Regional Learning Manager – Humanitarian Protection (Middle East & North Africa Regional Centre)

About the role

Reporting to the Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) Regional Lead, the Regional Learning Manager – Humanitarian Protection ensures the design, development, and delivery of innovative, quality humanitarian needs-focussed learning solutions and services at individual, organisational and sector-wide levels.

This role sits within the Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA), is multi-disciplinary, and provides end-to-end support to the research, design and development, the management, and the delivery of learning solutions and services. The post holder will be expected to contribute to other humanitarian capacity strengthening initiatives undertaken by Save the Children and Humanitarian Leadership Academy Regional Strategies.

The main accountabilities of the role are as follows:
– Under HLA’s Technical Expertise (TE) Pillar, manage the effective design, development, implementation, monitoring, and learning of Child Protection preparedness and reactive learning products and services.
– Lead and manage the process of conducting learning needs analysis and the development of relevant and innovative learning products and services based on that analysis and in collaboration with technical/subject matter experts.
– Lead and manage the developing of online learning content, working closely with the Digital Learning Specialists.
– Lead the setup and management of learning faculties for accredited programmes, including the assessment, marking and provision of feedback to learners.
– Ensure the technical and andragogical quality of the learning projects and programmes in close collaboration with other technical specialists.
– Establish and manage effective relationships with key stakeholders and partners within the learning sector to provide cutting-edge solutions to demand.
– Build and maintain new and effective partnerships across the Save the Children movement and sector as appropriate.
– Work with other regional staff to deliver quality learning programmes as required.
– Deploy to disaster-affected countries to work with frontline responders and partners to strengthen their capacity in line with their needs, assets and capabilities.
– Oversee multiple award-specific budgets to effectively implement the learning projects or programmes, including staff recharge, logistics, procurement, consultancies, etc., ensuring the relevant information management is aligned to SCI and donor-specific compliance criteria, working with the Awards and Contract Specialist as required.
– Support the ongoing management and monitoring of contracts throughout the project/contract cycle, ensuring the awards and trading management information systems are up to date and that awards and trading contracts are donor-compliant and audit-ready.
– Represent the HLA and Save the Children in public forums and high-level external working groups to contribute to thought leadership on strategic areas and influence professional development direction of travel for specific technical areas and the humanitarian sectors as a whole.
– Support Research, Evidence and MEAL colleagues in the identification of specific areas of learning linked to the learning solutions being implemented by this role.
– Support/advise to other areas of the team where necessary, dependent on specific skills/interests of individual post holder, which could include (but is not restricted to) deployments, matrix management, language expertise etc.
– Contribute to supporting strong ways of working across the new team, as well as taking individual responsibility for building an inclusive and supportive team culture.

About you

Essential skills:

• Minimum education level of BSC, Master’s degree is a plus.
• 3-7 years experience in a related field with progressively responsible experience.
• Technical qualification and/or significant experience in Child Protection, ideally in emergency contexts.
• Good background in protection mainstreaming, Gender, Inclusion, GBV, and safeguarding.
• Significant experience in designing, developing and implementing high-quality and impactful user-centred blended learning programmes to support identified needs, including through learning needs analysis.
• Strong expertise in learning curriculum development and application of adult learning theory.
• Strong project and programme management experience, including events planning, administration, logistical support, and communication.
• Financial management experience, including budget preparation, monitoring and reporting, and grant/awards management.
• Humanitarian field experience and/or strong knowledge of the humanitarian/aid sector, its architecture and how it is evolving (this will be tested).
• Ability to build and work as part of a high performing team and work effectively across the different functions to ensure maximum effectiveness and impact, including quality assurance elements.
• Willingness to deploy – sometimes at short notice and to remote and unsafe locations.
• Strong managerial skills with a strong technical background.
• An instinctive analytical and strategic thinker.
• Ability to operate effectively in highly complex situations.
• Ability to build effective trust-based relationships and networks.
• A first-class facilitator.
• Passion and energy to work in pursuit of transforming humanitarian response globally.
• Highly effective in communication, able to articulate a vision, strategy, or idea clearly and concisely and influence, negotiate, lobby and represent.
• Undeniably positive with high levels of personal resilience and motivation to lead and manage a team.
• Language skills – Arabic and English (other languages encouraged).
• IT skills and computer literacy (especially Microsoft Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached documents.

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