Humanitarian Learning Solutions Specialist

TITLE: Humanitarian Learning Solutions Specialist

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Humanitarian Leadership Academy/ WCA Regional Operations team

LOCATION: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger or Senegal (with up to 50% travel)

GRADE: 3 (National)

CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 Months renewable

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post 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 with country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children is recruiting for an experienced Humanitarian Learning Solutions Specialist who will ensure the design, development, and delivery of innovative, quality humanitarian needs-focussed learning solutions and services at individual, organisational and sector-wide levels.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Regional Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) Lead

Staff directly reporting to this post: None

Key Contacts: Working closely with Humanitarian Leadership Academy globally, the WCA Regional Office and its Humantarian Team as well as Country Offices (in WCA and other francophone country offices globally).

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

The main accountabilities of the role are as follows:

• Under dedicated HLA pillars, manage the effective design, development and implementation, monitoring and learning of humanitarian learning projects or programmes such as, but not exclusive to, the preparedness and responsive learning programmes
• Ensure the technical and andragogical quality of learning projects and programmes in close collaboration with other technical specialists
• Deploy to disaster-affected countries to work with frontline responders and partners to strengthen their capacity
• Establish and manage effective relationships with key stakeholders and partners within the learning sector to provide cutting edge solutions to demand
• Oversee multiple award-specific budgets in order to effectively implement the learning projects or programmes, including staff recharge, logistics, procurement, consultancies, etc., ensuring the relevant information management is aligned to SCI and donor specific compliance criteria, working with the Awards and Contract Specialist as required
• Lead the set up and management of learning faculties for accredited programmes including the assessment, marking and provision of feedback to learners
• Lead and manage the process of designing content for developing content into online learning, working closely with the Digital Learning Specialists
• Support the ongoing management and monitoring of contracts throughout the project/contract cycle, ensuring the awards and trading management information systems are up to date and that awards and trading contracts are donor compliant and audit ready.
• Represent the HLA and Save the Children in public forums and high-level external working groups to contribute to thought leadership on strategic areas and influence the professional development direction of travel for specific technical areas and the humanitarian sectors as a whole
• Support Research, Evidence and MEAL colleagues in identification of specific areas of learning linked to the learning solutions being implemented by this role

QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant university degree (International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Child Rights, Political Science, Sociology or other Social Science, International Development, etc.)
• Experience of delivering humanitarian training
• Good understanding and experience in emergency preparedness procedures
• Experience setting up and leading learning simulations
• Experience of organising logistics for training events or conferences
• Financial budgeting skills
• IT skills and computer literacy
• Fluency in written and spoken French essential
• Fluency in written and spoken English essential

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential:

• A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in humanitarian action
• Excellent written and spoken level of French and English (required)
• Ability to build and work as part of a high performing team and work effectively across the different functions to ensure maximum effectiveness and impact, including quality assurance elements
• Significant experience of designing, developing and implementing high quality and impactful user-centred blended learning programmes to support identified need, including through learning needs analysis
• Strong expertise in learning curriculum development and application of adult learning theory
• A minimum of 3 years of programme management experience including financial management experience, including budget preparation, monitoring and reporting, and grant/awards management
• Humanitarian field experience and/or strong knowledge of the humanitarian sector, its architecture and how it’s evolving- this will be tested.
• Willingness to deploy- sometimes at short notice- to remote and unsafe locations.
• An instinctive analytical and strategic thinker
• Ability to operate effectively in highly complex situations
• A first-class facilitator – collaborative and open networker
• Passion and energy to work in pursuit of transforming humanitarian response globally
• Highly effective in influencing, negotiating and lobbying
• Strong representational and communication skills, able to articulate a vision, strategy, or idea clearly and concisely
• Instinctively collaborative
• Undeniably positive with high levels of personal resilience and motivation to lead and manage a team