Fragile States/Project Cornerstones Operations Trainer

One of Save the Children UK’s four organisational priorities for 2010 was to develop the operational capacity and raise the income of country programmes in 12 targeted fragile states. In order to achieve this end, the Fragile States Project was initiated in 2009 by the Capacity Building & Preparedness team of the Humanitarian Department and is implemented in coordination with other key departments in the organisation.
Save the Children as an organisation is committed to supporting and strengthening the controls and effectiveness of all of our operations. To further strengthen this support, a number of key “cornerstones” have been identified as a framework on which effective and quality programming relies and a project developed to address these.

The goal of both the “fragile states” and “project cornerstones” initiatives is to increase and sustain the capacity of these targeted country programmes to operate rapidly, at scale, safely and securely, effectively and efficiently, and to ensure that they achieve adequate ratings from the internal audit process, indicating a measure of effective control of risk for these programmes – operating in some of the most challenging of environments.

Job Purpose The Fragile States/Project Cornerstones Operations Trainer will be a key post within Save the Children’s work to improve the overall quality of operational delivery within a number of key country programmes. The role will focus on the organisation and delivery of a number of training programmes for country programmes. This will include operations training for field managers and other key staff, preparedness training and supporting the roll out of the systems and processes which have been developed in order to assist country programmes in their operational delivery.

To apply for this post please visit: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/jobs.htm (reference number 6560)