Job Openings at Saferworld

Knowledge, qualifications and experience

• Experience working as a finance business partner or financial management in a senior position in the charity sector, ideally with experience working in offices overseas.
• Proven experience in budgeting and forecasting with a mix of restricted and unrestricted funds
• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)
• Experience interpreting the needs of others, creating solution to address the organisational needs, and creating/adapting tools and systems to address people’s needs.
• Experience of project management across an organisation including an ability and willingness to undertake 'hands-on' tasks such as preparing budgets, cash flows and other financial planning, management and control processes
• Understanding of donor environment, grant making processes and compliance processes.
• Understanding of key operational and strategic considerations relating to institutional fundraising
• Track record in anticipating change, understanding its impact on the organisation and supporting process to adapt to change
• Track record in working with people without line management responsibility, and influencing change
• A track record in proven line management skills with the ability to work collaboratively and effectively with others to deliver results, mentoring and strengthening capacities of finance staff

Country programme Business Partnering

• Working together with country offices to ensure the timely and appropriate preparation and uploading of budgets and longer-term financial plans.
• Oversee country monthly and quarterly management accounts to assess quality and trends and participating in business reviews with country teams of financial performance.
• Support Finance Managers on financial management of projects and reporting, including the preparation of financial information required for the year-end accounts, and statutory audits.
• Support financial components of donor reporting, ensuring reporting timelines are met and compliance with donor reporting requirements across a range of donors.
• Work with Finance Managers and leadership in-country to implement audit recommendations.
• Support Finance Managers in-country to provide financial information and analysis to support the development of business cases / fundraising bids.

Organisational business partnering

• Provide sound financial strategic advice and analysis to assist the Director of Finance and Operations,
• Head of Programmes, leadership and senior staff in decision making.
• Provide finance support to organisation-wide initiatives and Finance projects (e.g., changes or improvements to financial processes and systems).
• Enable the reporting key trends, analysis and accounts to the leadership accurately and to time
• Oversee the implementation of cost recovery policies and risk management procedures in country offices, and sign off budgets for country fundraising proposals

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• The Programme Development Manager will support a portfolio of Saferworld’s teams in designing and mobilising funding for peace, security and justice programmes. The successful applicant will have a focus of approximately 4 countries, which will be decided based on the candidate’s experience and preference. Working closely with
• Country Managers/Directors, and programme and grant management colleagues, the post-holder will lead on: coordinating and facilitating programme development processes (including taking the lead in drafting high quality concept notes and proposals, theories of change, logical models, risk matrixes and budgets); developing and supporting the implementation of long-term country funding strategies and donor engagement strategies; and supporting new donor engagement and sustaining relationships with current donors. The post-holder will be responsible for growing institutional funding portfolios in our programmes.
• The post-holder will have a successful track record in developing programmes and leading new business development efforts with institutional donors such as the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), United States Government (USG)/United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the European Union (EU), UN agencies and European Governments such as Swedish International Development
• Cooperation Agency (Sida). Additional experience in mobilising resource from trusts and foundations and other non-traditional funding mechanisms is desirable.
• They will have proven skills and experience in programme management and support, successful programme design processes and bid leadership.

Responsibilities and duties:

• Programme design and proposal development:
• Support and work with country managers/directors and country teams to make informed go/no go decisions on calls for proposals and invitations to submit funding applications.
• In coordination with country managers/directors, lead on programme design and development of programme concept notes and proposals for institutional donors that link to our organisational theory of change and enable
• Saferworld to realise our strategic plan at the country levels. This includes coordinating between various teams, facilitating development of country team ideas, and taking the overall lead in drafting funding applications (including concept note/proposal narrative, budgets, theories of change, MEL frameworks, and risk matrixes as required based on various teams’ inputs).
• Ensure proposal development processes follow Saferworld’s organisational values and principles in terms of partners’ involvement and leadership (including in participatory proposal and budget development), budget sharing with partners, preparing teaming agreements, and informing partners about donor requirements and their/our obligations towards these.
• Ensure a strong gender and conflict analysis is included in programme design and concept note/proposal writing.
• Maintain a bank of programme concept notes and proposals for allocated countries/themes.
• Provide country teams with guidance on institutional donor policies and strategies, and ensure fundingapplications align with these, as well as with previous donor feedback and learning. Strengthen the capacity of country teams and partners to identify funding opportunities and to develop strong programmes and high-qualityproposals.
• Work closely with programme support and country office teams to ensure smooth handover of projects from proposal to implementation stage once approved, including through organisation of handover meetings for large or complex grants.
• Diversify funding sources within country portfolios through scoping relevant trusts and foundations, commercial contracts and other non-traditional donors.
• Where relevant, support with due diligence processes when entering into partnerships with INGOs and new funding relationships with donors.

