Awards and Partnerships Coordinator

The Opportunity

Save the Children International Kenya Country, office has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as Awards and Partnerships Coordinator. The role holder will support the Awards and Partnership Manager in the planning, securing and managing of both development and humanitarian awards. The position plays a lead role in award information management, shares and coordinates information across departments. The Awards and Partnership Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring that the SCI programme adheres to all its award management obligations internally within Save the Children and externally with donors and partnership management. This will include contract and sub contract management & data quality in the Award Management System. This position is specifically responsible for assigned awards, and will ensure compliance with financial and administrative requirements, donor specific requirements and to make recommendations for improvements. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

Qualification and Experience

• 4 years’ experience in managing large awards facilities.
• Minimum 3 years working in international development
• Excellent understanding of the awards management cycle, logical frameworks, and M&E concepts.
• Knowledge of awards and contracts regulations and reporting requirements of major donors such as EU, DFID, ECHO, UN agencies, DANIDA.
• Experience of managing awards, cooperative agreements and contracts for major donors.
• Practice knowledge of financial awards accounting and management especially SCI Awards management system.
• Experience of analysing and commenting on variances between actual and budgeted expenditure and relating this to activity reporting
• Have a basic knowledge of sectorial programming and log frames.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to explain complex issues to both staff and peers.
• Ability to manage a complex and varied workload; to work effectively under pressure; and to organize and priorities work to ensure deadlines are met.
• An energetic, flexible and proactive approach with the ability to work both independently and cooperatively within a team setting
• Strong team working skills and ability to develop and maintain effective working relations at all levels both within and outside the team.
• Ability to challenge and negotiate assertively and cooperatively with senior staff.
• Proven ability to handle challenging work load with minimum motivation
• Cross-cultural experience, understanding and sensitivity;
• Excellent interpersonal and written and oral communication skills;
• Understanding of Save the Children’s vision and mission and a commitment to its objectives and values

The Organisation

Save the children international employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Application Information:

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at https://kenya.savethechildren.net/careers.

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.

Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best-qualified talent. Only shortlisted candidate will be contacted.

Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process, nor request for medical examination or records and does not act through recruitment agents whatsoever.