Advisor, Portfolio Management (P3)

The Role

Save the Children's Impact & Evidence division strives to serve people who serve children—providing high-quality, strategically aligned resources, insights, and support to drive measurable, transformative change. We work efficiently and collaboratively, guided by shared purpose, mutual respect, and accountability to the communities we serve. By testing bold ideas, proving what works, and scaling effective solutions, we improve children’s lives—while always ensuring we contribute more value than we consume and make space for others (SCI Center, members, partners, etc.) best positioned to lead.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Award Management (65%)
• Support budget development for grant proposals by partnering with program and country office staff to translate program needs into sound financial plans.
• Conduct regular review of award portfolios, including oversight of life-of-award meetings, to identify and mitigate potential risks and coordinate with cost center staff to develop spend plans that align with scope of work and donor conditions.
• Prepare donor spending reports ensuring data accuracy and compliance with donor and audit requirements.
• Manage donor billing, including monitoring prompt receipt of receivables.
• Ensure proper closeout of awards, aligning with donor requirements and SCUS awards management requirements.
• Financial Strategy and Planning (25%)
• Work on the development and implementation of the annual fiscal budget process for your portfolio, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Partner with country office leadership to develop and analyze financial projections and forecasts for awards portfolio, identifying and addressing financial risks.
• Use financial data and historical spending to provide direction to cost centers, prepare financial projections, ensuring spending plans are aligned with organizational objectives and risk tolerance.
• Conduct regular budget reviews of your awards to ensure proper and efficient use of funding and advise teams of spending.
• Training & Development (10%)
• Assist with the development of financial training materials and conduct regular trainings for finance and program staff on financial policies, procedures, and award compliance.
• Work with Managing Director and Senior Director to update financial policies and procedures and implement best practices across the team.
• Support the completion of needs assessments to identify staff training requirements, evaluate the effectiveness of training programs, and make improvements as needed.
• Aid in training both internal and external stakeholders on various financial topics including: Budget holder guidance, Financial policies and procedures, Donor compliance and reports, Federal regulations, i.e. 2 CFR 200, EDGAR, and others.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with Microsoft Excel and demonstrated ability to apply creative ideas for data compilations.
• Demonstrated ability to support multiple stakeholders by providing sound financial data and guidance.
• Prominent experience managing complex, multifunctional budgets.
• Willing and able to travel both domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time.
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite.
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written Spanish.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing complex budgets with multiple funding sources including federal awards.

Pay

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $91,800 - $102,600 base salary.
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $83,725 - $93,575 base salary.
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $74,800 - $83,600 base salary.

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record. Actual base salary may vary based on, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here).