TITLE: Regional Training in Emergencies Technical Advisor, West and Central Africa
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Growth & High quality
LOCATION: Dakar, Senegal (West and Central Africa Regional Workplace)
GRADE: Worldwide 4
CONTRACT LENGTH: 24 months (renewal relying on funding)
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Degree 3: the submit holder can have contact with youngsters and/or younger individuals both ceaselessly (e.g. as soon as per week or extra) or intensively (e.g. 4 days in a single month or extra or in a single day) as a result of they work nation packages; or are visiting nation packages; or as a result of they’re liable for implementing the police checking/vetting course of workers.
ROLE PURPOSE:
Regional Humanitarian Technical Consultants drive the standard, accountability and timeliness of humanitarian responses and contribute to emergency preparedness within the area. Regional Technical Consultants will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical experience, and relationship constructing abilities to supply a vital hyperlink between the Save the Youngsters’s world and nation stage technical work, strengthening our technical supply on the regional stage. They are going to play a powerful position in regional capability constructing efforts, mentoring and constructing networks throughout CO TEs, and foster cross-CO studying. They are going to help regional advocacy and influencing and drive regional strategic partnerships for studying and new enterprise growth. They are going to present High quality Assurance and demand pushed TA to COs, in step with regional priorities and design and enter to implementation and monitoring of regional programmes. Within the occasion of a serious humanitarian emergency, the position holder can be anticipated to work outdoors the traditional position profile and be capable of fluctuate working hours accordingly.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Experiences to: Regional Programme High quality & Growth Director.
Employees reporting to this submit: Primary Training Technical Advisor (Vacant)
Funds Tasks: none
Position Dimensions: She/He’s anticipated to foster relationships with a variety of inner and exterior humanitarian stakeholders together with Save the Youngsters members, the SCI central Programme High quality & Influence workforce, regional Humanitarian Director and different regional (Humanitarian) Advisors, technical counterparts in different organisations, CAFU, advocacy, donors and so forth. Specifically it’s anticipated to take care of shut contact with, and accountability to, the worldwide thematic Training in Emergencies workforce by way of the related Humanitarian Technical Working Group.
Annual Wage Degree : $50,000 – $58,000 (supply can be primarily based on expertise/inner fairness and monetary skill).
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
1. Technique & Management:
- General thought management of Training in Emergencies work in West and Central Africa
- To watch sectoral tendencies and forecasts within the area, supporting international locations to plan, take early motion and reply
- To keep up an summary of all Training in Emergencies programmes inside the area, and facilitate collaboration between Save the Youngsters members, regional and nation workplaces to strengthen each the portfolio and preparedness and response high quality.
- Assist nation workplaces within the design of their preparedness, response and transition methods (program and advocacy), making certain alignment to Save the Youngsters’s world thematic priorities and humanitarian coverage.
- Assist GPE engagement within the WCA area
2. Assist to Response Design, Growth and Implementation:
- Foster regional strategic partnerships for brand new enterprise growth, e.g. strategic positioning with donors at regional stage, and positioning Save the Youngsters as a frontrunner in a technical space.
- Lead the design of regional/multi-country programmes, facilitating collaboration between COs and making certain prime quality, coherent technical design.
- Be sure that COs have entry to and use inner and exterior greatest follow and proof within the design of latest programmes, in addition to classes discovered from earlier responses and Actual Time Evaluations
- Work with SC member focal factors to safe funding for brand new emergency programmes, by way of coordination with donor technical consultants and creating prime quality proposals.
3. Supporting Technical Programme High quality Assurance:
- Lead or help EiE wants assessments in step with sectoral requirements and SC coverage.
- Assist to CO implementation and monitoring of regional/multi-country programmes, to make sure prime quality, well timed, supply, monitoring and analysis
- Assist international locations to reply sectorally, contemplating the Core Humanitarian Requirements, Grand Discount commitments and Training in Emergencies greatest practices (e.g. INEE)
- Assist the operationalisation of SC and sectoral greatest follow and world requirements working with COs to contextualise concept and steering for humanitarian responses and preparedness
- In coordination with the WCA Head of Humanitarian and the worldwide EiE WG, deploy to the sphere at brief discover to assist arrange new emergency programmes and/or fill vital gaps inside the area, together with main technical assessments, creating response methods and plans, coordination and illustration.
- Assist resourcing of latest emergency responses and important gaps within the area with appropriately skilled workers
- According to the Humanitarian TA Backstopping protocols, present humanitarian TA backstopping help to new emergencies within the area, when appointed by the worldwide EiE WG
- Working intently with the Head of Humanitarian and Nation Humanitarian Focal Factors present technical help to emergency preparedness and contingency planning
4. Technical Capability Constructing & Mentoring
- In coordination with the Head of Humanitarian and the worldwide EiE WG, perform studying wants evaluation throughout the area in technical space of experience.
