Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.9 billion dollars last year to reach more children than ever before, through programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights, also in times of humanitarian crises.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: State Team Lead – Alive & Thrive
Location: Lagos
Reports to: Area Operations Manager with matrix reporting to the A&T Programme Manager
Staff reporting to this post: Project Officers
Budget Responsibilities: None
Scope of Role

The State Team Leader will work closely with the Project Officers, Senior SBCC Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor and Programme Manager.

Key Deliverables Include
State level quality implementation:

Accountable for the delivery of Project objectives, outcomes, and milestones at the state levels and ensures that financial, operational, and reporting requirements of the programme and the donor are followed.
Responsible for ensuring the results of logical framework are achieved with the support of the Programme Manager and Technical Advisors.
Supports Programme Officers to develop timely budgets and workplans and further ensure the implementation of activities as agreed in the workplan.
Works in collaboration with the Lagos State team through formal and informal exchanges to increase the impact of the project.
Ensures that all outputs of the Alive and Thrive Project are met and works to promote a “one team” approach.
Liaises with other relevant nutrition programmes in Save the Children International as well as in the State as appropriate to further the outcomes of the programme.
Ensures the mainstreaming of child safeguarding (safe programming) and fraud awareness in programme implementation.
Ensures all interventions are delivered to the highest quality standards and according to approved workplans.
Ensures State level workplans (annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly) are prepared and approved by the PM according to set timelines.
Active contributor to the Nutrition and Alive & Thrive Programme teams.
Leverages the technical assistance from the Nutrition team in the Country office to ensure effective and high quality programme delivery.

Monitoring and Documentation:

Works in collaboration with the Programme Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor to ensure that State Programme data is accurate and updated.
Accountable for the delivery of quality Reports of activities in Lagos State as per schedule agreed with the PM.
Ensure case studies and success stories are periodically developed from Lagos State’s A&T implementation..... Read more details here ==>>>http://www.currentschoolnews.com/?p=18835