Overview
The Award Management and Partnership Director will provide primary award and partnership management inputs for development and humanitarian programmes, and ongoing support to develop best practice relating to award management and partnership procedures and processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Country Office award management and Partnership teams.
- Provide strategic support on all aspects of award and partnership management.
- Support development and implementation of the Country Office funding strategy.
- Ensure accurate and up to date information on the award portfolio is readily available.
- Work with the Finance Director to ensure a clear framework for master budget development, cost allocation, monitoring of award budgets, phasing and forecasting.
- Ensure that necessary risks are taken knowingly with appropriate mitigating actions.
- Identify, assess, input, recommend on the existing and desired reconciliation process.
- Ensure that the Award Management System (AMS) is effectively managed and maintained.
- Recruit, train and manage award and partner management staff.
- Build and maintain relationships with relevant networks and award and partnership management staff of similar organisations.
- Ensure all donor requirements are met and there is a complete audit trail.
- Ensure that key contributing staff has a clear understanding of donor requirements.
- Ensure that key processes are in place for formats, eligibility, compliance, reporting.
- Work with the finance team and provide technical advice to strategic donor costs allocation.
- Ensure potential issues and amendment requests are flagged promptly to donors.
- Ensure that all new staff receive an orientation to SCI award management processes, systems, tools, and donor compliance requirements.
- Work with internal and external auditors as necessary.
- Support the coordination of proposals.
- Support the development of a Country Office funding strategy.
- Engage with Save the Children globally and provide information to support the building of professional relationships with donors.
- Work with relevant program staff to ensure all implementing partners undergo legal vetting and a capacity assessment.
- Work with program staff to ensure relevant donor requirements are effectively communicated and understood by implementing partners.
- Lead on partnership strategy development and adherence, roll out of global partnerships policies and procedures, and development of contextualized tools.
- Ensure partnership led project are properly managing and reach expected results.
- Ensure partner management and necessary tools are in place to avoid any financial/audit risk.
- Ensure effective partner coordination and partner consultations are properly managing.
- Ensure member, centre and RO communication is effectively leading and managing.
- Ensure, cross functional teams are properly engage and informed on Award and Partner Management process and decision-making process.
- Lead the award and partnership management team to strengthen the knowledge and capacity of staff across all functions.
- Lead the training needs are fulfilled to keep KPI performance on top line and sustain for the country program.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 10 years’ experience in senior management role out of which 5 years INGO experience with excellent grasp of operational issues.
- Sound knowledge of the requirements of major institutional donors including budgeting, eligibility issues, compliance management, and reporting.
- Proven track record of active contribution to a senior management team, and providing strategic support across multiple sectors and/or regions.
- Proven experience of establishing and running the award management function in the field.
- Action-oriented analytical skills; demonstrated experience in setting up and maintaining quality assurance /compliance systems.
- Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a demanding workload comprised of diverse and challenging tasks and responsibilities.
- Experience of engaging with donors at country strategy levels.
- Experience of and well-developed skills in staff management and supervision with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
- Proven strong coaching and capacity-building skills.
- Computer literate (i.e. WORD, advanced Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, financial systems).
- Desirable Experience with Save the Children Award Management Policies, procedures and systems (AMS).
- Desirable Experience of Agresso accounting software.
- Desirable Experience of Project Management, M&E Management or Funding Coordination.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in relevant field or have CIMA or ACCA
