Job Vacancies at Street Child

Street Child is a UK charity, established in 2008, that aims to create educational opportunity for some of the world's most vulnerable children. Street Child began its work in Sierra Leone in 2008 working with a small number of street children, eight years later we have helped to transform the lives of more than 50,000 children across Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nepal. In 2017, we launched our first project in Nigeria helping children impacted by conflict in the North East to access education.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Finance Manager

Job Location: Maiduguri, Borno (including frequent field visits)
Job type: Full time
Department: Finance and Operations
Reports to: Country Director
Contract Term: 1-year fixed term with possibility of extension
Working Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30am - 5:15pm, Friday 8:30am - 1:30pm

Key Responsibilities
Oversee the management of the accounts:

• Ensure account data is reliable and the accounts are kept in compliance with legal obligations, norms and internal procedures
• Ensure the programme's accounts are in good order and comply with deadlines, SC procedures and mandatory local regulations applying to SC
• Ensure national accounts are set up in compliance with local regulations (if necessary)
• Validate the monthly accounts in compliance with SC norms and mandatory local regulations applying to SC (if necessary)
• Ensure Quality of accounting deliverables; compliance with deadlines for sending accounts to management; quality of period-end closing operations; compliance with the organisation's internal frameworks
• Oversee the application of accounting procedures by the programme team
• Ensure accounting checks are carried out (validity of documents, quality of the accounting work, accounting, and funding allocations, etc.) and internal regulations and procedures are correctly applied
• Oversee the roll out of monthly, semi-annually and annually closing reconciliations

Ensuring the programme's cash flow management and making bank payments

• To ensure the availability of funds for implementing planned activities, and Benchmarks: Quality of management and control of cash flow; quality of money-flow security procedures; compliance with organisational frameworks defined by SC
• Ensure information about and the application of cash-flow procedures by the programme team
• Conduct regular checks on compliance with the organisation's procedures and regulations
• Archive cash-flow documents
• Adapt and manage the cash-flow in compliance with internal procedures and the legal framework
• Assist with the definition of the technical aspects of transporting funds and the regulations pertaining to money storage
• Ensure physical checks of office safes and cash boxes are conducted and check that control measures are followed
• Adapt and ensure the implementation of expenditure commitment procedure, train the programme team on how to use it
• Supervise the drawing up of cash-flow forecasts and check for optimal money flow management

Providing budget and financial management and the management of the programme's funding:

• Objective: To ensure the smooth-running of the programme with respect to its financial obligations
• Benchmarks: Compliance with the organisational procedures defined by the SC; quality of budget monitoring; quality of the budgets drawn up; quality of financial reports for donors; anticipation of financial problems Activities:
• Provide BVAs every month by the 10th of M+1 of all contracts
• Plan and lead the BVA analysis meetings every month before the 15th
• Train programme teams in internal budget and financial management procedures so as to ensure a realistic budget, accurate expenditure codification and robust budgetary steering
• Draw up and monitor cost allocation tables for office and staff costs
• Ensure coherency between the programme budget and the donors' budgets
• Conduct the monthly, bi-annual and annual accounts closing operations · Raise programme teams' awareness of contractual budget and financial obligations
• Analyse donor guidelines and inform the teams about these procedures and their application
• Check the budgetary monitoring of the funding schedule · Substantiate the financial accounts with regard to local legislation · Monitor and organise internal and external audits, assume the role of the auditor's primary contact in liaison with head office

Managing the financial aspects of all partners and subcontractors:

• To ensure all partners and subcontractors comply with the contractual terms and provide quality reports and supporting documents.
• Benchmarks: Quality and timely reports and support documents in compliance with the organisational procedures
• Objective: To ensure smooth relationship between partners and subcontractors with SC and capacity building of partners to achieve quality reports and supporting documents.
• Conduct refresher trainings and capacity building sections to all partners
• Update partners database regularly
• Review Partners Agreements and budgets
• Validate the financial aspects of partnership agreements
• Review and ensure accurate capturing of partner’s justification into QuickBooks/Aqilla by Finance Officer Ensure smooth partnership closure and reconciliation of partner accounts.

