Technical Leader at Save the Children (Greece)

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

The organization in Greece seeks for:

Technical Leader - subregional Roving Response Team

Qualifications and experience:
Essential:
- Minimum of 10 years' experience in an NGO environment, including experience directing and coordinating programs both emergency and development contexts
- Demonstrated leadership and management skills in a complex international setting
- Significant experience leading strategic planning and in programme design and proposal development
- Experience in more than one of the Save the Children priority sectors: education; child protection; child rights governance; health and nutrition; food security and livelihoods;
- Strong understanding of different methodologies of monitoring and evaluation and operational research and experience in developing integrated MEAL systems
- Ability to effectively establish a learning culture within an organisation
- Experience in successfully establishing and managing collaborative relationships and partnerships with donors, government counterparts and local NGOs
- Strong representation and influencing skills
- Experience of management of diverse workforce including effective performance management and utilisation of capacity building, coaching, and mentoring skills
- Demonstrated use of positive coping strategies in stressful environments
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children's aims, values and principles
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Ability to work within the EU/Schengen zone
- High flexibility.

Desirable:
- Previous experience and knowledge of Children on the Move programmes
- Knowledge of Save the Children systems and ways of working
- Experience or knowledge of working in domestic emergencies and/or in middle income countries
- Arabic, Farsi, Greek, Croatian, Serbian or Macedonian language would be a plus.

Closing date: 16 Feb 2016.

Contract length: 6 months, poistion based in Greece (with 80% travel throughout Balkans).

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