Lead Associate, Humanitarian Programs Portfolio (P2)

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 …