TITLE: Head of Award Management and Donor Compliance, WCA
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Operations
LOCATION: Dakar (Senegal), or any WCA country where SCI has a presence
GRADE: INT 3
TYPE OF CONTRACT: 2 years Renewable
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Head of Award Management and Donor Compliance (HoAMDC) is responsible for delivering an efficient award management function across all West & Central Africa (WCA) programmes and develop best practice award management processes across 9 Country Offices. The role has three main aspects: lead and develop the regional award management effort including compliance, staff capacity building, and actively monitoring and strengthening process and practices across the AM cycle within the region. This includes driving fit for purpose operating model within the AMDC space in collaboration with other funding-related functions across the RO and CO’s.
The role offers a leadership opportunity for an individual highly experienced in grants management and capable of providing strategic leadership to a dynamic team, as well as the management of a portfolio of awards currently valued at US$720M, and an annual budget of approx. US$230M. S/he will maintain oversight of the award portfolio health for the region to ensure programme delivery is in line with the strategy, collaborating with Resource Mobilisation and PDQ.
The individual will play a strong leadership role both internally, across the Save the Children global network and, in collaboration with Regional Resource Mobilisation, with donors, aiming at developing and preserving a periodic and constructive relationship. S/he will provide both leadership and technical support to the project and program teams in the regional office, as well as to field-based and operations teams to deliver donor compliant awards (rules and regulations), ensuring the consistent delivery of timely and quality donor reports. S/he will also have a strong management insight with respect to partnership, notably with the Localisation lens.
The maintenance of the AM System and day to day management of the team will also be a key aspect of the role. S/he will play a key role in the development of a culture that promotes the primacy of ensuring Save the Children delivers high quality programmes whilst always seeking to improve national staff capacity to take on roles currently held by international staff. 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.
S/he is accountable for the regional strategic award portfolio oversight of SCI Directly Received (local and global) within the region, ensuring necessary reviews, approvals and performance of programme delivery. This includes providing recommendations to fundraising protocol governance within Programme Funding and Institutional Partnerships (Resource Mobilisation) to ensure compliance and good award management and managing AMS approvals for the Funding Office entity on AMS (escalation is via Operations/Regional Director).
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Regional Programme Operations Director
Staff reporting to this post: 2 Awards Managers (2 additional staff members by end of 2022)
Matrix: Country heads of award - 9
Budget Responsibilities: US$150K
Role Dimensions: strong relationship building across the organisation, good communication skills, and great presentation skills and working in complex and difficult context is key to this role
Annual Salary Level : $55 000 - $70 000 (offer will be based on experience/internal equity and financial availability. SCI offers a competitive benefits package outside of salary)
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Leadership and direction of Award Management and Donor Compliance in WCA
Award Management Standards, Processes and Systems
Donor Compliance, Risk Management, and Issue Resolution
Portfolio Analysis and Delivery
Capacity Building and community of practice for Award Management
QUALIFICATIONS
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
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