Open Vacancies at Save the Children (Greece)

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

The organization in Greece seeks for:

1. Response Finance and Awards Manager (Greece).

Qualifications and experience:
Essential:
- Relevant financial qualification - fully qualified, preferably ACA or CIMA
- Worked at a similar level in an NGO
- Line management of staff
- Demonstrable ability to adapt to challenging working environments within a developing country context
- Demonstrated experience in identifying issues in financial management, applying sustainable solutions, and achieving results
- Proven experience in training and capacity building of staff and teams, including coaching and mentoring staff
- Knowledge and use of financial software packages
- Ability to adapt quickly to a new environment and achieve results with multiple priorities and deadlines
- Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets
- Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
- Demonstrated ability of working with a range of stakeholders and in a matrix system
- Commitment to Save the Children values.

Desirable:
-Knowledge and use of Agresso financial software
- International work experience in a developing country.

Closing date: Friday 8 January 2016.

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“Response Finance and Awards Manager”

2. Advocacy Manager (Lesvos).

Qualifications and experience:
Essential:
- Prior management experience working in an emergency response contexts or fragile states
- Significant prior experience working in advocacy on humanitarian issues, child rights, human rights, or development issues, notably related to children on the move;
- Knowledge of the European asylum and migration procedures and systems;
- Experience of influencing and advocacy work including lobbying, policy development and information provision in humanitarian issues;
- Excellent skills in advocating towards government officials in developing countries
- Experience of and strong skills in developing and implementing humanitarian advocacy strategies
- Good attention to detail
- Extensive knowledge of child rights and international humanitarian law
- Understanding of UN and donor operations at country level
- High level analytical and strategic thinking skills
- 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, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
- Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in managing multicultural teams.

Desirable:
- Proven skills in media work, including interviews on Radio and TV
- Fluent in Greek and/or Arabic/or Farsi.

Closing date: Saturday 19 December 2015.

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“Advocacy Manager”

3. Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergency (IYCF) Manager (Kilkis)

Qualifications and experience:
Essential:
- Health / Public Health / Nutrition / BSc or equivalent
- Qualified doctor, nurse, midwife or nutritionist with strong primary health care / community health care experience;
- Demonstrable commitment to promoting and supporting optimal breastfeeding and complementary feeding;
- Demonstrable management experience, including budget holding responsibility;
- Experience of designing and implementation programs (ideally nutrition-related), including monitoring and evaluation;
- Experience in conducting assessments and an understanding of nutritional data and information systems;
- Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff;
- Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions;
- Prepared to live and work in an uncertain security environment;
- Ability and willingness to frequently travel and stay at the field;
- Demonstrable ability at report writing and excellent communication skills;
- Computer literate;
- Fluency in written and spoken English and local language: Arabic or Fars.

Desired:
- Emergency programming experience;
- Qualification as a trainer of trainers in breastfeeding counseling;
- Familiarity with the Operational Guidance on IYCF-E and SPHERE standards.

Closing date: Friday 8 January 2016.

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“Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergency Manager”

4. Distribution Assistants (Kilkis).

Qualifications and experience:
Essential:
- University or College Graduate
- At least 6 months experience in Warehousing / Logistics/ Distributions with other NGO or Private Company
- Ability to work simultaneously with multiple tasks and under time pressure in a fast growing program environment
- Good language and communication skills
- Calm, organized and decisive manner
- Willingness and ability to work efficiently with a wide diverse group of people
- Excellent interpersonal and communication & problem solving skills
- Good oral and written English, as well as being computer literate
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches.

Desirable:
- Knowledge of Arabic / Farsi language
- Good reporting skills.

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“Distribution Assistants”

5. Child Friendly Space Animator (Samos & Kos).

Qualifications, Experience and Skills:
- At least two years of experience in Education (formal or non-formal), Pre-school, After-School and/or Psychosocial support for young children and/or adolescents
- Interest in working with migrant/refugee children
- Ability to carry-out activities for children on the move in transit
- Ability to engage with children/ adolescents from different cultural backgrounds
- Good communication skills, team player, and flexibility
- Capacity to work in difficult, stressful and intensive contexts
- Good knowledge of children’s/adolescent’s rights and related matters.
- Good oral and verbal communications skills
- Good knowledge of English and/or Arabic/Farsi will be an asset.

“Child Friendly Space Animator-Samos”
“Child Friendly Space Animator-Kos”
“Child Friendly Space Animator-Leros”

6. Child Friendly Space Suprvisor (Leros - Kos).

Qualifications, Experience and Skills:
- At least three years of experience in Education (formal or non-formal), Pre-school, After-School and/or Psychosocial support for young children and/or adolescents
- Experience in working with migrant/refugee children
- Ability to carry-out activities for children on the move in transit
- Ability to engage with children/ adolescents from different cultural backgrounds
- Good communication skills, team player, and flexibility
- Capacity to work in difficult, stressful and intensive contexts
- Good knowledge of children’s/adolescent’s rights and related matters
- Good oral and verbal communications skills
- Good knowledge of English and/or Arabic/Farsi will be an asset.

“Child Friendly Space Supervisor- Leros”
“Child Friendly Space Supervisor- Kos”