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Save the Children has worked in Indonesia since 1976 to promote health and nutrition, education, child protection, livelihoods, and emergency preparedness and response. Save the Children has grown enormously in the country and today we operate in 13 provinces across Indonesia. Our program in Indonesia has made significant progress at the national policy level. Through the better living, Education, Nutrition and Development (BLEND) Project. Save the Children will develop local capacity in Bender Meriah’s to cover four sub districts and with Early Child Development (ECD) and Maternal and Child Health (MCH), Livelihood and Nutrition services to children and their mother. The program will strengthen and improve the quality of existing posyandus, schools, and initiate new services in villages also work to build the capacity of existing ECD, Primary schools, Agriculture and training for teachers and equipping the facilities with needed educational and health, agriculture materials. Currently Save the Children immediately need experienced staffs to be part of our BLEND 3 program team and will be based in Bener Meriah, Aceh.
The position we are looking for are:
1. Early Child Development (ECD) Program Officer – BLEND 3 (code: ECD PO – BM) – 1 post, based in Bener Meriah
She/he will work under the direct supervision of the Project Coordinator to contribute to effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of ECCE Project through facilitation of all aspect, especially ECCE’s program intervention activities under this program in target catchments of sub district.
Job Responsibilities:
1. Facilitate planning, organization and management of ECD program activities:
- Contribute in the set up and develop of program strategies and intervention for monthly, quarterly and annually, collaboration with other personnel’s in the team.
- Collect, record and keep/maintain all basic ECD situation data in target areas including community mapping, school committee, access to ECD, and others data relevant with the program.
- Develop TORs and budget estimate requirement to guide implementation for overall intermediate result activity.
- Carry out, organize or/conduct the health activities against operating plans as timely manner.
- Conduct community awareness/campaign/ socialization meetings linkage the program with stakeholders, community and local government.
- Assist on mobilize communities, beneficiaries and other stakeholders to be involved in development process.
2. Manage financial performance of activities:
- Assist in coming up with yearly, quarterly and monthly plan/requirement for the ECD component.
- Develop monthly cash projection.
3. Facilitate capacity building of community and stakeholders:
- Assist in identify capacity gaps for beneficiaries, group of community and line government partnership of the program.
- In direction by the coordinator, conduct or collaboration with other officers to strengthen the community ECD interventions such as workshop, serial trainings, regular coaching and campaign/promotion activities.
- Ensuring the communities, posyandu cadres, ECD/kindergarten and primary school members’ ability to participate and contribute in kind to their development process.
4. Monitoring, evaluation and documentation of ECD activities:
- Together with other officers, contribute on regular monitoring and evaluation of the ECD program activities in villages working areas.
- Conduct visits to sampled beneficiaries to asses performance of intervention in coordination with line local government partnership.
- -Track progress of key indicator for strategy objective against the benchmarks and ensure information is provide to M & E for updating database in timely manner.
- Provide the documentation of activities through photos, short movie, etc.
- To follow of advice Project Coordinator on issues that may affect the progress of activities under this component on time.
General Requirements:
Education: Bachelor University Degree or equivalent in relevant field.
Skill and Experiences:
· Minimum 3 years total experience working in education program with minimum 2 years experience in similar task and (I)NGO.
· Knowledge and skills in methods to promote improvements in early ECD.
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
· Proven skill to produce annual, quarterly and monthly plan and report.
· Proven skill in engaging community, partner or stakeholders in program activities.
· Able to work in post conflict area.
· Proven skills to develop an implementation plan and then efficiently implement activities.
· Demonstrated ability to write high quality reports and other project document in Indonesian and English.
· Excellent computer literate.
· To be base at sub district level in Bener Meriah.
2. Health Program Officer – BLEND 3 (code: HPO – BM) – 1 post, based in Bener Meriah
She/he will work under Program Officer and Project Coordinator to contribute to effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of livelihoods to improved Nutrition for Kids program through facilitation of all aspect of health, especially Nutrition’s program intervention activities under this program in target catchments of sub district.
