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Background
Since 1993 Women for Women International, a global NGO, has invested in the power of over 500,000 women who are forgotten – the women survivors of war and conflict. We support them in learning the social and economic skills they need to rebuild their lives, their families, and their communities.
Our core belief is that stronger women build stronger nations. Women who enrol in our programs in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Sudan, break the isolation of war and conflict. They gain access to knowledge, resources and tools needed to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community and connect to networks for support.
Over the next ten years, our goal is to scale our impact to improve their lives of millions of the most marginalised women affected by war and conflict. Our vision is to create a world in which all women determine the course of their lives and reach their full potential.
The Role
This role presents a brilliant opportunity to further your career with a dynamic organisation that values its staff and provides a work environment that is built on flexibility, empowerment, and commitment to support you to be the best that you can be.
The successful applicant will support the day-to-day running of the finance function at an operational and transactional level for the UK and German. They will work closely with the Head of Finance and Managing Director Germany (DE) in ensuring that the finance team provide high-quality financial service to Women for Women International UK and Germany management, staff and key stakeholders.
Diversity at Women for Women International is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, political opinions, and pregnancy and maternity. Applications are welcomed and encouraged from all interested parties. Please let us know if you will need any reasonable adjustments.
All our staff are required to adhere to WfWI’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policies and to our organisational values: Empowerment, Integrity, Respect, Resilience and the Leadership Principles: Decisive, Accountable, Courageous, Adaptable and Inclusive.
To learn more about the power of women for women, visit our website or follow @WomenforWomenUK on social media.
You will have an opportunity to attend a Q&A with our Managing Directors from the UK and Germany on Tuesday 9th April 2024, 11.00am – 12.00pm. If you are interested in attending, please go to our website for the Recruitment UK email address and contact HR who will happily send you a link.
To apply please complete an online application form.
Closing date for applications is Thursday 18th April 2024
First Interview will be online on Tuesday 30th April 2024
Second Interview will be online Monday 6th May 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Who we are:
Muslim Aid is a UK faith-based international development organisation that provides support to communities around the world affected by disasters, conflict, or endemic poverty without regard to their social, religious, or ethnic background.
Established in 1985, Muslim Aid has facilitated the engagement of the British Muslim and non-Muslim community in support of its work in a variety of ways. Over the years, its humanitarian work has included responses to major crises around the world including, famine in East Africa, earthquakes and flooding in Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
We place strong emphasis on long-term development projects that build the capacity of local people helping themselves. In addition to the 5 country offices worldwide we also work with multiple partner offices focusing on sustainable Development Programmes and providing humanitarian relief during times of crisis.
Summary of the role:
The Procurement & VFM Manager reports to the Head of Finance, serving as a technical lead on procurement and logistics matters. The role involves introducing, developing, and implementing best practices across our UK headquarters, providing technical support to Country Offices. The aim is to support Muslim Aid in delivering high-quality, accessible, and reliable emergency/humanitarian aid across its UK headquarters and Country Offices, involving challenging and encouraging engagement in the ongoing development of procurement and logistics systems, policies, procedures, and associated planning.
The post holder will manage the procurement and logistics framework and tools to strengthen the capabilities and knowledge of all stakeholders, ensuring the adoption of best practices and industry standards across global operations. Working closely with key stakeholders, the Procurement Manager will help identify and develop a robust system and framework across business operations to support ongoing logistics and procurement activities. The role also includes overseeing all education and training provided to staff, volunteers, consultants, and those associated with Muslim Aid.
About the Role:
- Manage and develop the procurement and logistics resource and strategy for UK headquarters, offering technical support to Country Offices for local strategy and planning aimed at strengthening local procurement capacity and resources.
- Assist and support UK and Country Office Focal Points, as well as wider staff, in establishing and developing local procurement networks to support local implementation
- Set up and maintain a supplier database, conduct relevant due diligence checks for Muslim Aid suppliers, partners and other stakeholders.
- Apply critical analysis to ensure that we meet and exceed our commitment to building a transparent, standardised, ethical and safe supply chain for all internal and external stakeholders and all those connected to Muslim Aid.
- Periodically review Muslim Aid’s Global Procurement policy and procedures, reporting mechanisms, risk registers and other procedures managed/supervised by UK and Country Office teams and partners.
- Lead the development and implementation of value for money strategies to ensure that the charity delivers its services efficiently and effectively.
About You:
To be successful in this role:
- Education to degree standard with a professional qualification in a relevant field.
- Experience of procurement and logistics practices within developing countries.
- Proven experience designing, facilitating, and evaluating procurement training programmes/workshops in different cultural and organisational contexts and at a range of levels.
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate and form effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, demonstrating patience, tact, diplomacy and sensitivity to culturally diverse environments.
- Ability to accurately and systematically assess/evaluate environments, with an eye for detail and the ability to spot inconsistencies and potential threats thereby developing solutions and tools to improve risk assessments.
- Good organisation, coordination and project management skills.
Why you should apply:
If you have a passion to support in delivering high quality, accessible, and reliable emergency/humanitarian aid across its UK headquarters and Country Offices as a Procurement and VFM Manager, then we would like to hear from you.
Benefits you will enjoy if you work for us:
- 37 days holiday (including Bank Holidays and Privilege days)
- Hybrid working
- Paid time off for medical appointments
- 2 hours lunch break on Fridays
- Time off in Lieu (TOIL)
How to apply:
Please submit your CV and Cover Letter.
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About World Child Cancer
Most childhood cancers are curable. We know this because survival rates in the UK and Europe regularly top 80%. But for children in low and middle-income countries, the prognosis is bleak with their chance of survival falling to 20%.
The solution? It already exists. The challenge is making sure that every child gets the diagnosis, treatment and care they need. Yet in many countries, public and professional awareness of childhood cancer is dangerously low. Opportunities for early diagnosis are missed. Referrals are delayed. And there are not enough health workers with the specialist skills to diagnose and treat the disease.
It is children and families that pay the price.
Determined to balance this inequality, World Child Cancer works with local, regional, and international partners in some of the world’s poorest countries to improve: Treatment, early diagnosis, family support and advocacy.
Created in 2007, World Child Cancer is a small yet fast-growing, ambitious international charity.
Overview
The Programme Manager role will be crucial to the success and development of the charity. You will be responsible for the management and delivery of our work in Bangladesh & Nepal, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and to high standard. The role will include responsibility for building relationships with partners and potential new partners. The successful candidate will contribute to seeking out further grant opportunities within the sector, working closely with the rest of the programmes team and the fundraising team.
Key Relationships
- Director of Programmes
- Director of Finance
- Country Programme Coordinators
- UK Programme Managers
- Psychosocial Support Advisor
Person Specification
Essential:
- 3 to 5 years international development experience preferably in the field of global health
- Understands theory and practice of Health System Strengthening.
- Understands theory and practice of capacity building programming.
- Knowledge of programme design and planning of complex programmes, including logframes and theories of change.
- Track record of financial management skills, including budget management and planning
- Experience designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation frameworks, including collection and analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data.
- Excellent organisational, planning and time-management skills.
- Proven experience in building relationships and working in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders
- Fluent English (written and verbal)
Desirable:
- Experience living and working in low middle income countries, preferably in Asia.
- Experience working with healthcare professionals both in the UK and abroad.
- Experience managing statutory grants.
Terms of Employment
- Hours: Part-time (3 days per week)
- Location: UK based, hybrid role: Home working for the time being, with the provision for regular meetings in the office. Office attendance encouraged on Mondays (nr Fenchurch Street, London)
- Contract: Part-time Maternity Cover (subject to successful completion of 3 months’ probation)
- Salary: £34,000 - £38,000 Full Time Equivalent (will be pro rata for 3 days per week)
- Annual Leave: 25 days plus 8 bank holidays pro rata and an additional day at Christmas subject to Board approval
- Other: Opportunity to participate in the cycle to work scheme
Timetable
- Closing date for applications: April 14th, 2024
- First interview: TBC
- Second interview: TBC
- The successful appointment is subject to a satisfactory criminal records disclosure and written references.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Sightsavers is looking for a highly organised and collaborative Digital Asset Manager to manage our vast library of content
Salary: £35,000
Location: UK remote - with occasional travel to Haywards Heath, when required
Contract: Permanent
Hours: This is a full-time role with some flexibility around hours worked (a minimum of four days) and lots of home working
About the role
Sightsavers' content and stories team has responsibility for developing creative concepts and content in response to communications briefs, as well as supporting the organisation with video and editorial services, and sourcing photography, video, audio and written stories from projects across Africa and South Asia. This work generates a huge volume of multimedia digital assets which need to be easily searchable by everyone in the organisation. We've recently moved to a new digital asset management system which requires an ongoing process of training and development.
We are looking for a Digital Asset Manager to be responsible for embedding and maintaining our new digital asset management system (Asset Bank), offering training and support to teams using and uploading assets. You'll work closely with content producers and story collectors to develop workflows preparing and uploading new content and you'll lead their implementation. As digital asset manager you'll inspire staff with available content, finding creative ways to make the organisation aware of the assets the team is producing. You'll need to make strategic decisions and plans for optimising and promoting the system and its contents, but you won't shy away from getting stuck into the day to day of preparing and uploading content.
Key duties will include:
* Ownership of digital asset storage systems with strategic decision making about process, structure and content
* Asset preparation, upload and categorisation - maintaining consistency and quality across systems
* Asset promotion
* System development and maintenance, with a focus on user experience and searchability
* System support and training
* Cross team collaboration and learning
We're looking for an organised individual with great communication skills. You'll need to be able to make strategic decisions and plans for optimising and promoting the system and its contents, but you won't shy away from getting stuck into the day to day of preparing and managing content.
To succeed in this role, you will need:
* Experience of developing and managing processes and systems
* Experience of working with digital asset management systems, preferably in an NGO
* Knowledge of Asset Bank highly desirable
* Proven experience of organising a wide array of assets and associated information at a high level, with accuracy and attention to detail and using a structured approach
* Proven understanding of digital image asset workflow and processes
* Proven experience of gathering and implementing user feedback
* Good analytics and reporting skills
* Excellent understanding of consent processes for image use
* Solid knowledge of GDPR
* Good understanding of user experience principles
* Proven experience of delivering training
* Knowledge and understanding of digital file formats (image, video, etc) and media usage rights terminology
* Ability to identify the qualities of good images and stories, and the detail needed to make a complete story
* Awareness of content ethics, in the context of international development
* Experience of Microsoft SharePoint highly desirable
Please see the job description for further details.
As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
Benefits
Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London. This role can be worked part time (a minimum of four days with a pro rata salary) or full time within the UK.
Please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying. There will be an expectation that you can attend at least quarterly meetings at our modern and collaborative offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW) or Brighton. We anticipate that remote interviews will take place in early/ mid-April and the evaluation process will include a role-specific task to be completed at the second stage of the interview process.
As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
In line with its commitment to safe programming and recruitment, Sightsavers participates in the inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) administered by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response. Through collaboration with other MDS members, Sightsavers aims to ensure that there are no sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment issues relating to potential new hires and that we can respond systematically to checks from fellow MDS members. This ensures our work is accountable, delivered to a high standard and supports safeguarding across the development and humanitarian fields.
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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and influential individual with experience of developing training and learning packages on technical subjects ideally within the humanitarian/international development sector to join us as our Crisis Financing Training & Capacity Development Advisor where you will develop and expand an innovative package of trainings and learning for the Start Network covering the portfolio of topics and programmes under the organisations New Forms of Financing including Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing.
