Grants and Compliance Specialist at The Center for Clinical Care and Clinical Research

Specific Roles and Responsibilities

• Under the leadership of the Grant Compliance Manager, the G&C Specialist will be responsible for finance compliance support to allocated CCCRN local partners and related sub-agreements.
• Report Sub-Agreement commitments to be recorded in CCCRN accounting syste
• Review and process the issuance of project advances in accordance with CCCRN and Donor Policies and Procedures.
• S/he interprets USG regulations to local partners and CCCRN THRIVE
• Management.
• The specialist also assists with trainings on compliance, conducts financial reviews and follow-up of recommendations, and identifies training needs, and develops site-specific curriculum to address the needs.
• Serve as principle point of contact on compliance issues with partners and program managers/officers
• Provide senior level technical support to the CBOs/local partners to finalize their annual budgets, conduct a review of budgets against project targets, budget notes and justification, making recommendations and follow-up implementation.
• Monitor monthly reports for liquidation, update budget analysis and advise the Finance & Account Director and Grant and Compliance Manager accordingly
• Monitor allocated partner agreements and budgets and ensure compliance with Compliance Manuals and donor guidelines.  
• Conducts in CCCRN Internal Control and Monitoring/ pre-award assessments as required.
• Ensure that partners keep supporting documents for all financial transactions, keep ledgers for Fixed Assets, Purchase Requisitions, Cash Receipts and Disbursements.
• Other duties assigned

Key Working Relationships:

• Internal: State Program Manager, State Program Officers,
• Supervisory: The position has no supervisory role
• External: CSO Partners

Qualifications and Skills

• B.Sc Accounting, ICAN/ACCA Certification
• At least 5 years post NYSC grants management experience in an international NGO
• Proficiency in the use of Quickbooks accounting Software
• Ability to work both in a team and independently and ability to transfer knowledge through formal and informal training.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, required.
• Excellent analytical and information seeking skills, good decision-making skills.
• Should be willing and able to travel widely within the country
• Excellent English language oral and written communication skills.  
• Proficiency in MS Office suite.