Internships Opportunity with Save the Children

Position title: HR Intern

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Human Resource

LOCATION: Addis Ababa

POST TYPE: National

Child Safeguarding: 

Level 3 – the responsibilities of the post holder may require having regular contact or access to children or young people.

Save the Children is an international humanitarian, child-centered, development organization, without religious, political or governmental affiliation.

A person name Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton founded the first Save the Children organization in May 1919, in London, United Kingdom. Shocked by the aftermath of World War 1 and the Russian Revolution, they were determined to improve children’s lives. Their goal was to create ‘a powerful international organization, which would extend its ramifications to the remotest corner of the globe’. The plan began to take shape when Radda Barnen (Save the Children) was established in Sweden in 1919.

In 1920, the International Save the Children Union was founded in Geneva by two organizations, together with a number of other bodies working for children – some using the Save the Children name or a local variant. Over the years, Save the Children Members were created around the world, embodying Eglantyne and Dorothy’s vision. These organizations shared a common aim – to improve the lives of children. Eglantyne Jebb (founder of Save the Chidlren) was also the first to press for worldwide safeguards for children. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and now ratified by nearly all countries worldwide, has its roots in her pioneering work.

In 2009, twenty-nine Save the Children organizations work to secure children’s rights and improve children’s lives in over 120 countries worldwide. At the members’ meeting the ambitious new five-year strategy is agreed, including changing the name to simply Save the Children, demonstrating our commitment to work even more closely together as one organization. In 2012, nineteen countries transitioned to Save the Children International and regional offices in Istanbul, Pretoria, Dakar and Panama.

Today, Save the Children and its 30 member organizations work to deliver change for children in around 120 countries. The organization delivers its programs internationally to achieve the greatest possible impact for children. It has a small centre and seven regional offices. The members work together to campaign for better outcomes for children, and to deliver programs at scale to support children.

Role Purpose:

The HR intern will be supporting the different sections of HR department on the day to day tasks for the smooth accomplishment of the function.  Along with, this is an opportunity for individuals interested in human resources to gain practical experience and develop essential skills in the field.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Assist with training and development activities, including scheduling training sessions and maintaining training records.
• Assist with documentation by compiling personal files both in hard and soft copy.
• Assist with the recruitment process by facilitating written and interview exams.
• Provide clerical and administrative support to Human Resources Department.
• Facilitate different events in HR department.
• Facilitate the issuance of ID Cards
• Assist the day-to-day activities of HR functions.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our 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 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 transparence

• Bachelor’s degree in management, Administration, or relevant social Science fields
• Knowledge of Microsoft applications software’s (Excel, Word, Power Point, etc.)
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Strong interest in developing a career in HR.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with professionalism and integrity.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Willing to involve in versatile activities
• Good command of written and spoken English
• Demonstrates strong learning agility
• Commitment to Save the Children values

Child Safeguarding:

Level 3: the post holder will have access to personal data about children and/or young people as part of their work, a police check will be required (at ‘standard’ level in the UK or equivalent in other countries).

ROLE PURPOSE:  

The Case Workers will be responsible for activities related to case management. She/he will be responsible for effective implementation and proper documentation of all child protection cases. The case worker will ensure that project activities on case management are in line with Save the Children’s key child protection principles including best interests of the child, confidentiality, do no harm and child participation, draw on relevant best practices and lessons learned, enable children to attain their rights and are compliant with donor regulations. She/He will provide technical oversight to government partners, stakeholder and case management team.

The case workers works in close collaboration with the project officer, project coordinator and Programme Manager to ensure complete support to the team, and ensure quality and effective implementation of the project activities at community level, organize and facilitate capacity building training workshops for partners, stakeholders and SC staff; participate on various assessments including stakeholder mapping, baseline and end line assessment; monitor government partners and SC implemented activities and discuss on success and challenges.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: (Case Worker)

Case Management

• Conduct identification, assessment, documentation and referral (to relevant services) and follow-up of protection cases.
• Provide information, advice and facilitate access to social services for vulnerable children.
• Conduct home visits to follow-up on interventions with families.
• Properly document all protection cases that went through the case management process.
• Conduct vulnerability analysis in line with Save the Children vulnerability assessment toolkit and define targets for case management services.
• Map and coordinate with service providers to support case management activities.
• Develop referral pathway to ensure access to holistic and quality services.
• Conduct assessment to identify the safety and protection of needs of the child, develop care plan, implement the care plan and conduct follow ups.
• Conduct capacity building training on case management for governmental and non-governmental service providers

Planning and Reporting

• In collaboration with government stakeholders prepare detail annual and quarters action plan and ensure the implementation
• Closely work with case management team and stakeholders in the course of project planning and implementation
• Ensure preparation of timely and quality quarterly and annual project progress reports
• Facilitate and ensure the involvement of children as primary stakeholders in all project work.

