Awards and Partnerships Coordinator at Save the Children

The Opportunity

Save the Children International Kenya Country office has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as Awards and Partnerships Coordinator. The role holder will support the Awards and Partnership Manager in the planning, securing and managing of both development and humanitarian awards. The position plays a lead role in award information management, shares and coordinates information across departments. The Awards and Partnerhsip Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring that the SCI programme adheres to all its award management obligations internally within Save the Children and externally with donors and partnership management. This will include contract and sub contract management & data quality in the Award Management System. This position is specifically responsible for assigned awards, and will ensure compliance with financial and administrative requirements, donor specific requirements and to make recommendations for improvements. 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.

Qualification and Experience

• 4 years’ experience in managing large awards facilities.
• Minimum 3 years working in international development
• Excellent understanding of the awards management cycle, logical frameworks, and M&E concepts.
• Knowledge of awards and contracts regulations and reporting requirements of major donors such as EU, DFID, ECHO, UN agencies, DANIDA.
• Experience of managing awards, cooperative agreements and contracts for major donors.
• Practice knowledge of financial awards accounting and management especially SCI Awards management system.
• Experience of analysing and commenting on variances between actual and budgeted expenditure and relating this to activity reporting
• Have a basic knowledge of sectorial programming and log frames.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to explain complex issues to both staff and peers.
• Ability to manage a complex and varied workload; to work effectively under pressure; and to organize and priorities work to ensure deadlines are met.
• An energetic, flexible and proactive approach with the ability to work both independently and cooperatively within a team setting
• Strong team working skills and ability to develop and maintain effective working relations at all levels both within and outside the team.
• Ability to challenge and negotiate assertively and cooperatively with senior staff.
• Proven ability to handle challenging work load with minimum motivation
• Cross-cultural experience, understanding and sensitivity;
• Excellent interpersonal and written and oral communication skills;
• Understanding of Save the Children’s vision and mission and a commitment to its objectives and values

Closing Date: Apr 17, 2022