The Director will lead the program team within the Department and Humanitarian Response and is responsible for ensuring effective delivery of Save the Children US (SCUS) donor funding for country-specifc humanitarian responses. The Director will work effectively with other members of the Department of Humanitarian Response (DHR), including the finance, strategy, operations and partnership teams, other parts of SCUS including humanitarian technical advisors and with Save the Children’s country offices, other members and Save the Children International (SCI) headquarters and regional offices.
The Director will be accountable in overseeing the strategic and proactive engagement of DHR’s country-specific humanitarian portfolio of awards funded by institutional donors. Director will manage a continuous improvement strategy for award management deliverables, identify and secure new business opportunities. In close collaboration with the Director of Humanitarian Financce and Compliance, the Director will serve as the department’s main liaison for all Save the Children award management initiatives and processes and closely collaborate with finance, award management, humanitarian technical staff to ensure the department achieves consistency, efficiency and excellence in these functions.
The Director will be accountable for overseeing SCUS’s engagement with ongoing, individual humanitarian responses, with particular attention to SCUS engagement in priority responses. The humanitarian program team’s work will be organized by geography and response, ensuring coordinated engagement of SCUS inputs including private funding into specific responses across the full theory of change.
The Director will manage a team and be accountable for creating and standardizing systems and processes to best suit the needs of the team and of SCI country offices.
Strategic Leadership on Institutional Program portfolio of awards (40%)
- Lead the Humanitarian Programs unit with accountability, totaling a value of $200 to $250 million in award fudning per year. Set systems and structure for consistent Save the Children US (SCUS) engagement on prioritized response calls to ensure team members represent SCUS. Engage directly on select, key responses, and proactively identify and solve strategic and operational challenges.
- Identify key funding gaps for prioritized responses and allocate funding in collaboration with department senior management team.
- For all key institutional funding partners:
- Set and oversee implementation common standards for how team members manage their portfolios and how awards should be monitored.
- Define and determine the split of awards between members of the team to ensure effective support is provided to awards.
- Work closely with Director of Humanitarian Finance and Compliance to define workload split between Finance and Program team; hold regular meetings between Finance and Program Specialists to discuss common areas of interest/concern.
- Accountable for determining and outlining proposal and award approval processes; manage team to use systems, such as Award Management Systems, appropriately.
- Serve as department lead in the following: regular risk based award monitoring (RBAM) reviews to help determine high-risk awards; review of New Raise reports; contact with SCUS and SCI award management units.
- Monitor Continuous Improvement solutions and ensure improvements are carried out in line with Response Award Management Project (RAMP) calendar.
Staff Management and Capacity Building (20%)
- Lead, supervise and develop a team of program staff. For direct reports, oversee orientation/onboarding, development of individual and unit work plans, performance evaluations, performance objectives, professional development opportunities, timesheet management/approval, and provide training and supervision of day-to-day tasks as appropriate.
- . Provide guidance and direction of recruitment actions, ensure each new hire successfully completes division orientation and onboarding protocols, recommend high performing staff for succession planning and consistently monitor and modify employment performance to ensure staff are fully knowledgeable and adherent to divisions strategic/operational goals.
- Serve on DHR Senior Management Team and Humanitarian Senior Management Team.
Strategy Planning and Engagement (20%)
- Collaborate with Senior Director, Strategy and Innovation, in the delivery of SCUS strategic initiative for priority responses.
- Work with the Senior Director, Strategy in representing SCUS internally and externally for humanitarian responses.
- Join forces with DHR’s Senior Director of Humanitarian Strategy, and the Director of Humanitarian Partnerships, support country offices in strategic planning around humanitarian programming.
New Business Development (20%)
- Manage donor funding cycle information and analysis to guide proactive business development.
- Oversee the development of the funding portion of account strategies including the setting of annual targets for the country-specific donor accounts in collaboration with the Director, Humanitarian Partnerships. Design and implement work plans to meet new raise targets.
- Engage with Save the Children globally and provide strategic donor information to key colleagues to help them engage with donors to identify strategic fundraising opportunities.
- Minimum 7-10 years' experience in area of expertise to include international field experience in humanitarian response context, preferably in a management role.
- Demonstrated experience working across the full cycle of grant/award management from proposal and budget development through to reporting and closeout.
- Knowledge of USG, UN and other donor funding mechanisms.
- Proven ability to track, manage and represent large and diverse funding portfolios.
- Ability to manage a team of staff, with interest and ability to recruit, support, retain and develop staff.
- Excellent analytical, organization, communication and management skills. Must have attention to detail, ability to multi-task and work across Agency departments.
- Excellent written English and computer skills, advanced proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and ability to master SC systems.
- Ability to travel internationally up to 15% of time as required, typically to places facing a humanitarian crisis.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in field related to development, humanitarian work or business administration.
- Ability to speak Spanish, French or Arabic.
- Aetna Medical and Dental insurance with a concierge service
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Vision Insurance
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Commuter Benefit Program
- Vacation and Sick leave
- Paid holidays
What makes us special!
- Generous Retirement Savings with matching company contributions of up to 8%
- Family Leave – 10 additional days of paid time off for you to use to care for your family members
- Additional Maternity and Paternity Leave – 30 days where parents can take additional paid leave (beyond short-term disability and FMLA) at the birth or adoption of a child during that critical first year!
- Critical Child Illness Leave – We hope you never have to use it, but we will provide an additional 30 days of paid leave per year should your dependent child be faced with a critical illness.
- Pet Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Identity Protection, Home, Auto and additional Life insurances
- Summer Fun Fridays – During the summer months, early release at 1:30 pm every other Friday!
- Volunteer Day – One paid day a year to support the causes that matter to you!
- Ergonomic Options – Every employee at our HQ offices has the option of a sitting/standing desk
- Leadership and Employee Development Training, including:
- Our remarkable in-house CORE, Senior Management Development, and Leadership Development Programs
- Language learning opportunities
- Continuous Improvement skill development programs
- Brown Bag information sharing sessions
- Work hard/Play hard! We make sure there’s ample opportunity for fun, engagement, and celebration while you work, such as networking events, March Madness, World Cup, Dodgeball Tournaments, Take Your Child to Work Day, Founder’s Day, and our annual Day of Service