Save the Children - US
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Summary
The Sr. Director, Humanitarian Program Portfolio (HPP) within the Department of Humanitarian Response (DHR) will develop and oversee a portfolio of humanitarian awards, including high-risk awards, within your assigned geographical region(s). Reporting to the Sr. Managing Director, Humanitarian Portfolio (HP), you will work in close coordination and collaboration with the HPP Sr. Directors to establish ways of working within the HPP team.
You will lead on representation for responses within your assigned regional portfolio(s). You are also responsible for overseeing the strategic and proactive US donor engagement, as well as monitoring performance against key metrics. Additionally, you are responsible for strengthening team members’ capacities and ensuring linkages with country offices and technical colleagues.
In coordination with the HF&C, you will ensure accountability, transparency and consistency of execution for all steps in the Award Management and New Business Development processes to ensure the effective and efficient management of award and unrestricted resources. In coordination with the HP management team, you will also serve as one of the department’s liaisons for cross-functional initiatives and processes in order to support the creation and/or refinement of policies and procedures on award management, new business, and donor engagement.
You will lead on internal and external representation for responses within your assigned portfolio. This includes representing SCUS at meetings, providing strategic and operational inputs and analysis. You exercise leadership, independent judgment, and discretion on significant matters. As a member of the HP’s management team, you actively champion a culture of continuous learning and business process improvement.
NOTE – This position is contingent on acquisition of funding.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
The following job duties will be conducted for the Senior Director’s assigned geographic region(s):
Lead SCUS Engagement on Prioritized Humanitarian Responses (15%)
- Engage with Save the Children globally and provide strategic donor information to key colleagues to help them engage with donors to identify fundraising opportunities.
- Review response strategies and provide feedback aligned to SCUS priorities.
- Establish systems and structures for consistent Save the Children US (SCUS) engagement on prioritized response calls.
- Serve as SCUS lead on select prioritized responses, participating in response calls, and acting as point person on the response, working closely with the Sr. Managing Director, Humanitarian Portfolio
- Serve on the Humanitarian Senior Management Team.
New Business Development (30%)
- Oversee prepositioning and planning with Country Offices (COs) in assigned region(s) ensuring proactive engagement with USG donor representatives in-country to identify opportunities.
- Develop and implement donor strategies, identify trends, best practices and challenges with the assigned donor(s)
- Propose solutions and ways forward to advance engagement with the donor(s) on the operational and strategic levels.
- In coordination with the Sr. Managing Director, Humanitarian Portfolio develop the strategy to reach the humanitarian business team’s annual fundraising targets of $233 million in USG award funding per year.
- Lead the go-no-go process from the SCUS side for assigned region(s), in coordination with technical colleagues.
- 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 and ensure the team is adequately resourced. Provide feedback as needed.
- Lead the proposal development process for assigned portfolio. Support country-specific proposal development as needed.
- Serve as one of HPP team’s lead donor focal points (BHA or PRM) or private donors (in collaboration with Resource Development (RD)).
- Promote a culture of knowledge management – ensuring documents are posted on SC’s internal Award Management System (AMS) as applicable, maintaining proposal libraries, documenting lessons learned, etc.
Portfolio Management and Oversight (30%)
- Ensure effective management of awards within the assigned regional portfolio(s). Provide input to the strategic and operational plans for these awards. Identify issues and support team members to develop plans for course correction, and/or escalation, when necessary.
- Oversee the start-up and implementation of the portfolio of awards within the assigned region.
- Lead team in supporting Country Office management of awards as well as compliance and communication with donors
- Oversee the optimal and efficient allocation of portfolio assignments in coordination with the other HPP Sr. Directors and the Sr. Managing Director, Humanitarian Portfolio Unit
- Lead the development of DHR portfolio review tools, e.g. portfolio analysis, level of effort (LoE) analysis, and recommend improved processes for monitoring the portfolio.
- Lead on the full life cycle of award(s) for one assigned response, ensuring adherence to donor rules and regulations and supporting Country Offices to meet key deliverable
Management Support (25%)
- Lead, supervise and develop a team of program staff made up of Associates and Advisors for the assigned geographic region(s).
- For direct reports, oversee orientation, development of individual and team work plans, performance evaluations, objectives, professional development opportunities, timesheet management/approval, and provide training and supervision of day-to-day tasks as appropriate.
- Serve as backstop and support for team members in the implementation of their award portfolios.
- Support the Sr. Managing Director, Humanitarian Portfolio with implementing human resource management strategies (recruitment, orientation, retention, leadership development, succession planning) for the achievement of strategic/operational goals and to improve ways of working.
- Foster a collegial environment that promotes knowledge sharing, respectful engagement, and models joint collaboration.
- Serve on the Humanitarian Portfolio Unit Management Team
- Engage on DHR management initiatives, as needed.
Travel Related to Essential Duties:
- International and/or Domestic Travel: Up to 20%
- Travel to Save the Children country offices to conduct award reviews, provide operations support and build CO capacity on donor requirements.
- Deploy, when needed, to Save the Children humanitarian responses.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated field-level experience in chronic or acute humanitarian crises.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with USG donors and partners. Experience working with and raising funds from BHA and BPRM, required.
- Proven success working across the full cycle of project/award management and implementation; experience implementing high value, high risk USG projects strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a team, with interest and ability to recruit, support, retain and develop staff.
- Demonstrated ability to think and act strategically and independently
- Ability to manage by influence internally and to work in a federated structure.
- Proven analytical, organization, communication and management skills. Must have attention to detail, ability to multi-task and able to make independent decisions.
- Ability to lead portfolio review and analysis processes to ensure oversight and management of risk for awards in portfolio.
- 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.
- Ability to travel 20% of time as required to support high priority humanitarian responses, strategic initiatives, and project implementation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to speak a second, relevant language (French, Spanish).
- Experience with Save the Children preferred.
Compensation
Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:
- Geo 1 – NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $108,800 – $121,600 base salary
- Geo 2 – Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $98,600 – $110,200 base salary
- Geo 3 – Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $88,400 – $98,800 base salary
Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.
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