Summary
Date Posted: Friday, December 23, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overview:
• URC is seeking an experienced Grants Officers for Acholi (Gulu), Ankole (Mbarara), Bugisu (Mbale), Busoga (Jinja), Kigezi (Kabale), Lango (Lira), and Karamoja (Moroto) for the USAID Uganda Health Activity (UHA), a five-year program. The purpose of UHA is to support the Government of Uganda’s (GOU’s) efforts to increase the survival and well-being of vulnerable populations and improve overall health system resilience in seven priority regions. The program will strengthen the quality and availability of MNCH, FP/RH, nutrition, and facility-level WASH services as well as health systems at the regional-, district-, facility-, and community-levels.

Responsibilities:
• The Grants Officer will work closely with the Grants team to manage grants supported by the Activity. This includes the accurate maintenance of a tracking record of grantee expenditures and advances, reviewing grantees’ financial reports, building financial management capacity among grantees, ensure compliance with USAID rules and regulations, and orienting grantees on sub-grant requirements.

Specific responsibilities include the following:
• Work collaboratively with other members of the grants management team to develop and implement grants management systems.
• Carry out the financial reviews and project audits processes of grantees to ensure compliance with donor requirements
• Follow up on accountabilities from sub-grantees in a timely manner to necessitate processing of additional funding.
• Work closely with the Finance team in developing plans/budgets for the financial needs of sub grantees.
• Work collaboratively with the other grants management team members in overseeing sub-grant functions and coordinating preparation of grant agreements, monitoring of grant periods and close out of the sub-grant awards.
• Work closely with other URC USAID’S UHA staff members in developing and carrying out annual work plans.
• Review liquidation reports from sub-grantees.
• Prepare sub- grantee reports and submit them to the Senior Grants Manager, Finance & Admin Director and to the URC Headquarters. 
• Ensure budgetary controls of grantees and provide technical assistance to recipients, as required by the program.

Additional and other responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
• Implement policies and procedures around the administration and monitoring of grants, and procedures designed to comply with donor regulations. 
• Work closely with the members of the grants management team to put in place a consistent- hard copy / electronic filing structure and system for financial information and contracts related to grants.
• Provide mentoring and training to sub-grantees/ building financial management capacity of sub-grantees.
• Work collaboratively with the Program Managers to meet program goals.
• Ensure proper interpretation and application of donor procedures and regulations.
• Provide support in tracking and reporting of financial performance of grants.
• Work closely with Grants management team to establish tools to track supervision visits to partners and provide necessary updates to technical teams.

Qualifications:
Required Experience and Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, Management, or other relevant fields. Level 2 ACCA or CPA completed
• At least five (5) years of experience in the grants management for CSO’s and CBO’s and or large donor-funded development programs (USAID desirable).
• In-depth knowledge of US Government cost accounting and procurement procedures.
• Excellent writing, computer, management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to independently plan and execute complex tasks while addressing daily management details and remaining organized and focused on long-term deadlines and strategy.

This job is open to candidates legally authorized to work in Uganda. No allowances have been budgeted for this position.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Unless otherwise directed we will retain your CV in our database for future opportunities.
URC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
We value and seek diversity in our workforce

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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