Latest Recruitment at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE

The purpose of this post is to support the Award Management team in the planning, securing and managing of both development and humanitarian awards. The position involves supporting award information management and compliance with systems and processes.

Under the direction of the Head of Awards, the Partnerships Specialist, the Awards Coordinator and the Awards Officer, the role will be responsible for supporting the team to adhere to all award management and partnership obligations internally within Save the Children and externally with donors.

This role will work closely with PDQ, Finance and Program Operations on proposal support, Award Management System (AMS) support, financial and narrative reporting, budget monitoring and analysis as well as donor compliance processes. 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.

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.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Proposal development

• Work with the relevant teams such as project managers, supply chain, business development and PDQ to conduct specific award risk assessment and complete the Awards section of the Proposal and Awards Risk Tool (PART) as well as support in ensuring timely uploading to AMS.
• Ensure all award documentation at opportunity and proposal stage is managed, processed, and uploaded onto AMS in a timely manner and that the related workflows are run in a timely manner.

Compliance (systems, processes, donor)

• Learn and follow SCI processes and relevant donor requirements.
• Understanding of the AMS system, maintaining and driving data quality
• Ensure that the Awards Management System (AMS) is effectively maintained, up to date and accurately records the audit trail for all awards and sub-awards.
• Ability to use AMS reporting to monitor awards and plan for key processes around partner reporting.
• Basic understanding of donor compliance and development of compliance checklists if needed.

Communicating with impact, negotiation, and coordination

• Effective and efficient communication with the other team members of the Awards and Partnerships team to ensure seamless delivery.
• Communication with budget holders, other program staff, PDQ, Finance and partners to obtain inputs into key processes and up to date budget figures.

Developing self and others

• Work with other team members to support team activities and outputs.
• Build relationships with members of other teams/functions within the organization.
• Involvement in capacity building to build skills in Awards and partnerships management.

Portfolio management, monitoring and analysis.

• Provide management information to the AM team via a portfolio analysis report for the periodic functional meeting showing information on pipeline, active, awards under amendment, high-risk awards, and closed awards.
• Problem solving skills to address and work through issues when they arise.
• Support into getting high quality ‘donor ready’ reports as designated by the awards Coordinator.
• Financial analysis skills to perform award monitoring processes and support in identifying any issues for further analysis.
• Ensure donor budget lines (DRCs) in AMS are as needed for donor reporting requirements especially for Directly Received Awards.
• Maintain and update the Income and Funding tracker and any other Management information system that require Award management input on a timely basis.
• Support and ensure award kick off meetings are done promptly.
• Work closely with the Awards Officer to support in developing Award Progress Review Meetings (APRMs) template for monthly review meetings as well as sharing calendar invites with all relevant teams in a timely manner.
• Support in coordinating with PDQ, Program Operations and Finance to ensure close out meetings are conducted in a timely manner.
• Ensure that all meetings are minuted and these minutes filed on AMS and follow up action points well captured.

Awards Management System Champion 

• Manage user permissions in AMS and ensure user lists in AMS are kept up to date.
• Ensure handover of award responsibilities in AMS (such as award point persons, person responsible for report submission etc.) when staff members leave their positions.
• Create partner records in AMS and submit for legal vetting; maintain partner records so that inactive partner records are archived.
• Support in providing orientation to award and non-award staff that need to use AMS.
• Monitor award data quality in AMS and liaise with relevant award managers to improve it. Provide monthly data quality reports and analysis to AM team.
• Participate in the AMS champions’ network and share experience, tips, and best practices on usage of AMS. Identify trends of issues and report to the group.
• Build capacity of staff on AMS use.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• University degree in international development, business administration, finance and/or accounting or related field
• Experience managing grants, contracts & sub agreements with knowledge of major funders’ guidelines (e.g., USAID, ECHO, FCDO, CIDA, SIDA, Giz etc.)
• Relevant experience managing donor funded projects with International NGO’s particularly those addressing human/children’s rights and those applying partnership approaches.
• Strong analytical skills, computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are necessary.
• Ability to work well with a team and establish relationships with other teams/offices.
• Cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing and negotiation.
• Experience working with implementing partners and managing partner awards/grants.
• Excellent time management and planning capacity

