Response Team Leader

1 month ago

Nairobi, Kenya Save the Children Full time

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries

About the role
We are currently looking for a Response Team Leader to join our team. The Response Team Leader is responsible for identifying needs and resources and elaborating programmatic, operational, strategic and leadership recommendations for the emergency response in line with Save the Children national and global priorities. The post-holder will develop and manage programmes or country support functions and negotiate and network at an international level. They will ensure that all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to child safeguarding, safety and security, code of conduct, equal opportunities and other relevant policies are in place. The post holder will play a leading role in the effective scale up and management of Save the Children emergency programmes to increase impact and enable positive change for children.

You will bring to the role with you:

Experience of working in first or second phase sudden onset emergencies in a senior management role.
Extensive experience of working within a senior management role and within a complex country programme in an emergency response or fragile state setting; and/or extensive experience of setting up responses in out of area contexts (either where no SC presence or CO presence); and/or extensive experience of working in high income contexts.
Senior management experience of leading a diverse, multi-function and/or multi-sector team at a Country Director or other relevant SMT level.

Proficiency in English and working knowledge of a second language (French, Spanish, or Arabic) is a must.
About us 
The Global Expertise and Humanitarian Surge Platform (GEHSP) is Save the Children's global humanitarian surge, technical expertise and new business development deployment management function, operating o behalf of both members and SCI. It is dedicated to identifying, developing and deploying skilled and experienced talent from across the movement to meet the needs of our domestic and international programmes and humanitarian responses. Our vision is to help to improve the quality, timeliness, and effectiveness of our humanitarian responses and programmes; directly contributing to Save the Children's capability to deliver the best outcomes for children and their families.
About HST
HSTs work alongside country, regional and member teams to support the scale up and management of international and domestic emergency responses, enabling positive change for children. The role of the surge staff varies depending on the needs of the response and could include:

deploying in the first days or hours following a natural disaster or crisis to lead the first phase of a response to sudden onset emergency;
supporting ongoing emergency response and recovery work through providing advice, guidance and expertise in a specific skill area;
providing short term interim cover for country office staff;
supporting delivery of capacity building initiatives.

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