Senior Cost and Pricing Advisor – Dakar, Senegal.
Description
Location: Dakar, Senegal
Position Status: Full-time, Exempt, Regular
Valid unrestricted work authorization in the country in which you will be based is required at the time of application for this position.
About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.
The Program / Department / Team
Mercy Corps alleviates poverty, suffering, and oppression and works to build secure, productive, and just communities in over 40 countries around the world.
The Position
The Senior Cost and Pricing Advisor will be a full-time member of the Cost and Pricing team and they will support strategic program development efforts by: 1) leading or supporting the development of realistic and cost-competitive proposal budgets and cost applications including subaward and subcontract budgets; 2) providing cost and pricing guidance to Mercy Corps proposal teams and external partners reflecting Mercy Corps’ best practices and applicable donor rules and regulations; and 3) lead or support development of proposal cost and pricing guidance and tools, and design and deliver related training. The Cost and Pricing Advisor work in close collaboration with HQ Finance, NI, and Compliance teams, and country leadership and finance teams.
Essential Responsibilities
Program design and proposal budget development
Knowledge management and capacity building
Safeguarding responsibilities
Supervisory Responsibility
None
Accountability
Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of our field projects.
Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills
Success Factors
The Senior Cost and Pricing Advisor will demonstrate a successful track record in program development and especially proposal cost and pricing, and bring flexibility, creativity, and enthusiasm to every project they undertake. The individual must have exceptional quantitative and writing skills, and the ability to multi-task, set priorities, pay attention to detail, and work under tight deadlines within complex team environments. The Cost and Pricing Advisor will have strong interpersonal skills, a healthy competitive spirit, and have the drive and initiative to contribute to team efforts. The individual will have strong leadership qualities and ability to lead or support diverse teams from across the agency through complex and stressful initiatives and also be a strong advocate within the organization for effective business development approaches.
Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions
This position will be located in Dakar, Senegal. The position requires travel approximately 10% time to the field where living conditions may be exceptionally rugged or be in volatile environments where security protocols will need to be followed. Team members must be ready to deploy to field environments on short notice in response to any emergency or crisis. When in the field the team member must be able to work in remote settings, over weekends and/or evening as required by the schedule, and in settings with limited infrastructure, food options, and living conditions.
Ongoing Learning
In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal and/or professional growth and development
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives.
We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact.
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