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

Working with members of the global IT team, the role holder will be responsible for building, implementing and supporting Business Intelligence (BI) solutions within the organization. This role will partner with business stakeholders in order to understand their analytic requirements and implement and maintain BI solutions to meet these needs, utilizing best practices. The role requires experience in adapting existing solutions as well as creating new solutions.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

• Reports to: Lead BI Developer.
• Staff reporting to this post: No direct reports

Role Dimensions: 

• Over 60 countries with a staff complement in excess of 17,000 of which at least 50% are considered users of IT systems.

Role Description:

• The BI Developer will play a pivotal role in our data-driven decision-making process by designing, developing, and maintaining business intelligence solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, analyze data, and create meaningful reports, dashboards and data visualizations to support strategic business initiatives.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 

•  Data Modeling and ETL: Develop, maintain and optimize data models and ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) processes to ensure data accuracy, consistency and availability for reporting and analysis globally.
•  BI Tool Expertise: Utilize industry-leading Business Intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, QlikView, etc.) to create interactive and insightful dashboards, reports and data visualizations for global stakeholders
•  Data Analysis: Collaborate with global business stakeholders to understand their data requirements and translate them into actionable insights through data analysis tools.
•  Database Management: Manage and maintain global databases, including data warehousing, data cleansing and data quality assurance.
•  Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in the BI solutions, ensuring the efficient processing of data and quick response times.
•  Documentation: Document all BI development processes, including data models, ETL workflows and report/dashboard specifications.
•  Training and Support: Provide cross-training and support to end-users to ensure they can effectively utilize BI solutions across the globe and assist product owners in designing, agreeing, implementing and managing changes to the BI environment.
•  Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest BI technologies and best practices and implement them to enhance the company's BI capabilities and proactively source new and innovative solutions that provide clear business value and construct ‘proof of concepts’ to demonstrate the new solutions.
•  Project Management: Proactively identify, manage and document any technical project risks/issues related to BI across the movement as per agreed prioritization and timeframes.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice) 
Accountability:

•  Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values
•  Holds team members and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, take responsibility for their own personal development and encourage their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future-orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

•  Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
•  Values diversity and sees it as a source of competitive strength
•  Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

•  Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
•  Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS  
EXPERIENCE AND SKILL

•  Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related field 
•  Minimum 5+ years of experience, with at least 3 years of proven experience as a Business Intelligence Developer, including experience with ETL processes and data modeling.
•  Proven understanding of Data Modelling and Analytics
•  Advanced knowledge and experience working with relational and NO SQL databases as well as data warehousing.
•  Experience of working with Microsoft’s BI technology stack SSIS, SSRS, SSAS (tabular model), Power BI, Power Query and Excel.
•  Experience with Microsoft Azure Analytics tools and technologies such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Bricks, HD Insight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine learning, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Azure Analysis Services, Event Hubs, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Time Series Insights.
•  Good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with a proven ability to explain complex technical ideas and problems clearly to non-experts
•  Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and strong problem-solving skills 
•  Cultural awareness and experience in delivering solutions globally working in an agile project delivery environment.
•  Experience maintaining source control in Git or Azure DevOps
•  Strong experience with various Software Development Life cycles (SDLC) methodologies: Agile or Standard waterfall initiatives
•  Proven experience working with various Project Management practices and disciplines
•  Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills to augment a close working relationship with cross-functional teams
•  A history of designing and implementing reporting solutions that are both functional and engaging
•  Meticulous attention to detail

Desirable:

•  Proficiency in DAX, MDX, Python/Scala/Spark SQL
•  Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
•  Cosmos DB
•  Machine Learning