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Finance and Contract Manager – DID Fund Management Team

Employer
Sightsavers
Location
Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Salary
£42,000 – £46,000 depending upon experience
Closing date
28 Apr 2019

Job Details

Our vision is of a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes and where visually impaired people participate equally in society. Each year, we improve the lives of millions of people in the poorest parts of the world. Sightsavers offers a great place to work within easy reach of London and Brighton.

Title: Finance and Contract Manager – DID Fund Management Team

Location: Haywards Heath, UK

Salary: £42,000 - £46,000 depending upon experience

Sightsavers have a new opportunity for a Finance and Contract Manager to develop, manage and quality assure a robust financial and contract management system for the DID programme. Reporting to the Associate Programme Director and responsible for the Finance and Contract Officer, this is a great time to join the team and help shape the financial, contract management and reporting systems for the DID programme.

The Disability Inclusive Development (DID) programme started in July 2018 and is a £30m DFID funded commercial contract managed by Sightsavers DID Fund Management Team (FMT). The DID programme is managed using a payment-by-results and New Engineering Contract (NEC3) contracting model. It is also adaptively managed. The DID consortium consists of 11 partners who work on innovation and scale projects across the programme’s four thematic areas, health, education, livelihoods and stigma & discrimination, across six countries, Bangladesh, Jordan, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria and Tanzania. The DID FMT is responsible for management key components of the DID programme: Finance and Risk, Monitoring, Learning and Adaptation, Governance, Consortium contract management and Donor relations.

About the Role

The post holder will manage the core project budgeting process from development through to finalisation, establish output targets to properly reflect budgeting by liaising with programmatic colleagues and provide reviews of expenditure for all consortium and implementing partners and countries.

This role is also responsible for the timely delivery of accurate donor financial submissions, including expenditure reports and forecasting, along with producing quarterly internal management accounts, contributing to annual project reporting with focus on Value for Money (VFM) and further contributing to annual project reporting focusing on VFM.

About You

You will have proven finance and accountancy experience, and a qualification or part qualification in accountancy is desirable. A background in overseas development or within the humanitarian sector is also advantageous, as is prior knowledge of institutional donor or large scale contract management.

The ideal candidate will possess excellent numerical skills, be highly proficient with Excel, have a strong strategic approach to all areas and be positive in further developing the skills and knowledge to remain current with donor funding developments.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills, please read the complete Job Description for further details about the role and the DID programme. 

Closing Date: 22nd April 2019

Company

Sightsavers Head Office

35 Perrymount Road,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex RH16 3BW

Postal Address

Bumpers Way,
Bumpers Farm,
Chippenham SN14 6NG

Sightsavers is an international charity that works in more than 30 countries around the world to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with visual impairments to live independently. Sightsavers is headquartered in the UK and has over 400 employees. It also has branches in Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, India, the United States and the United Arab Emirates.

Sightsavers works with partners in order to provide a comprehensive range of eye care services. In 2013, Sightsavers' projects provided eye health examinations for nearly 14 million people, performed 300,000 eye operations, and treated over 100 million people for neglected tropical diseases.

People are also referred for treatment to prevent blindness or restore sight. Through community volunteers in developing countries, Sightsavers distributes medication to prevent blinding diseases. The charity also trains eye care workers and surgeons and funds operations.

Of the 30 countries Sightsavers works in, 23 are in Africa. These include Mozambique, Mali, Liberia and Kenya. Sightsavers is also present in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Caribbean.

In addition to its medical work, Sightsavers works with partners in order to train specialist teaching staff and supply glasses, Braille kits and other learning tools. The charity aims to educate communities and reduce stigma around visual impairment and blindness. Through its work, people with visual impairments and other disabilities are supported to live independently, get an education and earn an income.

Sightsavers is also a campaigning organisation, working with national governments to tackle the root causes of avoidable blindness, such as lack of access to clean water and sanitation facilities. The charity’s ‘Put us in the Picture campaign calls on the international community to make global development inclusive of the world’s 800m people with disabilities. The campaign’s vision is for all people to have equal access to employment, education, healthcare and participation in society.

Backing up Sightsavers’ work around the world is a strong research capability. Research and policy work revolves around three priorities – health, education and social inclusion. Gathering and disseminating sound research evidence helps to ensure the charity’s programmes meet the needs of the people they are designed to serve. Research evidence is also a strong tool when advocating for policy changes with governments.

Sightsavers has many partners that assist with its aim of eliminating avoidable blindness and may also provide funding. Partners include the UK government’s Department for International Development, the European Union and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Read our latest article on Third Sector: Sightsavers: Work for an award-winning charity tackling blindness worldwide

Company info
Website
Telephone
01444 446600
Location
35 Perrymount Road,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex
RH16 3BW
GB

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