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Senior Technical Specialist- Adolescent Girls programming

Employer
ActionAid
Location
EC1R 0BJ, London (Greater)
Salary
£40,222 - £41,440 per annum
Closing date
15 Jan 2019

Job Details

ActionAid UK are currently recruiting for a Senior Technical Specialist to focus on their Adolescent Girls Programming.

 

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are ending violence against women and girls and helping change lives, for good. We won’t stop until women and girls are out of danger, out of poverty and on track to create the future they want.

ActionAid UK are currently recruiting for a Senior Technical Specialist to focus on their Adolescent Girls Programming. This is a post which is funded by a key strategic grant by the People’s Postcode Lottery and will play a key role in supporting the management of Adolescent Girls (AG) components of the strategic grant.                                                 

The role sits within the International Development Policy and Practice team, which is comprised of members supporting financial resource mobilisation, grant/ contract management, programmatic innovation, research and learning towards this end.

The post holder will take responsibility for supporting the business development teams within the department, with the conceptualisation of funding proposals and interventions based on best practice in Adolescent Girls programming.

They will also focus on providing guidance to the Business Development teams on strategic partners for consortia building during the development of competitive bids and tenders.

The Senior Technical Advisor – Adolescent Girls Programming, will support the Programme Quality and Assurance teams with technical advice, especially during the programme implementation phase of a newly acquired programme under the ActionAid UK contract.

Applicants must have a qualification in public health, child protection, child development, social work or a related field.

They must also have extensive in-country experience in the global South of implementing adolescent girls’ programming in GBV/ life skills, SRHR, AG in emergencies.

To be successful in this role, you must have proven knowledge and experience of community mobilisation and social norm change methodologies, along with experience of monitoring and evaluating AG programmes, particularly GBV focused and life skills interventions.

We are looking to recruit an individual with the demonstrable ability to create curricula and training manuals, who also has successful experience of facilitating and delivering training.

Applicants must have excellent oral and written communication skills, including proven success in communicating in challenging and cross-cultural contexts.

They must also have a strong track record in a technical advisory role, with a proven ability to produce demonstrable results.

Experience of international development/humanitarian donors of strategic relevance to AAUK - including DFID, Comic relief, ECHO, BigLlottery, UN, START Network, DEC and the UN, will be an advantage.

Applicants must also have the ability to travel overseas, often to insecure environments for short periods of time, several times a year.

Company

ActionAid is an international development charity which works in 45 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1972, ActionAid is an international federation and has offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and Washington DC, as well as London.

ActionAid UK is part of the international federation and almost all of the people and partners who run ActionAid programmes are from the developing world. This means its staff are on the ground, experiencing poverty at first hand. They see day-to-day how poverty affects people’s lives, and are uniquely placed to give a voice to the women and children who suffer most.

ActionAid’s work has several different components, unified by a commitment to place women and girls at the centre of its work. The charity aims to end hunger by giving millions of people in extreme poverty the skills they need to grow sustainable food, and campaigns to address the causes of hunger.

ActionAid also responds to emergencies and conflicts. It provided emergency assistance to more than 600,000 people in 2015 and trained nearly 46,000 others to protect lives and prepare for emergencies. In total the charity responded to 27 emergencies around the world last year.

Improving access to education is another facet of its mission. 59 million children, more than half of them girls, were out of school in 2013. ActionAid works with more than 5,000 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help over a millions girls and boys get the free, quality education they are entitled to.

Women’s rights and gender equality informs all of ActionAid’s activities. The charity works with communities against female genital mutilation, gender-based violence and forced early marriage.

ActionAid also campaigns for tax justice, fairer wages and more effective aid which can tackle the roots causes of poverty. It estimates that poorer countries lose around $200 billion a year from tax dodging by companies.

A variety of different roles are available at ActionAid including policy adviser, fundraising offer and HR manager. Employee benefits are plentiful, encompassing the opportunity to develop new skills, a pension scheme, childcare vouchers and free advice services.

ActionAid also supports selected UK employees to travel to host countries in order to gain first-hand experience of its in-country work. Frequent secondments, whereby employees work, for a period, in another department or different country in the federation, take place. The charity encourages job shares.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 3122 0561
Location
33-39 Bowling Green Lane
London
EC1R 0BJ
GB

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