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
Save the Children has an ambitious strategy to ensure that, by 2030, all children survive, lean and are protected from all forms of violence. The humanitarian department supports both the strengthening of our organisation's humanitarian capability as well as acknowledging the need to also support change within the humanitarian system in order to address the increasing frequency and severity of emergencies world-wide. The department is committed to build a stringer workplace culture, prioritising the wellbeing and resilience of those within it.
Start Network is made up of more than 50 aid agencies across five continents, ranging from large international to national NGOs. Together, our aim is to transform humanitarian action through innovation, fast funding, early action, and localisation.
We're tackling what we believe are the biggest systemic problems that the sector faces. Problems including slow and reactive funding, centralised decision-making, and an aversion to change mean that people affected by crises around the world do not receive the best help fast enough, and needless suffering results. Our work focuses on three areas to change the system; localisation, new forms of financing and collective innovation.
About the role
The Crisis Financing Training & Capacity Development Advisor will be responsible for developing and expanding an innovative package of trainings and learning for the Start Network.
You will play a crucial role in the ongoing capacity development of Start Network organisation, by disseminating and institutionalising new developments in learning, knowledge and terminology
related to Start Network crisis financing programming throughout the staff team.
You will continue to develop new and strengthen existing training packages that are of high quality and will ensure that Start Network's New Financing programming is mainstreamed throughout the sector in a sustainable manner.
You will be responsible for assisting in delivering trainings to member agency colleagues, Start Network Hubs as well as training the Start Network team. You will coordinate a group of ‘trainers' who can offer high quality capacity development opportunities. You will also ensure that monitoring, evaluation and accountability is built into capacity development to measure outputs and outcomes more systematically.
In this role, you will:
- Leverage technical expertise from Start team members, technical partners and the anticipation and risk financing building blocks framework to design modularised training and learning materials to meet the capacity development needs of the Start Network, including e-learning.
- Identify and develop a training of trainers (TOT) programme and build up a group of trainers within the Start team and across the Start Network membership.
- Strengthen the training and facilitation skills of Start Network team
- Develop a learning pathway with the technical leads to ensure different stakeholders can access the training necessary for their role
- Investigate and utilise cutting edge and interactive learning and training approaches, building partnerships and relationships with providers of such services.
- Review and develop adaptable learning materials with multi language application requirements and cultural contexts as needed.
- Work with academic partners to see how higher levels of training and learning could achieve levels of accreditation for member participants.
- Lead on coordinating and monitoring capacity development with the above-mentioned cadre of trainers from the Start team and across the Start Network membership, supporting the cadre to deliver high quality trainings as well as delivering in-person trainings directly and ensuring that materials and approaches are adapted to context.
- Build in monitoring, evaluation and accountability systems. Feed learning back into the development of training, and into the wider Start Financing programme delivery.
- Work with Start Programmes team (i.e. CARF and Start Funds) to understand their work and the subject areas to develop the training package.
About you
To be successful, it is important that you have:
- Experienced as a confident and engaging trainer, facilitator and communicator with excellent networking and relationship-building skills and with proven ability to cater to diverse stakeholders i.e. grassroot, regional and international organisations.
- Sound knowledge of humanitarian financing.
- Proven experience in developing training and learning packages on technical subjects.
- Knowledge and experience of undertaking learning needs analysis and designing high quality blended
learning solutions. - Proven ability to provide engaging, effective, and operationally applicable training in person and remotely.
- Knowledge of building and designing e- learning modules and digital packages on Moodle and/ or Kaya
learning platforms. - Adaptability and flexibility, sensitive to and able to modify approach and materials to meet varied
requirements including ability, language, context, etc. - Ability to adapt materials to be contextually appropriate.
- Experience in partnership development in national and/or international contexts
- Project management skills and experience.
- Understanding of pedagogical principles of adult learning.
Experience with coordination and navigating a fast-paced humanitarian setting. - Excellent interpersonal skills, able to communicate with colleagues on all levels in a disbursed and
multicultural professional environment. - Passionate about the potential of humanitarian early action and risk financing.
- Relevant professional experience developing and delivering training, or teaching complex subjects in an
accessible manner, or higher level qualification in a relevant subject. - Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.
What we offer you:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
- We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
- We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here
Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.
Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.
Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.
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Job Description: Fellowship Programme Officer
Line Manager: Team Leader (New Fellows)
Objective: The Programme Officer provides individualised support to Fellows, facilitates placements and secures funding. The Programme Officer also contributes to project management activities.
Duration: For an initial period of 12 months, subject to review.
Start date: 1 May 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Hours: Full-time. Eight hours each day Monday – Friday, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm.
Salary: £30,240 per annum
Number of posts: 2.
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Organisational Background
The Council for At-Risk Academics is a UK-registered charity founded in 1933 under the leadership of William Beveridge, to rescue academics suffering persecution under the rise of Nazism and facilitate their continued work in safety. Sixteen Cara Fellows from the 1930s and 1940s became Nobel Laureates, and many more innovators in their fields, including, Nikolaus Pevsner, Lise Meitner and Karl Popper. A number of Cara’s founders and Council members also personally provided places and/or funds to help individual academics; and Cara, known in the 1930s as the AAC, later the SPSL, was closely involved in the successful effort in 1933 to bring to London the Warburg Institute art library, which had been prohibited by the Nazis, and six of its staff. The Fellowship Programme is the continuation of the rescue mission operation started in 1933.
Cara has been a lifeline to academics at risk for just over 90 years, as and when world events have placed them in the line of fire: Hungarian Uprising, Cold War, Apartheid South Africa, Iran, Latin American Juntas, Vietnam, Kosovo, DRC, Rwanda, Sudan, Zimbabwe etc. and, more recently Iraq, Turkey, Yemen, Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine. Cara support is typically framed as temporary sanctuary offered at times of heightened risk.
Cara Objectives ‘To assist academics who have been, or are, or are at risk of being, subject to discrimination, persecution, suffering or violence on account of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, to relieve needs among them and their dependants and ensure that their specialist knowledge and abilities can continue to be used for the benefit of the public.’
