Position Title: Senior Program Manager

Activation Date: 31 October, 2021   Announced Date: 28 October, 2021   Expire Date: 03 November,
2021

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Job Location: Kabul

Nationality: National

Category: Other

Employment Full Time

Type:

Salary: As Per Organization

Salary scale

Vacancy 210007VW
Number:

No. Of Jobs: 1

City: Kabul

Organization: Save the Children

 Years of 7+ years of project
Experience: management experience

Contract
Duration:

Gender: Male/Female

Education: Master’s Degree in

relevant field

Close date: 2021-11-03

About Save the Children:

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in
over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better
healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the
highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

•             No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday

•             All children learn from a quality basic education and that,

•             Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a
crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and
offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive
workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

SCI - Afghanistan
  Save the Children has been working in Afghanistan since 1976. Our way of working
close to people and on their own terms has enabled us to deliver lasting change to tens
of thousands of children in the country. The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child is
the basis of our work.

We are helping children get a better education, we make it possible for more boys and
girls to attend school, we help children protect themselves and influence their own
conditions. We work with families, communities and health workers in homes, clinics and
hospitals to promote basic health in order to save lives of children and mothers

 
Job Description:
“Save the Children strongly encourages applications from women. Minimum country
requirements for potential female applicants will be followed”

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children is launching a speculative recruitment to seek an experienced Senior

Programme Manager to lead the successful delivery of a flagship multi-sector program
in Afghanistan – consisting of protection, cash assistance, livelihoods and humanitarian
response. The program is expected have a yearly budget of $5mil+ with activities across
multiple provinces. The successful postholder will be highly organised and skilled at
mobilising teams across different themes towards a common goal. S/he will be an
adaptable and proactive team player, with solid ability to drive, manage and track
program implementation.  

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Programme Implementation and Monitoring

 Provide strong leadership, vision and direction to program staff  to ensure the
delivery of programme targets;
 Take decisions where required to implement the program in highly fluid
environments;
 Ensure that effective monitoring and performance management systems are in
place for achieving prior agreed programme activity targets, budget allocations and
 financial expenditures, ensuring that value for money can be effectively demonstrated to
the donor and activities and expenditures are compliant with donor requirements;  
 Maintain efficient and effective operating systems that are compliant with all Save
the Children standards, including safety and security management and child safeguarding;
 Lead the preparation, review and regular revision of the detailed implementation
plan, taking into account agreed milestones, log frame and budget;
 Collaborately set and review monthly targets and weekly workplans for project
staff to ensure that the DIP is delivered;
 Monitor project progress through field visits and meetings with project staff,
communities, local and provincial government and other key stakeholders
 Where required, commission, design or participate in field-based needs
assessments and gap analyses, including risk and vulnerability assessments;
 Lead on revisions of core implementation documents (milestones, logframe,
procurement plan, budget, DIP)  

Budget Management

 Ensure the effective and donor-compliant management of the project budget

through close collaboration with Awards, Finance and Supply Chain
 Prepare and implement monthly pipeline analyses and monthly spending targets
 Identify potential ariances of expenses verusus budget, and recommend
appropriate adjustments at AIR meetings
 Justify spending variances 10% in quarterly donor reports

Reporting and Documentation

 Play a leading role in the finalisation of donor narrative and financial reports, the
submission of  budget revisions, and other other donor-required documentation on time
 Support MEAL in the writing of donor progress reports and document case
studies of successes, challenges, lessons learned and other project-related feedback
 Ensure that key project documentation is archived at country and field level, with
field staff aware of what needs to be kept and recorded

Human Resource Management

 Ensure that the program is appropriately staffed across Save the Children,
including the appropriate combination of expertise across technical and operational areas
 Ensure that all direct reports have updated job descriptions, work plans,
objectives, development goals and clear lines of communication and reporting
 Support the capacity building of staff in English report writing; budget tracking
and utilisation; indicator tracking; and the preparation of detailed implementation plans

Coordination, Business Development & Representation

 Ensure that donor relationship remains positive

 Liaise with the PDQ department to input into funding proposals where required
and provide an operational perspective

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

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 their team to do the
same
 widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates
others
 future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

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; demonstrates highest levels of

integrity

 
Job Requirements:
QUALIFICATIONS 

Master’s degree or equivalent in education, gender or development studies or a related

subject

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

 Demonstrable experience of developing and managing major donor contracts

and grants in excess of $5mil
 7+ years of project management experience
 Understanding of humanitarian response, livelihoods and resilience is a must,
with protection a bonus
 Ability to track and manage project implementation through trackers and other
project management techniques
 Experience of project and financial management under donors with stringent
requirements such as BPRM, USAID/OFDA, ECHO/EU etc.  
 Proven track record of solving complex problems through analysis, definition of a
clear way forward and ensuring buy-in
 Strong representation skills and willingness to speak out for children
 Training, facilitation, briefing and presentation skills
 Experience in proposal development for institutional donors such as OFDA,
ECHO, DFID etc.
 Demonstrated experience of building and leading a team of staff with different
backgrounds and expertise
 Computer skills, i.e. Microsoft suite
 Previous working experience in fragile states

Desirable

 Knowledge of the Afghan context

 Fluency in Dari and/or Pashto
 Previous experience in cash transfer programming  

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder
may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of
skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal
Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous
background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and
Safety policies and procedures.

 
Submission Guideline:
Qualified applicants are highly encouraged to apply for the position by filling in the
online application form. In addition to the online application form, they can also attach
their CV and cover letter in the online system. Please note that only the applications
received through the online portal will be considered for this position.

Applicants can login to the online application system by copying and pasting the
following link intro their web browser. Returning users will need to enter their username
and password, first time users will need to create a user account.

It is recommended that you save your username and password for future job
applications through the online system.

https://stcuk.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=210007VW&tz=GMT
%2B04%3A30&tzname=Asia%2FKabul

 
Submission Email:
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