Congo (Democratic Republic)

Essential •Strong language skills in French and English, •Extensive experience of working internationally in humanitarian programmes •Previous experience of managing programme teams in large-scale first phase emergency response is essential •Education to MSc/MA/MEng level in a relevant subject or equivalent field experience •Previous experience of managing a large multi-sector, multi-national team •Previous experience of programme management across multiple locations •Experience of managing multi-donor, multi-site programmes (including ECHO, DFID and OFDA) of GBP 5 – 10m •Security management experience across a large programme. •Commitment to, thorough understanding of, and able to train staff in participation and accountability approaches •Demonstrated ability to set up monitoring & evaluation systems in large complex programmes. •Demonstrated ability to set up learning and development processes for a large team •Proven ability of mentoring and coaching •Experience of senior level representation •Experience of developing and negotiating successful partnerships with institutional donors •Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports •Excellent communication skills •Proven ability to influence change at an operational and strategic level •Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy •A high level of written and spoken English •The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances. •Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support Desirable •Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts •Specific experience of designing and managing consortia projects •Media experience

CHILD SAFEGUARDING Level 3. The responsibilities of this post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children and young people. In the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3. As part of these responsibilities the post holder will support the establishment of child safeguarding systems, promote a culture of keeping children safe, and ensure that potential harm to children (by our own staff and/or as a result of how we do our work) is identified and addressed on an ongoing basis. The post holder should report and respond to interventions as determined by position related responsibilities identified in the Child Safeguarding Policy. ROLE The Humanitarian Response Manager will be deployed to the field as the overall humanitarian response lead in the CAT 3 Kasai Response, making sure that the overall response is implemented. The post-holder will ensure that humanitarian programmes delivered are to the appropriate scale, scope, quality and accountability expected of Save the Children, and incorporate a child focused lens. The RTL working closely with the Program implementing team, Logistics, and in collaboration with the Director of Programme Operations, is responsible for identifying needs and resources and elaborating programmatic, operational and leadership recommendations for the emergency response in line with Save the Children national and global priorities. In so doing, the Response Manager will ensure that all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to child safeguarding, safety and security, code of conduct, equal opportunities and other relevant policies are in place. The post holder will play a leading role in the effective scale up and management of Save the Children emergency programmes to increase impact and enable positive change for children. RTL will also be expected to play a role and work in collaboration with Program Development and Quality (PDQ) department, AWARDS, Finance etc, as well as with Regional Office, SC Centre and SC Members advisers to support in organisational strategy, capacity building, policy & advocacy initiatives and fundraising. The RTL will ensure the integration on the assessment, programme design and implementation of all sectors reached: Health/Nut, Child Protection and Education ii Emergencies. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES Programme Operations and Support: •Assume overall oversight of the emergency response programme set up in Kasai Oriental and Lomami •Ensuring strict compliance of programme activities with Save the Children national and global policies and procedures and with relevant donor regulations and agreements, SPHERE guidelines and the NGO code of conduct. •Takes overall leadership in prioritising response sectors or funding where this is limited, in line with SC Global Humanitarian Strategy, ensuring maximum integration between sectors where possible. •Take overall leadership on response fundraising, ensuring the development of high quality concept notes and proposals linked to the response strategy, and engage effectively with donors’ humanitarian advisers. •Have oversight over programme implementation to ensure timely & high quality delivery of programme activities. •Ensure quality programmes and the monitoring of this through regular site visits within the response. •As a member of a response Senior Management Team, play a leadership role in the overall management of SC emergency responses. •Coordinate with the Sector Managers/Coordinators (Health/Nut, Child Protection and EiE) to ensure programme supply strategies are in place. •Support the multi-sectorial assessments, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs. •Ensure optimal safety and security management procedures and practices are in place for the emergency response programme and continually monitor the safety and security situation, adapting staff safety and security procedures accordingly in collaboration and cooperation with the Country Security Manager. •Oversee effective functioning of logistics systems to procure, store and distribute medical stock, supplies and services for the timely delivery of project. •Take overall leadership on ensuring technical and operational staffing needs (both national and international) for emergency programmes are met. •Plan, identify and resource appropriate and effective structure & staffing needs for entire response; In liaison with the HR Director ensuring that personnel policies are in accordance with national laws) Program Development and Quality: •Take overall leadership on ensuring monitoring & evaluation processes are in place and compliance with SC MEAL benchmarks. •Take overall leadership on accountability, ensuring that feedback is incorporated into programme design and learning disseminated to the wider sector. •Working with Assessment Team lead, support the designing multi-sector response and recovery strategies, programme plans and programme master budgets, ensuring sufficient technical expertise is included within budgets, ensuring linkages with existing country programmes and a clear phased plan of action up to 1 year. •Ensure strong accountability to beneficiaries •To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct. •Coordinate with SC members and SC Technical Working Groups to ensure that technical backstopping support is in place. Reporting: •Produce high quality and timely sitreps/reports (where necessary) for SC, Donor and within agreed reporting schedules as required. •In coordination with relevant Country Management team members, ensure the preparation of a timely programme delivery and submitting the donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements. Capacity Building: •Oversee the delivery of capacity building plans to develop the requisite technical competencies in programme staff. •Ensure that capacity building plans and performance management systems are in place to develop the requisite competencies in staff to ensure ongoing sustainability and quality of response. •Coach and mentor, and ensure Technical Advisers includes capacity enhancement of the national counterparts and link in to wider organisational talent development mechanisms. Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning: •Help shape broader sector strategies through influence of and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed. This may involve representing Save the Children within Humanitarian Country Team, or inter-provinces fora. •Take the initiative in documenting lessons learnt, best practice and case studies to shape in-country strategies and programme approaches, and contribute to broader sector learning. •Working with the Info, Comms and Media team, pro-actively identify advocacy opportunities, case studies and research opportunities which link with wider organisational strategic objectives, and turn these into action. •Lead on organisational level programme policy, innovation, learning or representation initiatives in consultation with Program Development and Quality team. •Play a leadership role in shaping communications and media priorities in line with programme priorities, acting as a spokesperson when required. •Represent Save the Children’s emergency response at the Coordination forums, to donors, the media and members of the humanitarian community. •Regularly undertake representation and advocacy with relevant government ministries at provincial level (Ministry of Health – MOH, DIVAS, Education, etc) at the operational area, other Government partners and officials as well as donor representatives. Establish systems for communication with local Government partners, relevant line departments and community representations in the operational areas. •Lead on organisational level operational practice, innovation and learning in consultation with Humanitarian team. •Ensure SCI response review framework is implemented and lessons learnt / recommendations followed up General: Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS •Education to MSc/MA/MEng level in a relevant subject or equivalent field experience EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS Essential (all mandatory): •Significant experience of undertaking a similar REALM/MEAL related role for education programming. •Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact well with people of all backgrounds, excellent relationship building skills. •Experience with coordinating research dissemination, including writing evaluation reports and briefs, organizing dissemination events, and presenting findings; •Proven ability to work with diverse and large teams and to foster a positive working environment with local and international stakeholders; •Experience working with researchers or academic institutions; •Demonstrated strong monitoring and evaluation skills, including planning/participating in evaluations. •Experience of working in all aspects of planning, monitoring and evaluation, including: system design, programmatic quality audits, systematic tracking and analysis, evaluations, surveys, assessment systems, capacity building and training. •Thorough knowledge of results based monitoring frameworks, including previous experience implementing longitudinal studies/cohort monitoring. •Experience of integrating quality standards in programmes and of implementing accountability initiatives, such as child participation, information sharing and complaints response mechanisms. •Experience of, and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability. •A high level of written and spoken English and French. •Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff. •Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity. •Previous experience working with external consultant(s). •Experience of preparing successful funding proposals for donors. •Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports. •Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy. •The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances. •Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin and support our work Desirable •Previous experience working in DRC. •Specific experience of designing and implementing projects funded by DFID. •Previous experience of working within a Payment by Results framework. •Specific experience of working in consortia projects. Applicants are advised that Save the Children International does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process. Any request in this direction should be immediately reported as contrary to the values and practices of our organization.

