The Head of Awards, Localisation and Partnerships is responsible for delivering an efficient, effective and high-quality award management function across the Save the Children Kenya Country Office. Reporting to the Country Director and leading a team of four (Awards and Partnership Coordinator, Awards and Finance Officer, Awards and Partnership Assistant and Awards and Partnership Intern), the post holder provides strategic leadership for award management throughout the award lifecycle, ensuring compliance with donor requirements, Save the Children policies and organisational standards.
Key responsibilities:
- Portfolio planning, development and management: coordinate funding opportunities in AMS, review award agreements and summarise key risks, participate in go/no-go decisions, develop funding optimisation strategies with Finance, and produce monthly portfolio analysis reports for the SMT and Members.
- Award and AMS management: ensure all award lifecycle processes are completed through AMS workflows, lead Member engagement as focal point for awards, run kick-off meetings, analyse budget versus actual (BVA) reports, coordinate monthly award review meetings, budget realignments, amendments and no-cost extensions, and ensure timely award close-out.
- Reporting to Members and donors: coordinate high-quality, timely narrative and financial reports, review reports before submission, and manage contractual relationships with donors and Members.
- Donor compliance: ensure reporting deadlines, amendment procedures, audit requirements and SCI award management policies are understood and followed; develop business cases for donor waivers.
- Localisation: lead implementation of the Country Office Localisation Strategy in line with the Global Partnership Framework, Grand Bargain commitments and CHS standards, and operationalise localisation across its seven dimensions.
- Partnership management: provide capacity-building and compliance support to partners, lead partner scoping, mapping, assessment and selection (Equitable Partnership Management Cycle), and ensure partners are engaged in programme design, planning and budgeting.
- Staff management and development: strengthen the capacity of the Awards Management Team and budget holders and manage the performance of direct reports.
Occasional travel is required.
Closing date: 2026-10-26
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the Save the Children careers portal (Oracle Cloud candidate experience) using the Apply link on the job page. Closing date: 26 Oct 2026, 20:59 UTC.
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