Senior Specialist -Budget Development

About the jobJob Title: Senior Specialist -Budget Development  TEAM/PROGRAMME: Finance  LOCATION: Addis Ababa   GRADE: TBD POST TYPE: National   Child Safeguarding:   Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people ROLE PURPOSE:  Under supervision of Head of Budget Development, S/he plays a key role in supporting Budget Team, the Senior Management including the Program Development Quality Director, Finance Director and New Business Development team in proposal development, thus contributing to the timely submission of high value and quality proposals to donors, by ensuring compliance of proposal budgets and related budget narrative to donor's rules and regulations. S/he ensures that tools and templates are developed and used consistently for budget development sustainability and accurate cost recovery. Key Role responsibility - Planning and Budgeting  Ensure & review proposal budgets reflect value for money and all cost that are included in the proposal budget are necessary and reflect our best estimate to deliver a project. Ensures that all proposals, contracts and amendments with donors follow internal procedure Assist his/her line manager in the development and periodic revisions of the SCI Master Budget and annual/periodical projections of expenditures and funds in coordination with Awards, NBD team, PDQ and the rest of the finance team. Responsible to update and monitor use of tools such as Cost Allocation Methodology (CAM) to support full cost recovery for SCI. To support his/her line manager to sensitize new initiative or policies that are introduced by the Centre or Regional Office to the budget development team. Assist his/ her line manager to lead high value budget related proposal development function Ensure proposal budget that come out from the unit is consistent with narrative and that the budget is tailored, reflecting relevance to and compliance with SCI and Donor requirements. Supports PDQ & NBD team in the proposal development process for all proposals Ensures that information is provided in a timely fashion and relevant staff are involved in the proposal development process Disseminates donor and SCI standards to relevant personnel at the beginning of the process Ensures that a system is in place to analyze administrative costs and shared programme cost so that all aspects have been taken into account As part of the country finance team assist annual planning process work closely with all departments and compile Country annual budgets forecast (Master budget) Assist Head of Budgeting in Coaching/ training new employees & implementing partners by giving on job trainings  Perform other related tasks and responsibilities assigned by Head of BudgetingKEY COMPETENCIES  Leading and Inspiring Others - accomplished Delivering Results - accomplished Developing Self and Others - leading edge Problem Solving and Decision Making - leading edge Applying Technical and Professional Expertise - accomplishedWorking Effectively with Others - accomplished Communicating with Impact - accomplished