Grants Officer
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7 hours ago
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Job Summary
Overview
The Grants Officer (GO) will provide support to Jhpiego Nigeria in strengthening the financial management systems of sub-awardees funded by Jhpiego through international governments and private foundations. He/she will work closely with all sub-grantees of Jhpiego across active awards and projects.
Responsibilities
- Jointly perform sub-awardees pre-assessment with project teams
- Based on the outcome of the sub-award preassessment prepare report and develop financial capacity building plan for review by the Director of Finance and Operations (DFO) and Project Leads
- Support in reviewing sub-award agreements before the signature of authorized signatories
- Follow-up and reconcile invoices from sub-grantees during sub-award implementation
- Ensure prompt settlement of sub-grantees invoices in line with agreements and in line with internal approval protocols
- Performs periodic field visits to sub-grantees offices for financial monitoring and support
- Maintain adequate filing systems for each sub-grantees operations and make ready for third-party reviews and audits
- Ensure that all sub-grantees activities are in line with contractual obligations and agreements with respective grant funders
- Provide regular updates to the DFO on compliance issues following field visits
- For sub-grantees with cost-reimbursable contracts ensure that periodic financial reports bank reconciliations and supporting documents are received on time and accurately reflect sub-grantees operations
- Build the financial capacity of the relevant sub-grantees staff on compliance and other necessary regulations
- Performs other Jhpiego financial management roles as assigned by supervisor
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration Finance Accounting or other relevant disciplines.
- Minimum of 3 - 5 years of experience managing grants for donor organizations. Experience with the USG-funded grants management system is highly preferred.
- Ability to deal appropriately with sensitive issues and maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times.
- Good knowledge of donor regulations such as USG and other international donor sources.
- An understanding of maintenance of ledger entries bookkeeping skills and bank reconciliation.
- Computer skills including use of spreadsheets and/or accounting packages
- Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP.
- Knowledge of internal controls
- Good attention to detail with the ability to follow apply interpret and explain instructions and/or guidelines.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively interact with all levels of staff and partners.
- Good oral and written communication skills to effectively communicate findings and analyses
- Be cooperative hardworking flexible & dependable.
- Be of high integrity and have a sense of confidentiality
- Excellent negotiation and representation skills and the ability to work comfortably with an ethnically diverse staff in a very sensitive environment.
- Good context analysis skills
Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.
Please apply at must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter resume and references.
For further information about Jhpiego visit our website at
Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
Jhpiego a Johns Hopkins University affiliate is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender marital status pregnancy race color ethnicity national origin age disability religion sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities women individuals who are disabled and veterans.
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An international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University dedicated to improving the health of women and families.