‘To advance education by supporting academics and their educational institutions in countries where their continuing work is at risk or compromised, to ensure that such academics and institutions can continue to fulfil their critical role as educators for the public benefit.’
This is a critical time to join our dedicated and friendly Fellowship Programme team as we expand our capacity to support at-risk academics from the Middle East, Sudan, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Russia and many other countries.
Fellowship Programme Officer Role & Responsibilities
Fellowships
- Lead on New Fellows Team cases and provide comprehensive support to Cara Fellows using trauma-informed practice.
- Secure fee waivers, bursaries & in-kind support from universities, research institutes and other funding bodies.
- Provide logistical support to Fellows prior to and after their arrival in the UK.
- Coordinate with regional exam centres to facilitate IELTS or equivalent fee waivers for Fellows.
- Collect and interpret regional intelligence to inform Fellowship Programme advice and guidance.
- Write and send official documents to Fellows.
- Develop relationships with universities and other partner organisations.
- Conduct due diligence on Fellows’ documents and risk.
- Assess Fellows’ suitability for academic placements and liaise with experts for their professional opinion.
- Assess Fellows’ English language abilities.
- Attend weekly meetings with the team.
- Support Fellowship Programme with ad hoc responsibilities.
Visa Advice & Guidance
- Liaise closely with Fellows and hosting universities on visa related issues (Student and Temporary Worker (GAE) visas).
- Liaise with independent legal advisors where necessary.
- Research and update visa guidance to reflect changes in complex immigration regulation.
Managerial Support
- Provide advice and guidance to Fellowship Programme Assistants
- Contribute to Fellowship Programme policy changes and decision-making.
Finance
- Make payments to Cara Fellows and non-Fellowship related payments.
- Document financial transaction records.
- Record all financial and in-kind support from universities and other partner institutions.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Assist new arrivals with handover to the Active Fellows’ Team.
- Record and report on the efficacy of IELTS or equivalent fee waivers to relevant bodies.
- Assist with compilation of reports to funders.
Administration
- Provide support for general enquiries.
- Present and collect data
- Ensure safekeeping of confidential information
- Maintain detailed records of correspondence, documents, and activities.
Project Management
- The Programme Officer will have the opportunity to contribute to the management of internal projects within the Programme.
Responsibilities also include related activities that might arise in relation to the Fellowship Programme as required by the Executive Director or Deputy Director/Fellowship Programme Manager.
Benefits of Role
· Challenging but rewarding work, always life-changing, sometimes life-saving
· Competitive salary
· Team and individual training opportunities
· Weekly case review meetings with line manager, plus quarterly 1-1 sessions with manager to discuss role and to plan individual professional development
· Hybrid working, home and office (usually 2 days each week in the office)
· Eight hours each day Monday – Friday, with flexible working by arrangement around core hours of 10am – 4pm
· 25 days plus Bank Holidays annual leave entitlement
· 8% employer pension contribution
· Convenient office location at Elephant and Castle, close to Tube (Bakerloo and Northern lines) and bus routes
Person Specification
Essential
· Bachelor's degree
- Fluent English (spoken and written).
· Proactive with a willingness to learn
- Confident and empathetic with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
· Keen team player who is ready to support and help colleagues
- Excellent record keeping and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- Good time management with ability to prioritise and independently work to deadlines.
- Understanding of issues of confidentiality.
- Interest in and commitment to the work of Cara
- Confident use of Microsoft package
- Good knowledge of current global issues.
· Ability to have difficult conversations
Desirable
- Masters or equivalent experience
- Casework experience
- Arabic language skills are desirable. Other foreign languages (such as Farsi/Dari, Pashto, Ukrainian and Russian) will also be considered.
- Salesforce/CRM software experience
- Project Management experience.
- Experience in a supporting role with people with lived experience of forced migration
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Our partner is a well-respected advocacy INGO. They are seeking to recruit a Project Accountant to provide financial management support to project managers and the broader programmes teams.
Responsibilities
- Finance business partner to project teams and partners, offering financial management support.
- Prepare project budgets, monitor expenditure and cashflows, and prepare management accounts, including variance analyses and supporting narrative reports.
- Grant management, compliance and reporting – preparing financial reports to donors, ensuring that these meet their requirements.
- Ensure the integrity and operational effectiveness of project accounting procedures, developing, and maintaining these as required.
- Supporting the broader finance team, including junior finance staff, in any ad hoc analysis, reporting and project work as required
Person Specification
- Accountant, qualified or QBE, with at least 5 years of experience in accounting, an understanding of accounting & finance principles and management accounting & reporting.
- Experience of project accounting, grant compliance & management is desirable; an understanding of the grant compliance & reporting requirements of the EU and German government grants is desirable.
- Strong IT skills, including advanced MSExcel skills. Competence in SQL an advantage.
- Strong communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, including ability to communicate financial matters to non-finance staff.
- Quick learner, organised and flexible, able to meet tight deadlines.
- Fluent in English, with excellent spoken and reporting writing skills. Working knowledge of French or Spanish is highly desirable. Knowledge of German is not essential or required.
- Culturally sensitive
This is an excellent opportunity for an accountant looking to get good grounding in project accounting & grant management within a large, complex INGO. For the right candidate, the organisation will offer sponsorship For those candidates outside of Germany, some relocation costs, including the cost of obtaining a permit (if required) will be covered.
The Commonwealth Foundation is committed to bringing Commonwealth civil society and its citizens into the centre of discussion and decision-making around critical issues that affect their lives. As Governance Officer in the Office of the Directorate, you will serve as a main point of contact between the Foundation and its external partners, including High Commissioners and other stakeholders. This position demands frequent and meaningful interaction with the Director-General, ensuring governance activities align closely with the Foundation’s strategic goals.
Applicants must have relevant experience. This position is only open to applicants with an existing right to work in the United Kingdom.
