Grants Officer

Обязанности:

• will be responsible for ensuring the effective planning, implementation and monitoring of grants and consultancies under these projects. They will be responsible for leading the process for soliciting and evaluating proposals, conduct pre-award due diligence, support review of financial reports from grant recipients and invoices from consultants, and strengthen the capacity of grant recipients in collaboration with project staff
• Support project teams in developing terms of reference for grant opportunities.
• Publicize grant opportunities, hold Q&A, and support the proposal review process.
• Lead and facilitate the formation and activities of grants review panels
• Organize grants applications, proposals review by the panels , and responses to solicitations, and communicate with applicants on their applications.
• Work on capacity development plans to address any areas for improvement identified as part of the pre-award assessment.
• Draft sub-agreements and get approval by the Home Office and the donor
• Review and validate partner reports, maintain the grants tracker
• Work with selected partners, project staff, and the Home Office to develop, as needed, capacity development plans to address any areas for improvement identified as part of the pre-award assessment.
• Organize and facilitate portions of post-award orientations for subrecipients.
• Review and validate partner reports, maintain the grants tracker, flag arising issues for resolution.
• Other duties

Требования:

• A minimum of three years’ experience with grants management under U.S. government funding agencies or other international donors
• Demonstrated knowledge of international donor financial and accounting regulations and procedures
• Demonstrated understanding of the national regulations in Central Asia on grants by international organizations
• Experience facilitating external sub-award audits and ensuring compliance with findings and recommendations.
• Strong workflow management skills; flexibility; good interpersonal and organizational skills for coordinating a variety of tasks simultaneously; attention to detail; team player.
• Excellent computer skills (MS Office Suite, word-processing, spreadsheets, and databases) are required.
• Fluency in English and Russian required, knowledge of at least one Central Asia language strongly preferred