Deadline: 17 February, 2021
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Save the Children International (SCI) is seeking to fill the position of Regional Civil Society Advisor.
The organisation works to ensure children around the world get health care, food and shelter as well as learning and child protection services.
Responsibilities
- Foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, the organisation’s central programme quality and impact team, advocacy colleagues, regional advisors in other sectors, technical counterparts in other organisations, donors, regional programming partners, etc
- Maintain close contact with partnerships and localisation as well as Global Rights team
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Development, Organisational Leadership, International Relations, or a related field
- Extensive and substantive relevant practical experience may be considered in lieu of master’s degree
- Partnership brokering certification desirable
- Ten years, minimum, of qualified experience working with rights-based approaches and relevant thematic areas, focusing on organisational capacity strengthening of civil society organisations and/or national and local actors in development and humanitarian contexts
- Ten years, minimum, of experience in the design and implementation of programmes and capacity building of civil society organisations from both development and humanitarian contexts
- Experience of developing efficient strategies for advocacy work and policy dialogue between civil society and state actors
- Experience/familiarity of Nordic framework agreements focusing on local civil society strengthening is considered a merit
- Familiarity with organisational development methodologies, partnership principles, partnership brokering, participatory approaches and the localisation agenda
- Strong understanding of thematic issues related to child rights and human rights
- Strong analytical skills and ability to summarise extensive and complex information
- Ability to lead on strategic development, including monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
- Knowledge of RBM/LFA frameworks
- Proposal writing and reporting skills, including thematic quality assurance on gender equality, child rights, and children with disabilities, conflict sensitivity, and climate aspects in both development and humanitarian contexts
- Experience in organisational capacity development and significant training, facilitation and capacity building skills
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office and business intelligence/reporting/monitoring systems
- Proficiency in English (speaking and writing)
- Other languages spoken in the respective SCI regions
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