PSI seeks a Senior Cost & Pricing Officer to lead cost and pricing strategies and risk analysis for new bids and proposals and, in some cases, lead the budget development process for bids and proposals in coordination with headquarters-based programmatic and New Business Development (NBD) teams and overseas field teams. The successful candidate will ensure full recovery of direct and indirect costs in budget presentations to funders, align budget and budget narrative templates with funder requirements and PSI policies and procedures, and support realignment of existing project budgets. The Senior Cost & Pricing Officer will be familiar with budget development for various types of funders in the field of international development.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Review funder solicitations and research additional financial guidance as needed to analyze and fully understand cost proposal requirements for new bids and proposals; prepare questions to submit to funders if further clarification is needed; and develop or modify existing budget and budget narrative templates to align with solicitation requirements.
- Communicate budget issues or concerns with solicitation requirements to internal stakeholders, such as Finance, programmatic teams, Grants & Contracts, and NBD, for timely discussion and appropriate mitigation.
- Analyze financial and cost recovery risks and recommend mitigation strategies; and perform surplus-deficit analyses on proposal budgets.
- Review, or lead as assigned, new proposal and project realignment budgets and budget narratives to ensure quality, compliance with funder and PSI requirements, and full cost recovery.
- Provide guidance in the development of cost-related responses to post submission questions and award budget negotiations.
- Train non-C&P staff on various cost and pricing topics and full budget and budget narrative development.
- Periodically update funder specific budget and budget narrative templates and associated training materials.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Educational Background:
A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline and six (6) years of work experience in a similar role or relevant budget development role.
Skills/Experience:
The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:
- Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.
- Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.
- Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.
- Collaboration: You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.
- Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt
- Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin
Our ideal candidate will possess:
- Experience developing proposal budgets for USAID and a variety of government and non-government funders in the field of international development.
- Strong computer skills and advanced ability working with MS-Excel and word processing.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communications skills.
- Flexibility to assume a workload that often necessitates an adjustment of priorities.
- French and/or Spanish skills preferred.
- References will be required.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States. PSI will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position.
- The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.
What would get us excited?
- You have experience developing cost proposals for USAID and PSI’s other major funders, such as DFID, Gates Foundation, the Global Fund, and KfW.
- You have experience preparing and presenting in-house training sessions. The C&P team presents trainings several times a year on various topics related to budgeting topics.
- Need to be able to work well in a team environment and support team members by balancing the workload.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Apr 3 2019
Active Until:
May 3 2019
Hiring Organization:
Population Services International
industry:
Nonprofit