The organisation
The Commonwealth Foundation is mandated by its Member States to advance the interests of Commonwealth civil society. The Foundation seeks to nurture the growth of vibrant and free societies: championing the active and constructive participation of people in all aspects of governance. Our key focus areas are climate justice, health justice and freedom of expression. Our cross-cutting themes are gender equality, small and vulnerable states and young people.
The programme
The Office of the Directorate is headed by the Director-General of the Foundation, Dr Anne T. Gallagher AO. In addition to providing overall leadership, it brings together core functions related to governance, finance and people management.
The role
The Governance Officer liaises with external partners and supports the Director-General to ensure governance activities align with the Foundation’s strategic goals. Working under the direction of the Senior Office Manager (People and Finance), you will bring strong administrative and diplomatic skills.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Manage communications and correspondence with Governors, High Commissions, and external stakeholders.
- Keep detailed electronic records of Directorate activities, decisions, and communications.
- Provide administrative support to the Directorate, including diary management and event coordination.
- Offer advice on diplomacy and protocol.
- Organise travel and manage logistics for Directorate engagements.
- Lead the planning and execution of Board and Committee meetings, handle related scheduling, correspondence, and logistics.
- Prepare and distribute documents for Board meetings, assisting with minute taking where required.
- Serve as the contact point for the Foundation’s Civil Society Governors.
- Assist with the reconciliation of expenses, preparation of financial reminders, and support finance-related tasks.
- Contribute to HR, office management, and other Directorate responsibilities as needed.
- Foundation-wide Support: Handle external communications, participate in Foundation-wide initiatives, and contribute to strategic planning and process improvement.
The individual
We seek an individual with strong administrative experience, preferably in an intergovernmental or diplomatic context. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential, along with the ability to build relationships across the organisation and a commitment to fostering a welcoming, inclusive work environment.
The ideal candidate will be discreet, practical, and solution-oriented; exhibiting a strong work ethic, high attention to detail, reliability, independence, and the flexibility to adapt to new challenges and learn new skills.
What we offer
Salary expectation: £31,000 – £33,000
The Foundation is proud of our welcoming and accommodating working environment. We strive to be a great place to work.
We offer generous holidays 30 days (plus 8 bank holidays and 4 privilege days).
Fifteen percent of your salary is payable tax-free at stipulated periods in lieu of a formal superannuation scheme.
Foundation staff have access to our private health scheme, including dental cover.
We are based in Marlborough House, Pall Mall, central London. We are currently operating a flexible working policy which requires all staff to work from the office at least five days per fortnight including every Wednesday, and applicants must be able to affirm their capacity and willingness to work within this policy.
Our commitment
The Foundation celebrates diversity, and we are proud of our diverse and welcoming team. All qualified applicants already eligible to work in the UK will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status or pregnancy.
If you need us to make any special accommodation in the recruitment and selection process because of a protected characteristic, please let us know.
The process
Interested candidates should apply online through the link below.
The application requires you to provide a comprehensive CV as well as a motivation letter that clearly addresses the criteria as outlined in the person specification and the competencies framework.
You must possess and declare the right to work in the UK at the time of application submission for your application to be considered.
Closing date for applications
17 April 2024, 1pm GMT.
Interviews
First-round interviews will be online on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 May 2024.
Second-round interviews will be held in person week beginning Friday 17 May 2024.
MannionDaniels wishes to strengthen its Fiduciary Risk Team with the recruitment of a Francophone Fiduciary Risk Officer (FRO) to work between two of our funds:
· Gavi CSO Fund
· AmplifyChange Fund
The Fiduciary Risk Team works on the financial management of the funds and the grants. The team is responsible for ensuring that funds under our management reach beneficiaries and are used for their intended purpose. In doing this, the team carries out due diligence assessments on all prospective grantees, analyses the financial reporting and forecasts of grant holders, and works to prevent and investigate fraud across the portfolio.
This is a very rewarding role where the successful candidate will work closely with both the grant management team in MannionDaniels as well as the grant holders themselves. The role will provide support to a Fiduciary Risk Manager and will be responsible for leading on the financial management of a portfolio of grants. The position includes the opportunity for travel to visit grant holders and beneficiaries.
We are looking to strengthen the management of our francophone portfolio, and as such French language skills are an essential requirement.
Starting Salary: £32,829- £35,856 (FTE including London weighting)
Contract: Permanent Part-time (17.5 hours per week) Job Share
Location: London – Hybrid working with a minimum of 40% of your time in the London Office (home-based contract may be considered)
Job Profile
The post is a pivotal role in CAFOD’s Asia & Middle East (AME) team supporting the Head of Region in the management and co-ordination of regional programming and organisational processes ensuring smooth administration, programme cycle management and communications. The post holder will be responsible for building effective working relationships with peers in the International Programme Group, as well as with colleagues across CAFOD such as funding, finance, and communications. They will act as the AME focal point for communications, supporting programme teams to develop materials for internal and external audiences.
CAFOD’s Asia & Middle East region currently has core programmes in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lebanon, Myanmar, occupied Palestinian territory and Israel, Sri Lanka and Syria.
Key Responsibilities
The scope of the post falls into the following broad functions:
- Support and co-ordination: supporting the Head of Region in the management and coordination of cross-regional work and relevant organisational processes.
- Communications: supporting the effective communication and flow of information across the regional team and with the rest of the organisation, including supporting programme teams to prepare communications materials.
- Programme & financial support: supporting the Head of Region in the management of cross-regional partnership projects/programmes, providing similar support to Programme Officers in the region when their workload requires.
- Administration: providing administrative support to the Head of Region and the regional team,
- Representation: of the region across CAFOD (and occasionally externally), as requested by the Head of Region.
Support and coordination:
- Support and coordinate the region’s responsibilities towards relevant organisational and departmental processes and initiatives, including planning and reporting;
- Maintain and monitor cross-regional budgets and financial statements, working with the Head of Region on quarterly and annual financial reviews;
- Co-ordinate relevant regional/management team meetings, and ad-hoc meetings between members of the regional team and colleagues across CAFOD;
- Work with AME staff to ensure that there is a good level of understanding of CAFOD’s operating systems, policies and procedures, and where necessary provide training and induction.
