TEAM/PROGRAMME: Humanitarian Team
LOCATION: Kathmandu, Nepal
GRADE: 8
CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 months
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; ore because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Deputy Team Leader – Programme Development and Quality will be the programmes lead, supporting the Humanitarian Director. The post-holder will ensure that humanitarian programmes delivered are to the appropriate scale, scope, quality and accountability expected of Save the Children, and incorporate a child focused lens. The postholder will be expected to mentor and/or capacity-build both international and national staff colleagues. The Deputy Team Leader – Programme Development and Quality will also play a role in global level technical working groups, working closely with HO technical advisers on organisational strategy, capacity building, policy and advocacy initiatives.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Programme Support:
- Take overall leadership on assessments, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs.
- Take overall leadership on designing multi-sector response and recovery strategies, programme plans and programme master budgets, ensuring sufficient technical expertise is included within budgets, ensuring linkages with existing country programmes.
- Take overall leadership in prioritising response sectors or funding where this is limited, in line with Save the Children International Global Humanitarian Strategy, ensuring maximum integration between sectors where possible.
- Take overall leadership on response fundraising, ensuring the development of high quality concept notes and proposals linked to the response strategy, and engage effectively with donors’ humanitarian advisers.
- Have oversight over programme implementation to ensure timely & high quality delivery of programme activities.
- Ensure quality programmes and the monitoring of this through regular site visits within the response.
- As a member of a response Senior Management Team, play a leadership role in the overall management of Save the Children emergency responses.
- In coordination with the Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader – Operations, ensure the preparation of timely programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal Save the Children requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
- Take overall leadership on ensuring technical staffing needs (both national and international) for emergency programmes are met.
- Coordinate with the Deputy Team Leader - Operations to ensure programme supply strategies are in place.
- Take overall leadership on ensuring monitoring & evaluation processes are in place and compliance with Save the Children M&E benchmarks.
- Take overall leadership on accountability, ensuring that feedback is incorporated into programme design and learning disseminated to the wider sector.
- To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.
- Carry out short advisory visits to country programmes in order to design new programmes, develop proposals or review/monitor/evaluate ongoing programmes.
- Coordinate with Save the Children members and Save the Children Technical Working Groups to ensure that technical backstopping support is in place.
Capacity Building:
- Oversee the delivery of capacity building plans to develop the requisite technical competencies in programme staff.
- Coach and mentor Technical Advisers and national level counterparts and link in to wider organisational talent development mechanisms.
Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
- Help shape broader sector strategies through influence of and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed. This may involve representing Save the Children within Humanitarian Country Team fora.
- Take the initiative in documenting lessons learnt, best practice and case studies to shape in-country strategies and programme approaches, and contribute to broader sector learning.
- Pro-actively identify advocacy opportunities, case studies and research opportunities which link with wider organisational strategic objectives, and turn these into action.
- Lead on organisational level programme policy, innovation, learning or representation initiatives in consultation with Save the Children Member advisory teams.
- Play a leadership role in shaping communications and media priorities in line with programme priorities, acting as a spokesperson when required.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Extensive experience of working within a senior management role within a complex country programme in an emergency response or fragile state
- Previous experience of managing programme teams in large-scale first phase emergency response is essential
- Master's degree with 5 years of experience inclusive of 2 years substantial experience in humanitarian response programs
- Previous experience of managing a large multi-sector, multi-national team
- Previous experience of programme management across multiple locations
- Experience of managing multi-donor, multi-site programmes (including ECHO, DFID and OFDA) of GBP 5-10m
- Security management experience across a large programme.
- Commitment to, thorough understanding of, and able to train staff in participation and accountability approaches
- Demonstrated ability to set up monitoring & evaluation systems in large complex programmes.
- Demonstrated ability to set up learning and development processes for a large team
- Proven ability of mentoring and coaching
- Experience of senior level representation
- Experience of developing and negotiating successful partnerships with institutional donors
- Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven ability to influence change at an operational and strategic level
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
- A high level of written and spoken English
- The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
- Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children. In particular, a good understanding of the Save the Children mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support
Desirable
- Language skills in Nepali or Hindi
- Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts
- Specific experience of designing and managing consortia projects
- Media experience
