopt a participatory and consultative approaches.
- Experience
with nutrition programming in humanitarian settings preferred.
- Experience
writing donor funding proposals for large institutional grants in excess
of US$1 million.
- Strong
report writing skills, including experience in writing proposals and donor
reports.
- Good
interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly
and effectively at all levels, taking into account cultural and language
difficulties.
- 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
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
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.
Monitoring,
Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Advisor PDQ
Team/Programme:Programme
Development and Quality
Location:
Nairobi
Grade:
TBC
Post
Type: National
or International
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:
Role Purpose:
The
MEAL Advisor represents a crucial aspect of programme quality management within
Save the Children.
He/she
oversees the MEAL system, manages Nairobi-based MEAL staff, feeds into country
office strategy & planning, manages MEAL budgets (e.g. Breakthrough
Accountability Funds from SC UK), participates in proposal development &
leads on reporting to SCI.
He/she
rolls out a system for monitoring organisational progress against the Minimum
Operating Standards, and develops and implements a realistic MEAL system,
ensuring that such systems are institutionalised within the existing thematic
programme cycle management framework, and that staff have the capacity to
implement the systems.
Scope
of Role:
Reports to: Deputy Director of Programme Development & Quality
Staff directly reporting to this post: Two (2) positions: Data and Knowledge Management Officer and Accountability Coordinator
Key Areas of Accountability:
System Design and Promoting MEAL
Reports to: Deputy Director of Programme Development & Quality
Staff directly reporting to this post: Two (2) positions: Data and Knowledge Management Officer and Accountability Coordinator
Key Areas of Accountability:
System Design and Promoting MEAL
- Lead
on the development and oversee the roll-out of an organisational MEAL
system (emergency & development) in line with SCI MOS and ensuring
accountability to donors and beneficiaries. Ensures establishment of
key indicators for each sector and tracking of data across projects to
establish the broader impact on children from all interventions.
- Promote
all aspects of MEAL to support the creation of an organisational culture
which prioritises quality programming, including alignment with SCI
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 Programme Operations team 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.
Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development
- Provide
management and leadership to the MEAL team in the Kenya 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
with line management through the Programme Operations team.
- Oversee
the recruitment of appropriate MEAL staffing in the Kenya 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 Nairobi 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.
- 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.
Assess training needs and engage MEAL team staff to roll-out the training
programme.
Internal Reporting
- Responsible
to ensure that the organisation delivers on all internal M&E
requirements in emergency and development programmes in a timely manner
and with high quality information, including reporting on SCI global
indicators and quarterly reports, total direct and indirect reach
data. Develop systems for ensure monitoring of child participation
and gender equity.
- Working
with the Member Services department, sets up a system which ensures that
SC members have regular access to M&E data on their projects
- Receive
regular field monitoring and accountability reports from MEAL staff and
circulate to the country office teams, ensuring that action plans are
included and followed up and that SMT reviews reports regularly.
- With
the Data and Knowledge Management Officer, lead on organisational MEAL for
the PDQ and Programme Operations departments, for example monitoring the
department’s progress against SCI Management Operating Standards; and
ensure the CD and Directors receive reports on progress.
- Ensure
that the Accountability Coordinator operates 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 is consolidated into the Lessons Learned database,
which allows 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.
- 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 SC’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 SCI is represented at relevant inter-NGO and government level
meetings at the Nairobi level (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.
- 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.
- Responsible
for effectively managing the MEAL budget, including Breakthrough
Accountability funds from SC UK.
Other
- Initiate
Action research to test new innovations, identifying better opportunities
and approaches and rolling out into Country Office programmes.
- Test
and integrated SCI Programme Quality Framework into programme design,
delivery and evaluation.
- Ensure
that child participation and child safeguarding is integrated into solid
design and delivery.
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
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
Integrity:
- Honest,
encourages openness and transparency
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 in a both emergency and development contexts,
preferably with solid experience in more than one of the Save the Children
priority sectors: education, protection, child rights governance,
HIV/AIDS, health, nutrition, food security/livelihoods, WASH and
emergencies
- 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.
- 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
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.
The application period is now open and will close on Monday 28th
January 2013 at 4.30pm.
To
apply for open positions, please send a short cover letter and CV to
Kenya.jobapplications@savethechildren.org indicating the position applied
for in the subject line.