Deadline: 11 January, 2021

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

Save the Children International (SCI) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Senior Social Protection 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

• In consultation with Ethiopia Civil Society Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC-SUN) national lead, ECSC-SUN steering committee, ECSC-SUN core team, MEAL and advocacy team, develop monitoring and evaluation frameworks for ECSC-SUN during concept notes, proposal development and other new opportunities
• Lead the monitoring and evaluation of the ECSC-SUN project activities and generate evidence for informed management decisions 
• Support the implementation of the planned ECSC-SUN activities within SCI and the coalition member organisation operational areas and track project progress towards the expected level of performance
• Support the development of advocacy and capacity gap assessment and budget analysis tools to be used for the project
• Provide technical support to the different sector ministries in aligning the planning, monitoring, budget allocation to emergent food and nutrition strategy and/or NNPII and track and review the resultant gains 
• Conduct field visits to provide technical support to regional ECSC-SUN support platforms and monitor progress of the project implementation
• Support ECSC-SUN members assigned to different region to establish regional level ECSC-SUN platforms in documentation of experiences and learnings, establishing monitoring and evaluation framework, reporting
• Coordinate a series of meetings with region government officials and bureau staff to introduce the purpose and function of a civil society regional support platform to establish regional civil society support platform
• Provide technical support for the implementation of regionalisation and thematic focus initiatives through supportive supervision, mentoring, coaching, review meetings, capacity building, learning visits
• Follow the implementation of the ECSC-SUN member agencies sub-granted project activities and the completion of project initiatives 
• Generate evidence for the specific advocacy and influencing initiatives
• Make sure and guide beneficiaries have access to context-based and confidential complaint, feedback and response mechanisms

Requirements

• First degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Monitoring and Evaluation, or a related field
• Eight years, minimum, of related work experience in the areas of nutrition and nutrition-related programme monitoring and evaluation and research, policy formulation and data analysis preferably in the NGO environment
• Experience in working with government counterparts, COSs and other partners at various levels
• Experience of designing and managing knowledge management systems, an awareness of learning methodologies and experience of leading learning events
• Experience in applying monitoring and evaluation methods, and qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
• Experience in provision of technical support, capacity building and coordination
• Superior written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex arguments into accessible English for a non-specialist audience
• Excellent understanding of the global nutrition movements, sustainable development goal
• Good presentation, training and facilitation skills
• Fluency in spoken and written English
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, as well as the major statistical software (EPI INFO, STATA, SPSS, Access, R-package) and qualitative data analysis tools
• Willing to travel to rural areas to organise events and workshops, collect data for evidence generation, and conduct supportive supervisions
• Understanding of child rights programming and commitment to Save the Children values
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures