Award Management Director (Maternity Cover) at Save the Children

Job Details

Role Purpose: The Award Management Director will provide the primary award management inputs for both development and humanitarian programmes, and on-going support to develop best practice award management procedures and processes. The role has three main aspects to it: lead the Country Office award management team; capacity building of staff in their award management professional development and contributing to the development and advancement of award management processes and systems

Contract Duration: 7 months

Location: Nairobi

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Post graduate qualification in Finance management, Grants management or equivalent
• At least 5 - 7 years' experience in a similar positions
• Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a demanding workload comprised of diverse and challenging tasks and responsibilities.
• Proven track record of active contribution to a senior management team, 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.
• Knowledge of the requirements of major institutional donors including budgeting, eligibility issues, compliance management, and reporting.
• Experience of engaging with donors at country strategy levels.
• Experience of and well developed skills in staff management and supervision.Proven strong coaching and capacity building skills.
• Very strong capacity for attention to detail, problem solving, and analysis of trends.
• Computer literate (i.e. WORD, advanced Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, financial
• systems).
• Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people
• Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
• Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in managing multicultural teams

Desirable

• Experience with Save the Children award management Policies, procedures and systems and Save the Children's award management system (AMS)
• Understanding of how to produce financial reports from Save the Children's overseas accounting software(Agresso)
• Experience of Project Management, M&E Management or Funding Coordination

Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified talent.

Disclaimer:

Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents