Grant Compliance Assistant – GEC Location: Outside the United States and UK Position Location: Africa (Kenya) Description Position: Grant Compliance Assistant – GEC Location: Nairobi, Kenya with significant travel (~70%) within Somalia. Duration: 12 months Reports to: Finance Manager – GEC About RI: Established in 1990, Relief International (RI) is a leading global humanitarian, non-profit organization committed to transforming adversity into renewal for the world’s most vulnerable populations. By partnering with communities on the front-lines, RI innovatively bridges the gap between immediate relief and long-term community development, providing them the tools and support they need to gain self-reliance. Position summary: The Grant Compliance Assistant- GEC will be responsible for ensuring that necessary compliance requirements are in place and followed up for effective and high quality planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring and reporting of all the interventions within the Girls’ Education Challenge program. The project, Educate Girls, End Poverty (EGEP) is being implemented by a consortium led by Relief International and funded by DFID. The duration of the program is April’13 to April’17. The purpose is to enrol more girls in school, inspire them to stay in school, and make sure they complete the school with the knowledge necessary to break the cycle of poverty and the programme aims to contribute towards a global objective of 1 million marginalised girls across 22 countries able to complete a full cycle of education and demonstrate learning. The overall budget of EGEP is GBP 13,338,842 (Thirteen Million Three Hundred Thirty Eight Thousand Eight Hundred Forty Two Great Britain Pound) only. Under the guidance of the Program Director and Program Management Unit (PMU), the Grants Compliance Assistant will be responsible for supporting and ensuring that the consortium members (RI, CISP, ADRA, CfBT, GRT, SFS & TAF) are implementing the EGEP with necessary compliance requirements within EGEP program & grant contract framework. Dimension of Role: This is a challenging but interesting role in a complex environment, where compliance remains an agenda to be pursued with rigour & diligence. It requires a dedicated and highly motivated individual who can manage the difficulties of working in such an environment and still remain focussed in helping to drive forward our programmes and ambitions towards achieving targets with required quality and within the timeframe. EGEP is implemented across Somalia in more than 196 schools by the above partners (engaged through sub-grant agreements) using a range of approaches. The grant is managed through a Fund Manager and an Evaluation Manager, who’re responsible to ensure compliance & quality of delivery with a robust & scientific monitoring & evaluation mechanism in place. EGEP is a payment by results contract with clear quarterly milestones to be achieved and the reimbursement is linked to the achievement of those milestones. The Grant Compliance Assistant –GEC will be part of the Program Management Unit comprised of Program Director, Deputy Program Director, M&E Specialist, Finance Manager, Communication Officer and Senior Program Officer, to ensure compliance across all Consortium members. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Compliance Monitoring
Reporting
Coordination
Other duties
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Essential
Desirable
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: Essential/Desirable
To apply: If you believe you are the candidate we are looking for, please submit your application and CV detailing your experience for the post, current email and phone contacts and include three referees. Interested candidates should submit their applications and detailed CV to hrkenya@ri.org not later than Friday 20th February 2015. More jobs tagged: |
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