Summary
The Director, Refugee & Migration Unit (RMU) will provide leadership for Save the Children’s refugee and migration programming efforts and donor accounts. This position will lead actions to develop strategy and messaging that will further escalate and bring awareness to issues facing refugee, migrant and stateless children. He/she will also oversee the implementation of refugee programming and strategies in coordination with Save the Children International (SCI) and across the broader SC membership. S/he will be responsible for SC’s United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration (BPRM) accounts and portfolios, and will lead and manage a team to ensure effective award management processes within the respective accounts.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Strategic Leadership and Account Management (35%)
- Identify and evaluate refugee and migration trends that are applicable to SC’s mission and serve as a key participant with thought leaders and SC member offices to explore new initiatives and partnerships.
- Collaborate with Child Protection, Hunger and Livelihoods, Public Policy-Advocacy and other units in identifying programmatic and operational innovations that can be adapted to refugee and migration contexts (both urban and camp settings).
- Act as lead representative on refugee and migration issues at external meetings including; Inter-Action HPWG, ICVA, UNHCR Consultations, and PRM Quarterly Meetings.
- Lead on global strategy meetings across the SC membership on refugee, migration and statelessness issues that affect children.
- Liaise with advocacy teams (both SCUS and SCI) in support of refugee and migration issues that affect children and coordinate with domestic emergency team on ‘Children on the Move’.
- Lead and oversee the refugee and migration team through the management of the UNHCR, BPRM and IOM accounts. Act as the primary lead for the IOM sub account
- Convene UNHCR sub-account holders in quarterly account calls and lead discussions on UNHCR policy, initiatives and overall portfolio.
- Act as the principle in the development of an integrated strategy that sets clear objectives for the team and enables proactive engagement across Save the Children and with donors to secure funding for programs.
- Collaborate with the resource development (RD) department to identify and pursue private fundraising opportunities to supplement refugee and migration projects.
Award Management (30%)
- Ensure the production of high quality concept notes and proposals that are reflective of Save the Children and donor strategic objectives, while ensuring the cost of doing business is accurately reflected in proposal budgets.
- Define/balance the portfolio between members of the team to ensure effective support is provided to SCI.
- Manage the complete cycle of awards, from opportunity through closeout for the refuges and migration portfolio.
- Ensure that the Award Management System (AMS) is effectively maintained, up to date and accurately records the audit trail (data and process) for all refugee and migration awards and sub-awards.
- Complete monitoring trips as needed to areas of implementation to ensure effective and efficient execution.
- Provide detailed analysis and recommendations of current/ pipeline grants to DHR management and use donor funding cycle information and analysis to guide proactive business development.
- Engage with Save the Children globally and provide information to support in the building of professional relations with donors to identify strategic fundraising opportunities.
- Ensure the production of high quality and timely reports that accurately reflect the impact achieved and lessons learnt during the implementation of a grant.
- Evaluate and act on risks, escalating as necessary.
Knowledge Management Hub (10%)
- Serve as Save the Children’s key resource on refugee and migration issues.
- Develop relevant refugee and migration fact sheets and materials outlining issues and impact of programming.
- Document best refugee and migration project practices by compiling data from SC and other organization’s programming.
- Build and maintain a refugee and migration resource page on OneNet that provides account support, and is a central location for resources on various refugee, migration and statelessness issues.
- Build, maintain and monitor the UNHCR partner portal for new UNHCR policies and calls for expression of interest.
Staff Management (20%)
- Lead and supervise a team of award managers, two Humanitarian Response Personnel and an intern.
- Implement human resource management strategies (recruitment, orientation, retention, leadership development, succession planning) to support achievement of strategic/operational goals.
- For direct reports, ensure orientation, development of work plans, performance evaluations, professional development opportunities, timesheet management/approval, and provide training and supervision of day-to-day tasks as appropriate.
Deploy in Humanitarian Responses (5%)
- Be available to deploy on responses as needed for up to 6 weeks.
- Travel to Save the Children country offices to engage with SC US donors or provide oversight and support to country offices.
Required Qualifications
- BA or BS degree
- 7-10 years of progressive program and grant management experience in the field of humanitarian/international development contexts, including relevant field management experience.
- 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 10% to 20% 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 a second, relevant language.
What’s In It for You
- Meaningful work, with a knowledge that you are changing the lives of children all around the world
- A family friendly work environment
- Highly collaborative and innovative teams
- Generous paid vacation days, holidays, family leave days, and sick time
- Healthcare plans including medical, dental, and life insurance
- Retirement savings account with matching company contributions
- Structured and formalized management development and coaching programs for mid and senior level managers
- Extensive e-learning opportunities on a variety of topics offered through our affiliation with several prestigious universities and with the American Management Association, as well as language learning opportunities
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