Programme & financial support:
- Assist the Head of Region in the management of any cross-regional partnership projects/programmes, including correspondence with partners, approval and payment of grants, monitoring and reviewing reports, and maintaining paper and electronic project files.
- Support Programme Officers across the region in their work with partners, managing grants to partners and other aspects of programme support when programme workloads require.
Communications:
- Support the effective flow of information and communication within the regional team and across CAFOD.
- Act as a key point of contact for information on the region’s work and work collaboratively with programme staff and other teams to ensure that CAFOD’s work in the region is fully reflected in the organisational agenda (e.g. in campaigning, fundraising, communications or media work).
- Be an active source of internal communication, providing easy access to information by developing and maintaining a regional team SharePoint site, as well as other specific sites on the intranet, and engaging with the media team as appropriate.
Administration:
- Provide administrative support to the Head of Region, including correspondence, information systems, management of the team diary, preparation and follow-up of monthly team meetings, design and monitoring of filing systems, and maintenance of database and other systems to provide effective planning, communication and information flow,
- Accompany staff to ensure efficient and effective use of the Programme Cycle Management system, working in conjunction with other teams in CAFOD, to provide support when necessary (e.g. when access is disrupted),
- Be the first point of contact and/or provide essential administrative support to the regional teams.
- Organise and co-ordinate induction for new staff directly managed by the Head of Region
- Provide administrative support to other members of the team where required, including helping to organise programmes for overseas staff/partner visits, travel and accommodation needs, routine correspondence, and occasional cover for colleagues when absent,
- Coordinate the work of the region’s London-based volunteers and liaise with relevant staff on all volunteer-based issues.
Representation:
- Attend and represent the region in CAFOD networks, working groups and similar fora on behalf of the Head of Region, or other members of the team as required,
- In agreement with the Head of Region attend external meetings or events occasionally and identify and follow up on actions from these.
Focal Point Responsibilities
The Regional Support Officer is the AME regional focal point on Safe, Accountable, Dignified and Inclusive programming (SADI). This role is currently held by the other job-share, but this post-holder will deputise from time to time.
Your role is responsible for ensuring that the programming work you are accountable for is safe, accessible, dignified and inclusive, providing ongoing support and follow-up to our partners in this area.
Safeguarding
All CAFOD staff share the responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
- An understanding of CAFODs faith-based partnership approach to development reflected in the Our Common Home strategic framework.
- Knowledge and some experience in budget planning and monitoring
- Knowledge and experience of Programme Management Cycle and PDMEAL
- Proficient in data management and usage, including the use of complex databases and programme cycle management systems and tools.
- Experience in managing robust systems and processes for information sharing, communication, and coordination.
- Excellent organisational skills and an ability to manage international conference calls/meetings & minute-taking.
- Understanding of effective and values-based partnership work between northern and southern organisations and communities
Job specific Criteria
- As part of CAFOD’s commitment to combating the climate crisis, CAFOD aims to minimise travel. There may be a requirement to travel up to 4 to 6 weeks per year.
Desirable
- Understanding and experience of programme management and quality standards in an international development context.
Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults
CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. This post may involve contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, or has responsibility for people who will do, and applicants will be subject to specific checks related to safeguarding issues. If based in the UK the post holder is required to present or obtain a Disclosure from the DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service). If the post is based outside the UK the post holder will be subject to a different checking process.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures.
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CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer. Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
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Our close partner is providing financial services guidance to a number of large development agencies & institutions around the world proving grants to NGOs. The International Development team works closely with these global clients – such as UNICEF, The World Bank and the Gates Foundation ensuring their funds are managed approrpiately maximising the effectiveness of crucial development projects.
The Project Coordinator has to assist in providing project coordination for the full life cycle of any assignment offered to our clients; from the proposal process, contract management with the client, assignment planning, through to assisting with the report writing, and ultimately billing the client.
Contract Responsibilities
·Assist with proposal and tender submission, including preparing project budgets and schedules, liaising with prospective staff and ensuring all proposals are submitted within the respective deadlines
·Ensure that contracts are as per the issued proposals, that all terms agreed are in the organisations’ best interests and support the Managers/Partners in any contract administration required
·Plan the fieldwork of the project, including agreeing dates with the beneficiary, liaising with internal and external staff to ensure they can perform the required service on the agreed dates and that all parties have the necessary information to ensure the project fieldwork runs smoothly
·Draw up contracts between our organisation and any subcontracted firm
·Monitor and track project progress and on our ‘Control Schedule’ to ensure all stakeholders are kept up to date with any project developments and that deadlines are met
·Act as the point of contact for all stakeholders (including the client, the beneficiary, internal/external teams and management)
·Assist the manager in finalising of reports & deliver final product to client
·Monitor internal staff working hours & expenses incurred, to ensure project budgets are adhered to
·Check and process external suppliers’ invoices, making sure all days worked and expenses incurred are within the agreed budget, liaising with finance as and when issues arise
·Assist in client billing, ensuring that all bills issued are as per the contractual terms between the firm and the client, that all costs are accounted for, and that bills are paid by the client in a timely manner
·Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation for future use, ensuring that all projects are properly logged and can be used in future proposals/tenders
·Carry out required client onboarding procedures and compliance checks
·General: translate documents, maintain filing system of documentation by client and by assignment, assist with training new project coordinators, archive files when necessar
The Project Coordinator takes responsibility for specific clients and works closely with the respective Project Managers, Manager and Partner.
This is an amazing career opportunity for someone that want to work for a successful internationally focussed and diverse organisation truly making a difference in the world!
