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4. Save the Children Awards (Grants) Management Intern Vacancy in Nairobi, Kenya

Team / Programme: Regional Awards Management

Location: East and Southern Africa Regional Office – Nairobi

Grade: Intern

Type of Contract: National

Child Safeguarding: Level 3 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people

Role Purpose: To provide administrative and operational support to ESARO Awards team in information management, coordination and dissemination across the departments, country office and members.

Scope of Role:

Reports to: Head of Award Management

Dimensions: Save the Children works in 12 countries in East Southern Africa (Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi and Ethiopia) with a current staff complement of approximately 3500 staff and current expenditure of approximately $290 million each year.

Staff directly reporting to this post: None

Key Areas of Development:

Regional Office Awards office administrative and operational support

Schedule and keep track of country office (CO) monthly and quarterly engagement calls

Share the agenda of the calls with the country office awards leads

Support in compiling member and CO call actions and share the minutes with Regional Awards management officer

Take lead in arranging meetings by coordinating with admin to secure venue and set necessary IT material.

Processes and Systems

Ensure ESARO programme awards actions are shared and updated with other departments including finance, Operations, Programme Quality Development and provide feedback to Awards management officer for follow up.

Support in compiling monthly awards reports and share with Regional Awards Analyst for analysis.

As on a needs basis update documents and emails to awards management system records.

Filling and documentation

Maintain awards shared drive and keep them up to date.

Perform any other related tasks as may be assigned by Head of Awards Management on needs basis or as part of skills development.

Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Creates a managerial environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child

safeguarding

Ambition:

Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same

Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters

Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.

Creativity:

Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach

Integrity:

Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence

Displays consistent excellent judgement

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum undergraduate degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 months' experience in a corporate or non-government organisation as an intern
• Excellent computer skills especially in MS Excel spread sheets and MS Word
• High level of integrity and ability to work as part of a professional team
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven ability to handle challenging workload
• Cross-cultural experience, understanding and sensitivity;
• Excellent interpersonal and written and oral communication skills;
• Commitment to Save the Children values.

How to Apply

Please send a copy of your CV with a cover letter to EA.recruitment@savethechildren.org

Application closes 24th March 2017 at 5:00pm.

We work with children, communities and governments all over the world and we believe in the right person for the job regardless of where you come from and how you identify yourself.

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to ensuring that only those who are suitable to work with children are considered for these posts.

All successful applicants will therefore be required to complete a Police Check and must sign onto our Child Safeguarding Policy and organizational Code of Conduct.

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