Key Responsibilities:
- Accountable for the Strengthening Youth and Women’s Civic
Participation Project’s grants management and compliance.
- Partner with Pact’s Washington, D.C. Grants and Contracts Team
and Global Finance Team, providing oversight and full cycle support to the
granting processes and mechanisms.
- Serve as the liaison between Pact and grantee organizations
via workplans, clear targets, and deliverables, program and financial
monitoring, and indicator tracking.
- In partnership with finance, program officers and technical
staff, supervise the grants staff and who work directly with each grantee
to review budgets, ensuring cost reasonability, allowability, and
allocability, and conduct regular site visits to review both programmatic
and financial processes and deliverables. Partner with grantees to improve
their financial and compliances policies and processes.
- Provide training and capacity building on grant oversight and
ensure that monitoring and oversight is cascaded down to all levels of
sub-contracted and sub-granted organizations.
- Ensure that sub-contracts, grants and local consultancy
documents and procedures are completed in a timely and correct manner and
comply with Pact and USAID policies, regulations, and branding
requirements.
- Oversee the full cycle of grants and procurements from
solicitation, evaluation, selection, pre-award assessment, negotiation,
monitoring, and closeout.
- Maintain operations tracker to document process for each grant
or procurement cycle; compile and organize all grant or procurement
materials.
- Oversee the correct and efficient utilization of Pact’s
subaward management system (Salesforce) and ensure proper documentation is
maintained in accordance with Pact and USAID policies.
- Supervise a team of Grants and Contracts staff. Provide
capacity development support to team.
- Employee complies with all company policies and procedures,
including completing all compliance training topics by the deadline to
satisfy each and receiving the corresponding acknowledgment statement that
the training has been completed.
- All other duties as assigned.
Basic
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business
Administration or related field.
- 9+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of
education and experience, including 5 years of management experience
Preferred
Qualifications:
- Minimum of nine years’ experience in contracts and grants
management, including subgrants and subcontracts, including 5 years of
management experience.
- Demonstrated expert knowledge of professional management
principles, theories, practices and terminology of the laws, regulations
and procedure governing USAID financial management and contractual and
procurement regulations.
- Deep familiarity with USG and USAID rules and regulations,
specifically 2 CFR 200, 2 CFR 700, and 22 CFR 228.
- Demonstrated ability to partner successfully with team,
partner/subgrantee organizations, and other stakeholders.
- Ability to provide training to staff and partner organizations
on regulatory and compliance matters. Previous management and supervision
experience required.
- Professional fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic
(must be able to communicate in verbal and written form).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, i.e., Excel, Word,
PowerPoint, etc., as well as other relevant software.
How
To Apply