Accountability Officer – Kenya Country Office
Team / Programme: Programmes
Location: Dadaab
Grade: TBC
Post Type: National
Child Safeguarding: Level
3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to
have regular contact with or access to children or young people
Role Purpose:
Role Purpose:
To effectively implement
the SC education programme activities of the DFID Cash Transfer project
in Garissa County, she/he will ensure quality delivery of programmes and
maintenance of high professional standards of all our education
programmes.
Scope of Role
Reports to: Project Coordinator
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since 1984, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Scope of Role
Reports to: Project Coordinator
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since 1984, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming
focuses on child protection, child rights governance, education, health,
HIV/AIDS, livelihoods, nutrition and WASH.
Save the Children has an
operational presence in Dadaab Refugee Camp, Eldoret, Habaswein,
Mandera, Meru and Wajir and has a logistics hub in Garissa.
Currently, we have a staff complement of approximately 370 staff and expenditure of approximately US$30 million this year.
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Key Areas of Accountability:
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Key Areas of Accountability:
- Work as part of a team to ensure quality programming
- Travel frequently to implementation sites to liaise with community leaders, local governments and beneficiaries to ensure continued participation and support for the project.
- Carry out regular monitoring activities and engagement with schools and communities to support project activities.
- In collaboration with the education officers, establish Community Accountability Committees (CAC) in targeted areas and train the CAC members
- Liaise regularly with the CACs to ensure that grievances are responded to promptly and effectively.
- Support families participating in the cash transfer programme by providing information related to programme processes and procedures and troubleshooting any challenges.
- Provide inputs for the development of strategic and operational plans in collaboration with Education Programme Management and partner agencies.
- Support the timely production of reports as required by the grant
- Document programme learning and disseminate lessons learned to key stakeholders in the field and to SC Management.
- Ensure field staff adherence to the child protection policy and reporting procedures.
- Undertake any other duties as assigned by the Project Coordinator, Education Manager or other key Management Staff.
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in education/ social sciences or its equivalent
- Minimum of three (3) year work experience implementing cash transfer programmes with development-related organisations
- Knowledge of education in emergencies, education sector policy, child rights and protection issues
- Experience of facilitating community-based training and awareness raising
- Strong self-starter, able to take initiative and adapt to changing circumstances and priorities
- Positive attitude towards community work with emphasis on the ability to learn from communities and support participatory, innovative approaches to problem solving
- Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathise with all children and their care takers
- Fluent in written and spoken English, Kiswahili and Somali
- Good report writing skills
- Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions
- Ability and willingness to make very frequent field visits to the project areas and communicate directly with field teams and beneficiaries
- Prepared to live and work in a remote field location in a somewhat uncertain security environment
- Commitment to Save the Children Values
Desirable Qualifications
- Previous experience in working with INGOs.
- Experience of working with communities and other agencies that support education
- Experience with similar cultural / social contexts.
- Demonstrable ability to adapt to changing program priorities and emergency priorities that may arise
The application period is now open and will close on Monday 28th January 2013 at 4.30pm.
To apply for open
positions, please send a short cover letter and CV to
Kenya.jobapplications@savethechildren.org indicating the position
applied for in the subject line.
