COUNTRY SUPPORT MANAGER
Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and influential individual with Project and Award Management skills and experience to join us as our Country Support Manager in our Humanitarian team to directly support the development and piloting of new anticipation and risk financing solutions and approaches for humanitarian action.
As the Country Support Manager you will directly support the development and piloting of identified new anticipation and risk financing solutions and approaches for humanitarian action. You will work within the Operations team of the Anticipation and Risk Finance team with strong linkages to the technical colleagues, NGO working groups and external partners as well as relevant teams in Start Network.
You will have direct links to colleagues in countries and regions where operational frameworks are in place to further the growth and adaptation of the Start Network's risk financing and anticipation systems, including for example; Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, and Bangladesh and potentially other countries in Start Network's current and future portfolio.
In this role, you will:
Project management of national/hub Anticipation and Risk Financing Schemes
- Be accountable for supporting Start Network members to develop complex and innovative disaster risk financing initiatives; to design and implement activity workplans, ensuring financial management, donor reporting and effective risk and awards management.
- Support of country level Crisis Financing Advisors related to the work of the Start Network risk financing projects to ensure local activities are implemented in line with agreed timeframes and budgets
- Be accountable for supporting Start Network members to set-up and manage anticipation and risk finance systems, including developing standard operating procedures, governance groups and connecting them to relevant technical capacity.
- To be the focal point for in country / hub teams, fielding requests for anticipation and risk financing support to relevant colleagues.
- Be responsible for the design and implementation of financial flows between donors, Start Network, members and partners (including managing sub-grant agreements)
- Support the collaboration infrastructure that underpins the anticipation and risk finance country pilots including hosting agreements, collaboration protocols and links to wider hub development work.
- Contribute to the development of collaborative tools to underpin the launch of disaster risk financing systems, applying creative thinking, borrowing learning from other Start Network workstreams and working with design groups to adapt them effectively to different contexts
- Contribute to facilitating understanding of risk financing pilots and approaches, and opportunities for participation in co-design, amongst wider Start Network members and other forums in the humanitarian sector.
Create Space for the Legitimacy of NGOs in the Risk Financing Sector
- Contribute to building strong internal and external communication tools keep members and stakeholders informed of progress and learning on various Start anticipation and risk financing initiatives
Mobilise resources to actively experiment with disaster risk financing
- Ensure the use of relevant comms tools through presentations, delivery of trainings at global and country level, publications of relevant papers
Location (Role): UK, DRC or Senegal
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract / Internal Secondment
Contract Duration: 2 years
Closing Date: 12 May 2023
Salary Range: £32,725-38,500