Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 860, 000 children go to school and learn.
Job Title: Emergency Response Manager
Contract: Full Time, 24-month fixed term contract.
Salary: $35,000 – $45,000 per annum depending on experience (plus accommodation and benefits)
Principal Location: Maiduguri, with regular travel within Nigeria
Street Child are searching for a passionate, talented professional to lead our flagship humanitarian programme in the North-East of Nigeria. We are a rapidly developing international children’s charity with high-class programming in 20 of the world’s lowest income and most crisis-affected countries. Working alongside excellent local NGOs to deliver high impact programming in education and protection is at the heart of Street Child’s approach globally. In Nigeria, we are recognised as an outstanding INGO for championing and strengthening local partners.
This unique role is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced team leader to drive the agile, outcomes-focussed delivery of our $3.5m emergency programme portfolio. The role holder will be based in our principal and largest office in Maiduguri, where they will provide senior representation, and work with a strong team of project managers and departmental leads. Together with their team, the Emergency Response Manager will design, plan, manage and monitor programme activities to demonstrably achieve the education and protection outcomes Street Child are targeting, and to strongly engage in the development of new opportunities.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in humanitarian or fragile development contexts, used to building and stewarding relationships with donors, government and local partners, and working with multiple programmes and budgets. Proven coaching, teamwork and communication skills, strong writing skills and analytical thinking, and excellent leadership ability will be key to your success in this role. We value agility and flexibility at Street Child, so an ability to thrive in a team where requests for support across a range of areas is the norm will be essential in this role.
Further details of the role are set out in the attached description. To apply for the role please send your CV and a brief covering letter outlining your suitability and motivations for applying to [email protected] by Tuesday 7th February 2023. Applications will be reviewed as they are submitted so interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.
Diversity is important to us at Street Child. We especially welcome applications from candidates with backgrounds typically under-represented in the sector and/or reflect the communities we seek to serve.
Pre-employment checks will be required as part of our recruitment process in line with our Safeguarding Policy.
