Save The Children Nigeria Recruitment | Zamfara, Abuja, Kaduna, Katsina, Lagos, Jigawa, and Gombe
Save the Children is a leading international organization helping children in need around the world. First established in the UK in 1919, separate national organizations have been set up in more than twenty-eight countries, sharing the aim of improving the lives of children through education, health care and economic opportunities, as well as emergency aid in cases of natural disasters, war and conflict.
In Nigeria, Save the Children has been working since 2001. The early focus was on getting children actively involved in shaping the decisions that affect their lives. Today, Save the Children is working in seven federal states - Zamfara, Yobe, Jigawa, Katsina, Kano, Bauchi and Kaduna - focusing on providing basic healthcare and protecting children.
We are recruiting to fill the positions below;

Job Title: Community Mobilization and Behaviour Change Communication Officer
Location: Zamfara, Nigeria
Reports to: State Team Leader
Role Purpose
The Community Mobilization and Behaviour Change Communication Officer will be responsible for the coordination, monitoring and supervision of the community based promotion and mobilization activities related to the infant and young child feeding and Nutrition BC.
Key Areas of Accountability
Organise Stakeholders participation, sensitisation and advocacy:
• Coordinating the development of communications materials and participate in their review and comment on print and electronic media materials including scripts, posters, leaflets, video/audio recordings
• Ensure strong link with state, local government and community stakeholders
• Work closely with Health and Nutrition Advisor to design and deliver communications interventions that facilitate behaviour change amongst target groups across the focal LGAs
• Support and mentor community mobilization assistants to carry out their activities on community sensitization, mobilization, IYCF and Nutrition BCC activities
• Lead on planning and implementation of feedback mechanisms with leaders, communities and beneficiaries
• Keep records of supervision and actions taken from own activities and activities of the CMA
• Link with other organisations present in the area for coordination and sharing lessons learned.
• Plan logistics and materials needs for the activities to be carried out
• Be responsible for the strengthening and coordination of complain and response mechanism (CRM) activities working with the CRM coordinator
• Relationship building negotiation and problem solving with authorities, communities and Mobilizers/Volunteers

Job Title: Head of Health & Child Survival
Location: Abuja
Role Purpose
• As a member of the Extended Senior Management Team (ESMT), the Head of Health & Child Survival is responsible for leading the growth and management of the Nigeria country program’s health portfolio, as well as providing strategic leadership and ensuring program quality.
• S/he will anticipate appropriate opportunities for funding in-line with SCI’s strategy, and ensure effective partnerships with members and donor agencies, federal government agencies, and the private sector, towards achieving SCI Health & Child Survival program objectives.
• The Head of Health & Child Survival will lead the programming team in this sector with clear planning and priorities, and monitor and evaluate progress against those plans.
Key Areas of Accountability
Strategic Leadership and Program Quality:
• Ensure a Nigeria Health Strategy is developed and regularly updated to guide SCI’s direction in the health sector, ensuring that this strategy is innovative and aligned with SCI’s strategies and policies;
• Ensure that all Save the Children activities relating to health and child survival are effectively and efficiently contributing to strategic objectives, and that results are achieved as per expected technical quality standards;
• Oversee, in collaboration with the health teams, periodic technical reviews and manage changes in program direction and focus in collaboration with partners, donors, and SCI technical experts;
• Ensure that SCI Nigeria health programs are developed within the framework of Integral Human Development (IHD) and complementary to/aligned with other programs, including government;

Job Title: Consultant - Strengthening New-born Care Project
Location: Igabi LGA, Kaduna
The objectives of the assessment are to:
• Assess the effectiveness of the project in improving the skills and knowledge of health workers delivering newborn care services in Igabi LGA.
• Assess the contribution of the project in strengthening newborn care at the state level.
• Assess the facilities’ readiness to provide quality newborn care services in Igabi LGA including improvement in facility systems such as capacity building for health workers, availability of relevant commodities, equipment and infrastructure, quality improvement processes, and use of data use for decision-making.

