Open Vacancies at "Save the Children Hellas"

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children.

The organization in Greece seeks for:

1. Finance and HR Officer Job Description - Eidomeni Kilkis.
Essential:
- Recommended 3+ years of relevant work experience.
- Good sense of responsibility, and commitment to confidentiality.
- Excellent organizing & communications skills
- Good proficiency in spoken and written English and fluent in Greek.
- Good computer skills especially in spreadsheet & data analysis (excel & access) and familiarity with accounting software is preferred.
- Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours, and work with incoming teams in the event of major emergencies
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches.

Finance and HR Officer

2. Cultural Mediator-Eidomeni Kilkis.
Essential:
- Strong communication skills (written and spoken) in Frasi and/ or Arabic
- Good attention to detail and analytical skills
- Understanding and sensitive to the needs of people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, including a strong commitment to confidentiality
- Able to be flexible and deal with stress, and to seek support when needed
- Quick to respond to queries and referrals as and when needed and able to manage a varying workload
- Computer literate (i.e. WORD, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer)
- Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people
- Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
- Excellent planning and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a workload comprised of varying and changing tasks and responsibilities
- Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in working in multicultural teams.

3. Cultural Mediator- Lesvos.
Desirable:
- Significant experience with NGOs in an international environment
- Experience of working with refugees and people on the move before.

Cultural Mediator- Eidomeni

Essential:
- Strong communication skills (written and spoken) in Frasi and/ or Arabic
- Good attention to detail and analytical skills
- Understanding and sensitive to the needs of people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, including a strong commitment to confidentiality
- Able to be flexible and deal with stress, and to seek support when needed
- Quick to respond to queries and referrals as and when needed and able to manage a varying workload
- Computer literate (i.e. WORD, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer)
- Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people
- Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
- Excellent planning and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a workload comprised of varying and changing tasks and responsibilities
- Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in working in multicultural teams.

Desirable:
- Significant experience with NGOs in an international environment
- Experience of working with refugees and people on the move before.

Cultural Mediator-Lesvos

4. Logistics Coordinator-Greece
Essential:
- Prior experience in logistics management in the NGO sector, in emergency response/humanitarian environments
- Proven experience in all technical areas of logistics operations including procurement, transport/distribution, warehousing and stock management, fleet management, asset management, communications, and security
- Experience of working in remote field bases with limited infrastructure
- Experiencing in managing and supervising others in logistics
- Ability to synthesise and analyse information, and make clear, informed decisions
- Ability to build relationships quickly with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
- Strong planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
- Cultural awareness, with strong written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills in English
- For non EU candidates a valid European Union or Greek work permit is mandatory due to statutory Greek regulations.

Desirable
- Technical experience/training in specific areas of logistics eg fleet mechanics, IT/communications networks
- Technical experience/knowledge in specific types of humanitarian intervention eg Health, WASH, Food Security
- Fluent in Greek, Farsi, or Arabic.

Closing date: 13 Jan 2016

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5. Counsellor/Farsi Speaker Only-Lesvos.

SCOPE OF ROLE:
- Identification, assessment and referral
- Awareness-raising and counselling
- Set-up, maintenance and facilitation of activities in the mother-baby areas
- Recording and reporting
- Cultural mediation when planned and with prior notice to nutrition manager or camp coordinator.

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