Risk and resilience advisor

Save the Children works in 120 countries. Saving children’s lives. Fighting for their rights. Helping them fulfil their potential. Save the Children wants to be the generation that ends extreme poverty forever and have set some ambitious targets to achieve this.

This post sits within the DRR and CCA team, in the Programme Policy and Quality (PPQ) department. The team works to reduce risks and enhance the resilience of children and their communities in the face of disasters and climate change, across both emergency and development contexts. Save the Children aims to expand the scale and improve the quality of SC’s programmes covering disaster prevention, preparedness, recovery, and mitigation activities. The team supports both stand-alone and mainstreamed programming within and between both development and humanitarian contexts.

The DRR & CCA Team is responsible for:

•Enhancing SCUK’s capacity to effectively contribute to improving children’s rights and ability to realise their potential objectives, through the provision of robust technical advice for programme design and implementation of DRR and CCA programmes
•Developing programme policy for SCUK, other SC members and SCI on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation aiming to build resilience against shocks and stresses
•Mainstreaming disaster resilience and climate change adaptation across SCUK’s development and humanitarian programmes;
•Ensuring projects that aim to reduce risk and build resilience are underpinned by robust evidence and informed by good practice, thus enhancing their potential to have a demonstrably positive impact on the lives and rights of children

This role is expected to support Save the Children UK to deliver high quality, innovative and impactful programmes that build the resilience of children, households, communities and institutions, particularly governments. The successful candidate will provide expertise to help develop the capacity of Save the Children staff to design, manage and deliver programmes, building on good practice. This job will focus in particular on Save the Children strengthening, planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning work, concentrating on the M&E of resilience building.

The successful candidate will collaborate primarily, but not exclusively with thematic specialists in health sector, working across development and humanitarian spheres and in close liaison with M&E specialists.

In return, Save the Children offers structured career development and training.

Please note interviews for this role will take place w/c Monday 8th December 2014.