Job Title: Project Manager, REACH (3)
Location: Katsina, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Role Purpose
The Program Manager will provide oversight to the REACH project team in Katsina state on planning, monitoring, report writing and budget and award management in order to meet timelines within the life of the project.
Key Areas of Accountability
Programme Management:
• Effectively and efficiently work with all REACH staff and local partners to ensure timely reporting of narrative and financial reports to the country office.
• Maintain good communication with staff and local partners
Planning and Budgeting:
• Provide guidance on activity plans, budgets and financial management and reporting to project staff and local partners in all project implementation states
• Provide guidance on budgeting, forecasting, rephrasing, tracking/monitoring and reporting
• Follow up with country office Awards and Finance to ensure timely disbursements of funds to local partners and assessment and vetting of local partners where appropriate.

Job Title: Consultant - Gender, Sensitive Situational Analysis on Pneumonia
Locations: Abuja, Lagos and Jigawa
Scope of Work
The proposed assignment will focus on planning and conducting a gender-sensitive situational analysis of pneumonia among under 5 children in Lagos and Jigawa states, focusing on following objectives:
Conducting an in-depth assessment of barriers to pneumonia control looking across:
• The full spectrum of protecting, preventing, diagnosing and treating pneumonia,
• Multiple sectors, including nutrition, household air pollution, immunization, diagnostics and treatment sectors.
• This assessment will be done in the context of Nigeria’s broader newborn and child health strategy in order to ensure there is alignment in terms of the barriers explored as well as the potential opportunities identified.
• Interview key stakeholders in the market at federal and state level, including: government actors; programmatic implementing partners; private sector manufacturers and supply chain actors, and other global actors that have been involved in ongoing efforts (e.g., Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, WHO, GSK).
• Understand the current newborn and child health priorities in the country and project states and how best to integrate pneumonia sufficiently into these priorities.
• Understand how gender inequality impacts on pneumonia prevention, control and treatment and how best women - in their role as primary caregiver - can be empowered for the benefit of their children’s health.

Job Title: Consultant - Review and Adaptation of the ASRH&R Curricula
Locations: Gombe, Katsina and Zamfara
Job type: Temporary
Consultancy Deliverables:
• Draft gender-responsive ASRHR curriculum with modules and training notes
• End of TOT training report
• Comprehensive end-of-consultancy report
• Duration of Consultancy: 20 non-consecutive days
Job Title: Consultant - Endline Evaluation of the Health Workers Capacity Building Project
Locations: Gombe, Kaduna and Lagos
Aim
The project aims to contribute towards an overall goal of reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality (MNCH) rates in Lagos, Gombe and Kaduna states by training 5000 frontline health workers (Doctors, Nurses/Midwives and Community Health Extension Workers) to deliver quality MNCH services to women, families and communities in these states.
Objectives
The project has two main objectives:
• To ensure that health workers are correctly applying improved skills and knowledge in the provision of MNCH services in the three focal states by 2018
• To enable a policy environment which supports the delivery of quality MNCH services in the three focal states by 2018

Job Title: Adolescent, Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) Coordinator
Locations: Gombe, Katsina and Zamfara,
Job type: Full-time
Duties and Responsibilities
Programme development and implementation:
• With the direction of relevant thematic leads, s/he will support the development of concept notes, work plans, budgets and other related activities of REACH within the programme in liaison with the project Director
• Ensure all ASRH plans and activities in the states are properly coordinated with the local implementing partners, and within the SCI management & operation systems
• Lead and coordinate the implementation of ASRH activities in the states in close collaboration with the implementing patners and Gender Equality Advisor
• Ensure conduct of quality trainings on ASRH to target health providers and partners towards improving the quality of health facility services to adolescents (Use of the Age & Life-stage Counselling Tools, Youth-Friendly Health Services, Interpersonal Communication Skills, Organizing Young Mothers’ Support groups, others). It is envisioned that this will include developing and/ or adapting training materials and tools as necessary.

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