- Assist the event of and/or facilitate in-country preparedness trainings, making use of studying from earlier responses and different regional expertise, making certain minimal thematic high quality requirements/benchmarks are met, together with Sphere and CHS.
- Technical mentoring to CO technical colleagues to help studying {and professional} growth
- Supporting recruitment and expertise administration of CO Training in Emergencies technical humanitarian workers
- Working with the EiE WG, to plan and ship technical coaching programmes and occasions inside the area, in step with precedence studying wants.
- Present particular mentoring help to regional stage technical workers to be able to help their growth onto the Save the Youngsters emergencies roster together with offering Present Topic Matter Advise to regional technical workers who’ve been accepted as Humanitarian Standby Surge as a part of the GHSP
- Keep an summary of present and potential nationwide workers who show robust technical functionality.
- Present Topic Matter Advise to regional technical workers who’ve been accepted as Humanitarian Standby Surge as a part of the GHSP
- Assist fundraising efforts for technical humanitarian capability constructing programmes within the area.
5. MEAL, Innovation & organisational studying
- Offering help for high quality benchmark growth and monitoring and supporting high-quality Actual Time Evaluations, evaluations and analysis at CO stage
- Work collaboratively as a part of the worldwide EiE WG to make sure humanitarian technical work contributes in direction of organisational targets and priorities.
- Discover modern alternatives and tendencies which could possibly be utilized in our humanitarian programming within the area and help nation workplaces to pilot, and doc, new or up to date instruments and steering
- Work collaboratively as a part of the regional EiE Working Group making certain that our emergency response work, preparedness and capability constructing hyperlinks intently with our longer-term growth and power humanitarian programming.
6. Illustration and networking
- Construct collaborative regional partnerships, by way of illustration on regional clusters, working teams and technical fora, to be able to facilitate studying and promote baby rights in regional advocacy priorities
- Keep oversight of the Training sector within the area, often sharing related info with Save the Youngsters COs and members
- Assist COs to make sure SC is fulfilling it is perform as world co-lead of the Training Cluster, by co-leading Clusters at national-level and making certain devoted coordination and/or info administration workers are in place.
- Co-lead the Regional Training in Emergencies Working Group
- Lead the GPE engagement within the WCA area and the neighborhood of follow
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Follow)
Accountability:
- holds self accountable for making selections, managing assets effectively, attaining and position modelling Save the Youngsters values
- holds the workforce and companions accountable to ship on their tasks – giving them the liberty to ship in the easiest way they see match, offering the required growth to enhance efficiency and making use of applicable penalties when outcomes will not be achieved.
Ambition:
- units formidable and difficult targets for themselves and their workforce, takes duty for their very own private growth and encourages their workforce to do the identical
- extensively shares their private imaginative and prescient for Save the Youngsters, engages and motivates others
- future oriented, thinks strategically and on a world scale.
Collaboration:
- builds and maintains efficient relationships, with their workforce, colleagues, Members and exterior companions and supporters
- values variety, sees it as a supply of aggressive power
- approachable, good listener, straightforward to speak to.
Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and modern options
- keen to take disciplined dangers.
Integrity:
- trustworthy, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest ranges of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS
- Masters diploma in Training, Worldwide Growth, Political Sciences or equal
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Important
- At the least 7 years’ expertise of delivering prime quality Training in Emergencies and preparedness programmes together with first part response expertise
- Understanding of the Training in Emergencies sector in West and Central Africa
- Understanding of training system within the WCA area
- Success monitor document on modern Training in Emergencies Programme Growth
- In a position to design, lead and backstop on EiE response cycles, together with essentially the most advanced emergencies – together with technique growth and planning
- Expertise of contingency planning/emergency preparedness planning
- Skill to uphold SC’s position as International Training Cluster Co-lead, and helps COs inside the area to fulfil this dedication
- Skill to signify the EiE sector in excessive stage conferences and with donors; advocate for elevated EiE funding, promotes efficient programming approaches, in addition to lobbies for the suitable to training for essentially the most marginalized teams affected by crises, at excessive stage conferences.
- Expert at networking, illustration and partnership growth so as promote studying, strengthen civil society and mobilise assets.
- In a position to generate and use knowledge and proof to innovate, ship, be taught and share what works and what would not work for youngsters
- Expertise of selling high quality and affect by way of at the least one cross-cutting are: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming.
- Sound understanding of and dedication to SC generic programme approaches and core requirements in humanitarian response
- Demonstrated program design, monitoring and analysis abilities, together with designing pathways to sustainable affect at scale.
- Expertise of creating and supporting groups, and the flexibility to guide, encourage and construct the capability of workers by way of coaching, teaching and mentoring
- Outcomes targeted and talent to develop and drive modern and pragmatic programmatic and operational options
- Skill to work properly throughout completely different practical areas and departments
- Good data of cross sectoral linkages for Training in Emergencies and willingness to have interaction with different sectors for shared outcomes
- Important expertise in coaching, capability constructing, and mentoring
- Fluent in English and French, with excessive stage of writing abilities in each English and French (required)