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Summary

The Lead Award Analyst is a member of the Award Management (AM)team responsible for managing a portfolio of medium risk awards, ensuring donor compliance and successful implementation from opportunity to closeout. You will be accountable for meeting award management targets and metrics for the assigned portfolio. You will ensure timely implementation, and effective flow of information and resources to Save the Children International via our AM and Financial systems. You will coordinate with relevant stakeholders, particularly technical, financial, procurement and fundraising staff, as well as country office colleagues. You will actively support new business development (NBD) efforts for the department inclusive of cost proposals for medium risk donors and is expected to effectively liaise with relevant stakeholders.

You will problem solve to ensure health of the portfolio of awards, exercising independent judgment and discretion on certain matters and escalating risks to your supervisor as needed.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Award Management (50%)

• Manage a portfolio of medium to high-risk awards from start up to closeout in accordance with Save the Children and donor guidelines.
• Serve as point of contact on assigned awards with donors, Country Office (CO) and Save the Children United States (SCUS) stakeholders.
• Monitor award implementation, reporting and procurements to ensure compliance with award requirements, completion and the application of best practices. Escalate issues in a timely fashion, as needed.
• Track and monitor level of effort budget vs actuals for award portfolio.
• Ensure all donor communications, requests, and amendments are communicated, addressed and filed in a readily auditable manner.??
• Work closely with the CO and SCUS staff to ensure smooth project start-up.
• Manage award closeout process to ensure all financial and contractual obligations have been met.
• Monitor risk on programs by liaising with Advisor(s), technical experts, CO and Program Teams, escalating as necessary.

Support New Business Development (NBD) (15%)

• Support the department’s new business priorities and pipeline.
• Contribute to the development of concept notes and proposal sections, including narratives and cost proposals and supporting documentation in collaboration with Save the Children International, internal colleagues and partners.
• Liaise with CO to support the review of concept notes and proposal pieces.
• Manage the internal approval process of NBDD-related workflows for medium risk proposals.

Budget and Financial Management (25%)

• Track and monitor award budget vs actual expenditures to ensure expense charges are allowable, allocable, reasonable and within spending limits.
• Manage/track detailed annual workplans and budgets. Escalate any issues related to budget and financial management, including underspend or overspends as well as high budget variance.
• Manage annual budget planning process for the award portfolio coordinating efforts between program, country and technical staff.
• Monitor timesheet coordination, payments, travel expense reports and monthly transaction reviews?for the assigned award portfolio.
• Review and prepare, as applicable, interim and final donor reports?for financial information.
• Manage reporting process with program staff for donor reporting. Ensure documents are compliant with donor requirements and submitted on time.

Knowledge Management (10%)

• Manage, together with program staff, knowledge management systems to ensure award files are kept current and in a consistent manner, for smooth backstopping and/or handover situations.
• Participate in developing best practices, sharing resources, and ongoing trainings?in conjunction with program/technical staff.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent, plus at least 3 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated success working across the full cycle of project/award management and implementation
• Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure, many times with competing priorities and deadlines
• Demonstrated analytical, organization, communication and management skills
• Demonstrated experience working with general ledger and financial systems
• Ability to work with non-financial stakeholders and communicate effectively and help them understand financial processes and procedures
• Experience providing training to both finance and non-finance staff
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in budget management and financial analysis
• Experience with web based financial and award management systems
• Knowledge of USG rules and regulations
• Experience implementing United States Government (USG) cooperative agreements and contracts
• Experience in project management
• Experience working in development or humanitarian contexts
• Experience working in international non-governmental organization (INGO) environment with USG funded projects
• Experience coordinating processes with large stakeholder groups
• Fluency in Spanish and/or French

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 $66,300 – $74,100 base salary
• Geo 2 – Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $60,350 – $67,450 base salary
• Geo 3 – Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $54,400 – $60,800 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 (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program.  Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

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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About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond.  As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

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