Senior MHPSS Cluster Lead

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

War Child is seeking a MHPSS Senior Specialist to coordinate and ensure high-quality EBM integration across a cluster of partners and countries. You will translate strategies into contextually relevant support, lead adaptive learning, and build partner capacity while aligning with CHS standards.

This role offers opportunities to influence policy, engage in cross-country MEAL processes, and represent War Child’s EBM Care System portfolio externally to strengthen sector collaboration and

Qualifications

• Experience in humanitarian or post-conflict contexts.
• Experience working with partners on co-creation and delivery of programmes.
• Demonstrated experience in programme design, needs assessment, learning cycles and quality assurance.
• Experience developing methods, tools, guidelines, training and learning materials.
• Experience facilitating trainings, workshops and virtual learning.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cluster-level oversight of thematic quality assurance for EBM integration, implementation and scaling by partners, ensuring high-quality delivery of EBMs.
• Coordinate thematic support provided by Specialists within a cluster, ensuring prioritization, and advising on resource allocation.
• Ensure operationalization of thematic and EBM guidance and standards, to guarantee contextual relevance to tailored support to countries and partners.
• Lead and/or facilitate adaptive learning cycles for EBMs at cluster level, ensuring learning agendas are developed and executed, lessons learned are documented and findings inform practice and strategic direction.
• Strengthen organisational and partner capacity in MHPSS EBMs, through training, mentoring and scalable learning approaches.
• Represent and build up the profile and reputation of War Child's EBM Care System Portfolio and thematic expertise externally in the appropriate fora, strengthening sector engagement, inter agency collaboration and organisational credibility, and contributing to shaping policy and sector discourse.
• Contribute to the learning agenda for EBMs within your portfolio including gather and sharing learnings on partner experiences and feedback.

Skills

MHPSS expertise

Program design

Quality assurance

Learning cycles

Training & mentoring

Partnership engagement

Team leadership

Education

Relevant academic background

Tools

MS Teams

SharePoint

Mural

Miro

Job description

War Child is seeking a MHPSS Senior Specialist to coordinate and ensure high-quality EBM integration across a cluster of partners and countries. You will translate strategies into contextually relevant support, lead adaptive learning, and build partner capacity while aligning with CHS standards.

This role offers opportunities to influence policy, engage in cross-country MEAL processes, and represent War Child’s EBM Care System portfolio externally to strengthen sector collaboration and