Crisis Financing Operations Lead

3 weeks ago

Farringdon, United Kingdom Save the Children Full time

Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and influential individual with strong finance and budget management experience and experience of managing humanitarian programmes and operations to join us as our Crisis Financing Operations Lead where you will provide operational leadership across the Start Funds and Anticipation and Risk Financing teams.

**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**

As the Crisis Financing Operations Lead, you will provide operational leadership across the Start Funds and Anticipation and Risk Financing teams. The purpose of the job is to strengthen the operational systems, processes and ways of working, harmonising and building efficiencies across the crisis financing portfolio globally.

You will have line-management and potentially matrix-management responsibilities and play a supporting role to a disbursed team that includes colleagues based globally. You will also collaborate effectively with relevant focal persons at SCUK and Start Network.

This role includes a focus on strategy, business plan development and management; Finance and grant management, including proposal and budget development, monitoring and reporting; Human resource management; Developing and operationalising systems for assurance and compliance; And enabling the operational delivery of the Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing, and Start Funds portfolio globally.

***In this role, you will**:

- Contribute to the development of the Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing and Start Funds strategy, as part of the wider Start Network strategy.
- Lead the development and management of the business plan for both Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing, and Start Funds.
- Oversee the operationalising of Crisis Anticipation and Risk Finance and Start Funds at national level, ensuring provision of operational support for the delivery of programmes and
- Support the development and operationalising of systems and ways of working for assurance and compliance, in collaboration with SCUK and Start Network.
- Oversee the finance and grant management for Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing and Start Funds, in close collaboration with SCUK. Accountable for overall budget management of programmes and initiatives, ensuring compliance with donor requirements
- Accountable for ensuring the effective implementation of programmes and initiatives, including oversight of procurements, legal contracts, etc.
- Lead areas of strategic design work related to operational components of the future Crisis Financing programming within Start Network
- Build strong relationships with colleagues across several operational functions within SCUK and Start Network, and act as the operational point of contact for ensuring the successful delivery of the Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing, and Start Funds
- Effectively line-manage the Crisis Financing Operations team, including operations staff members in the Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing, and Start Funds teams

**About you**

**To be successful, it is important that you have**:

- Substantial experience in setting up and managing programmes and initiatives, including demonstrated capacity to design, plan, manage and report.
- Substantial experience in finance and budget manageme

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