Lead Associate, Humanitarian Programs Portfolio
1 month ago
**Summary**
The Lead Associate, Humanitarian Program Portfolio will serve as the primary focal point for country offices (COs) on a portfolio of awards from institutional (BHA, BPRM) and private donors. You will support the full life cycle of assigned awards, ensuring adherence to donor rules and regulations and supporting COs to meet key deliverables. You will help ensure donor compliance and successful implementation of a country-specific humanitarian portfolio of awards funded by institutional donors, and will contribute to meeting new raise targets and metrics for the caseload of awards. You will liaise with relevant stakeholders, particularly with the Humanitarian Finance & Compliance (HFC) unit, to achieve its objectives, and will problem-solve to maintain the overall health of awards.
**What You’ll Be Doing **(Essential Duties)**
**Management of Country Specific Awards (75%)**
- Coordinate with COs, other Save the Children (SC) members, and relevant partners and sub-grantees to ensure high quality, timely and compliant program implementation.
- Monitor risk, work with CO leadership to agree on risk mitigation strategies; develop plans to address these risks and escalate issues as appropriate.
- Oversee donor communications, requests, amendments, etc., and oversee completion of resulting actions; coordinate response to donor queries as needed.
- Oversee production of high quality and timely narrative donor reports generated by CO and circulate for additional input as necessary; ensure submission of reports to donor and share any feedback with COs and Technical Assistants.
- Collaborate with HFC to organize training on donor compliance and Level of Effort (LOE) budgeting guidelines, meet key reporting deadlines and respond to internal SCUS reporting requests (Key Performance Indicators, overspend, budget projections).
- Develop sub-award agreements to SC Member countries or partners, as needed.
- Monitor donor compliance responsibilities for assigned portfolio, including working with the HFC to monitor award implementation, supporting reporting and procurements to ensure compliance with donor requirements, and providing needed compliance support to COs
- Coordinate project start-ups for awards in portfolio, including planning and facilitating startup calls/meetings with CO, and reviewing project timeline, deliverables and donor requirements in detail.
- Coordinate project close-outs for awards in portfolio, including supporting completion of the SCI and SCUS Closeout Checklists and, with HFC, help ensure that awards in SC’s Award Management System and Agresso are closed/deactivated as required.
- Travel to SC COs to conduct award reviews, provide operations support and build CO capacity on SCUS systems and donor requirements.
**New Business Development (25%)**
- With the support of the donor operational focal point, support prepositioning and planning with COs in portfolio, proactively engaging them to reach out to in-country donors and identify opportunities. Lead the go-no-go process from SCUS. Secure all needed approvals prior to submission.
- Oversee the process of developing and submitting high quality and compliant concept notes and proposals that are aligned with SC’s response strategy and donor priorities. Provide feedback as needed. Support country-specific proposal development as needed.
- Work closely with COs, HFC and technical teams to coordinate proposal timelines and roles and responsibilities.
- Support the department to maintain knowledge management systems around resource development (ensuring documents are posted on AMS as applicable, maintaining proposal libraries, documenting lessons learned, etc.).
**Required Qualifications**
- Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent, plus at least 3 years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience working across the full cycle of grant/award management from proposal and budget development through to reporting and close-out.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with USG agencies as donors and partners.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with individuals and teams at all levels.
- Proven ability to manage a complex and varied workload, while adhering to tight deadlines.
- Demonstrated successful analytical, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Proven attention to detail, ability to multi-task and able to make independent decisions as appropriate.
- Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
- Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
- Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% of time internationally
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Professional proficiency in speaking and writing in a second, relevant language strongly
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