JOB ADVERTISEMENT – Program Outreach Coordinator

SCI employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3:  the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.

ROLE PURPOSE: 

The Program Outreach Coodinator will provide day-to-day management administrative and base operational support to the Outreach Team which includes multi-portfolio emergency relief distribution, assessment and implementation phases within the response team while responding to earthquake disasters. The position will contribute to the implementation of emergency response through agreed programme plan; initiate and lead on assessments through Outreach team members for multi sector porfolio; ensure the quality of distribution of program activities carried out. Given this role is a clear field oriented one, the applicants must pre-accept the value focus at field operations.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Head of Programs, Hatay

Staff directly reporting to this post: Program Outreach Assistants

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

1) GENERIC RESPONSIBILITIES (50%)

• Lead on field level assessments and on-spot observations in coordination with other program departments
• Ensure the team provides accountable delivery, analyses the needs on daily basis
• Based on developed appropriate responses (both programmatic and advocacy) to meet people's basic needs, including emergency NFI distribution, winterisation, Shelter&WASH, CVA, Livelihoods and EiE programmes. This includes the development of distribution related concept notes and proposals
• Coordinate proactively with thematic sector leads, agreement on staff pool allocations, develop and finalise the field activity plans jointly
• Day-to-Day administrative, HR and technical management of outreach officers and alignment of outreach assistants to the agreed field plans

2) ACCESS, PLANNING AND REPORTING (20%)

• Lead the response area planning and delivery of ongoing NFIs distributions planned for EQ Türkiye Response at defined period
• Identify distribution sites, needs and supervise to ensure rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff along with the agreed thematic sectors.
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

3) REPRESENTATION, COORDINATION & COMMUNITY RELATIONS (30%)

• Represent Save the Children in Field level coordination mechanisms, build the relations with Muhtars, mid-level local authority based officials
• Participation to the UN-level coordination meetings as per delegated by HoPs
• Work with the other coordinators in the area to provide support and oversight on any construction, cash and emergency activities taking place
• To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Code of Conduct.
• Identify learning and training opportunities for Save the Children staff and partners and work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.
• Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and Government, and take a leadership role within Interagency Coordination forums, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed. This may involve taking the lead in coordination working groups.
• In collaboration with SC Shelter colleagues, feed in learning, experiences and evidence to relevant global advocacy objectives.

Office Work: 0-1 Days (0%-20%)

Field Work: 4-5 Days (80-100%

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving results together with children and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
• Creates a managerial environment in-country to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for self and team, takes responsibility for own personal development and encourages team to do the same
• Widely shares personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with own team, colleagues, members, donors and partners
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency
• Always acts in the best interests of children 

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• A suitable qualification in, logistics, social studies or another relevant subject
• At least 3 years’ experience working in the relief sector with a recognized international organization. Ideally some of this experience will have been in an emergency situation
• Experience in assessments, program implementation and evaluation
• Experience of community mobilisation and distribution
• Experience in winterisation programming
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach national staff 
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Turkish
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles 
• Ability and willingness to travel to the project sites
• Language skills in Arabic is highly desired
• Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts is highly desired

Position holder will be based in Hatay with frequent travels to other cities, therefore legal right to work in Türkiye is necessary at the time of application.