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 programs (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 analyzed 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, analyze 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 program staff.
• Liaise with other units 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

Job Requirements

• 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

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 the website

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