Manager, Business Support - Geneve, Schweiz - The Global Fund

The Global Fund

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Geneve, Schweiz

vor 1 Woche

Geschrieben von:

Lena Schneider

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

Within GMD, Operational Efficiency drives the integration of the Global Fund's organizational strategy into the GMD-owned core grant life cycle (GLC) processes to translate ~$4 billion per year of donor funding into successful programs.

These processes are used by over 100+ countries and 20,000+ in-country stakeholders in all geographical regions supported by the Global Fund (GF).

The GLC processes are at the heart of the Global Fund's operating model in country and define how the Global Fund makes its grants, reviews performance, disburses funds and closes grants - as such, are critical to achieving the Fund's mission.

Within OE, the Manager, Business Support & Operations (BS&O) is accountable for successful, high-quality and timely, ongoing GLC business process support and execution of defined GLC process responsibilities plus associated data quality verification, monitoring and reporting.

They are responsible for the regular diagnosis of the BS&O performance, the identification of unmet needs and the definition and implementation of strategic improvements to the BS&O engagement across the GLC processes, systems and data flows.

The Manager BS&O applies expertise and knowledge across multiple functional areas (grant management, business process improvement, operational process and systems design, issue resolution from a business perspective, data quality) to ensure successful GLC support provision and process execution, as an enabler for Global Fund to successfully manage its grants.

Job holder negotiates with colleagues across multiple disciplines and divisions as well as with in-country stakeholders to facilitate agreement on and implement BS&O changes to meet organizational needs while differentiating and balancing impact on the Secretariat and external stakeholders.

Job holder is responsible for resolution of disputes or exceptional cases in the BS&O domain, determining how to deal with challenging questions when they arise.

Job holder is also responsible for the development of the BS&O communication and change management to motivate CTs and in-country stakeholders to adopt changes introduced through launches and as part of enhancements.

Job holder manages a team of ~10 staff and contractors including (i) the Business Process Support team and (ii) the Grant Operations team which executes assigned grant lifecycle process responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

The Manager, Business Support & Operations is accountable for

Working across GMD counterparts and defined functional owners, using a strong project management approach, ensure quality and timely business support provision, and execution of defined GLC process responsibilities

Establish extensive collaboration and maintain strong interpersonal diplomacy to influence key stakeholders within Grant Management Division and functional owners (e.g., IT, Legal, finance and programmatic teams towards quality and timely GLC business support provision and execution of defined GLC process responsibilities.
Provide BS&O direction and oversight for the assigned GLC processes to ensure an endtoend and integrated support and execution approach towards the Secretariat & incountry actors.
Lead crossfunctional meetings to ensure organizational engagement and alignment towards quality and timely GLC business support provision and execution of defined GLC process responsibilities that benefit endusers.
Engage with key GMD counterparts to assess impact of GLC business support provision and execution of defined GLC process responsibilities and to collect input to drive further improvements.
Lead the coordination of timely contributions from various crossdivisional business teams and IT teams to develop and present reports/ briefings/ solutions to internal stakeholders, senior management and governance bodies around quality and timely business support provision and execution of defined GLC process responsibilities, and to ensure the longterm sustainability of the Grant Ops team.
Ensure quality and timely contributions to the ongoing diagnosis of the assigned business processes to define best practices and improvements from a business support and process execution perspective.
Design, develop and deliver BS&O process, data flows, monitoring & reporting improvements as agreed.
Assess the endtoend impact of proposed launch deliverables to the BS&O processes, procedures, system solution and data flows.
Ensure quality BS&O contributions to business design, requirements, and UAT for system releases.
Mainstream Launch and other GLC process changes into businessasusual business support and execution of defined GLC process responsibilities.
Coordinate with the GPS change management practice to ensure effective change management from a BS&O perspective for planned changes.

Drive improvement in corporate performance and data quality for the core grant lifecycle business processes that BS&O engages in