ActionAid Grants and Donor Compliance Coordinator Job
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ActionAid is a global movement of people working together to further human rights and defeat poverty for all.Position: Grants and Donor Compliance Coordinator
Functional Unit: Programme
Administratively
Reporting to: Head of Programmes
Supervising: None
Duty Station: Nairobi
Key relationships:
Internally: Head of Programmes, Head of Policy & Campaigns, Head of Finance, Head of Fundraising, Programme accountants, Programme quality Coordinator, LRP Managers and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers.
Externally: Local NGOs, donors, partners.Main Purpose and Scope:
The holder of the position will be responsible for ensuring compliance with donor contract agreements and work closely with program staff and senior leadership team to ensure accurate financial reporting and procedural compliance on all grants.
Responsibilities
To ensure that partnership and sub-grant related administrative processes and procedures are standardized and consistently implemented throughout the program, including pre-award compliance checks, agreements, and disbursements and reporting
To act as focal point with donor's in-country offices on grants management issues for ongoing projects
To maintain grant management systems and procedures, and program wide strategies for implementation
To review donor reports to ensure donor compliance and to provide project managers and management with relevant information for decision making
To maintain an effective Internal Control System around grants management to ensure compliance with donor requirements and AAI policies and procedures
To work with finance to build and monitor partners’ financial management capacities to ensure compliance with grants requirements and enhanced reporting
To support fundraising in proposal budget preparation and revision and to support annual plans and budgets
To support the implementation of audit recommendations for the partners and donor funded projects.
To analyze project implementation schedules and support plans by Project teams to adhere to donor reporting timelines.General
As part of the Programme team participate in pursuing the implementation of the CSP
Work towards increased levels of transparency and Accountability to donors.Critical Competencies
Analytical skills,
Project management knowledge,
Grants management,
Budgeting & budgetary control,
Report writing skills,
Information management Stakeholder management,
Planning and organizing;
Oral and written communication;Qualifications
A minimum of a Bachelors degree in a related field with a minimum of five (5) years’ relevant work experience.
Professional accounting qualifications (CPA (K) or ACCA) is an added advantage.Skills Required
Experience in programme and projects financial management
Communication, report writing and analytical skills.
Experience in donor contract managementTo apply,click here to submit your application ActionAid Grants and Donor Compliance Coordinator Job in Nairobi Kenya
; for any queries, kindly direct the same to hresources.kenya@actionaid.org
Closing date for applications: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 23:59
