Award and Financial Analysis Coordinator
Contract length: Fixed Duration Contract (FDC) until 31 December 2025.
Role Purpose
The Award and Financial Analysis Coordinator is crucial in managing the Country Office Portfolio, including award management, proposal budget development, staff salary allocation, sub-award management to implementing partners, and compliance for both development and humanitarian programs. This role involves overseeing the entire project cycle, ensuring adherence to SCI and donor compliance, and monitoring expenditures to align with approved budgets and policies. The Award and Finance Analysis Coordinator also supports the finance team with coding finance vouchers and manages Partnership Finance staff in the country office and sub-offices.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside of the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
- Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor degree in Accounting or Finance or Business Administration or other related fields or equivalent related experiences
- Essential
- At least 5 years working experience of financial and grant/award management, and budgeting and accounting, preferably with INGOs
- Experiences working with major donors’ financial policies and guidelines such as USAID, DFAT, EU, NORAD, SIDA, MFAT, ECHO, Global Fund, etc. as well as corporate donors is a plus.
- Detail oriented with a sense of data analytical skills.
- Excellent coordination skills and willingness to work in a high paced environment where budgets, numbers and their constant fluctuations is a positive challenge
- Good negotiation, decision-making and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work as part of a team.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office package, particularly data spreadsheet.
- Desirable
- Strong budgeting/accounting/finance skills
- Accurate and detail oriented, with ability to see the big picture
- Ability to complete work in a timely manner while working on simultaneous tasks.
- Strong analytical skills in order to interpret large amounts of data, ability to identify and bring attention to potential or actual lapses in the budget management process
- Ability to gather facts and data, scrutinize with ease, determine a logical solution and resolve issues with very minimal supervision
- Ability to make independent decision, while keeping supervisor appraised of important matters.
- Good research skills, ability to identify useful information to support the budget management objectives
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team
- Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming response teams, in the event of emergencies
- Ability to proactively identify issues and problem solving skills to address these