Save the Children Area Manager Jobs in South Sudan

Save the Children Area Manager Jobs in South Sudan

Role Purpose:

The Area Manager is responsible for the management of the Field Offices including the Field Managers and implementation of Save the Children program in the Jonglie, Upper Nile and Rumbek area office, south S.

The post holder will ensure effective management of programs, resources, staff and support functions in the field sites and will firmly institute finance, human resources and operations systems in line with organization performance expectations.

The Area manager will provide oversight in implementing programs according to prevailing needs, identify new opportunities for programming, and will ensure field level participation in programme and proposal design.

Key Areas of Accountability:

Program Development, Implementation and Delivery

• Ensure that management support is provided to field programme implementations within the Area Office and the management of the different offices, implementation of quality programs as well as operations core business processes.

• In close coordination with the Programme Development and Quality Team to ensure that the field operations team are fully involved in proposal development in line with the core business process guidelines for proposals development.

• Ensure that area teams undertake monthly sessions to monitor expenditure against budget (Budget Variance Analysis – BVA) and that all programmes progress in accordance with grant agreements and are completed within time and on budget with an emphasis on cost effectiveness, innovation and high-quality programming to serve hard-to-reach children.

• Ensure that Area teams undertake biweekly/monthly SMT meetings to update each area unit on its current key priorities and achievements, present any issues that would require attention and support from country office and come up with solutions to address the issues.

• Through monthly reports received from the field offices, to retain an oversight of the budget situation in each field office and ensure that field offices are efficient at covering all of their costs.

• Have budget holding responsibilities for programs/projects implemented within the Area Office and Multi-Area Grant as appropriate, in line with the SOD threshold of the position.

• Ensure programs are implemented in ways responsive to the communities and children in line with Save the Children principles, values and strategic plan and following Save the Children compliance procedures. This includes working with government (both Federal and Member states), local administrations and national NGO-partners to strengthen national capacity.

• Working with colleagues in the PDQ department to ensure the preparation of timely and high-quality progress reports, program reports, and donor reports.

• Assist the DPO/DDPO in implementing Programme Operations Best Practices.

• Ensure that effective mechanisms are in place to listen to, act upon and address children’s and communities’ concerns/recommendations through active participation by children and communities in project design, monitoring and evaluations

• Ensure that staff capacity in quality project management is improved and strengthened through training, coaching and mentoring.

• Support implementation, monitoring and continuous improvement trucking for all essential KPIs for the Country office.

Financial, Budget and Grant Management

• Serve as overall budget holder for all programming in the area office; propose, manage and support budget holders for individual projects and grants as appropriate.

• Closely work with PDQ and Awards Team on the coordination of the overall funding process from both grants and SC members. This includes: developing funding strategies, creating grant proposals, and identifying strategic leads and concepts

• Ensure that programme budgets are managed through rigorous budget and finance monitoring practices with participation of all key functions involved in projects.

• Oversee the general application and observance of financial procedures and guidelines set out in SC financial manual and donors' requirements

• Ensure that budgets are spent and charged to their respective budget heads and grants by diligently reviewing the financial (AGRESSO) reports at least every month and bringing to the timely attention of the Director of Operations and the Finance Director any major budget concerns and

• Efficiently and successfully manage the grant cycle by putting in place robust mechanisms to start, implement and close grants in line with donor as well as Save the Children’s policies

• Support quarterly budget phasing for the area office and insure accurate budget implementation inline phased budget and monthly forecast.

• Ensure that grants are managed as per Save the Children’s and donors’ requirements including the quality and timely submission of reports

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters in Development Studies or other Social Sciences.

Experience and Skills

Essential

• Minimum of 7 years management experience in a corporate or an NGO environment, in a range of cultures including significant field operations experience, running both emergency and development programs.

• Robust experience of NGO emergency program cycle management, and with experience of working within a complex and matrix organisation structure.

• In-depth understanding of at least two of the sectoral programs and a working knowledge of the program priorities of the Country Office.

• Good understanding of international humanitarian systems, institutions and donors, and of procedures, accountability frameworks and best practices in emergency management.

• Substantial and proven experience and knowledge of effective financial and budgetary control and securing and managing grants from major institutional donors.

• Solid project management skills related to organisational development projects and international, cross- functional teams with a proven history of delivering results.

• Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically.

• An in-depth understanding of national and international development issues particularly in relation to children.

• Previous experience of managing and developing a team and the ability to lead, motivate and develop others.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

• Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours, and work with incoming teams in the event of major emergencies

• Willingness to spend up to 50% of time in visiting field offices security allowing.

• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights- based approaches.

Desirable

• Work experience in humanitarian emergencies

• Work experience in an (International) Non–Governmental Organization ((I)NGO)

• Experience of preparing successful funding proposals for donors particularly experience working with ECHO, BHA and SSHF

• English language skills

• Good knowledge of quality standards and quality controls related to medical practice.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Save the Children Area Manager Jobs in South Sudan


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