Senior Technical Advisor Orphans & Vulnerable Children-South Africa 2016
We have an exciting career opportunity for a Senior Technical Advisor Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) to join the m2m team. This position will work collaboratively with m2m head office and country-based staff to design new interventions, prepare programme guidelines, contribute to quality assurance and programme development, facilitate learning and internal capacity building amongst programme staff, and expand the implementation of m2m’s OVC interventions in line with m2m’s overall programme strategy. This includes serving as m2m’s lead on a new USAID-funded Early Childhood Development (ECD)/PMTCT implementation research project in Swaziland and Lesotho. The Senior Technical Advisor OVC reports directly to the Director of Programmes and Technical Support and is based at our head office in Cape Town.
Key Performance Areas:
· Serve as m2m Project Lead on integration of ECD and PMTCT implementation research project in Swaziland and Lesotho
· Identify, analyse and validate good practices and lessons learnt in ECD programming to contribute to m2m ECD strategy development
· Lead development of evidence-based ECD framework, project models, development of programme designs, and technical guidance in partnership with m2m head office and country teams
· Provide technical assistance and leadership on ECD to m2m head office and country office staff, including facilitating learning and internal capacity building
· Develop ECD indicators and methods to measure m2m’s ECD outputs, outcomes and impact
· Contribute to ECD curricula development, and design of appropriate standards and quality checklists for ECD
Qualifications and experience
· Masters in early childhood development, education, social sciences or related field
· 5-7 years early childhood development programme design/implementation and international field experience, preferably including, but not limited to, experience in the 0-2 age group
· Demonstrated experience leading public health project design processes in resource limited settings
· Good working knowledge and understanding of HIV/AIDS/PMTCT and opportunities for integration of ECD interventions
· Experience working with USG funded projects
· Experience in designing, conducting and managing research in ECD
· Proven ability to provide high quality technical assistance and guidance to field staff
· Demonstrated experience in proposal development, including design and writing of technical strategies
· Extensive Experience in materials development to support ECD programming
· Experience in managing complex stakeholder processes and ability to provide clear communication around those processes
Competencies required
· Ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines
· Self-starter, team player and results-oriented
· Excellent communication and writing skills
· Cultural sensitivity and ability to engage participants of different cultures and backgrounds
· Demonstrated ability to create programme tools (e.g. budgets, templates, etc.); expertise in instructional systems design a distinct advantage
· Strong design and conceptualization skills with the ability to think creatively and systematically at all project levels
HOW TO APPLY:
· Interested applicants should submit their Curriculum Vitae to the Recruitment Specialist at recruitment@m2m.org by 20 May 2016. Please insert OVC in the subject line.
· Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us by 1 June 2016 please consider your application unsuccessful.