Coordination and Management of Projects Implementation

• To ensure effective implementation of case management services through appropriate assignment of cases, monitoring and guidance to caseworkers
• To provide guidance to the case management team individually and through group meetings
• Ensure the project is implemented in a way responsive to the community, and children in line with Save the Children principles, values and strategic plan and following Save the Children Compliance procedures.
• Foster collaborative environment and team spirit among stakeholders
• Conduct regular monitoring visits, support stakeholders at the project sites and prepare reports for documentation and follow-up actions.
• Liaise closely with protection actors in the field to ensure an understanding of the overall issues and effective collaboration amongst partners.
• Conduct regular coordination meetings among governmental and non-governments service providers to improve access to and quality of case management services..
• Facilitate the development and signing of standard operating procedure for case management services

Supervision and Monitoring

• Regularly review documentation of CP cases through case audits, review of files and databases. Ensure confidentiality and that data protection and information-sharing protocols are respected.
• Monitor and analyze child protection data collected by the Case Management team and provide regular reports to the Sr. Programme Manager
• Schedule and lead case management meetings every two weeks with the Case Management team
• Conduct monitoring and supervision of the planned project activities implementation
• Strengthen participatory and collaborative supervision and monitoring system

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values..
• Holds the Case Management 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.
• Highly regarded professional skills and ethics
• Focused on improving results for children.

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
• Commitment to the team

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency.
• Present, reliable, responsive and consistent
• Patient and emphatic

In order to be successful, you will bring/have:

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• BA degree in sociology, social work, social sciences or other relevant fields
• Previous 2 years of experience working with vulnerable children and adolescents in a corporate or NGO environment, preferably in protection or community based child protection field;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with empathy and respect
• Fluency in English/ verbal and written
• Fluency in Afar Afe language required
• Commitment to Save the Children values
• Qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply

Save the Children is seeking a Deputy Chief of Party (DCoP) for an anticipated five-year USAID-funded Disaster Risk Management activity in Ethiopia. The program will enable timely anticipatory and early action to preempt crises and reduce the impact of shocks in Ethiopia by strengthening disaster risk management (DRM) planning and preparedness, improving DRM coordination, and enhancing resource mobilization and management. The activity will also strengthen gender in emergencies (GiE) capacity, increase private sector engagement in DRM, and expand local organizations’ capacity to engage in DRM. The proposed program will be an integrated, multi-sectoral development program and will align with other USAID-funded programs in country.

The DCoP will establish and manage systems to ensure a coherent and high-impact approach across all program activities and themes. They will ensure that activities are appropriately layered, sequenced and integrated at all stages of the intervention, and will develop tools and procedures to guide the implementation of DRM planning and programming, monitoring outputs and outcomes and ensuring course corrections as required. In addition, the DCoP will work closely with the technical and operations team to ensure strong complementarity between private sector entities and complementary activities.

Hiring is contingent upon successful award of the project and USAID approval of the proposed candidate.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

Key Functions:

Create, and monitor the use of tools to ensure integration, cohesion, and alignment with key stakeholders, including private sector engagement with DRM and resilience best practices. Train and coach team members as needed.

Establish and implement a layering and sequencing strategy to ensure that each activity in the intervention is timed and implemented in a way that builds towards overall desired planning, preparedness and resilience impacts. Manage activities to achieve this layering and sequencing plan.

Ensure that external activities and investments in the intervention area are considered, and that appropriate linkages are created.

Ensure that all members of the program consortium are contributing technical inputs in a coordinated fashion that leverages the expertise of each organization, and that each consortium member is coordinating closely and effectively with the Government of Ethiopia (at central, regional and local levels).

Under the direction of the COP, support coordination of formative research studies, ensuring that these remain on track and that findings are synthesized to inform revisions to the program’s design (including its theory of change), scope, targeting methodology and implementation approach.

Hold discussions with partners and collaborating agencies to create and implement plans for program coordination at the household, community, kebele and woreda levels.

Assist the CoP in overall program quality assurance, and the M&E Lead in the measurement of the program impacts.

Lead the documentation and dissemination of information regarding program practices and outcomes.

Ensure that team members are provided with learning opportunities that support the technical quality of field interventions.

Provide day to day assistance, guidance and support to thematic team leaders to ensure quality implementation and integration.

Lead the technical aspects of routine and ad hoc program reporting.

Master’s degree in a relevant field (development studies, international relations, risk management, economics, climate change, business administration, etc.) combined with at least 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing technical international development programs.

Specific technical expertise in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and/or resilience programming.

Demonstrated ability overseeing operations and financial oversight for a program of a similar size and scope, preferably in East Africa.

Strong knowledge of USAID policies and regulations.

Ability and willingness to travel frequently.

Excellent written communication and presentation skills in English.

About Save the Children 

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is

(a) in response to a formal complaint or charge,

(b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or

(c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information