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Position Location: Abidjan, Cote d Ivoire.
Position Summary:
The Grants Officer will support the Grants Manager with the oversight of all grants activities, including ensuring efficient and proper controls for USAID grant compliance and reporting; coordinating training and grants administration with grantees; and review and submission of financial reports as required for each grant.
Reporting & Supervision:
The Grants Officer will report to West Africa Grants Manager
Primary Responsibilities:
- Review sub-grantees’ liquidation and financial reports and provide summaries to the project’s West Africa Grants Manager on a monthly basis;
- Implement procedures and templates to be used for formulating, negotiating, executing, monitoring, and closing grants according to USAID regulations and the project’s Grants Manual;
- Monitor grantee to ensure compliance with USAID regulations, Grants Manual and the content of sub-agreement;
- Responsible for maintaining grant files and ensuring they stay up-to-date;
- Support project audits, grantor’s audit, or monitoring visits.
- Responsible for entering and maintaining Creative’s)online System for the Management of Activities, Reporting and Tracking (SMART) for sub-grantees;
- Support the West Africa Grants Manager in enforcing and maintaining policies for grant processes
- Provide mentoring support to strengthen and improve sub-grantees’ management capacity for improved performance; and
- Perform other tasks as assigned.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- High school diploma is required, Bachelor’s Degree or professional accounting/financial qualification is preferred;
- Minimum two (2) years’ experience in grant management, including disbursements and reporting and four years of general experience.
- Demonstrated experience in financial administration, budget and cost control management is essential;
- Knowledge of USAID Rules and Regulations, previous experience working on USAID-funded projects is preferred;
- Ability to analyze data and suggest areas of improvement
- Excellent record keeping, and documentation skills;
- Have a good computer literacy;
- Understanding of cost-share and/or leveraging preferred; and
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
Interested applicants should send their CVs either in PDF or word format as one document to recruit@westafricatih.com before 16th December 2019
Only finalists will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
Creative Associates International Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Disability/Veteran.
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