Programme Officer – Start Fund

£29,900 – £36,520 pa
Everlasting / Full-time
Farringdon, London/House-based

Closing Date: 21 April 2024
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The Begin Fund Programme Officer will work as a part of a crew to implement the worldwide Begin Fund, which is the Begin Community’s flagship programme disbursing round £20m in awards to community member organisations annually. The worldwide Begin Fund offers speedy financing in response to underfunded small to medium scale crises, spikes in persistent humanitarian crises, and in anticipation of impending crises, filling a crucial hole in humanitarian financing.

Save the Kids UK believes each little one deserves a future. Within the UK and world wide, we work day by day to provide youngsters a wholesome begin in life, the chance to study and safety from hurt. When disaster strikes, and youngsters are most susceptible, we’re all the time among the many first to reply and the final to go away. We guarantee youngsters’s distinctive wants are met and their voices are heard. We ship lasting outcomes for hundreds of thousands of youngsters, together with these hardest to achieve.

The Begin Community is made up of greater than 50 support businesses throughout 5 continents, starting from giant worldwide organisations to nationwide NGOs. Our goal is to ship simpler emergency support, harnessing the facility and data of the community to make quicker and higher choices to assist individuals affected by crises. We advocate for radical change within the international support system in order that the world can deal higher with the humanitarian challenges of immediately, and of the long run. Our work focuses on three areas to alter the system:

• Localisation – shifting energy to these closest to the entrance line to allow simpler and applicable responses.
• New types of financing – offering quick, early, and reliable funding, to assist communities to develop into extra resilient to crises.
• Collective innovation – testing new methods of working and sharing studying and experience to construct a simpler humanitarian system.

The Begin Community is at a crucial level in its journey. Now we have grown and diversified our membership over the previous 10 years. We at the moment are set to evolve right into a decentralised “community of networks” by 2025. We’re at present working with 5 nationwide and regional networks (hubs) in Pakistan, DRC, Guatemala, India and the Pacific. They’re creating regionally led methods of anticipating and responding to humanitarian crises. We goal to help the emergence and growth of additional Hubs within the coming years. Our final ambition is to devolve management, membership, programming and determination making to the hubs, whereas the UK crew transitions to offer companies of help.

The crew of Begin Fund Programme Officers work with colleagues throughout each Save the Kids UK (SCUK) and the Begin Community.

In regards to the Position
Key for the post-holder is engagement with Begin Community member organisations, and efficient coordination with the broader Begin crew, to make sure that the Begin Fund continues to allow early, well timed and efficient humanitarian motion.

Additionally, you will play a task in figuring out and implementing technological options to enhance Begin Fund operational effectivity, and collaborating with the Monitoring, Analysis, Accountability and Studying (MEAL) crew to make sure that studying contributes to strengthened programming, and a frequently bettering funding mechanism (the Begin Funds). Additionally, you will help different areas of fund administration, at present together with disaster anticipation and help to nationwide Begin Funds (e.g., Begin Fund Bangladesh and Begin Fund Nepal).

The position contains working with a variety of stakeholders inside SCUK and different businesses throughout the Begin Community and Begin Platform.

Additionally, you will be chargeable for challenge and crew administration, equivalent to processing of disbursements and report conserving of all challenge paperwork. You’ll help reporting, challenge compliance and escalate complaints and incidents. Moreover, you’ll:

• Be chargeable for Grant administration all through the Begin Fund alert cycle.
• Present help to the Begin Fund Committee representatives and humanitarian personnel world-wide, within the decision-making processes.
• Implement the Begin Fund, whereas figuring out methods on which the programme may very well be improved from an operational perspective.
• Assist MEAL colleagues to seize information precisely, analyse studying and rising patterns to allow efficient monitoring, analysis and studying.
• Contribute to the mainstreaming of anticipation and early motion within the Begin Funds by way of data sharing and capability strengthening initiatives.
• Assist members, notably native and nationwide NGOs in accessing Begin Fund by way of member engagement actions and demanding overview and help with Begin Fund course of diversifications.

About You
To achieve success you should have expertise working throughout the humanitarian sector and confirmed expertise of challenge cycle administration and monetary administration. In addition to a versatile ‘can do’ angle, it’s best to have the flexibility to handle an unpredictable workload and use your initiative. Robust information administration and evaluation abilities are important, as is:

• Expertise in organising occasions and fascinating different stakeholders in advanced points.
• Confirmed abilities in creating log frames, proposals and budgets, and in reporting.
• Wonderful verbal and written communication abilities with stakeholders at completely different ranges.
• Competency in a second language, ideally Spanish, French or Arabic.
• Demonstrable expertise of collaboration, together with forging and preserve efficient new relationships and partnerships, usually throughout organizational boundaries.

What we give you:
Working for a charity offers among the best advantages there may be – a way of goal and reward for serving to others. Nonetheless, we perceive the significance of giving again to our workers to make sure a cheerful and wholesome working atmosphere and work/life steadiness.
• We concentrate on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, well being and wellbeing each in and outdoors of labor.
• We offer a variety of advantages which can reward your laborious work, inspire you, and encourage you to work to enhance the lives of youngsters day by day.

Please be aware: To keep away from disappointment, you might be suggested to submit your software as quickly as attainable as we reserve the proper to shut the emptiness early if a excessive quantity of purposes are obtained. That is to make sure that we are able to handle software ranges while sustaining a constructive candidate expertise. Sadly as soon as a emptiness has closed, we’re unable to think about additional purposes.

Methods of Working:
Nearly all of our roles could be carried out remotely within the UK, however there are prone to be instances when you can be required to return to your contracted workplace (as much as 2-4 days monthly or 6-8 days per quarter). This will likely be agreed together with your Line Supervisor and crew and is meant to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship constructing.

Please be aware: journey prices to your contracted workplace will likely be at your individual expense.
Versatile Working – We’re comfortable to debate versatile working choices at interview.

Dedication to Range & Inclusion:
Save the Kids UK believes in a world that’s honest, inclusive and equitable the place all youngsters have the chance to alter their world. We apply this to our workforce and we’re dedicated to creating and supporting a various, equitable, and inclusive organisation the place all workers have a way of belonging and really feel that they are often “Free to Be Me”. We’re not in search of only one kind of particular person – we wish to recruit individuals who can add contemporary views, progressive concepts or problem that disrupts the chance of group assume.

We’re particularly excited by individuals whose childhood experiences – of life on a low revenue, of migration, of being in a racialised neighborhood, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ household or dwelling with (or with somebody with) a incapacity – assist us to see issues we would in any other case miss. No matter your story is we wish to hear it as a result of we all know that completely different voices, concepts, views and data, working collectively will allow us to raised the lives of youngsters world wide. That is the rationale why we’re all right here.