Job Responsibilities:
1. Facilitate planning, organization and management of health & nutrition program activities.
- Contribute in the set up and develop of program strategies and intervention for monthly, quarterly and annually , collaboration with other personnel’s in the team.
- Collect, record and keep/maintain all basic health situation data in target areas including community mapping, community health works (CHSs0 Groups, access of health services, health.
- Providers services and others data relevant with the program.
- Develop TORs and budget estimate requirement to guide implementation for overall intermediate result activity.
- Carry out, organize or/conduct the health activities against operating plans as timely manner.
- Conduct community awareness/campaign/ socialization meetings linkage the program with stakeholders, community and local government.
- Assist on mobilize communities, beneficiaries and other stakeholders to be involved in development process.
- Develop TORs to guide implementation of key community mobilization activities in sub district under the guidance of Project Coordinator.
- Ensuring that posyandus, ECD/kindergarten and primary school have provided the healthy snack and meals.
2. Manage financial performance of activities (management, expenditure, etc):
- Assist in coming up with yearly, quarterly and monthly plan/requirement for the health (Nutrition) component.
- Develop monthly cash projection and review monthly budget versus actual.
3. Facilitate capacity building of community and stakeholders:
- Assist in identify capacity gaps for beneficiaries, group of community and line government partnership of the program (DHC, DAO, DEO, etc).
- In direction by the coordinator, conduct or collaboration with other officers to strengthen the community and health worker capacity in health or/Nutrition interventions such as workshop, serial trainings, regular coaching and campaign/promotion activities.
- Ensuring the communities, posyandu cadres, ECD/kindergarten and primary school members’ ability to participate and contribute in kind to their development process.
4. Provide technical support:
- Advice on / ensure timely procurement of the right type, specification and quantity of supplies for livelihood and health provision activities.
- In collaboration with the other officers, ensuring to prepare all of administration procedure support document such as vehicle utility procedure, purchase request / requisition and others.
- Provide closely approach and communication with community leader and key stakeholders.
5. Monitoring, evaluation and documentation of livelihood and health activities:
a. With the other officers, contribute on regular monitoring and evaluation of the health /nutrition program activities in villages working areas.
b. Conduct visits to sampled beneficiaries to asses performance of intervention in coordination with line local government partnership.
c. Provide the health activity and monthly report, consolidate all of data program requirement to develop quarterly, annual and project report.
d. Track progress of key indicator for strategy objective against the benchmarks and ensure information is provide to M & E for updating database in timely manner.
e. Provide the documentation of activities through photos, short movie, etc.
f. To follow of advice Project Coordinator on issues that may affect the progress of activities under this component on time.
6. All stakeholders are aware of LINK program through networking, collaboration and coordination:
a. Provide as key person figure on behalf LINK program at relevant meeting with government, NGOs and other players in sub district.
b. Build relationship well with relevant government Ministries / department of Livelihood / Agriculture and health as well as other stakeholders.
General Requirements:
Education: A minimum of graduate in medical doctor, public health, nursing, midwife or other relevant field.
Skill and Experiences:
· Minimum 4 years total experience working in health and nutrition activities with minimum 3 years experience in similar task and (I)NGO.
· Knowledge and skills in methods to promote improvements in health and nutrition program activities.
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
· Proven skill to produce annual, quarterly and monthly plan and report.
· Proven skill in engaging community, partner or stakeholders in program activities.
· Able to work in post conflict area.
· Proven skills to develop an implementation plan and then efficiently implement activities.
· Demonstrated ability to write high quality reports and other project document in Indonesian and English.
· Excellent computer literate.
· To be base at sub district level in Bener Meriah.
SCI Values Practice for both position
1. To carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
2. To carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Updated CV and application letter should be sent toRecruitment.Indonesia@savethechildren.org
Please fill the “subject” column of the e-mails in this format: code of the position <…> - your name <…>.
Closing date for application is 5 (five) working days after this advertisement or up to 16 July 2013
(Only short-listed candidates will be notified)
All recruitment practices and procedures reflect SC’s commitment to protecting children from abuse
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