Grants and Finance Lead
CARE is seeking an
experienced Grants and Finance Lead, Digital Inclusion to join the management
team of the Women in the Digital Economy Fund (WiDEF) Initiative.
About the program:
WiDEF is a five-year,
$60M+ digital inclusion program funded by USAID and the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation. WiDEF will directly scale evidence-based solutions to effectively
close the gender digital divide. Employing a strong localization approach, the
program will create opportunities for organizations and businesses at the
forefront of equitable digital inclusion to receive financial, technical and
operational support to advance their work. WiDEF will collaborate with industry
leading organizations to engage local and global private sector actors and
funders to advance a shared set of commitments to closing the gender digital
divide. Beyond direct delivery, the initiative will incorporate a substantial
policy and advocacy component as well as global communications efforts to
inform and influence action at every level of the development system.
About the role:
As the Grants and Finance
Lead, Digital Inclusion you will lead the program’s extensive grants management
function, including recruiting and managing a dedicated sub-team to support
this work. WiDEF will include multiple rounds of eternal-facing grants
competitions. The Grants and Finance Lead will serve as the business manager
for the initiative: developing and monitoring the annual budget; modeling
budgets for new opportunities; informing and working in lock step with each
round of grants competitions and, directly and through their team, ensuring
awardee sub-grants are operationalized efficiently and effectively monitored
and supported. The Grants and Finance Lead will work closely with
external partners to support them in financial compliance and award
performance. As a member of the WiDEF senior team, the Grants and Finance Lead
will recruit and manage a team of up to four direct reports. The Grants and
Finance team will actively support between 10-25, globally distributed,
competitively awarded sub-grants at any given time. This position reports to
the WiDEF Managing Director/Chief of Party.
About you:
Ideal candidates for this
role will have a successful track record of supporting complex multi-year
projects with large numbers of sub-awardees and sub-contracts. You will be an
experience team leader and manager of globally disbursed teams. You will be
well versed in donor requirements and specialized in USAID financial and grant
compliance requirements. You are exceptionally well organized, a strong
communicator, and have patience/empathy to help first-time and international
sub-awardees with complicated procedures and processes. You have served in
similar capacities on other USAID projects.
Location negotiable. Must
be able to work at least 4 hours on US East Coast time.
Responsibilities:
Define
and manage competition sub-grantee grants and financial management systems
Manage
program budget, compile monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting
Manage
sub-recipient due diligence, capacity assessment and operational capacity
building
Serve
on WiDEF senior management team, advising program leadership and informing
program strategy and annual planning
Recruit
and manage a sub-team to support program sub-awardees
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s
degree in relevant discipline: finance; business administration; international
development; public administration or other relevant field
7-10
years of experience working in the field of international development with
escalating responsibility
Extensive
experience managing USAID grants/contracts administration of similarly sized
programs. Other bilateral/multilateral donor funding, private corporate,
private foundations experience a benefit.
Creative
team player dedicated to designing systems that enable core goals while also
effectively managing risk
Strong
cross-cultural communication skills, including experience working with globally
distributed teams in disparate countries and time zones
Demonstrated
experience recruiting and managing a globally disbursed team
How To Apply
Application Deadline : 8th
November 2023
