Compliance and Awards Coordinator at Save The Children

Role Purpose
To ensure the maintenance and administration of a robust and an effective grants management system that is compliant to Save the Children grants systems and guidelines and meetdonor requirements.

In order to be successful within this position, you will ideally have:

• A Bachelors degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Commerce or Finance with a recognised professional certificate in accounting - Part II ACA, ACMA, ACCA
• Substantial management experience of which at least 3 for the non-profit sector
• Experience of managing institutional donor contracts such as DFID, EC, ECHO, USAID
• Proven experience in strategic financial management and producing appropriate management information to support strategy development and decision-making by management
• Proven training experience to all levels of staff, both informal (on the job coaching) and formal (structured training courses).
• Proven analytical skills and ability to translate analysis into appropriate, feasible and practical implementation plans and goals.
• An understanding of development work in order to communicate effectively with donors and programme staff on funding sources and programme issues
• Experience of developing guidelines and formats to support staff in donor applications and reporting with particular reference to DFID grants
• Knowledge of major donor funding sources and grant application processes
• Ability to recognise and interpret funding trends and make recommendations on implications for funding
• Experience of managing or supporting programmes in each stage of the project cycle, including development of funding proposals, budgeting, technical and financial monitoring in the context of grants/restricted funding sources.
• Thorough understanding of interdepartmental relationships, dynamics and functioning in an overseas programme setting
• Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children
• Ability to translate complex, technical and financial issues into a language understandable by non-finance staff
• Willingness to travel to field offices and work in difficult environment from time to time
• Ability to work within a multicultural and multi-religious settings
• Experience of Save the Children UK financial accounting packages, policies, systems and procedures.
• International experience preferably gained within an I NGO in a relief/emergency setting
• Experience or knowledge of working in the region or country programmes
• Proven experience in grants auditing especially of DFID grant audits