Global Humanitarian Awards Manager at Save the Children

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Experience with award portfolio management and knowledge of major compliance requirements
• Experience communicating with impact in a complex stakeholder environment
• Problem solving skills to identify and lead the resolution of issues including sustainable, continuous improvement
• Ability to understand grant budgets and analyse financial reports
• Proven influencing skills with the ability to communicate compliance requirements to stakeholders in the most appropriate way
• Computer literate, with excellent Microsoft Excel skills with the ability to draw out complex data from various sources
• Strong team skills and the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels both within and outside the team
• Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people
• Patient, flexible, able to improvise and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure.
• Excellent planning, management, and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a workload comprised of varying and changing tasks and responsibilities
• Basic understanding of operational programming, including the realities of the context
• Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in managing or working with multicultural teams
• Demonstrated understanding and application of the grant (award) management cycle
• Demonstrable commitment to equal opportunities and an awareness of what constitutes good practice
• Demonstrable interest in humanitarian response work
• Ability to travel, possibly at short notice, up to 20% of the time to Save the Children International regional and country offices, potentially to remote and insecure locations.

Desirable

• Experience of staff supervision (work plan/task management) to ensure the team delivers on what is expected (either as a direct line manager or managing a project/workload/deliverables requiring others’ delivery)
• Experience in financial accounting
• Experience of working in a complex international organisation
• Experience working for Save the Children
• Experience working in emergency responses, and strong understanding of humanitarian response activities and emergency management cycles
• Language skills, alongside English, particular in Spanish, French, or Arabic