- Job Location: Karachi
- Country: Pakistan
- Positions: 1
- Job Type: Full
Time
- Department / Job Category: Grant Management
- Last Date: 24
Nov 2020
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SCOPE OF WORK
Position: Grants Assistant - Victims of Violence
(VoV) Program
No. of Positions:
1
Base of Operations:
Karachi - Pakistan
Period of Performance:
LTTA
Overview
Grants Assistants will support the grants team in the grant
implementation process at the regional office, Karachi. This position reports
to the Grants Manager in the regional office.
Scope of Work
- Support
the Grants Team in grant implementation.
- Generate
and review all aspects of grant agreements, including milestone schedules,
with grantees
- Generate
and maintain documentation of all grants including grant agreements, grant
amendments/addendums, and other grants-related documents till grants
close-out and proactively identify errors and/or missing documentation to
ensure compliance
- Work
closely with other APT members to finalize and share activity concepts and
proposals with USAID
- Review
and negotiate with grantee on grant budget line items and coordinate with
Procurement and HR for cost verification of grant budgets
- Schedule
meetings including kickoff meetings to define roles, responsibilities, and
timelines for grantees
- Verify
milestone documentation and submit deliverable approval/payment requests
to the Grants Manager, COP and Finance department
- Support
the Database Officer in making Grants Implementation Tracker updates on a
weekly basis, along with any other tracker (as required)
- Maintain
inventory for items purchased under each grant
- Support
the full cycle of grants beginning from solicitation application review,
and including pre-award assessments, monitoring/compliance visits and
reporting, and close-out procedures
- Coordinate
with Reporting Officer to update information in program reports and other
written materials, including weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports
- Review
and coordinate with the IRO, Content Analyst, Communications Officer and
USAID for the Non-Partisan Review (NPR) process of all the contents and
materials produced under grants
- Assist
Grants Manager in preparation of weekly projections to be sent to Finance
- Perform
any and all other tasks as may be assigned by the Grants Manager in a
manner that contributes to achievement of the project’s work plan and
objectives
- Any
other duty assigned by the supervisor
Qualifications
- University degree in relevant
field
- Relevant experience working on
USAID contract in a similar role will be highly preferred
- Minimum of 3 years of
experience with grants or small grants under contract programs is required
- Working experience in the
assigned region will be highly preferred
- Relevant experience of working
on a USAID Project in a 'victims of violence support program' highly preferred
- Strong computer skills (MS
Office suite) required
- Excellent written and verbal
communication skills required
- English language fluency
required
- Ability to communicate in local
languages will be highly preferred
