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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and influential individual with strong awards management and donor reporting experience to join us as our Finance and Awards Manager in our Humanitarian Transformation Team to lead the financial and awards management of the DEC consortium for the Ukraine Response, Turkey/Syria Response and other allocated programmes.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the role

As the Finance and Awards Manager you will lead financial and awards management of the DEC consortium and other allocated programmes throughout the project cycle including proposal coordination, budget development, tracking grants spending, budget vs actual reviews, consolidation of donor financial reporting, and compliance management. You will ensure awards and finance management systems, processes and ways of working are in place and complies with organisational and donor policies and requirements

You will also lead on submission of high-quality donor reporting including narrative, financial and MEAL reporting for low value awards and advise and train programme staff and partner staff in finance and awards management.

In this role, you will:

Financial Management

• Coordinate and lead on budget development for new proposals and periodic reforecasting process
• Provide finance related donor compliance guidance to consortium partners
• Review and reconcile partner expenditure reports against transaction lists and agreed budgets and prepare consolidated financial reports for the donor
• Prepare monthly Budget vs Actuals including commentary for allocated awards including DEC Consortium, and lead reviews with budget holders on progress, flag deviations and follow up on actions

Awards Management

• Ensure new funding opportunities are coordinated, and appropriate go/nogo decisions taken
• Work with relevant program staff to ensure all implementing partners for the programmes undergo due diligence prior to commencing work, have been engaged with appropriate agreements and effective monitoring systems are in place so that partner delivery meets donor expectations and requirements.
• Ensure that key staff (including partners) have a clear understanding of donor compliance throughout the project management cycle and that there is a complete audit trail of the implementation and reporting for all allocated awards
• Identify financial and awards management capacity gaps and training needs assessments for partner staff, and provide training
• Coordinate and lead on submitting high-quality donor reporting (Narrative, Logframe, Financial) on allocated awards
• Manage the day-to-day operations of projects and low value restricted awards around existing initiatives (e.g., CCD) and for existing entities (Elrha, Start Network) with a focus on compliance, due diligence, awards and risk management

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Demonstrated experience of finance and awards management in relation to large programmes within the international development sector
• Knowledge of the requirements of major humanitarian institutional donors (FCDO, ECHO, DEC, BHA etc.) including budgeting, eligibility issues, compliance management, and reporting
• Experience with finance and award management policies, procedures and systems in large organisations
• Experience of financial planning (budgeting, reforecasting), monitoring and reporting
• Proven ability to develop and maintain strong internal and external relationships with diverse stakeholders
• Experience of preparing reports, briefing papers, and discussion documents with proven ability to communicate clearly to a diverse audience
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

What we offer you:

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here.

Closing date: 14/03/23

Please note:

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team. This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

On-site – There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure:

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-offer/

Interview Expenses:

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section. For anything else you can email us on: [email protected]