People & Culture Generalist
The People & Culture Generalist – Internews Europe will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day administrative tasks of the People & Culture (P&C) department. The role will support the People & Culture Manager – Internews Europe in ensuring efficient and best practice processes and procedures within the organisation.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following, with other duties upon request:
The P&C Generalist - Internews Europe holds primary responsibility for supporting all aspects of the employee lifecycle, including recruitment and selection, onboarding, inductions, staff progression and compliance.
· Partnering with other members of the global People & Culture team to support hiring and recruitment processes.
· Overseeing onboarding processes for UK staff members.
· Acts as the initial point of contact for all IEU staff inquiries with regards to People & Culture policies, procedures, staff benefit, leave balances, and general enquiries.
· Working with other members of the PC team, supports annual processes, such as the appraisal and goal setting processes, insurance renewals, ethics program, etc.
· Managing the shared IEU-HR inbox and resolving / following up on staff inquiries and needs.
· Providing staff and manager coaching on employee relations issues as requested.
· Working together with global P&C staff, managing the information that is published to the internal website (intranet) for IEU, making updates and organizational changes as needed.
· Responsible for start-to-end new starter probationary review process, including scheduling meeting, distributing relevant documentation and collecting completed forms and feedback.
· Supporting development and periodic review of P&C policies where required.
· Responsible for timely compliance check and review including clearances, Right to Work, visas, and GDPR.
· Working with P&C manager to ensure timely update of the payroll spreadsheet, including new joiners, leavers, and all variable changes and ensures all associated processes have been carried out in line with the supplier agreement and in good time.
· Managing all employee leave processes, including annual leave, sickness absence, maternity, paternity, adoption, compassionate leave, etc.
· Leading and coordinating P&C responses on behalf of IEU to third party audit requests from donors.
· Supporting process and workflow development and data management within the Human Resources’ Information System as needed.
· Supports employee resource groups and material development, and leads staff working groups and task forces in support of Internews' Belonging, Dignity, and Justice work.
· Communicating all changes related to employee lifecycle to external payroll provider and finance staff as needed.
· Acts as primary liaison with payroll and finance team on any matters related to staff pay and payroll-related changes.
· Supporting, developing, and conducting staff trainings on People & Culture topics, policies, and processes
· Working closely with other members of the global People & Culture team to ensure the completion of standardized, efficient, streamlined People & Culture processes that supports a cohesive staff experience.
· Recommending new approaches, processes and procedures to effect continual improvements in efficiency of the PC department and services performed.
· Staying abreast of all UK legal and compliance issues.
· Other P&C generalist duties as assigned
· In all duties, uphold Internews’ Core Values and demonstrate commitment to fostering a culture of Belonging, Dignity, and Justice.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:
· Degree, preferably in Human Resources or a closely related field
· In possession of or working towards a CIPD Level 3 or higher
· Experience with Human Resources information systems
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including written and verbal.
· Proven knowledge of UK employment law and best practice.
· Proven ability to handle confidential / sensitive information.
· Proven ability to successfully communicate and mediate with both management and staff.
· Ability to champion diversity, equity, and inclusion.
· Proven ability to successfully operate in multi-cultural environments.
Preferred:
· Fluency in a second language other than English, such as French or Arabic
· Experience of working in an International organization or NGO
Vacancy Timeline:
Deadline for applications: 03 April 2024. The applications will be reviewed as and when received.
Stat date: April 2024
PHYSICAL DEMANDS and WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met or may be encountered by an employee performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable adjustments may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Expected office hours are generally Monday through Friday from 09:00am to 5:30pm.
This position will be in London, United Kingdom and therefore a successful applicant must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK
The above noted job description is not intended to describe, in detail, the multitude of tasks that may be assigned but rather to give the associate a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of their position. As the nature of business demands change so, too, may the essential functions of this position.
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An exciting opportunity to Support Salesforce as it’s embedded within an international charity operating in 18 countries, helping poor and marginalized families and children in Eastern Europe. Welcoming applications from candidates within Europe.
The role sits within the newly formed Salesforce team, as part of the International team.
The role will occasionally require travel to our London office (175 Tower Bridge Road) and internationally for meetings and therefore requires a flexible approach to working. Applicants must be very competent English speakers and have the right to travel to the UK and work in one of the following countries: UK, Albania, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Switzerland or Ukraine. Salary in GBP or equivalent in local currency. Salary: £36-42,000 GBP (or equivalent in local currency).
About Mission Without Borders International
Mission Without Borders is an international Christian organization working in six of the poorest countries in Europe. Our Mission is to journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future, enabling and encouraging people to lift themselves out of poverty.
Whether it is a hot meal for a homeless person, a homework club for a struggling pupil or seeds for a father who wants to grow vegetables for his family. We support families and children through our sponsorship programs by providing after school clubs and investing in sustainable businesses to get them back on their feet. We provide emotional support to those who need it most, working through issues that could be holding them back, such as conflict, past trauma or addiction.
We respect the dignity of the individual and help develop self-sufficiency and a sustainable future. We serve people without regard to their religion or ethnic background.
Mission Without Borders International leads and co-ordinates the work of the six countries in Eastern Europe where we carry out our project work, and 12 countries where we raise support. An international staff team supports this work in terms of community development, best practice, fundraising, communications, finance, IT, Digital, and Salesforce.
This position is within MWB International.
About the role
Mission Without Borders is seeking an experienced Salesforce Support Specialist to focus on three key areas; Salesforce Administration, training, and process documentation.
As a Salesforce expert and product champion, the post holder will be the first point of contact for Salesforce support and training across all staff in all 18 countries. They will triage incoming tickets, provide support, fix problems, make configuration changes, and work closely with the Salesforce Developer and Product Owner to manage change requests.
With significant stakeholder engagement, they will be responsible for developing a staff training programme for all countries and delivering both routine and ad-hoc training for new employees, new processes, feature changes, and upgrades.
Process documentation will need to be created for new, modified, and existing Salesforce/business processes along with details of third-party integrations and submitted change requests.
