This position will lead child care and school recovery programs for the Hurricane Maria Response. The position will lead the technical oversight of sub-grants and material support to licensed child care, early education, basic education and after school providers across Puerto Rico. The position will manage proposals, monitoring and reporting of Save the Children’s (SC) childcare and education recovery projects. The Manager will lead assessments, recovery plans and high-profile collaborations and reports to the Deputy Team Lead, Programs.
As a representative of Save the Children the position holder is required to ensure the safety and security of children and families that he/she comes in contact with and represent the agency values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity. This position is based in Puerto Rico. This position is expected to last a minimum of 6 months, with a possibility of extension to one year
Areas of Responsibility:
Program Management (65%)
- Responsible for ensuring the quality of Save the Children’s child care and education programming
- Lead the continuous assessment of child care and early education needs and ensure that these are appropriately reflected in sectoral strategies and program implementation
- Lead on funding distribution and material to partners and ensure accountability of entire program.
- Develop operational work plans, establish clear targets and activity plans
- Line manage staff who support the Child Care, Education, community partnership and education recovery work
- Oversee knowledge sharing between child care and education teams in coordination with other sectors, and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve programs
- Develop program quality assurance tools, such as needs assessment tools, quality checklists for use in spot checks, complaints and response mechanisms, internal review and program evaluation workplans, and others
- Ensure clear plans in place for monitoring and evaluating project
- Ensure that projects are monitored regularly, and that data is collected on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
Capacity Building (20%)
- Build the capacity of child care and early education staff through delivering trainings, information management and skills, and mentoring staff.
- Contract and arrange trainings for teachers and caregivers through schools and child serving programs.
- Ensure local partners and Save the Children staff are trained in the latest bet practices, techniques and tools for high quality education and child care programming
- Link the recovery process with training to improve quality procedures and practice
External Relationships (5%)
- Maintain regular contact and strategic linkages with key Puerto Rican government and federal relief agencies.
- Coordinate and support sub-grant agreements with partners
Proposal Development (5%)
- Liaise with the relevant external stakeholders including donors,
- Support fundraising initiatives for child care and early education recovery including feeding into the development of high quality concept notes and proposals.
General (5%)
- Deliver results in line with the job description in a way which maintains the reputation of the Save the Children
- 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.
- To perform such other responsibilities as agreed with your line management.
Educational Background:
High School or Technical/Vocational Degree
Skills/Experience:
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
Required Qualifications
- You have a minimum 3-5 years' experience in International Development
- Strong background in program development and grant management.
- Excellent skills in advocating towards government agencies.
- Experience working with other NGOs and coordinating inter-agency activities, strategies and products.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of different audiences including donors, journalists, beneficiaries, and the ‘general public’.
- Experience delivering communications assets across multiple channels, including print, social and digital.
- An initiative-taking, proactive, inspiring attitude with the ability to manage and prioritize an unpredictable workload and solve problems quickly with needed support.
- Experience of delivering training, presentations and other capacity building activities to varied audiences.
- High-level analytical and strategic thinking skills and strong research skills.
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy; ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people.
- Patience, adaptability, flexibility, and ability to improvise and remain responsive and to communicate clearly and effectively under pressure.
- Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children.
- 100% travel/deployment to Puerto Rico.
Preferred Qualifications
- You have 5+ years’ experience in Psychology, Social Work or related field in a relevant subject.
- You have a college/ advanced degree in international development, social work, psychology, or related field
- Experience working in Puerto Rico preferred
- Spanish language capacity preferred
Compensation/Benefits:
- Meaningful work, with a knowledge that you are changing the lives of children all around the world
- A family friendly work environment
- Highly collaborative and innovative teams
- Generous paid vacation days, holidays, family leave days, and sick time
- Healthcare plans including medical, dental, and life insurance
- Retirement savings account with matching company contributions
- Structured and formalized management development and coaching programs for mid and senior level managers
- Extensive e-learning opportunities on a variety of topics offered through our affiliation with several prestigious universities and with the American Management Association, as well as language learning opportunities
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Dec 2 2017
Active Until:
Jan 1 2018
Hiring Organization:
Save the Children US
industry:
Nonprofit