Save the Children recrute 01 responsable de la gestion des récompenses et de la conformité des donateurs, WCA
Role purpose
The Head of Award Management and Donor Compliance (HoAMDC) is responsible for delivering an efficient award management function across all West & Central Africa (WCA) programmes and develop best practice award management processes across 9 Country Offices. The role has three main aspects: lead and develop the regional award management effort including compliance, staff capacity building, and actively monitoring and strengthening process and practices across the AM cycle within the region. This includes driving fit for purpose operating model within the AMDC space in collaboration with other funding-related functions across the RO and CO’s.
The role offers a leadership opportunity for an individual highly experienced in grants management and capable of providing strategic leadership to a dynamic team, as well as the management of a portfolio of awards currently valued at US$720M, and an annual budget of approx. US$230M. S/he will maintain oversight of the award portfolio health for the region to ensure programme delivery is in line with the strategy, collaborating with Resource Mobilisation and PDQ.
The individual will play a strong leadership role both internally, across the Save the Children global network and, in collaboration with Regional Resource Mobilisation, with donors, aiming at developing and preserving a periodic and constructive relationship. S/he will provide both leadership and technical support to the project and program teams in the regional office, as well as to field-based and operations teams to deliver donor compliant awards (rules and regulations), ensuring the consistent delivery of timely and quality donor reports. S/he will also have a strong management insight with respect to partnership, notably with the Localisation lens.
The maintenance of the AM System and day to day management of the team will also be a key aspect of the role. S/he will play a key role in the development of a culture that promotes the primacy of ensuring Save the Children delivers high quality programmes whilst always seeking to improve national staff capacity to take on roles currently held by international staff.In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
S/he is accountable for the regional strategic award portfolio oversight of SCI Directly Received (local and global) within the region, ensuring necessary reviews, approvals and performance of programme delivery. This includes providing recommendations to fundraising protocol governance within Programme Funding and Institutional Partnerships (Resource Mobilisation) to ensure compliance and good award management and managing AMS approvals for the Funding Office entity on AMS (escalation is via Operations/Regional Director).
Job requirements
Qualifications
- Post graduate degree, though no specific qualification, is required
- Desirable that candidate has completed training in institutional donor requirements for some of the key donors within the Save the Children portfolio e.g. InsideNGO training in USAID Rules and Regulations: Grants and Cooperative Agreements; ECHO PuntoSud training courses, etc.
Experience and skills
- Excellent strategic, planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise and prioritise a demanding workload comprised of diverse and challenging tasks and responsibilities
- 5-8 years’ experience of international organisations similar to Save the Children
- 5-8 years’ experience in programmes or operations support functions like finance, awards, project management
- Proven track record of active contribution to senior managers and providing strategic support across multiple sectors and/or regions
- Extensive experience with NGOs with increasing responsibilities including a proven experience of establishing and running the award management function in the field
- Good diverse knowledge of the requirements of major institutional donors including budgeting, eligibility issues, compliance management, and reporting; experience of engaging with donors at strategic level
- Well-developed skills in diverse and multi-cultural staff management
- Proven coaching and capacity building skills
- Attention to detail, problem solving, and analysis of trends, whilst maintaining big picture and vision
- Computer literate (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, financial systems)
- Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people, at all levels, internally and externally
- Demonstrated experience in complex stakeholder management, including in a matrix management environment
- Patient, adaptable, able to improvise, and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
- Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours in the event of major emergencies incl. travelling at short notice and for extended periods of time
- Mastering of French and English (oral and written) is a must. Strong communication and interpersonal skills in both languages
Closing date: 17 October 2022