Nigeria: Emergency Team Leader

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Save the Children in Niger

Save the Children began working in Niger in July 2005 in response to the nutrition emergency. Save the Children established feeding programmes for malnourished children in Maradi province (Tessaoua and Aiguie districts) and Zinder province (Kantché (ex-Matameye) and Magaria districts) using the community therapeutic care (CTC) model. This programme has continued since then, with an average of 30,000 to 40,000 new admissions per year, and it has progressively shifted from a large-scale emergency response towards an integrated service of the primary health care system.

In 2010, in response to large scale food insecurity & malnutrition Save the Children opened another field base in Diffa. In response to the current crisis, Save the Children has conducted an extensive food security assessment with worrying results (it is expected that up to 6.3 million people will be food insecure by April). Save the Children is currently undertaking integrated multi-sectoral assessments looking at the impact of the food crisis on other sectors. Save the Children’s ambitious £30m strategy covering 1.3 million people is underway – prioritizing Food Security and Nutrition – with plans to expand the scope in an integrated multi-sectoral way covering six thematic sectors.

Emergency Team Leader

You will have at least 3 years experience working with an humanitarian organisation within an emergency environment at a senior level. This will be outlined by the skills and experience in project/programme implementation, monitoring, review and evaluation preferably from a child rights approach in accordance with the CRC and international humanitarian rights standards. You will ideally have substantial programming experience in Food Security and Livelihoods, Nutrition, Health, Protection, Education, Water Sanitation Hygiene as well as people and programme management experience with good interpersonal skills and abilities to communicate at all levels. You will possess solid skills in grant management, including budget holding and donor reporting and substantial experience of security management issues. You will also be fluent in French, be computer literate and have a participatory approach.