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Summary

The Lead Associate, U.S. Southern Border Program delivers and manages partnerships and programs supporting families migrating to the US along the Southern US Border. Save the Children’s U.S. Southern Border Program spans across four states through approximately 28 implementing partners that annually support over 500,000 children and adults.

You will manage Save the Children child protection programs, helping to develop strong partnerships, facilitate trainings, lead working groups, and perform data collection and analysis. You will play a key role in the operational implementation of the U.S. Southern Border Program specifically around procurement and distribution of donated goods to ensure partners have necessary program supplies and support to meet the unique needs of children and families. You will contribute to the creation and contextualization of program and training content that best meets the needs of border partners and program goals. You will support and contribute to ongoing needs assessments, partner identification, program planning and implementation, and provide ongoing technical support.

As a frontline representative of Save the Children, you are required to ensure safety and protection of children and families you come in contact with and represent the agency values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, and Integrity.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Support Partnership Development (10%)

• Build, strengthen and maintain partnerships with local migrant serving organizations in your assigned geographic region to enhance local capacity to safeguard, protect and support the wellbeing of children migrating to the US southern border.

Support for Program Delivery and Capacity Building (60%)

• Manage a cohort of partner shelter staff (Children’s Coordinators) located across the Southern US Border, including ensuring that staff have appropriate training and support and holding regular cohort calls.
• Liaise, monitor and support border community partners in your region to deliver programs and provide operational support that ensures the safety, protection and wellbeing of children.
• Manage distribution of gifts-in-kind and procurement of material items to partners to ensure that they have what they need to serve children and families crossing the border.
• In collaboration with Save the Children Program Technical colleagues, develop and deliver resource materials and trainings for multiple audiences including shelters, child serving organizations, families, and community partners.
• Lead and support working groups to guide community collaboration to identify and address gaps that help meet the needs of families migrating to the US along the Southern US Border.
• Ensure all aspects of the Border work reflects Save the Children’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and addresses the diverse experiences and needs of children and families arriving at the US southern border.
• Ensure Child Safeguarding is at the core of our program and operational work and continually seek to improve the Border Program’s efforts around child safety.

Quality Assurance and Monitoring (30%)

• Ensure the quality delivery of contextually appropriate border program content and accurate reporting of beneficiaries.
• In collaboration with Save the Children’s finance and operations teams, support coordination of efficient sub-grantee program implementation plans and guidelines for program implementation partners that help ensure quality program delivery.
• Manage U.S. Southern Border Program data collection tools and methods including shelter occupancy reporting, program surveys, feedback forms and evaluations. Ensure partners are following regular reporting schedules and that data is entered on a timely basis into Save the Children’s data monitoring system. Analyze and present collected data in the form of tables and charts.
• Conduct regular check-in calls and site visits to border partners in your region.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum High School diploma or equivalent, plus at least three (3) years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
• Demonstrated commitment to ensuring child safe programming and operations
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize time and tasks and handle multiple priorities simultaneously
• Willingness and ability to travel at least 15% of the time within the US Border Region and occasional trips elsewhere in the US

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated conversational proficiency in Spanish

This position may require the incumbent to operate a motor vehicle to fulfill certain essential functions of the job. The incumbent should maintain a valid driver’s license and remain in compliance with any Save the Children policies pertaining to the safe operation of motor vehicles.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $60,350 – $67,450 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $54,400 – $60,800 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.