Department of Education and Child Protection (DECP) will advance Save the Children’s education global theme and poverty subtheme by managing this institutional donor relationship and resources. The USDA Director position will lead Save the Children’s with the USDA McGovern-Dole Food for Education (FfE) program. Engagement includes establishing and maintaining relationships with USDA staff, pursuing USDA funding opportunities, predicting potential countries that will come up for bid, developing a funding opportunity response strategy, and assuring administration of all awards. Director will maintain and develop systems and processes to enable Save the Children to have a consistent relationship and robust USDA portfolio.
Areas of Responsibility:
Strategic Development (30%)
- In collaboration with other International Program Departments and Country Offices develop and implement a USDA engagement strategy that seeks to achieve Save the Children’s new raise goal and increase Save the Children’s understanding of USDA and Food for Education’s application process including what USDA value as a donor and a partner.
- In collaboration with DECP’s Knowledge Management Specialist, contribute to Save the Children’s knowledge base, ensuring USDA priorities, ways of working, and strategies are collected, stored and used for strategic decision-making.
- Monitor USDA trends in funding priorities that could impact current or future USDA programming, and extrapolate what might be coming in order to provide as much lead time for proposal development as possible.
Proposal Development (30%)
- Serve as proposal director and coordinate with relevant staff to create proposal teams to ensure timely bid decisions, high-quality review and submission of proposals responsive to USDA requirements.
- Work closely with department and country office technical team members in technical design and proposal development
- Oversee tracking of new business opportunities and conduct market analysis for new business strategy
- Engage with potential partners and competitors to gather intelligence on upcoming business opportunities, identify key partners, and negotiate scopes of work and budgets with partners
Communications (15%)
- Establish a well-defined internal coordination process for communications and messaging that aligns to USDA’s structure, procedures and priorities.
- Guide and support coordination, planning, sharing or information among Save the Children technical, advocacy, and senior levels to improve competitive positioning, broad institutional learning, and successful project implementation.
- Establish and coordinate direct relationships with USDA staff including organizing and/or participating in events, meetings, and networks that increase Save the Children’s profile, and influences USDA strategy for literacy, school health and nutrition, and school feeding.
Management (25%)
- Manage Save the Children seconded Chiefs of Party on USDA Projects
- Review and approve timesheets
- Review and approve objectives developed by Chief of Party in partnership with their in- country supervisor
- Coordinate with Country Director on performance reviews
- Convene internal stakeholders, as needed, to review and develop problem-solving strategies for issues that may arise
- Work with project COP & senior leadership teams to address and find appropriate solutions to any implementation challenges. Escalate to appropriate DECP senior management any sigficant project implementation or Save the Children reputational risks that arise within the portfolio.
- Coordinate Human Resource processes for all new international project hires. Facilitate and track hire paperwork and processing with HR.
- When necessary and in coordination with COPs and Award Managers, communicate directly with USDA on behalf of the project for submission of regular deliverables, off-cycle approval requests, and amendment requests associated with a specific project.
- Supports project start up and close out as needed including supporting the development of the first year annual plan and PMP; preparation of project close out plans; and ensuring country offices are prepared for USDA audits.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
Skills/Experience:
- Minimum 7-10 years' experience in international development, including 5 years of experience and proven success with large-scale, multi-million dollar competitive procurements with USDA and other public donors
- Direct experience developing proposals for funding to, and managing grants from institutional donors
- Proven track record of accomplishment in donor relationship establishment and management
- Ability to interact with established networks of senior level international education and/or food professionals, donors, universities and other partners
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate initiative.
- Ability to engage in prolonged and multilayered negotiations
- Must be willing to travel approximately 25-30%
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of USG’s Farm Bill and Food Aid Legislation as well as USDA management information systems (FAIS).
- Understand monetization funding mechanisms and market driven programming.
- Master’s Degree in a relevant area
- Experience in development and implementation of funding and donor strategies.
- Proficiency in French, Spanish, or Arabic
Compensation/Benefits:
- 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
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 4 2019
Active Until:
Oct 4 2019
Hiring Organization:
Save the Children US
industry:
Nonprofit