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Field Office Management

• Overall responsible for leadership, coordination, operations, staff, compliance, program management, and performance within the assigned SCI location

• Provide leadership and management of all field office operations, awards,staff and organizational performance.

• Coordinate management of all awards implemented in the field office operational area ensuring adherence to SCI policies, procedures and donor regulations and agreements.

• Coordinate and ensure timely and adequate technical support need to the projects in the assigned location in consultation the Project Managers.

• Implement safety and security standards and procedures for the office location, including reporting and ensure that new programs are built around security considerations.

• Ensure strategic alignment and contribution of the region’s projects to both CO and SCI global strategic priorities and that SMT is kept updated of critical and strategic project engagements and risks.

• Planning and implementation,budget and financial management

• Ensure timely submission of quality Annual Plans for Baana project and all the complimentary projects with the respective phased Budget aligned with the DIP, attachments (RIPT, PIT, SIP), and a Procurement Plan.

• Ensuring that a quality and timely phased budget aligned with the DIP is in place.

• Ensure that all financial policies and regulations relating to cash flow management, expenditure controls, cash management, accounting information, advances management as put in place for the management and control of funds are followed by the staff and partners in implementing the different project activities.

Sponsorship Operations Management

• Ensure that all Sponsorship business operations (including Child Death, Correspondence, Annual child Data update, photo and video updates, child enrollment and reactivation, sponsor visit) meet the required timelines and quality as stipulated in the sponsorship polices and procedure standard guidelines before being submitted to GSO.

• Ensure that all sponsorship operations risks are effectively and efficiently managed in line with both local and international Save the Children policies and procedures. These include timely reporting of child deaths

• Ensure that systems are in place to monitor child eligibility and participation in sponsorship-funded programs. When standards are not being met, take proper and timely action based on agency policies and procedures.

Program Quality and Reporting.

• Ensure that projects in the location adhere to SCI Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning and Reporting standards; updated Activity and Indicator Tracking Table (A/IPTT), functional feedback mechanism, adhere to Quality Benchmarks, hold regular monitoring review and reflection etc.

• Coordinate and ensure timely and adequate technical support needs to the program/projects in the assigned location in consultation the Project Coordinators.

• In close collaboration with PDQ department, ensure timely and quality Baana project design and study processes which include assessments, baseline, researches and evaluations

Office and team oversight

• Create an enabling and motivating working environment for staff to thrive through intention staff development programs and addressing work challenges or in a timely manner raising them to DPO.

• Ensure all staff have clear monthly and annual work plans, performance objectives and regular performance reviews with their line managers in line with SCI policies and procedure.