Strategic development:

• Support and work with country managers/directors and programme teams to develop, plan and implement resource mobilisation plans to fund country strategies, including supporting and coordinating teams to cultivate and maintain good relations with donors.
• Oversee a portfolio of donors, keep a track of their strategic and funding priorities and opportunities for engagement, and feed these into country resource mobilisation plans.
• Act as a focal point for engagement with an institutional donor, in consultation with colleagues in the Funding Working Group, and maintain a strategy for engagement with this donor.
• Work closely with country managers/directors and programme colleagues to engage with and cultivate donor relationships in allocated countries.
• In collaboration with country leadership, monitor country resource mobilisation plans, and contribute to monitoring and analysing country fundraising performance, including proposal success rate.
• Ensure cross-organisational collaborative working, including working closely with the Funding Working Group to ensure country resource mobilisation plans are connected to global outreach and cultivation with key donors.
• Keep up to date with donor policy developments, and provide analysis of the implications for Saferworld.
• Keep the funding/grants management database updated with key information about funding opportunities relevant to allocated country programmes.
• Participate in/support negotiations with donors related to new and/or existing grants in allocated countryprogrammes.
• Cross-organisational representation:
• Participate in external networking and represent Saferworld at relevant donor conferences, seminars and/or other fundraising events in relation to our work.
• Engage with the wider NGO and fundraising community, particularly in relation to institutional and statutory funding.

Key working relationships:

• Head of Programmes, country managers/directors and country teams – working together on programme design, proposal development, and the development of resources mobilisation plans to enable the implementation of country and regional strategies.
• Programme Support – working closely together to ensure proposal development and programme design is of the utmost quality and in line with organisational approaches to partnership, gender, climate, MEL and advocacy.
• Colleagues in the fundraising team, particularly the Funding Working Group – regularly coordinating to ensure country and regional resource mobilisation plans are connected to global outreach and donor cultivation plans, ensure approaches to statutory and institutional donors are coordinated with other parts of the organisation and leverage donor research support, support global efforts to diversify Saferworld funding basis in collaboration with
• Saferworld affiliate offices in the US and Brussels.
• Colleagues in the Finance team – working collaboratively to develop programme budgets, ensuring effective cost recovery and budget sharing with partners.

Knowledge, qualifications and experience:

• Demonstrable experience of designing, developing and implementing international development programmes – preferably in conflict-affected contexts – that bring about community-led programme change, and policy and practice change. Experience of designing peacebuilding, security and justice, conflict prevention, climate, and/or gender programmes is an asset.
• Demonstrable experience of writing successful institutional funding proposals – including developing theories ofchange, MEL frameworks, risk matrixes and complex budgets.
• Proven experience of financial design, including programme budgeting and development of budget narratives.
• Demonstrable experience of leading programme design sessions/workshops including developing and remotely managing processes to write successful concept notes and proposals while building and managing relationships, including remotely, with country offices and/or local partners.
• Demonstrable experience in building and maintaining relationships with institutional donors, and understanding of donor requirements, particularly for donors relevant to Saferworld such as the FCDO, USG/USAID, EU, UN agencies and Sida (among others).
• Demonstrable experience of working with teams and partners in ways that reflect the principles of powersharing, solidarity and accompaniment.
• Experience in mainstreaming gender-sensitivity/responsiveness/transformation in programme design and proposal development.