Main Responsibilities:
- Works closely with finance, accounting, development and programs’ Senior Manager for Grants and Contracts, to manage financial and grant management support to ongoing programs.
- Supports the Team Lead in planning and running project meetings, ensuring the right departments are included and action points are followed up.
- Coordinate that contractual obligations and reporting deadlines are known and met by Program, MEAL, Development and Finance teams.
- When any issue is identified in meeting deliverables in the given timeframe and budget, work with relevant staff on potential solutions that would meet donor rules.
- Liaise with donor, in collaboration with relevant leadership, when required to address issues, submit reports, file amendments, etc.
- Review narrative reports, reflecting the progress and status of projects in a transparent, timely and professional manner, and provide drafting support as needed.
- As needed submit reports to donor and/or donor submission platforms and act as primary focal point for donor - implementation teams communications.
- Ensure ad hoc requests from donors are addressed in partnership with the program lead and support teams.
- Ensure all files are audit ready and stored in CORE’s Salesforce – SharePoint Integration Area
- Ensure all program data is kept up to date in Salesforce Program Management Module.
- Support budget creation, management, and monitoring of specific projects and overall response program
- Support staffing planning and budgeting
- Maintain control of PCard purchases and reconciliation
- Produce and submit monthly burn rate reports
- Manage analysis of program spending to project deliverables
- Support oversight of CORE funds burn in domestic response, track any issues, and follow up with teams on next steps
- Liaise with partners when required to develop relevant sub/grant agreements and amendment in close coordination with Area Director, programs and support teams and CORE HQ Programs Department.
- Help coordinate meetings and communications with key stakeholders, including partners, donors, and local authorities.
Scope and Travel:
- N/A
- Local site visits as needed
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in international relations, project management, finance and accounting, or related field.
Experience:
- Experience working in domestic programs and humanitarian response
- Proven experience in domestic disaster response
- Proven ability to manage and analyze program budgets, spending, and project deliverables
Skills & Competencies:
- Proven ability to support budget creation, management, and monitoring
- Outstanding ability to communicate effectively with and across program, administrative and operational functions
- Proven ability to work across departments
- Proven ability to work with different cultures
- Diplomatic and interpersonal skills with ability to build strong professional relationships with diverse internal and external stakeholders in a challenging environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to handle and complete multiple tasks simultaneously, work productively in a dynamic team environment, with accuracy, and attention to detail.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
- Qualitative and quantitative analytical capabilities