Wednesday, February 8, 2012

SAVE THE CHILDREN GRANTS OFFICER JOB IN KENYA

Save the Children has a long history of working in partnership in Somalia and it is one of the leading Ingo’s working in Somalia for the rights of children.

Save the Children has a unified presence in Somalia and Somaliland since January 2010 and is working in the thematic areas of education (including skills training for youth), health, protection and emergency responses.

Save the children has an operation in Somaliland, Puntland and South Central Somalia.

Due to constraints on security, and the need to liaise with UN agencies, other NGOs and donors the country office is based in Nairobi and senior managers and directors are expected to travel extensively to monitor and support Programme work in all parts of Somalia that are accessible and where security threats are being effectively mitigated.

The Grants Officer is newly created post to boost capacity of programme’s grants management responsibility

Job Purpose

The purpose of this post is to ensure Save the Children Alliance Programme adheres to all its grant management obligations internally within Save the Children and externally with donors.



The Grants Officer will support the Grants Manager in ensuring that key processes are in place and operationalised to ensure that grant risk assessment, proposals development, donor financial and non-financial compliance and reporting requirements are achieved

“Save the Children is child right organization therefore intending to keep children safe, our recruitment process reflects our commitment to safeguard children from abuse”, therefore, all applicants are subject to Child Safeguarding Checks.

For additional information on the job description, working context, person’s specifications, please visit: www.somaliangoconsortium.org

Applications should be forwarded to: vacancies@scsom.org

Application Closing Date: Wednesday 15th Feb 2012, 15:00 pm