Deputy Response Team Leader- Programmes

Deputy Response Team Leader- Programmes

ROLE PURPOSE:

Following the start of the conflict in Ukraine, thousands of people fled to neighbouring countries including Poland which welcomed more than 2 million refugees. STC sent in an initial response team to assess needs of children and their families in Poland and is scaling up a programmatic response with local civil society partners and municipalities like Krakow and Warsaw. The programme provides education, child protection and psychosocial support to those in need and a cash and voucher program to newly arrived refugees to Poland.

The Deputy Team Leader Programmes is responsible for ensuring that Save the Children’s humanitarian response in Poland – both direct and partner led – is delivered to the appropriate scale, scope, quality and accountability expected of Save the Children, and incorporates a child focused lens.

The DTL Programmes is accountable for coordinating needs assessments, designing high quality programme, monitoring & evaluation activities. They will also manage a team of technical advisers in child protection, education, cash and voucher, MEAL, MHPSS, nutrition and gender. The postholder will be expected to mentor and/or strengthen the capacity of international and national staff colleagues. The Deputy Team Leader – Programmes will also be expected to play a role in global level technical working groups, working closely with HO technical advisers on organisational strategy, capacity building, policy and advocacy initiatives.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

General Management

• As a member of a response Senior Management Team, play a leadership role in the overall management of SC emergency responses
• As a member of the response Senior Management Team, demonstrate the behaviours that are consistent with Save the Children’s Mission, Vision and Values and ensure their broader application by staff across the response
• As a member of the response senior management team, ensure a conducive and productive work environment; implement Country Office workplace & diversity agenda for staff in the response
• Contribute to the wider country programme agenda
• Access global policies, procedures and technical resources which will support the country office technically or operationally
• Carry out the responsibilities of the role in a way which reflects Save the Children’s commitment to safeguarding children, in accordance with our Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding Policy

Programme Strategy and Development

• Take overall leadership on assessments, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs.
• Take overall leadership on designing multi-sector response and recovery strategies, programme plans including sectoral log frames and programme master budgets, ensuring the highest technical expertise is represented in the same, and ensuring linkages with existing programmes and strategies.
• Take overall leadership in prioritising response sectors or funding where this is limited, in line with SCI Global Humanitarian Strategy, ensuring maximum integration between sectors where relevant and possible.
• Take overall leadership on response fundraising, ensuring the development of high quality concept notes and proposals linked to the response strategy, and engage effectively with donors’ humanitarian advisers.
• Take overall leadership on ensuring technical staffing needs (both national and international) for emergency programmes are met.
• Carry out short advisory visits to country programmes to design new programmes, develop proposals or review/monitor/evaluate ongoing programmes.

Programme Quality

• Take overall leadership on beneficiary accountability, ensuring consistent two-way communication, a robust complaints and response mechanism linked to child safeguarding, and that feedback is incorporated into programme design and learning disseminated to the wider sector.
• Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.
• Coordinate with SC members and SC Technical Working Groups to ensure that technical backstopping support is in place.
• Take the initiative in documenting lessons learnt, best practice and case studies to shape in-country strategies and programme approaches, and contribute to broader sector learning.
• Pursue relevant and strategic operational research and the development of evidence based programming, in line with the national MEAL framework.
• Lead on organisational level programme policy, innovation, learning or representation initiatives in consultation with SC Member advisory teams

Human Resources and Capacity Building:

• Line manage staff consistent with HR policies in the country office;
• Oversee and support the delivery of capacity strengthening plans to develop the requisite technical competencies in programme staff.
• Coach and mentor Technical Advisers and national level counterparts and link into wider organisational talent development mechanisms.

Representation, Advocacy &: Coordination:

• Ensure strong leadership of the education coordination mechanism. Where strategic, necessary and relevant, and where capacity exists, support the child protection and community engagement working groups, and health and nutrition clusters with technical and coordination support. This may involve fundraising as well as line management of cluster coordinators.
• Help shape broader sector strategies at the interagency level through influence of and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, ensuring that SC is “the voice of children” and that the specific needs of children are being addressed within the humanitarian response. This may involve representing Save the Children within Humanitarian Country Team fora.
• The post holder may directly oversee advocacy and media/communications on some deployments; in this case they must oversee the implementation of relevant child safeguarding, media and comms, and advocacy policies.
• Pro-actively identify advocacy opportunities, case studies and research opportunities which link with wider organisational strategic objectives, and turn these into action.
• Play a leadership role in shaping communications and media priorities in line with programme priorities, acting as a spokesperson when required.