Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to overall grants management, procurement, and administrative activities.
• Participate in conducting pre-award assessments of potential sub-grantees & subcontracts, particularly in examining financial risk, accounting, and administrative procedures for control of funds and expenditures, including appropriate reporting and authorities.
• Tracking contractual compliance – Monitor compliance with each subaward terms and conditions including checking that spending is within the obligated funding amount and period of performance, adherence to reporting deadlines, and additional special award conditions.
• Communication with subrecipients –Establish a relationship with subrecipients through regular contact to facilitate/ uncover project challenges before they become serious, identify ways to help increase performance, and provides insights that provide valuable context during site visits.
• Ensure subrecipient audits are conducted for sub awardees that meet the US Government funding threshold and FHI 360 is prime funder.
• Capacity building– Identify training needs for the sub-awardees and conduct capacity building as needed.
• Respond to queries from sub awardees in collaboration with technical teams.
• Minimum Requirements:

  Education:

  • Degree in accounting, finance, or other relevant field or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

  Experience:

  • Minimum of 3-5 years’ professional work experience with at least 2 yrs. In a contracting position either in the Federal Government or a Non-governmental Organization (NGO).
  • Advanced (above intermediate) knowledge of donor (USG and non-USG) rules and regulations applicable to sponsored projects.

  Language Skills:

  • Read, write and speak English. Fluency in a foreign language is desired.