Managing the programme’s finance teams:

• Train the finance team
• Manage and lead the finance team, fix objectives and access the staff
• Set up communication and coordination mechanisms for the team
• Manage contractual monitoring (leave, end of trial periods, etc.) of finance team members; if necessary, co-validate disciplinary procedures with Operations Manager
• Oversee finance team's career development: define training needs and provide guidance on professional development

Qualifications and Experience

• Qualified Accountant in a globally recognised professional accountancy body (ACA or ACCA).
• Significant experience with at least 2 years in a financial management managerial position
• Past exposure and experience working on multiple projects
• Audit/accounting firms experience will be a plus.
• Highly familiar with management of sub-contracts and sub-grants with partners
• Working knowledge of rules and regulations of donors and their application

Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding

• Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.
• As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks.
• Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
• In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

Salary
NGN 700,000 – 900,000 / Month (Gross)

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Note: Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. However, we also strongly encourage female candidates and candidates whose state of origin is Borno to apply.

2.) Regional Officer

Job Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Department: Policy & Deveopment
Reporting to: Nigeria Country Director
Hours: 40 hours/ week
Nature of Contract: 12 months fixed term contract

Organisation Background

• We work towards a world where all children are safe, in school and learning. We specialise in supporting children and communities in low-resource environments and emergencies: recognising that the complex, compounded challenges that affect them require innovative, integrated interventions.
• Our interventions are informed by robust, rigorous evidence and results-oriented, optimised to create maximum impact for children at minimum cost. Since 2008, we have assisted over 850 000 children across 20+ fragile, conflict and crisis affected counties across Eastern Europe, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Role Purpose

• We aim to be an amplifier of local leadership and impact, and works with an expansive, evolving network of 95+ local level actors and organisations, underscored by close consultation and collaboration with local communities. Since 2019, Street Child has implemented a number of innovative initiatives to advance the localisation agenda, in close collaboration with Education Cannot Wait [ECW], the Global Education Cluster [GEC] and Child Protection Area of Responsibility [CP AoR] – producing powerful proof points where our principles and approach to localization have led to stronger, more sustainable local level actors and organizations.
• The role specifically seeks to strengthen our localization outreach within Region 3(B) of the Elevating Local Leadership in Emergencies (ELLIE) project with a remit on Nigeria.
• The Regional Officer shall support the development of a portfolio of pathbreaking initiatives to accelerate local level action through advocating for increased funding flows and investment in consolidating capabilities and capacities of local level organisations and improving local level leadership, inclusion, and involvement across the humanitarian architecture.
• This role reports to the Country Director for Nigeria shall support the activation of these initiatives in Nigeria and in close coordination with country colleagues in Cameroon and Nigeria.
• This includes Elevating Local Leadership in Emergencies, an ambitious, pathbreaking initiative to advance localisation in 35 countries across 3 continents in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development [USAID]. This role supports Street Child’s role increasing the scale and scope of its influence and impact across the architecture in the 4 countries.

Responsibilities
Advocacy, Influence, And Impact Assessment [60%]

• Support in the collection and analysis of relevant data on localization in the countries of intervention;
• Ensure localisation initiatives are informed by expertise and experience from previous programmes, and reflect recent research and evidence on advancing local level action;
• Ensure excellent presentation of our localisation proposition through production and publication of articles, blogs, briefs, and reports;
• Support and strengthen strategic communication and coordination with, and capacity strengthening of clusters, coordination groups and networks to advise and assist on increasing funding flows to, and the involvement, inclusion and leadership of, local level organisations;
• Support and strengthen evaluation of the effectiveness of localisation initiatives and evidence of their impact – including best practices and proof points in the 4 countries;
• Support Street Child’s presence and profile in the countries of assignment through regular engagements and evidence sharing across clusters, coordination groups, and networks;
• Strengthen Street Child position as a thought leader and increase influence through strategic coordination, collaboration, and representation across the architecture.

