Grants Coordinator

Chemonics seeks a Grant Coordinator for the Cross-Border Neighborhood Resilience (CBCR) Exercise. The Cross-Border Neighborhood Resilience (CBCR) Exercise is funded by USAID and applied by Chemonics Worldwide and ACDI VOCA within the cross-border clusters of Karamoja, Mandera and Moyale. CBCR Exercise is designed to reinforce resilience and thus cut back the necessity for humanitarian help amongst communities that stay throughout the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, and Somalia. The exercise goals to empower native entities, together with communities, civil society, personal sector, and governments, to chart their very own pathways for addressing battle, enhancing livelihoods and/or lowering the dangers of shocks and stresses. The Cross-Border Neighborhood Resilience Exercise will work to foster native possession of improvement investments by supporting native management in work planning, implementation, and monitoring.

The Grants Coordinator will probably be chargeable for supporting the environment friendly coordination, administration, and operations of grants capabilities of the Exercise. He/She will probably be properly versed with USAID grants rules and possess sturdy organizational expertise. S/He’ll guarantee shut collaboration with this system and finance workers to make sure efficient oversight of grants in compliance with USAID and Chemonics rules and procedures. Along with sustaining communication with grantees to reply to their questions and requests, he/she’s going to guarantee all grants documentation is correctly filed, recorded, scanned, and saved in acceptable repositories. This can be a full-time place primarily based in Nairobi and stories to the Grants Supervisor.

Tasks:

• Actively take part in prequalification of grantees together with conducting the pre-award duty dedication, drafting agreements, monitoring adherence to particular situations, negotiating budgets and sustaining an up to date checklist of standardized prices. Keep tracker of particular situations, grants award particulars, and deliverable due dates.
• Assist capabilities associated to grants compliance together with following up on grantees required certifications and procurement beneath grants.
• Be sure that the grants program procedures observe the Grants Handbook and adjust to USAID rules.
• Monitor implementation and progress of grantees, along with technical groups, through frequent collaborating, studying, and adapting (CLA).
• Assessment all grant functions, deliverables (in collaboration with the cluster Program Supervisor), and monetary stories for high quality, contractual consistency, accuracy, and compliance with USAID rules.
• Guarantee ample planning and preparation for grant implementation necessities together with pre-award danger evaluation.
• Coordinate with technical crew to make sure deliverables keep on observe.
• Facilitate workers requests for procurements, disbursements of funds, and logistic and planning parts of In-Sort grant actions.
• Set up and keep a monitoring system in preparation of the Annual Program Assertion (APS), Requests for Functions (RFAs), evaluate of grant proposals, grantee choice, monitoring efficiency, and fee.
• Guarantee correct preparation and execution of APS and RFAs, paperwork, and disbursements beneath the mission are in keeping with USAID and Chemonics procedures.
• Assist the implementation of capability constructing plans for the grantees.
• Draft acceptable documentation and/or present info for procurement waivers/approvals for evaluate by the Grants/Procurement Supervisor.
• Work with grantees to make sure they’re supplied with appropriate technical recommendation and help to correctly make the most of grant funds, construct profitable partnerships, and guarantee profitable adherence to reporting necessities.
• Conduct periodic monetary critiques for grantees as required.
• Performs different duties as assigned.

{Qualifications}:

• Bachelor’s diploma in a related discipline required.
• Demonstrated expertise in grants, compliance, and procurement administration targeted on making certain that actions are being applied on-time, in accordance with the specs of the accredited exercise, and in compliance with USAID insurance policies.
• 4 (4) years minimal working expertise in equal capability.
• Prior expertise in managing donor-funded actions and grants oversight with worldwide non-governmental organizations.
• Familiarity with USAID guidelines and rules together with ADS, AIDAR, and FAR.
• Sturdy interpersonal expertise and skill to train confidentiality and excessive stage of professionalism.
• Sturdy communications expertise, with prior expertise offering grants coaching to workers and native companions most well-liked.
• Means to work successfully, responsively, and collaboratively with native improvement organizations, authorities counterparts, improvement and personal sector companions and civil society organizations.
• Capable of work with out supervision and take initiatives whereas sustaining a collaborative strategy.
• Self-starter with sturdy organizational expertise and skill to work in a crew atmosphere.
• Means to train confidentiality and excessive ranges of professionalism.
• Fluency in written and oral English is required.