INTRODUCTION
Save the Children is an exciting and dynamic organization that follows a holistic approach to achieve more for children and use its resources in an efficient and sustainable way. In every programming we aim to achieve results at scale, build partnership to influence others and increase our impact; look for innovate solutions to the problems children faces, campaign for better practice and ensure that Children’s voices are heard.
Save the Children is an organization for talented people with different backgrounds and perspectives. We are proud that our people are representative of the children we work with and we thrive on our diversity. We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity. Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children both in their private and professional lives.
Save the Children offers sound employment conditions with opportunities for personal growth and development. If you are interested to work in an organization that is determined to achieve dramatic change for the most vulnerable children, we encourage you to look through the job profile below.
Job Title | Sr. Technical Programme Manager (DFID Migration Project) Re-advert |
Code | 0045 |
Place of Work | Addis Ababa |
Programme/Unit | FSL |
Monthly Salary in ETB | As per the organization Scale |
No. of Positions | 01 (One) |
Reports to | Chief of Party (DRC) |
Length of Contract | One-year contract depends on both funding and performance
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ROLE PURPOSE:
The Senior Technical Programme Manager is responsible for overall strategic and technical guidance in ensuring the programme interventions across all consortium members are implemented to the highest standard. Providing high-quality and timely technical support; ensuring context specific and common implementation approaches across implementing partners for quality programming; strategy design, developing strong external relations with key stakeholders; maintaining and managing a highly-qualified team of specialists; and producing and utilising high quality and well-articulated project evidence and research for learning, and advocacy.
The Senior Technical Programme Manager oversees the work of field offices and short trem technical specialists who support programme implemntation. S/he will ensure cross functionality, coordination, standardisation of programme implementation across different implementing partners, and that quality of programme are implemented according to nationally/internationally accepted and recommended standards. He/she represents SC values and principles in interactions with staff and external audiences. These values and principles include commitment to the mission of Save the Children, team orientation, quality management and leadership development, introducing systems and procedures to strengthen staff motivation and productivity.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Oversees progress and coordination of the programme’s migration, protection and livelihoods
activities in collaboration with the Chief of Party and field-based team.
• Work with technical specialists and ensure timely and quality delivery of capacity building activities for programme staff and other stakeholders in cooperation with Learning and Knowledge Management, ensure proper documentation of experiences and lessons learned from the programme under supervision.
• Work closely with the Programme Specialists and field based staff to ensure work plans are adequately resourced to deliver effectively.
• Coordinate, manage and motivate field teams, ensuring that they have clear objectives/individual work plans as part of performance management and receive meaningful feedback on their performance.
• Lead the programme, continually encouraging team members to re-evaluate their strategies, gather and incorporate tacit information, and adapt programming to new learning and environmental conditions.
Ensuring the guiding documents draw on international best practices and global research, lessons learned from the field-level and reflect implementation realities related to key migration, protection and livelihoods issues in Ethiopia.
• Provide ongoing technical advice to the field-based programme implementation teams, including consultants, and sub-contractors, as needed.
• Collaborate with field-based teams to ensure protection records and documentation are properly managed and compliant with organisational requirements and international best practices.
• Ensure Value for Money is mainstreamed across technical areas of responsibility, is incorporated into decision making, and effectively reported to the donor.
• Document and communicate programme achievements against agreed strategic objectives and milestones for a wide range of internal and external audiences.
• Actively communicate and coordinate with the CoP (DRC), other relevant and technical advisors and project managers to ensure integrated approaches across themes.
• Build and maintain relationships with key external stakeholders including relevant Government of Ethiopia Ministries and departments, donors, research institutes, and other INGOs.
• Identify and advise on key risks related to the programme’s response to migration, protection and livelihoods issues and ensure effective reporting of such risks.
• Provide technical reviews of all programme reporting related to migration, protection and livelihoods, ensuring reports are completed to a high standard.
• Travel frequently throughout the programme’s areas of intervention to monitor and provide
technical guidance.
Programme Quality and Effectiveness
• Oversee that all field level interventions and related researches is technically managed to a high standard.
• Support the development and continual revision of a dynamic, programme-wide monitoring and evaluation system linked to programme strategies, indicators, and information management tools, which supports programme management, accountability and learning.
• Work with MEAL unit to contribute to the technical development of an M&E framework/systems that monitors the impact of the programme activities and progress towards achievement of programme objectives and outcomes, with quality; including the identification and design of needs assessments, profiling exercises and other research initiatives, which contribute to enhancing knowledge on migration and protection issues relevant to the programme
• Ensure proper understanding of cross-cutting issues among technical managers and advisors (e.g., gender, child protection and safeguarding) and integration of same in the programme management.
• Ensure a quarterly review is conducted to monitor progress and where appropriate take corrective measures.
• Ensure an integrated approach to programme implementation in order to maximise resource utilisation and synergy between the staff and different programmes.
• Exercise sound judgment to ensure project expenses are reasonable, allocable and prudent. Ensure all project funds are spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations.
• Review, edit and submit timely written reports on the programme activities capturing impacts related to all activities.
· Advanced degree in a related field, such as law, migration or refugee studies, social sciences, or international development from a recognised institution.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience working in international humanitarian or development aid, with significant experience in implementing migration and protection-related programming for an international NGO, UN agency or relevant government ministry.
• Significant understanding of DFID donor requirements and DFID’s results agenda.
• Robust analytical and strategic planning skills, with a demonstrable track record of meeting or exceeding programme targets, while maintaining a high-level of technical quality.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills, including political awareness and understanding, and demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, partners, local organisations, and other stakeholders.
• Experience in documenting and sharing lessons learned across a multi-location programme, ensuring that knowledge is captured effectively to contribute to improved performance.
• Excellent verbal and written proficiency in English.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Striving for Excellence: Focusing on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
- Collaborating: Involving relevant parties and encouraging feedback.
- Taking the Lead: Taking ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
- Communicating: Listening and speaking effectively and honestly.
- Demonstrating Integrity: Acting in line with DRC’s vision and values.
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and
Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and
procedures.