Programme Delivery [40%]:

• Support the roll out of localisation initiatives, conceptualising and operationalising programmes in close collaboration and cooperation with the Cameroon and Nigeria country teams
• Support a robust programme management and monitoring and regular reporting to stakeholders
• Support capacity strengthening and support for the Nigeria and Cameroon country teams, assist, and advocate to clusters, coordination groups to increase funding flows, invest in consolidating capabilities and capacities, and advance inclusion, involvement, and leadership of local level organisations
• Support country teams to assess the capabilities and capacities of local level organisations, and to advise and assist local level organisations to access funding, and accelerate inclusion, involvement, and leadership across the humanitarian architecture
• Assuring adaptive programme management to achieve ambitious aims and advance the localisation agenda
• Support in conducting scoping and setting up of activities to accelerate localisation in the countries of assignment
• Ensure collaboration and coordination with significant stakeholders including relevant working groups and clusters
• Supporting and strengthening sharing, collaboration, and cooperation across Niger, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Mali.

Person Specification
Attributes / Essential Desirable
Education / Qualifications:

• A First Degree in Project Management, International Development, Strategic Management, Education and or in any other related disciplines. A Master's Degree in a related discipline

Experience and Knowledge:

• At least 3 years of prior experience in project management ideally in the humanitarian sector
• Relevant experience of working in support of local partners
• Technical specialism in education in emergencies or child protection in emergencies
• Strong working knowledge of humanitarian standards and principles of good practice
• Experience in managing a multi-disciplinary, diverse team to deliver strong results
• Specific knowledge of the humanitarian landscape in Nigeria would be an added advantage

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent spoken and written English command of English
• Excellent interpersonal, listening and communication skills
• Excellent planning, coordination and reporting skills with demonstrated ability to work under pressure and delivering to tight deadlines
• Proven coaching/capacity building skills and organisational development experience Knowledge of local languages of the duty station would be a distinct advantage

Others:

• A ‘can-do’ and agile attitude, a passion for problem solving and adaptive thinking
• Commitment to our vision, mission and values
• Commitment to protecting the rights of children in all circumstances
• Commitment to localisation and local action

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Note

• Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and so interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.

3.) Proposals and Partnerships Coordinator

Job Location: Maiduguri, Borno with frequent travel within Nigeria
Contract: Full Time, 24-month fixed term contract, with strong possibility for extension
Department: Programmes

Job Description

• We are seeking a highly motivated Partnerships Coordinator to join our excellent programmes team in Nigeria to lead our relationships with local partners, improve coordination, strengthen organisational development and programme delivery across our growing flagship portfolio of education, child protection and livelihoods initiatives.
• We are seeking an enthusiastic team player with a proven track record of working with partner organisations to build capacity - possessing strong communication skills, project management experience and in particular, excellent proposal writing abilities.
• Previous experience working in international development, ideally in a humanitarian setting, will be an advantage.
• We are passionate about supporting our partners to access increased funding and this role will play a key role in enabling this, developing compelling proposals and supporting organisational growth.
• This is a great opportunity to apply your skills within a high functioning team as well as further develop your experience in a vital humanitarian context.
• You will be joining an agile and fast-growing global organisation, working for children's futures in 17 fragile, conflict and crisis affected countries.
• We deliver as much of our work as possible through local partners whose development and growth we take as seriously as our own.

Key Duties
Partnerships Coordination (20%):

• Lead and coordinate partnerships across Street Child’s programming portfolio
• Manage the communication and agreement of partnership expectations
• Provide support to partners in developing and implementing organisational development plans
• Identify new partner organisations and take the lead in conducting the appropriate due diligence
• Participate in coordination platforms and humanitarian clusters to advocate for better approaches for locally led action
• Generate and share evidence about Street Child’s ‘localisation’ approach at the national and global level
• Partnership Development (50%)
• Provide ‘hands on’ support to local partners in developing proposals and resource mobilization opportunities.

Programme Management (30%):

• Led on the development and delivery of Street Child’s ‘localisation’ projects, including follow up and reporting processes
• Assist in developing and monitoring work plans and budgets, as well as associated deliverables and results/outputs
• Prepare, coordinate reviews, edit, and disseminate project-related reports and documents
• Support the Head of Programmes and Business Development Manager where needed in developing proposals aligned with the contextual needs and Street Child’s strategy

Salary
£25,000 - £30,000 per annum + benefits.

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