Emergency Response Personnel - Senior Grants & Finance Manager

About the team

Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response, and this has remained central to our work ever since. Our approach integrates our emergency and development work, through our country programmes. With the increasing frequency and severity of emergencies world-wide the organisation is increasing its capacity to support programmes in both sudden onset and chronic emergency situations.
Our Emergency Response Team is a team of internationally roving experts who are deployed on short to medium term assignments to respond effectively to emergencies world-wide. They give immediate emergency focused financial & grant management expertise in responses, add to capacity when we 'scale up' country programmes, and advice and training where needed to build ability in individuals and country programmes.

About the role

The Senior Finance and Grant Manager Emergency Response Personnel (ERP) will provide the primary financial and grant management inputs in emergency response programmes, and ongoing support to develop best practice emergency financial management procedures and processes. The role has three main aspects to it: lead the emergencies finance and grant team in Save the Children responses; capacity building a range of staff, both finance and non finance, in their financial professional development, and contributing to the development and advancement of policy and procedures; providing short term interim financial management and/or capacity building support to ongoing emergencies, Fragile States and/or country/regional programmes.

The main responsibilities of this post will vary according to the terms of reference for each assignment. The post-holder is likely to undertake senior deployments such as Senior Emergency Finance & Grants Manager.

About you

We’re looking for professional accountants with significant experience of working ‘in the field’ in a senior finance and grants related position.

You will be a excellent communicator and probably have Senior Management Team experience. You will have experience of working in challenging environments, either in emergency responses or in support to ongoing development programming. You’ll have a solid working knowledge of the requirements of the major donors and experience in budgeting and reporting to donors. Patient, diplomatic and an experienced negotiator, you’ll be able to stay flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances and be willing to be deployed up to 80% of the time.

You’re a naturally analytical thinker and can prepare complex financial reports while adhering to donor requirements.

We will be keen to appoint as soon as possible and will interview candidates as we receive applications.

How to apply:

For more information and to apply, please see our website athttps://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/vacancy/947/description/