Role Overview
The Grants and Awards Intern will support the Awards and Grants team at Save the Children in managing award documentation, proposal workflows, partnership management, and donor compliance. This role offers an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in grants management within an international non-governmental organization.
Key Areas of Accountability
Proposal development
- Ensure all award documentation at proposal stage is managed and processed in a timely manner and uploaded onto AMS and that the related workflows are run in a timely manner.
Awards, Partnerships and AMS Management
- Support in preparing for the monthly Award and Partner review meetings, record action points from the meetings and circulate these promptly.
- Support in conducting partner vetting and partner assessments.
- Support in preparation of partner agreements.
- Support in preparation of partner payments.
- Support in planning for and conducting partner monitoring visits.
- Support in ensuring award kick off and close out meetings are planned for in a prompt manner and the planning is well-coordinated with the other relevant functions.
- Support in maintaining the income tracker and funding tracker and also share the status with the team on a weekly basis.
- Support in maintaining the close out backlog tracker and do regular follow ups with the various teams to ensure close out of pending SOFs.
- Support the Awards Assistant to populate and share the partner reporting tracker and also update the Awards Management System (AMS) on a timely basis.
- Support the Awards Assistant in sending out timely calendar invites for the award led meetings.
- Support in taking action points in the award led meetings and further getting this reviewed and circulated on a timely basis.
- Support in putting together management information from AMS and sharing with the rest of the team via a portfolio analysis report on a monthly basis showing information on awards in pipeline, active awards, awards under amendment, high risk awards and closed awards.
- Ensure that AMS is effectively maintained, up to date and accurately records the audit trail for all awards and sub-awards.
Donor Compliance
- Support on donor compliance to ensure requirements such as reporting deadlines, implementation period, amendment timing/procedures, audit and SCI award management policies are well understood and adhered to.
Desired Competencies
Delivering Results
- Establishes clear and compelling objectives with teams and individuals and monitors progress and performance.
- Holds others accountable for achieving results and challenges underperformance.
Working effectively with others
- Puts mechanisms in place to ensure effective collaborative working across boundaries.
- Enables people from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives to contribute to positive outcomes.
- Breaks down silo working and challenges behaviours that are not collaborative.
Problem Solving and decision making
- Identifies and addresses root causes of long-term problems facing legacy awards.
- Brings in external perspective to ensure decision making remains relevant and future focused.
- Explores and analyses external trends and their potential impact on strategic choices.
- Takes calculated risks and has the courage to stand by decisions despite resistance.
Leadership and Developing Others
- Delivers needs-based results in complex and fast-changing contexts.
- Evaluates the opportunities and risks of each idea and solution to make informed strategic decisions.
- Demonstrates courage by willingness to confront difficult situations and take potentially unpopular decisions.
- Actively encourages a team environment where team members feel able to contribute, champion or challenge decisions.
- Conveys complex strategic issues with clarity, brevity and confidence.
- Develops and implements processes to ensure that the workplace is inclusive and the talents of individuals are harnessed to achieve individual and organizational success.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's qualification in Commerce, Economics, Business Administration or equivalent.
- Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a demanding workload comprised of diverse and challenging tasks and responsibilities.
- Very strong capacity for attention to detail, problem solving, and analysis of trends.
- Computer literate (i.e. Ms Office and knowledge of grant management and financial systems would be an added advantage).
- Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people.
- Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure.
- Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in a multicultural setting.