Contract Length: 2 Years CHILD SAFEGUARDING: Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff. ROLE PURPOSE: The REALM Specialist will ensure that Save the Children’s DFID funded Girls Education Challenge (GEC) project has a well-established, robust REALM system. His/her leadership will ensure that quality and accountability standards and learning are integrated into programme design. This position will work closely with the GEC consortium partners to ensure standardised, consortium wide M&E systems are adopted and well managed. By promoting participation, contextual data analysis and research, the REALM Specialist will support the project teams to strategically adapt activities/strategies to ensure efficacy and efficiency of programming, and maximise the positive impact of the GEC Project. Drawing on previous experience, and promoting the capacities of the DRC Education team, the REALM Specialist will ensure that results based planning is integrated into programming design. S/he will seek opportunities to ensure impact measurement, documentation and dissemination of lessons learnt. SCOPE OF ROLE: Reports to: Chief of Party, GEC with technical reporting line to National MEAL Manager Staff reporting to this post: Direct: One Database assistant, technical dotted line to two field based project MEAL staff. Key working contacts: Field and programmatic teams; National MEAL Manager; SCUK Technical Advisers KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY : Impact monitoring and evaluation: •Develop a detailed monitoring plan, including longitudinal studies and impact monitoring methodologies. •Ensure that quantitative and qualitative monitoring and evaluation tools are systematically implemented and used by the teams, in cooperation with Technical Advisors and Chief of Party. •Coordinate a baseline, mid-line and end line evaluation for the project. •Ensure that programming data and feedback is valid, verifiable, timely and compliant with donor guidelines. •Ensure that data is regularly used to inform programming decisions in order to support the GEC Payment by Results framework. •Conduct quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and present and disseminate information to inform programme management. •Produce regular reports and updates on project progress and draft the quarterly and annual donor reporting requirements, ensuring accuracy of data and quality of reporting •Ensure that all assessment/evaluation reports meet donor quality criteria, and promote the integration of recommendations and lessons learnt in project planning and future programming. •Work with both the Consortium and national MEAL team to facilitate standardisation of project monitoring tools, dissemination of lessons learnt and maximise opportunities for capacity building. •Ensure that the minimum standards of Education programming are maintained in accordance with international stands including QLF, INEE, DAC and HAP International. •Contribute to child-focused and child-led programme implementation, by promoting child-friendly REALM methodologies. •Ensure that the project monitoring plan is based on an understanding of gender & age relations and that monitoring and evaluation methodologies are sensitive to different needs and opportunities of women, men, boys and girls. •Support contributions to proposal writing and review REALM components. •Ensure that all data meets internal and external reporting requirements and timeframes. •To identify M&E gaps and quality gaps, and actively address their causes through training, field visits, and proposal of solutions to line manager; •To assist in data quality assurance and compliance with all grants related reporting requirements and their timely submission; •Conduct field visits to ensure staff compliance and understanding of MEAL tools as well as a high quality standard. Accountability and Participation: •Assess, design and monitor methods to ensure participation at all stages of the GEC project cycle; with a specific focus on promoting the participation of children. •Ensure that participation activities are well documented and learning is shared within the GEC consortium, the wider Save the Children DRC programme, and Save the Children members. •Ensure that participation activities are appropriately planned and budgeted for in the GEC project and funding applications. •By facilitating information sharing with key stakeholders, including beneficiaries, ensure that the GEC project promotes transparency throughout all stages of implementation. •Ensure that GEC project activities promote feedback and response mechanisms and include systems to effectively manage complaints. •Regularly review current M&E and Accountability practice, and assess how beneficiaries can best be involved at every stage of the programme cycle •To increase awareness and capacity of all staff on accountability through induction, training, coaching, informal support and in other ways as identified; •Ensure that activities are carried out to raise awareness on prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, and handling of serious complaints in line with child safeguarding policy. •Oversee all complaints handling and response, ensuring timely and appropriate feedback. •Support the regular review of activities ensuring a Value For Money analysis of activities and documentation of findings. Learning and Advocacy •In coordination with consortium members, ensure that REALM methodologies support advocacy and campaigning actions. •Promote learning throughout the organisation and consortium, particularly on issues of programme quality, policy analysis and advocacy. Ensure new analysis and information is constantly available, including for the forthcoming communications strategy. •Bring together data and findings from across the project and operational regions to form a coherent basis for analysis of impact which promotes learning and strategy development for the whole organisation. •To coordinate with program staff to create a feedback loop so lessons learned are incorporated into program implementation and development; •Ensure that findings and lessons learned from M&E and Accountability are shared with children and stakeholders in a meaningful and appropriate way; •Support the development of outcome and learning indicators for partnerships in order to promote learning •Work with technical and field teams to identify key methodologies to enable advocacy and campaigning impact measurement, take steps to document lessons learnt and disseminate findings. Capacity building •Map learning and training opportunities for project staff and, in consultation with COP and Field Teams, develop a REALM training plan for key programme staff, including field based MEAL positions. •Provide on-the-job supervision to field teams, overseeing all activities in the REALM programming cycle. •Ensure that local stakeholders and local partners are provided and included in REALM training opportunities when appropriate. •Ensure that all capacity building initiatives are well coordinated with wider SCI MEAL team. •Seek opportunities for information sharing and learning exchanges with local actors/INGOs to promote coordination at local and national level. General •Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures. •Carry on any other reasonable duty as may be assigned that is consistent with the nature of the job and level of responsibility

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Responsabilités

Faire l’étude détaillée des axes de routes de dessertes agricoles à réhabiliter/construire et des ponts

Planifier, lancer et suivre les travaux de réhabilitation de route et de ponts

Assurer une réhabilitation/construction de routes basée sur une haute intensité de main d’œuvre (HIMO)

     Superviser une équipe de techniciens et mécaniciens

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Responsabilités

Assurer l’administration programmatique du financement en développement économique et agriculture de l’Union Européenne : reporting, demande d’avenants programmatique

Connaitre les procédures de mise en œuvre, demande d’avenant de l’Union Européenne

Assurer un bon lien avec les départements financiers et logistiques afin d’assurer une complémentarité entre le programmes et les départements de support

Assurer une bonne communication avec les équipes de mise en œuvre pour éviter tout blocage ou ralentissement de la cadence de mise en œuvre sur le terrain

Encadrer une petite équipe d’officiers de rapportage