Team Lead at Street Child Nigeria

Street Child is a UK charity working to protect vulnerable children and improve access to education in some of the poorest communities in the world.  We work in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nepal and since November 2016, Street Child has been involved in the Humanitarian response in North East Nigeria.

Street Child works in the fields of education, child protection and livelihoods, working to deliver sustainable solutions and create maximum impact. Our work combines counselling, family mediation, business support, school building, teacher training and child protection.  We were a key player in the Ebola crisis and led the global response for children orphaned by Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. We deliver all our programmes through local partners and, since 2008, together we have built/renovated over 200 schools and are now helping to educate over 40,000 young people.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead

Location: Calabar, Cross River
Report to: Child Protection Manager
Specification: Nigerian Nationals Only
Starting from: 1st April
Contract duration: 4 Months

Key Responsibilities

Programme Delivery:

• Responsible overall for the implementation of Street Child’s Child Protection programme in Calabar, Cross River State, including monitoring of activities progress against target & supervising and recording project activities expenditure against budget
• Preparation of narrative and financial reports weekly & monthly, as required for the management team and donors
• Identifying, troubleshooting and reporting issues with programme implementation to the Child Protection Manager as necessary

Partner Supervision & Mentoring:

• Responsible for effective management of implementing partner including progress of activities, financial and narrative reporting
• Overseeing partner monitoring to identify and respond to any issues as they arise
• Liaising with the Learning & Partnership Manager to identify partner training/capacity building needs and to conduct capacity building training when necessary
• Project delivery: monitoring of activities progress against targets, supervising and recording project activities expenditure against budget,
• Identifying, troubleshooting and reporting issues with project implementation to the Nigeria Programme Manager as necessary

Coordination:

• Responsible for coordination and liaison between Street Child and other agencies / local government in Calabar, Cross River State (with support of Programme Managers)

Requirements

Leadership Behaviours:

• Excellent interpersonal, listening and communication skills;
• Ability to positively influence others and successfully reconcile differences;
• A self-starter with a strong results orientation and with high levels of integrity, credibility and dependability;
• An energetic team player who can effectively collaborate, and who can stand alone when necessary;
• Demonstrated ability to work and deliver under pressure and tight deadlines.

Core Values:

• Commitment to Street Child mission, vision and values, and the ability to convey with enthusiasm Street Child’s role in accompanying and serving forcibly displaced people and in advocating for their right to protection and a life in dignity;
• This role will involve working with vulnerable people and children and requires relevant knowledge of safeguarding principles
• High integrity, honesty and confidentiality; ability to deal tactfully and discreetly with situations, people and information;
• Acceptance of diversity and inclusion as a core value.
• Willingness to work in a flexible, sub-optimal, stressful and unstable environment.

Experience:

• Experience (at least 4 years) of working in Nigeria on child protection
• Experience of working in Calabar, Cross River State (an advantage, but not a requirement)
• Demonstrated experience and commitment to working with marginalized communities

Language:

• Fluency in English and excellent writing skills.

Technical skills:

• Strong analytical, reporting, strategic thinking and planning skills.
• Strong monitoring and evaluation skills/experience
• Knowledge of project cycle management.

Terms and Conditions

• The contract is for 4 months, with an initial probationary period of 1 month. The salary will be proportioned to the candidate experience and balanced to the Street Child salary scale.

Application Closing Date
13th March, 2020.