TITLE: Regional Training in Emergencies Technical Advisor, West and Central Africa
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Improvement & High quality
LOCATION: Dakar, Senegal (West and Central Africa Regional Workplace)
GRADE: Worldwide 4
CONTRACT LENGTH: 24 months (renewal relying on funding)
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Degree 3: the publish holder may have contact with kids and/or younger folks both steadily (e.g. as soon as per week or extra) or intensively (e.g. 4 days in a single month or extra or in a single day) as a result of they work nation packages; or are visiting nation packages; or as a result of they’re liable for implementing the police checking/vetting course of employees.
ROLE PURPOSE:
Regional Humanitarian Technical Consultants drive the standard, accountability and timeliness of humanitarian responses and contribute to emergency preparedness within the area. Regional Technical Consultants will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical experience, and relationship-constructing abilities to supply an important hyperlink between Save the Youngsters’ international and national degree technical work, strengthening our technical provide on the regional degree. They’ll play a robust function in regional capability constructing efforts, mentoring and constructing networks throughout CO TEs, and fostering cross-CO studying. They’ll help regional advocacy and influence and drive regional strategic partnerships for studying and new enterprise improvement. They’ll present High-quality Assurance and demand pushed TA to COs, in step with regional priorities and design and enter to implementation and monitoring of regional programmes. Within the occasion of a serious humanitarian emergency, the function holder will probably be anticipated to work outdoors the traditional function profile and be capable to fluctuate working hours accordingly.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Stories to: Regional Programme High quality & Improvement Director.
Employees reporting to this publisher: Fundamental Training Technical Advisor (Vacant)
Funds Duties: none
Position Dimensions: She/He’s anticipated to foster relationships with a variety of inside and exterior humanitarian stakeholders together with Save the Youngsters members, the SCI central Programme High quality & Impression workforce, regional Humanitarian Director and different regional (Humanitarian) Advisors, technical counterparts in different organisations, CAFU, advocacy, donors and so forth. Specifically, it’s anticipated to take care of shut contact with, and accountability to, the worldwide thematic Training in Emergencies workforce by the related Humanitarian Technical Working Group.
Annual Wage Degree: $50,000 – $58,000 (provide will probably be primarily based on expertise/inside fairness and monetary capability).
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
1. Technique & Management:
- General thought management of Training in Emergencies work in West and Central Africa
- To observe sectoral traits and forecasts within the area, supporting nations to plan, take early motion and reply
- To keep up a summary of all Training in Emergencies programmes throughout the area, and facilitate collaboration between Save the Youngsters members, regional and national workplaces to strengthen each portfolio and preparedness and response high quality.
- Help national workplaces with the design of their preparedness, response and transition methods (program and advocacy), guaranteeing alignment to Save the Youngsters’ international thematic priorities and humanitarian coverage.
- Help GPE engagement within the WCA area
2. Help to Response Design, Improvement and Implementation:
- Foster regional strategic partnerships for brand-spanking new enterprise improvement, e.g. strategic positioning with donors at regional degree, and positioning Save the Youngsters as a frontrunner in a technical space.
- Lead the design of regional/multi-country programmes, facilitating collaboration between COs and guaranteeing top-quality, coherent technical design.
- Be sure that COs have entry to and use inside and exterior greatest follow and proof within the design of latest programmes, in addition to classes realized from earlier responses and Actual Time Evaluations
- Work with SC member focal factors to safe funding for brand spanking new emergency programmes, by coordination with donor technical specialists and growing top-quality proposals.
3. Supporting Technical Programme High-quality Assurance:
- Lead or help EiE wants assessments in step with sectoral requirements and SC coverage.
- Help to CO implementation and monitoring of regional/multi-country programmes, to make sure top quality, well timed, supply, monitoring and analysis
- Help nations to reply sectorally, contemplating the Core Humanitarian Requirements, Grand Cut price commitments and Training in Emergencies greatest practices (e.g. INEE)
- Help the operationalisation of SC and sectoral greatest follow and international requirements working with COs to contextualise concept and steering for humanitarian responses and preparedness
- In coordination with the WCA Head of Humanitarian and the worldwide EiE WG, deploy to the sphere at quick discover to assist arrange new emergency programmes and/or fill important gaps throughout the area, together with main technical assessments, growing response methods and plans, coordination and illustration.
- Help resourcing of latest emergency responses and important gaps within the area with appropriately skilled employees
- In keeping with the Humanitarian TA Backstopping protocols, present humanitarian TA backstopping help to new emergencies within the area, when appointed by the worldwide EiE WG
- Working intently with the Head of Humanitarian and Nation Humanitarian Focal Factors presents technical help to emergency preparedness and contingency planning
4. Technical Capability Constructing & Mentoring
- In coordination with the Head of Humanitarian and the worldwide EiE WG, perform studying wants evaluation throughout the area in technical space of experience.
- Help the event of and/or facilitate in-country preparedness training, making use of studying from earlier responses and different regional expertise, guaranteeing minimal thematic high-quality requirements/benchmarks are met, together with Sphere and CHS.
- Technical mentoring to CO technical colleagues to help to study {and professional} improvement
- Supporting recruitment and expertise administration of CO Training in Emergencies technical humanitarian employees
- Working with the EiE WG, to plan and ship technical coaching programmes and occasions throughout the area, in step with precedence studying wants.
- Present particular mentoring help to regional degree technical employees with a view to helping their improvement onto the Save the Youngsters emergencies roster together with offering Present Topic Matter Advise to regional technical employees who’ve been accepted as Humanitarian Standby Surge as a part of the GHSP
- Preserve a summary of present and potential nationwide employees who reveal sturdy technical functionality.
- Present Topic Matter Advise to regional technical employees who’ve been accepted as Humanitarian Standby Surge as a part of the GHSP
- Help fundraising efforts for technical humanitarian capability constructing programmes within the area.
5. MEAL, Innovation & organisational studying
- Offering help for high-quality benchmark improvement and monitoring and supporting high-quality Actual Time Evaluations, evaluations and analysis at CO degree
- Work collaboratively as a part of the worldwide EiE WG to make sure humanitarian technical work contributes to the direction of organisational targets and priorities.
- Discover revolutionary alternatives and traits which could possibly be utilized in our humanitarian programming within the area and help national workplaces to pilot, and doc, new or up-to-date instruments and steering
- Work collaboratively as a part of the regional EiE Working Group guaranteeing that our emergency response work, preparedness and capability constructing hyperlinks intently with our longer-term improvement and power humanitarian programming.
6. Illustration and networking
- Construct collaborative regional partnerships, by an illustration on regional clusters, working teams and technical fora, with a view to facilitate studying and promoting little ones rights in regional advocacy priorities
- Preserve oversight of the Training sector within the area, recurrently sharing related data with Save the Youngsters COs and members
- Help COs to make sure SC is fulfilling it is performance as international co-lead of the Training Cluster, by co-leading Clusters at a national level and guaranteeing devoted coordination and/or data administration employees are in place.
- Co-lead the Regional Training in Emergencies Working Group
- Lead the GPE engagement within the WCA area and the neighbourhood of follow
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Follow)
Accountability:
- holds self-accountable for making selections, managing assets effectively, attaining and function modelling Save the Youngsters values
- holds the workforce and companions accountable to ship on their obligations – giving them the liberty to ship in the easiest way they see match, offering the required improvement to enhance efficiency and making use of applicable penalties when outcomes usually are not achieved.
Ambition:
- units formidable and difficult targets for themselves and their workforce takes accountability for their very own private improvement and encourages their workforce to do the identical
- extensively shares their private imagination and prescient for Save the Youngsters, engages and motivates others
- future-oriented thinking strategically and on a world scale.
Collaboration:
- builds and maintains efficient relationships, with their workforce, colleagues, Members and exterior companions and supporters
- values variety sees it as a supply of aggressive power
- approachable, a good listener, and straightforward to speak to.
Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and revolutionary options
- keen to take disciplined dangers.
Integrity:
- trustworthy encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates the highest ranges of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s diploma in Training, Worldwide Improvement, Political Sciences or equal
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Important
- Not less than 7 years expertise of delivering top-quality Training in Emergencies and preparedness programmes together with first-part response expertise
- Understanding of the Training in Emergencies sector in West and Central Africa
- Understanding of the schooling system within the WCA area
- Success observe document on revolutionary Training in Emergencies Programme Improvement
- Capable of designing, leading and backstop on EiE response cycles, together with probably the most complicated emergencies – together with technique improvement and planning
- The expertise in contingency planning/emergency preparedness planning
- Skill to uphold SC’s function as International Training Cluster Co-lead, and helps COs throughout the area to fulfil this dedication
- Skill to signify the EiE sector in excessive degree conferences and with donors; advocate for elevated EiE funding, promote efficient programming approaches, in addition to lobbies for suitable schooling for probably the most marginalized teams affected by crises, at excessive degree conferences.
- Expert at networking, illustration and partnership improvement so as promote studying, strengthen civil society and mobilise assets.
- Capable of generating and using knowledge and proof to innovate, ship, be taught and share what works and what does not work for kids
- The expertise of selling high quality and impression by a minimum of one cross-cutting is gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming.
- Sound understanding of and dedication to SC generic programme approaches and core requirements in humanitarian response
- Demonstrated program design, monitoring and analysis abilities, together with designing pathways to sustainable impression at scale.
- The expertise of growing and supporting groups, and the power to guide, inspire and construct the capability of employees by coaching, teaching and mentoring
- Outcomes targeted and talent to develop and drive revolutionary and pragmatic programmatic and operational options
- Skill to work nicely throughout completely different useful areas and departments
- Good information on cross-sectoral linkages for Training in Emergencies and willingness to interact with different sectors for shared outcomes
- Important expertise in coaching, capability constructing, and mentoring
- Fluent in English and French, with an excessive degree of writing abilities in each English and French (required)
FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.
