ActionAid Grants and Donor Compliance Coordinator Job in Nairobi Kenya

ActionAid is a global movement of people working together to further human rights and defeat poverty for all.

Position: Grants and Donor Compliance Coordinator
 

Functional Unit: Programme
 

Administratively
 

Reporting to: Head of Programmes
 

Supervising: None
 

Duty Station: Nairobi
 

Key relationships:

• Internally: Head of Programmes, Head of Policy & Campaigns, Head of Finance, Head of Fundraising, Programme accountants, Programme quality Coordinator, LRP Managers and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers.
• Externally: Local NGOs, donors, partners.

Main Purpose and Scope: The holder of the position will be responsible for ensuring compliance with donor contract agreements and work closely with program staff and senior leadership team to ensure accurate financial reporting and procedural compliance on all grants.

Responsibilities

• To ensure that partnership and sub-grant related administrative processes and procedures are standardized and consistently implemented throughout the program, including pre-award compliance checks, agreements, and disbursements and reporting
• To act as focal point with donor's in-country offices on grants management issues for ongoing projects
• To maintain grant management systems and procedures, and program wide strategies for implementation
• To review donor reports to ensure donor compliance and to provide project managers and management with relevant information for decision making
• To maintain an effective Internal Control System around grants management to ensure compliance with donor requirements and AAI policies and procedures
• To work with finance to build and monitor partners’ financial management capacities to ensure compliance with grants requirements and enhanced reporting
• To support fundraising in proposal budget preparation and revision and to support annual plans and budgets
• To support the implementation of audit recommendations for the partners and donor funded projects.
• To analyze project implementation schedules and support plans by Project teams to adhere to donor reporting timelines.

General

• As part of the Programme team participate in pursuing the implementation of the CSP
• Work towards increased levels of transparency and Accountability to donors.

Critical Competencies

• Analytical skills, 
• Project management knowledge, 
• Grants management, 
• Budgeting & budgetary control, 
• Report writing skills, 
• information management Stakeholder management, 
• planning and organizing; 
• oral and written communication;

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelors degree in a related field with a minimum of five (5) years’ relevant work experience.
• Professional accounting qualifications (CPA (K) or ACCA) is an added advantage.

Skills Required

• Experience in programme and projects financial management
• Communication, report writing and analytical skills.
• Experience in donor contract management

To apply, CLICK HERE to submit your application; for any queries, kindly direct the same to hresources.kenya@actionaid.org 

Closing date for applications: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 23:59