Senior Managing Director, Humanitarian Portfolio (M4)

Role Overview

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About the Role

As the Senior Managing Director, Humanitarian Portfolio, you will lead and oversee Save the Children US's (SCUS) portfolio of humanitarian awards (domestic and USG PHFFA funded) ensuring high-quality, compliant, on-time, and on-budget delivery. In this role, you will provide strategic oversight, capacity building, and accountability, fostering operational excellence, innovation, continuous learning, and an inclusive work environment. Reporting to the Head of Program Implementation and serving on the Program Implementation Senior Leadership Team, you will oversee the performance and growth of SCUS's humanitarian portfolio and team, directly supervise Project Directors/COPs, and strengthen donor engagement in partnership with Program Quality & Impact (PQI).

What You’ll Be Doing

• Portfolio Leadership/Management (35%)
  • Lead the team ensuring high quality projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in full compliance with organizational standards and policies.
  • Lead partner-led program/project implementation.
  • Ensure program interventions are aligned with technical best practices, humanitarian standards, and emerging national and local policies, as well as country and global strategic priorities.
  • Lead and implement rapid, effective responses to emergencies affecting children, including building relationships with key humanitarian and development stakeholders and partners in-country.
  • Ensure that effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) systems are implemented in line with organizational policies and guidelines and program learning is effectively captured, documented, and shared.
  • Monitor programs and services to ensure excellence, adapt services to community needs, provide effective training and technical assistance, and improve program quality and data management, including KPIs.
  • Inspire and promote innovation across the team and with partners.
  • Collaborate with SCUS leaders, technical colleagues (including SCI) to standardize and continuously improve processes, and strengthen strategic linkages and interdependencies between technical colleagues, program implementation, portfolio managers, and account managers.
  • Set direction for operational design/modality as well as organizational structure for USG PHFFA funded proposals/projects with proposal design/development teams.
• Program Results, Compliance, Risk Management and Accountability (25%)
  • Accountable for achieving project deliverables, annual goals, and long-term strategic objectives, including development and emergency response in the recovery phase.
  • Hold team accountable for executing with excellence and meeting high standards.
  • Identify and mitigate internal and external risks to program implementation, ensuring teams' operations are risk-aware and nimble.
  • Reinforce the advancement of risk management and compliance priorities as identified through internal reviews and global assurance processes.
  • Ensure compliance with all host authority requirements in relation to registration, taxation, labor law, auditing, fraud prevention, and related areas.
  • Oversee engagement with SCUS and SCI technical teams to ensure adequate and appropriate technical support for program delivery.
• Financial and Administrative Management (10%)
  • Ensure effective financial budgeting, management systems, processes, and controls are in place and compliant with organizational standards and local legal requirements.
  • Ensure effective, compliant procurement and asset management systems are established and maintained.
  • Ensure that partner organizations are assessed against financial management and governance standards and are supported to address capacity gaps.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 13 years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience within humanitarian context with responsibility for overseeing and direct oversight of large and complex USG project implementation development and award management.
• Strong knowledge of USG humanitarian funding modalities and compliance.
• Successful experience leading, managing and developing high-performing teams, including strong managerial knowledge and skills to provide direction and support staff professional development and retention.
• Demonstrated ability to manage ongoing change in external and internal environments in an effective and transparent manner, while promoting staff engagement and morale.
• Proven ability to think and act strategically and proven ability to exercise independent judgment and discretion on significant matters with minimal guidance.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% as required, including to humanitarian response settings.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully communicate and collaborate with individuals and teams at all levels, both internal and external.
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite.
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional proficiency in a second language (Spanish, French, or Arabic preferred).
• Experience with Save the Children.

Compensation

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