Manager, Logistics, Kyrgyzstan Emergency

Organization: Save the Children

Website: STC

Title: Manager, Logistics

Location: Kyrgyzstan

Compensation: Not Listed

Description:
Save the Children US, the leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the U.S. and around the world seeks a Logistics Manager to lead and manage the set up or scale up of all emergency response logistics functions and responsibilities and associated staff. As a member of the emergency management team, the Emergency Logistics Manager will support the Response Team Leader and other members of the emergency management team on the best use of Save the Children’s resources. The Emergency Logistics Manager has responsibility for the co-ordination and support of emergency response logistics activities within the country of operation, with the goal of safe and efficient program delivery. The post holder is responsible for effectively managing logistics staff, vehicles, assets and relief stocks supply chain, ensuring effective and accountable logistics support to Save the Children emergency programs in the country of operation. 

Qualifications:

Requires two years international experience in humanitarian logistics at Country Program Logistics Manager level;  International experience in supply chain management in a sudden onset emergency or complex environment;  International experience in coordination of humanitarian logistics with multiple external agencies or clusters;  Experience in proposal development, budget planning and management, and the regulations of key international emergency donors governing supply chain, stocks and assets;  Experience in vehicle and fleet management including motorbikes, trucks and generators;  Experience in the set up and use of HF & VHF radio systems, satellite phones and internet, and development of communications procedures;  Experience in managing the logistics of aid distributions; Experience of building and developing the capacity of logistics staff through the use of training, performance management frameworks and development plans; Experience of working in insecure environments, developing evacuation plans, and implementing security management plans where relevant to Logistics management; Excellent IT skills; Fluency in written and spoken English.

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Manager, Livelihoods Program, Kyrgyzstan Emergency

Organization: Save the Children

Website: STC

Title: Manager, Livelihoods Program

Location: Osh, Kyrgyzstan

Compensation: Not Listed

Description:
Save the Children views livelihoods interventions as a crucial component of its emergency response strategy. Providing livelihoods safety nets in the form of food, in-kind and/or cash transfers, assisting households to recover assets, increasing household purchasing power, and reviving affected markets are all typical Save the Children programmes aimed to decrease the vulnerability of families and children during a crisis.  The livelihoods advisor is responsible for ensuring that quality livelihoods programmes are in place in Kyrgyzstan following the civil conflict.  Responsibilities include:

• To lead or support livelihoods assessments, especially rapid assessments and situation analysis based on interagency frameworks.
• To design and seek funding for appropriate emergency livelihoods interventions based on assessed needs.
• To include in programme design appropriate means of reaching and positioning the most vulnerable children and families for recovery through such interventions.
• To carry out day-to-day management and monitoring of livelihoods interventions, including recruitment, staff management and capacity-building, development of work plans, grant management and reporting.
• To carry out relevant advocacy, coordination and external representation activities with other NGOs, UN agencies, donors and national governments
• To support evaluations of livelihoods programming in responses
• To train key national staff in specific livelihoods competencies

Qualifications:

• At least 3-5 years of international experience in emergency food security and livelihoods response and recovery program assessment, management, design and evaluation and/or technical training and support;
• Advanced degree in a discipline relevant to food security and livelihoods (such as economics, agronomy, nutrition, rural development, anthropology or geography)
• Experience in writing reports and other project documents.
• Experience representing organizations externally.
• Experience working in highly dynamic situations. 
• Experience preparing successful funding proposals for donors, specifically US Government and European donors.
• Experience deploying in emergencies and organizing and leading field teams and coordinating with various departments at the field level.
  • Understand food security, risk reduction, emergency response, and livelihoods concepts
  • Excellent skills in monitoring implementation of program activities.
  • Skills in logistical planning and financial management.
  • Skilled with livelihoods and food security program assessment and design
  • Experience in designing and implementing appropriate and effective safety nets, including cash and/or food transfer programming, a plus.
  • Knowledge of proposal development process
  • Knowledge in designing, implementing and monitoring  of food security and livelihoods assessments and monitoring in the design of interventions
  • Ability and willingness to travel extensively to the field (up to 60% of the time), and to work independently even in harsh environments, sometimes under difficult and occasionally insecure circumstances and often at short notice.
  • Ability to manage and be a part of teams (multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary and inter-agency).
  • Skilled in experiential training;
  • Ability to work under tight deadlines, manage multiple tasks simultaneously,
  • Computer literate
• Russian language skills preferred. 

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Manager, Education, Kyrgyzstan Emergency

Organization: Save the Children

Website: STC

Title: Manager, Education

Location: Kyrgyzstan

Compensation: Not Listed

Description:

Save the Children US, the leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the U.S. and around the world seeks an Education Manager to design, implement and manage interventions to ensure that children affected by an emergency have access to quality basic education. Lead coordination of programmatic activities with key operational and policy actors and mechanisms, such as the Ministry of Education, UN agencies and the IASC Cluster process. The Emergency Education Manager is responsible for ensuring that quality education programs are initiated and capacities developed to provide education to children in Save the Children’s emergency responses world-wide. The Emergency Education Manager should ensure that all aspects of work are undertaken in accordance with Save the Children’s Policy, while also ensuring that the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies are promoted and underpin all preparedness and response processes and interventions.

Qualifications:

Requires degree in Education or a relevant subject area – or ability to demonstrate equivalent applied experience; Demonstrated experience of designing, managing, monitoring and evaluating education programs in emergencies for international NGOs; Demonstrated commitment to technical excellence in education and a focus on learning outcomes as a key metric of program success; Experience of applying relevant interagency humanitarian frameworks and standards in education in emergencies (for example INEE Minimum Standards); Proven experience of clear proposal and report writing and documentation; Substantial people and program management experience, including the proven ability to be part of and organize, support, manage and develop a small team.  Experience of working with partners and key stakeholders including children, parents, teachers, local and national authorities; experience of participatory approaches.  Excellent security awareness with experience of living and working in uncertain security environment and proven (successful) completion of, or willingness to complete an approved security training course.

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Manager, Child Protection, Kyrgyzstan Emergency

Organization: Save the Children

Website: STC

Title: Manager, Child Protection

Location: Kyrgyzstan

Compensation: Not Listed

Description:
Save the Children US, the leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the U.S. and around the world seeks a Child Protection Manager to Implement and manage interventions to address violations of children’s rights to protection from abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect. The Child Protection Manager is responsible for ensuring that quality programs are initiated and capacities developed to provide these kinds of protection to children in a range of Save the Children’s emergency responses worldwide.

Qualifications:
Requires experience in designing, managing, monitoring and evaluating child protection programs in emergency, transition and development contexts;  Ability to identify the main gaps in child protection in the given context to inform a holistic response for children;  Commitment to and understanding of child rights, Save the Children’s aims, values and principles and humanitarian standards as Sphere Charter and Code of Conduct;  Good knowledge of and experience in using established inter-agency standards and guidelines in child protection;  Experience in capacity building and in strengthening various duty bearers understanding of and response to child protection;  Self-awareness and proven ability to operate successfully in different cultural environments;  Good team leader and team member skills, including the ability to be part of and organize, support, manage and develop a small team; Fluency in written and spoken English;  Computer literate;  Budget development and financial monitoring skills. 

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