Cervical Cancer Team
Closing date:
The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance.
For more information, please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.orgCervical Cancer Program:
Cervical
cancer affects more than half a million women each year, and disproportionately
impacts women in poor countries, where access to effective screening and
treatment for pre-cancerous lesions is limited. With Unitaid support and in
collaboration with seven partner countries, CHAI will be working over the
coming 2.5 years to catalyse the development and introduction of effective,
affordable tools for cervical cancer screening and treatment that will
facilitate widespread scale-up.
Position Overview:
CHAI
is seeking a Manager, Finance and Procurement to play a critical role on the
program management team for the Cervical Cancer program, serving as the lead
for financial management and operations.
The
Manager will interface directly with the Unitaid finance team and will be
responsible for ensuring that donor expectations and requirements for financial
management are met. S/he will act as the team’s lead on internal financial
management, working with the Budgeting & Reporting Department and country team
finance leads. S/he will oversee subcontract management for contracts held by
HQ and support other operational and logistics needs as they arise.
Responsibilities
Grant Management
- Liaise directly with donors on financial matters
- Support Global and Country Teams to create and
revise grant proposal budgets and reforecasts that meet both internal CHAI
requirements and external donor requirements
- Ensure latest grant budget information is
appropriately disseminated and understood within each sub-team at global
level and by country team management (programmatic and finance)
- Generate financial reports and invoices for donors,
working directly with the relevant Director responsible for the grant, and
work with the HQ Budgeting & Reporting Department to validate the reports
- Develop grant-specific tools for financial
management and reporting, for both donor and internal management needs
- Lead on ensuring compliance with donor requirements
CHAI Financials
- Lead on the review of G/L entries across all Project
IDs funded through program grants and work collaboratively with program
managers and directors on G/L adjustments
- Prepare monthly analyses of operational expenses
against the budget; work with program managers and directors to provide
variance explanations and to make ongoing adjustments to programmatic plans
- Work with Program Director to periodically review
income allocations and closely coordinate with all program teams about
execution rate, adjustments needed and other changes with financial
implications
- Coordinate annual budgeting and semi-annual
reforecasting for the cervical cancer programs to ensure consistency and
accurate reflection of programmatic goals given the financial resources
available
- Work with the appropriate managers to allocate and
track funding from the cervical cancer programs to other CHAI programs.
Invoices and Contracts
- Manage the business relationship with care-partners,
lead on financial management, subcontract formulation, and compliance
issues
- Work with program managers and directors and
Accounts Payable to ensure timely payment of invoices
Internal Operations Management
- Lead on the organization of internal and external
meetings
- Work with global program management to run & continuously
improve processes needed for objective setting and prioritization, work
planning & budgeting, and progress review & updates for the global
program
- Support HR-related operations of the global program
team, in collaboration with global HR team and global team management
(e.g., staff contract & work authorization, safety & security,
office registration)
Procurement
- Manage the tasking and responsibilities of a
procurement associate on the cervical cancer grant.
- The primary task supervision on the procurement
related workstreams would include:
- Oversee the preparation of the Annual &
Half-yearly procurement plans for the grant.
- Ensure that the grant budget is updated and is
in-sync with the Annual & Half-yearly procurement plans
- Keep a track of the changes to the procurement as
per the project need and keep in the donor and the program leadership
informed of the changes
- Ensure that the procurement of programmatic
commodities is executed as per the agreed upon plan with the country
teams.
In
addition, the manager might take on other responsibilities identified by
supervisor.
Qualifications
- Advanced degree in Master of Business Administration
(MBA) or Master of Public Administration (MPA) preferred. Bachelor’s
degree and relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of an
Advanced degree.
- 5-7 years of work experience in a fast-paced,
high-performance environment; at least 3 years in related work. Work
experience with a CHAI country team preferred.
- Strong familiarity with financial systems,
budgeting, accounting best-practices, expense recording and reporting
- Strong quantitative skills and solid experience in
financial modelling using advanced Excel features
- Dynamic individual with strong leadership,
interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to
deliver high quality, actionable feedback on a variety of complex issues
to management, donors, and care-partners
- Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced
environment; self-motivated and capable of working independently as well
as within a team
- Rigorous and detail-oriented that can deliver very
high-quality work, notably financials and written donor reports
- Proactive solutions-oriented capability
- Highest ethical standards, a deep sense of
collegiality, as well as a strong desire to create positive change
- Strong commitment to CHAI’s and the team’s mission
and CHAI’s values, dedicated team player
- Ability to travel occasionally internationally as
needed for work
Please submit your
application through our career center here: https://careers-chai.icims.com/jobs/11365/job