Global Donor Compliance Manager – UN accounts at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE: 

Award (Grant) Management is a key function across Save the Children International (SCI) and Save the Children Members, ensuring efficient use of funding and its co-ordination across our 55 country offices and 17 Save the Children Members. The Award Management function plays a key business partnering role in supporting programme and advocacy globally to ensure awards are delivered on time, on budget and in compliance with SCI procedures and donor requirements

The Global Donor Compliance Managerwill be part of the global Award (Grant) Management and Donor Compliance function within the International Programs department of Save the Children International. The post holder will be subject matter expert and leading on overall compliance with UN accounts led by SCI (UNHCR, WFP), ensuring Save the Children’s procedures for award management enable donor requirements and ensuring its application to the wider portfolio.

The Global Donor Compliance Manager provides risk-based compliance expertise and technical support on the UN accounts led by SCI. The post holder will be responsible for:

• Expertise and advice – Maintaining Save the Children International expertise in UN donor requirements and compliance expectations, including engaging with, monitoring and analysing changes, impact on and implications for Save the Children International ways of working, convening relevant functions and acting as a translator to support the operationalisation of such donor requirements
• Providing technical backstopping and escalation support on award specific risks and issues as a second line to the Regional Awards Managers within the account
• Compliance management and monitoring – owning, improving and maintaining Save the Children International documentation and ways of working related to the UN accounts donor compliance delivery, ensuring these are up to date on Save the Children’s OneNet and other platforms
• Leading on any global compliance monitoring and oversight of the donor compliance risks and performance within the UN accounts led by SCI, following up with the relevant Regional teams to ensure quality risk frameworks are in place, supporting and enabling impactful programs with compliance
• Managing the reporting process for compliance incidents to the donor on behalf of SCI, supporting the account team by liaising directly with UNHCR and WFP on incidents such as fraud, safeguarding, or other reportable issues.
• Capacity building – owning, improving, and maintaining a suite of capacity building materials on the donor compliance requirements of UN donors (UNHCR and WFP) and Save the Children International’s procedures/ways of working to enable compliance
• Ensuring effective dissemination to our country and regional offices of UN donor requirements (UNHCR and WFP) and ongoing improvement and strengthening of award management and donor compliance function capacity to manage those requirements within programmes
• Governance – engage functional leadership (Centre and Regional Awards Leads), the account management structure, and oversight mechanisms for the SCI Directly Received portfolio, supporting the Director, Award Management and Donor Compliance, in assessment of global risk and performance in UN Account donor compliance to inform relevant governance structures and bodies

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Personal Skills

• Applying technical and professional expertise
• Problem solving and decision-making; excellent problem-solving skills, and ability to identify, get agreement of, and implement solutions.
• Communicating with impact including an ability to engage with a range of stakeholders from junior to senior levels, across a range of locations and cultures
• Working effectively with others; demonstrated interpersonal skills; patient, flexible, able to improvise and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure; ability to build strong working relationships at a distance, with culturally diverse stakeholders and colleagues around the world.
• An energetic, flexible, proactive, and positive approach with the ability to work both independently and cooperatively within a team setting and across teams
• Ability to manage a complex workload and to organise competing priorities effectively to ensure service delivery to countries
• Able to thrive and navigate a matrix management environment.
• Ability to travel, possibly at short notice, including occasionally to remote and insecure locations.
• Commitment to Save the Children values
• Good written and verbal communication in English as a minimum

Technical Skills

• Demonstrable expertise and experience in handling UN donor compliance requirements, especially UNHCR and WFP
• Experience in award (grant) management cycle, logical frameworks, and MEAL concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to provide proactive, propositional advice, to offer technical options in complex operating environments and scenarios to a variety of stakeholders, to drive compliance whilst enabling programs and advocacy.
• Experience in developing procedures, manuals, guidance, and tools that are accessible and user-friendly.
• Ability to develop and deliver training and varied capacity building approaches in donor compliance requirements
• Ability to translate requirements into practical approaches and ways of working that integrate compliance at an operational level
• Good general knowledge of key NGO functional services (financial management; supply chain and procurement; MEAL; new business development; program management; partnership management; audit; risk)
• Solid skills in Microsoft applications. Experience managing content on intranet type systems a plus.

Desirable

• Proven experience in assessing donor compliance risks across a portfolio
• Experienced in direct engagement with UN donors and shows a good understanding of the UN system
• Additional language skills would be a benefit: French, Spanish, Arabic