JOB TITLE:
Livelihoods Field Support
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TEAM/PROGRAMME:
Program Operations – Livelihoods Team
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GRADE: 6
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LOCATION: Greater Cairo area, Egypt
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TYPE OF CONTRACT: Fixed Term
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START DATE: As soon as possible
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END DATE: 31st of July 2017
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Child Safeguarding:
Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff
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ORGANISATION PROFILE / PROGRAMME SUMMARY:
Save the Children International is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries and work, together with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. In Egypt, Save the Children International has been working to ensure that children’s rights are respected, protected and promoted since 1982. We carry out both long-term development work and, more recently emergency humanitarian work.
SCI strategy for livelihoods interventions focuses on refugees’ access to employment and micro-entrepreneurial activities. SCI engaged with the private sector in Greater Cairo to provide livelihoods support across two pathways – wage employment and micro enterprise. SCI livelihoods activities drew on proven packages of intervention through a holistic approach addressing various refugees’ needs to accelerate outcomes for the brief period of implementation for livelihoods support.
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ROLE PURPOSE:
The livelihoods field support will be responsible for effective and timely administrative, financial and procurement support for Save the Children’s livelihoods team.
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SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Livelihoods Operations officer
Staff reporting to this post: None
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KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Project Implementation:
- Ensure that SCI’s minimum standards of financial, administrative and logistics procedures and country policies are implemented and adhered to the area of responsibility, supporting relevant staff as required.
- Support organizing meetings, workshops and accommodation for the livelihoods operations
- Support keeping and managing assets and consumable materials in the field.
- Financial and administrative coordination for activities planned in the field.
- Support in financial advances and settlements for all field activities and hold the responsibility of cash/goods delivery to the persons of concern.
- Support with the delivery of all participants’ allowances during the technical, apprenticeship trainings and the seed fund delivery.
- Prepare all procurement requests supporting all livelihoods’ operations.
- Attend the bidding analysis committees that related to the livelihoods operations.
- Support the procurement process related to the project implementation.
- Support the transportation needs for the team.
- Support the delivery of the seed fund for the program participants and the purchase of microbusiness equipment and tools.
- Other duties as assigned by the livelihoods operations officers
Reporting and documentation:
- Maintain the weekly report updating the team for the achievements.
- Maintaining proper inventory records of payment, procurement requests, purchase orders
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SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving results together with children 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
- Creates a managerial environment in-country to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for self and team, takes responsibility for own personal development and encourages team to do the same
- Widely shares personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with own team, colleagues, members, donors and partners
- 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
- Always acts in the best interests of children.
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EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
Essential
- Relevant bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business Administration.
- Minimum two years of experience in finance and administration of field operations.
- Proactive, results orientated and able to remain positive and solutions-focused under pressure
- Clear written and spoken communication skills in English and Arabic
- Proven problem solving skills and ability to provide clear practical solutions to operational challenges
- Highly developed interpersonal skills including, ability to work well both independently and with diverse/international teams, with a good sense of humour
- Demonstrable time management/organisation skills in challenging environments
- Commitment to the mission, vision, values and policies of Save the Children International, with a focus on Anti Fraud policy.
Desirable
- Familiar with African refugee context in Egypt and associated political/cultural sensitivities
- Previous experience (voluntary or waged) with procurement systems.
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Date: September 2016
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Author : AS / HM / RS
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