Jobs at Save the Children International
We 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.

Program Officer-Community Health (HSS)

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential:
• A good knowledge of working with local government and community structures.
• Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities.
• Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
• Skills in working with VHTs to deliver the ICCM strategy in communities.
• Skills in development and use of behavioral change communication strategy for adolescent health programs.
• Excellent time management and planning capacity.
• Commitment to Save the Children values.

Desirable
• Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
• Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial relations and perform effectively as a member of a team.
• Availability and willingness to work extra hours during times of humanitarian responses.
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Ability to intervene with crisis management or troubleshooting as necessary.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.

Advocacy & Campaigns Manager

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
To be successful for this role you will bring/have the following:
• Bachelor’s Degree in law, public affairs, political science, or any related field.
• At least 6 years’ experience in advocacy, lobbying, media, event management, marketing, public affairs, or any related field.

Advocacy and Technical Skills
• Strong awareness and knowledge of the Uganda context
• Significant prior experience working in advocacy on humanitarian issues, child rights, human rights, or development issues.
• Deep experience of influencing and advocacy work including lobbying, policy development and information provision in humanitarian issues at national, regional and/or international level
• Excellent skills in advocating towards government officials, humanitarian actors and UN agencies in developing countries
• Experience of and strong skills in developing and implementing advocacy strategies
• Good attention to detail
• Understanding of UN and donor operations at country level and humanitarian response-planning cycles
• Experience in working with other NGOs and coordinating inter-agency advocacy activities, strategies and products
• High-level analytical and strategic thinking skills and strong research skills
• Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people
• Patience, adaptability, flexibility, and ability to improvise and remain responsive and to communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
• Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
• Strong leadership skills with an ability to seek people’s views while also taking responsibility to determine the most appropriate course of action and to act decisively
• Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English
• Ability to manage small teams and work across a variety of internal stakeholders.
• Good people management skills/experience and proven ability to create an environment, which encourages team working and motivates a team across various geographical areas.

General:
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation developing effective working relationships to deliver outstanding results for children
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
• Willingness and capability to comply with all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to health and safety, security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies, including the Child Safeguarding Policy
• Ability to travel on regular basis
• Willing to commit to Save the Children's aims, values and principles

Programme Manager – Response Innovation Lab

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
To be successful for this role you will bring/have the following:
• Masters degree in International development, business administration, communications, social sciences or related studies
• 10-year experience in an incubator, a start-up, social enterprise, innovation space and/or I/NGO
• Candidates with a Bachelor degree in a similar field and added years of work experience may be considered too
• Experience in business administration or project management, innovation-management, partnership-management
• A team player and self-starter who can turn ideas into concrete results
• Eagerness to build partnerships and projects outside of traditional humanitarian field and to challenge traditional ways of working
• Experience working with and managing ambitious innovation or humanitarian projects
• Understanding of the refugee response context in Uganda
• Understanding of the innovation ecosystem in Uganda
• Understanding of main current digital tools and technological innovations
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Capable of working independently
• Demonstrated experience in building excellent relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Confident communication and documentation skills; ability to represent the lab to a variety of stakeholders in a range of forums
• Able to work on a cross-cultural environment with multi-national staff.
• A commitment to humanitarian and Response Innovation Lab principles and values
• Good knowledge of Microsoft office tools (PowerPoint, Excel, word, etc.)

Program Officer- Leave no One Behind

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
To be successful for this role you will bring/have the following:
• First degree in education (BA EDUC) or an equivalent
• At least 3 years of direct implementation of Education programs with International NGO
• Must be fluent in either Acholi or Nga’karamajong language
• Candidate must have good understanding of education programing approaches on literacy and numeracy enhancement at lover primary.
• Previous teaching experience at basic primary education level would be an added advantage
• Extensive knowledge and experience in application of participatory tools and methodologies in programming.
• Experience of working with local partners and District Local Government in Basic Education and ECCD is an added advantage.
• Ability to intervene with crisis management or troubleshooting as necessary.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Excellent time management and planning capacity
• Availability and willingness to work extra hours during times of humanitarian responses. Previous experience of project management
• Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation skills
• Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands-on implementation capacity
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities.
• Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial relations and perform effectively as a member of a team.