Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Save the Children NGO Job in Dadaab Kenya

Enumerator - Dadaab
 
Team / Programme: DFID-CT Pilot – Garissa County    
Location:  Dadaab
 
Grade:  Temporary Hire      
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:
 
To administer the baseline assessment for the DFID-funded Cash Transfer Pilot project implemented by Save the Children in Garissa County.
 
Scope of Role:

Reports to: Research Coordinator

Dimensions: Despite the introduction of Free Primary Education in Kenya in 2003, the direct and indirect costs related to education continue to pose a barrier to children accessing a quality education, especially in poor, hard-to-reach areas of the North Eastern Province (NEP). 
To tackle this fundamental demand side barrier, Save the Children with funding from DFID, proposes to distribute 12 months of regular cash transfers to 3000 poor households with children of school-going age in Garissa County, NEP. 
The immediate programmatic objective of the cash transfers is to reduce financial barriers to accessing primary education, thereby contributing to increased enrolment and retention among targeted children in Garissa. 
A second but equally important objective is to generate evidence on the relative impact of different types of cash transfers on enrolment and retention, and to specifically analyse the impacts on girls’ educational access.

Staff directly reporting to this post: N/A

Key Areas of Accountability:
  • Attend the DFID-CT Baseline  Enumeration Training tentatively scheduled for end of January or early February 2013
  • Take part on testing of the tools and support their revision.
  • Work with a team to enumerate the baseline survey in accordance with the required procedures
  • Communicate any challenges or concerns with enumeration to your supervisor
  • Take care to ensure the highest quality data is collected
  • Maintain all data collected during enumeration in a safe and secure place and submit to the Save the Children Dadaab office at the scheduled time
  • Ensure all information collected is kept confidential
  • Support the implementation of processes to review the quality of existing project data, information collection methods and the suitability of the existing data for the provision of sound baseline information;
  • Representing the principles and work of Save the Children to communities and other stakeholders when required;
  • Complying with and promoting all Save the Children Global policies such as Child Safeguarding, Whistle blowing, Fraud, and Health and Safety.
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
  • Diploma holder
  • Prior experience as an enumerator with complex data collection procedures
  • Experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection.
  • Computer literacy, particularly in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
  • Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities;
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills in Somali and English, with experience working in multicultural, multi location, values driven teams;
  • Willingness to work and travel in often difficult and insecure environments
  • Commitment to Save the Children values
How to apply

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.
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