Senior Grants Officer at North East Regional Initiative (NERI)

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Grants Officer serves as the principle point of contact and management for grants administration. The Senior Grants Officer is responsible for ensuring effective and efficient management and grants administration and to ensure flexible, innovative, and rapid-response mechanisms are managed in target areas of Nigeria. The Senior Grants Officer ensures that grants management and administration is consistently in compliance with Creative and USAID’s policies and procedures.

REPORTING & SUPERVISION

The Senior Grants Officer reports to the Deputy Chief of Party – Programs. The Senior Grants Officer supervises the Grants Officer in Kafanchan.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides oversight and management of Grants Officer in Kafanchan
• Organizes and coordinates organizational staffing structure and workflow of grants staff activities and administration
• Responsible for ensuring quality control and the integrity of data in both OTI and Creative’s online grants database and ensures that the data in the system is always up-to-date
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with Creative’s grants policies as detailed in the Field Manual and the projects Grants Manual
• Coordinate closely with program staff to ensure timely administration and monitoring of grant agreements
• Coordinate with finance, procurement, and program staff to facilitate grants monitoring and closeout of grant activities
• Coordinate closely with Procurement and Programs to ensure activity-level spending is on track and provide quality control on any required budget modifications
• Manage the grants and direct implementation pipeline
• Manage the financial commitments, spending, and deobligations of the Transition Activities Pool (TAP) and all program fund sources
• Lead the Grants Team to serve as a central point of grant activity coordination and facilitation
• Provide support to technical units on grants compliance and the online grants database
• Other tasks as assigned

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 4 years professional experience working in complex and challenging field operational contexts
• At least 3 years of experience specific to grants administration and management
• Bachelors’ degree or professional accounting/financial qualification is required
• Competent in computers and using financial software essential
• Understanding of budget and cost control management essential
• Excellent written and spoken English essential
• USAID program experience desirable
• Ability to work under pressure and efficiently handle multiple tasks
• Ability to work under own initiative or as a part of a team