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Job Title:  Subgrants Officer

Organisation: Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation -Uganda (Baylor-Uganda)

Duty Station: Kyenjojo, Uganda

About the Company:

Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation -Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is an indigenous not-for-profit child health and development organisation affiliated to the Baylor College of Medicine International Paediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI), a Network of paediatric HIV/AIDS care and treatment Children’s Clinical Centres of Excellence and international program offices in 11 countries across Africa and Eastern Europe.

Job Summary:   To support the Sub grant Manager/Sub Grant Specialist to manage the performance of grants projects in line with the financial and accounting systems and overall Baylor Uganda guidelines.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Operations Support

• Prepare, submit cluster grant management periodic (quarterly) plans & budgets to the Sub Grants Manager for review approval.
• Participate in the development of policies, procedures and guidelines then disseminate them to the sub grantees.
• Conduct assessment of financial capacities of potential grantees to establish their capability to manage the grants and develop action plans to build their capacity.

Sub Grantee capacity building Support

• Conduct a periodic needs analysis, prepare/update a related risk profile for all sub grantees per the grants guidelines and agreements.
• Build the capacity of all sub grantees in Financial and Grants Management through mentorships, trainings to enhance their capacity to effectively and efficiently manage poject resources.
• Provide technical assistance to the grantees as may be required following the grants guidelines and agreements.

Monitoring

• Monitor sub grantee implementation plans as well as the integration of the related activities in district & health facility plans & budgets.
• Monitor the sub grantees’ compliance to the Sub grants Policy Manual in line with the Grants department mission.
• Monitor the preparation of timely and accurate regional quarterly and annual budgets forecasts and the disbursement of funds to grantees as per the approved budgets.
• Monitor the preparation of accurate and timely financial reports and accountability support documents by the sub grantees, review and certify their correctness, give written (formal) feedback to sub grantees regarding the status of their accountability.
• Make regular field monitoring visits to grantees to establish the progress of grants programs and sub grantee budget utilization and conduct lessons learnt meetings following the grant’s guidelines and agreements.
• Coordinate with Finance department to support liquidation of accountability to ensure timely and smooth disbursement of funds to sub grantees as well as ensuing timely refund of funds not utilised by the Sub Grantees.
• Participate on a quarterly basis verification of results and outputs for CSOs sub granted under results based financing.

Records & Reporting

• Develop and maintain a records management system for each grantee including but not limited to financial agreement, work plans, approved budgets, disbursements, quarterly financial and programme reports, communications etc.
• Prepare quarterly regional actual expenditure Vs budgeted expenditure reports on grants performance and submit to Sub Grants Manager following the grants guidelines and agreements.

Partnerships Support

• Develop and maintain partnerships with key stakeholders and advocate for coordinated and harmonized interventions in the region in line with the various project objectives.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Business studies or related field
• Completed at least CPA Level II
• At least 3 years’ working experience in the management of sub grants with a national or international NGO, and direct experience with government and donor representatives.

How to Apply:
All interested candidates should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 20th November 2024

NB: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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