The role sits within the International Salesforce team, led by the Salesforce Developer and Product Owner. The team’s purpose is to be guardians of the organisations data and processes, supporting the rollout, maintenance, and extension, of our Salesforce platform and services. The Salesforce Developer and Product Owner reports to the International Chief Information Officer (CIO), who is responsible for leading MWB’s digital transformation and ensuring the successful implementation of several new digital, IT, and Salesforce initiatives.
Who we are looking for
You must be an exceptionally competent English speaker and have the right to travel to the UK and work in one of the following countries: UK, Albania, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Switzerland or Ukraine.
You will have proven experience as a Salesforce Administrator, educated to relevant degree level (or equivalent, or qualified by experience), be a certified Salesforce Admin, and have experience with NPSP.
A logical thinker, excellent problem solver, and an ability to juggle multiple duties and prioritise incoming requests.
You must be an excellent written and verbal communicator, have strong stakeholder management skills, and be excellent at customer service.
We are seeking an exceptional trainer who can plan and run online (or occasional in-person) training sessions, and create detailed process documentation and training materials to accompany them.
Rewards and benefits
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Up to 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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Enrollment into our pension scheme
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Flexible approach to working (involves occasional travel to London, UK office or internationally)
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Job Title: Programmes Officer – based in Liberia & Sierra Leone
Reporting to: Head of Programmes – Sierra Leone & Liberia
Contract Type: Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Principal Location: Monrovia, Liberia with frequent travel across Sierra Leone
Updated: Febuary 2024
Our Organisation:
Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 1,000,000 children to go to school and learn.
Part 1: Role Purpose:
We are seeking an outstanding Programmes Officer for an exciting opportunity to support Street Child’s programme portfolio in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This role will cut across Street Child’s programming in the region, including a specific focus on the $12.8m Education for Every Child Today (EFECT) Project which aims to enrol 96,000 out of school children in school across West Africa over a 4-year period.
The key objectives of this role are to work closely with Street Child’s federal partners to support the effective implementation of adaptive programming, and to support accurate and timely donor reporting across a range of institutional, trust & foundations, and corporate donors. The ideal candidate will have strong written and excel skills, with experience of MEAL and financial management processes. The role will engage regular, detailed interaction with Street Child’s UK and European fundraising community.
The role holder will work in close collaboration with Street Child’s regional Head of Programmes, based in Freetown, as well as partner Programmes, MEAL and Finance teams to coordinate timely and quality implementation and reporting across the programmes portfolio.
Based in Monrovia, whilst serving a regional brief, the role-holder will be expected to be especially involved in supporting the programmes, and wider life, of Street Child of Liberia. This aspect of the role in particular demands a confident, ‘self-sufficient’ and motivated personality – who is excited by the opportunity and attendant career potential, as opposed to being overawed by the inevitable, multi-dimensional challenges.
Part 2: Key Responsibilities:
Reporting & Programme Funding Engagement – 35%
- Review narrative and financial quarterly reporting from country teams and provide feedback.
- Lead on the consolidation of narrative reporting (low-mid value donors) for a variety of donors within the portfolio.
- Ensure regular information flow to Street Child communications and fundraising teams, inclusive of collection and drafting of case studies and photos.
- Supporting income-generation opportunities - potentially including supporting donor visits, in-country donor engagement and broad-based support to the group’s global programme-funding efforts for both Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Programme & MEAL Management – 35%
- Work in collaboration with national partner and cross-country implementation teams across Liberia and Sierra Leone to ensure quality and timely implementation of project activities.
- Work alongside social, enterprise and education teams across both countries to support a joined-up approach to project implementation and MEAL, ensuring relevant data are collected with due care and utilised for project planning, reporting and learning.
- Provide strong support to EFECT programme staff and partners in Liberia & Sierra Leone in programme and MEAL department.
- Alongside colleagues provide training, guidance and advice to partner delivery staff to ensure effective and accurate use of programme documents and tools.
- In liaison with Safeguarding Focal Points monitor safeguarding policies ensuring adequate implementation of policies and procedures, and support to close feedback loops with partners & project participants.
- Provide capacity strengthening to Street Child Colleagues where possible.
Financial Support – 25%
- Support the country teams in compiling requisitions in line with programme forecasts and budgets.
- Support on the collation of financial reporting requirements for low-mid value donors.
- Support on tracking of donors & match funding within the EFECT programme.
Other – 5%
- Coordinating staff, stakeholders and donor visits.
- A strong commitment to Street Childs vision, mission and values.
- Adhere to all Street Child’s policies and procedures.
- Represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally.
- Carry out all reasonable requests that are within the broad remit of the role.
Part 3: Person Specification
Attributes / Essential / Beneficial
- Experience and Knowledge.
- Relevant field experience of development programming, with a commitment to and respect for local partnership.
- Experience of successful delivery of team objectives by working closely and collaboratively within a team at all levels
- Experience of data collection, cleaning and analysis.
- Relevant experience of working in support of local partners.
- Demonstrable experience of quality programme implementation.
- Demonstrable experience of budget management.
- Demonstrable experience of capacity building with national staff.
- Demonstrable experience of donor reporting.
- Strong working knowledge of education, child protection and livelihoods approaches.
- Strong working knowledge of the Liberia and/or Liberia context.
Skills and Abilities
- Good organisation and administrative skills and an ability to forward plan.
- Coaching / Capacity Strengthening Skills.
- Good time management skills, able to work to tight deadlines and an ability to work under pressure.
Other
- Excellent written and spoken communications in English (additional languages welcome).
- A ‘can-do’, and agile attitude, a passion for problem solving and adaptive thinking.
- Self-starter with strong motivation to succeed and ability to work independently in carrying out assigned tasks within a fast-paced team.
Education / Qualifications
- Degree or Higher in International Development or related field; or relevant training courses in MEAL.
- Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding.
- Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.
As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks. Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
To apply:
Please submit your CV and a covering note explaining why you think you could make an extraordinary impact in this role through Workable by midnight 29th February 2024. We will be reviewing applications as they are submitted so interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.
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