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Job Position: Country Master Budget Coordinator

Location:  Addis Ababa

Company Name:  Save the Children

Deadline: Nov 28/2021

ROLE PURPOSE:

•  Be the point of contact for development and revision of the country offices Master budget
•  Work with all departments, field offices and BHs in the formulation of country office annual budget/plan (CAP) and resource allocation.
•  Support Budget Development coordinator in the formulation of new proposal Budget and resource allocation and supports  
•  Work with Awards team and make sure that appropriate Account codes, Cost Centre Codes and Project codes are inserted and upload awards budget on Agresso

SCOPE OF ROLE:

•   Reports to: Sr. Budget Development Manager
•   Staff directly reporting to this post: None

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Annual country office Plan/budget (CAP) development

• As part of the country annual planning process work closely with all departments and compile Country annual budgets (Master budget)
•   Liaise with all departments and Field offices in collecting human resources (salary costs, staff-related activities), operations and programmes (programmatic activities), support services (non-thematic costs) and Information
• Ensure that the MB includes expected cost of delivering the annual plan, shows the anticipated funding and identifies any unfunded costs
•  Work with different stakeholders to ensure that costs in the MB are analysed in different categories as per SCI requirement
• By type of cost (sub-awards, GIK, other direct expenses, etc.)
•  by sub-theme by status of funding (secured / likely secured / pipeline/ non-award funded SOF)
• Identifies secured / likely secured / pipeline/ non-award funded SOF
•  Ensure that country office costs are correctly allocated to the appropriate themes and context, particularly ensuring that costs are correctly coded between non-thematic and thematic/ cross-thematic.
•  Ensure that Staff cost table within the MB is complete, accurate and includes basic salary and all benefits
•  Salary
•  Social security costs covered by SCI
•  Insurance
•  Pension contributions where applicable
•  Tax costs covered by SCI
•  Terminal grant expense
•  Medical benefits
•  Other benefits (e.g. housing, relocation, education, R&R etc.)
•  Based on the approved Master budget prepares country level staff costing master file with complete information including identified salary gaps
•  Work with Proposal Budget development coordinator that all new proposals include appropriate field  office and country office salary and shared costs are recovered   
•  Update staff costing master file on monthly basis, analyse and report on any salary funding gap and plan with Proposal Budget development coordinator to be considered in new proposals
• Work closely with effort analyst in producing monthly staff cost allocation
• Prepare periodic reports on the status of country office grant portfolio including active and pipeline grant profiles 

Proposal Budget development 

• Actively involved in proposal budget development and support the proposal development Coordinator
• Ensures readiness to respond to calls for proposals for large grants and provide necessary budget formulation support to programme staff.
• Liaise with other unit’s in
•  Price collection,
•  Documenting cost data from field offices,
• Filing cost application final documents, Edit templates and Other support functions in process of standardizing cost recovery tools, templates and methodologies.
• Perform other tasks and responsibilities as may be required from time to time by budget and proposal development head                      BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

•  Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
•  Holds suppliers accountable to deliver on their responsibilities

Ambition:

•  Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and takes responsibility for their own personal development
•  Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

•  Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
•  Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.

Creativity:

•  Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
•  Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach

Integrity:

•  Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
•  Displays consistent excellent judgement

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATION

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• 4 years of proposal development, budgeting and grants management
•  Computer knowledge in MS Office (Excel, Word, etc)
•  Strong analytical knowledge on budget implications on a long-term basis. 
• Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices, flexible in working long hours and ability to work with incoming surge teams;
•  Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
•  Fluency in written and spoken English;
•  Commitment to Save the Children’s values, vision and mission
•   Teams, in the event of emergencies

KEY COMPETENCIES

Generic Competencies

• Child Rights: Promotes an enabling environment for participation, and accountability to children
•  Be the Innovator: Promotes innovation to find new and better approaches to driving progress for children

Deliver Results at Scale: Promotes a clear focus on impact in a project and programme design, management, and oversight

Generic Competencies

• Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities
• Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalised children and adolescent
• Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to delivery

Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peers,

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI’s global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Gender Equality Policies, supported by relevant procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SC Health and Safety policies and procedures.

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector. The duty station of the position holder will be in Addis Ababa This role is offered on the basis of national terms and conditions only.

The Organization

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday

• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,

• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

How to Apply

Application Information:

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at http://www.savethechildren.net/careers

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants who meet the MINIMUM requirements should apply using the below link:

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