URC: Grants Assistant Vacancy 2019
Location: Jinja, Uganda
Job Purpose: The Grants Assistant will work closely with the Grants team to manage grants provided to health units supported by the project. 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
- Work collaboratively with other members of the grants management team to develop and implement grants management systems.
- 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 coordinate preparation of grant agreements, monitoring of grant periods and close out of the sub-grant awards.
- Review liquidation reports from sub-grantees.
- Manage the hard copy / electronic filing structure and system for financial information and contracts related to sub-grants
- Coordinate the shipment of files for the sub grants to URC headquarters on a quarterly basis.
- 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.
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
- Degree in Business, Management, Finance, Administration, or other related field.
- At least 3 years of relevant experience managing the financial and administrative components of grants, grants-under-contract, subcontracts
- Excellent interpersonal communications, 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.
Application Procedure: Qualified applicants should hand deliver OR send via E-mail their complete applications with a cover letter, curriculum vitae, copies of academic credentials and contact information for 3 professional references by Friday, 2nd August 2019 at 2:00pm addressed to:
Human Resource Coordinator
University Research Co., LLC – Centre for Human Services
Plot 1 Bridge Lane, Mpumudde Division
P.O. Box 5053, Jinja, Uganda
Tel: +256 (0) 393 217 617, +256 200 300 200
E-mail: HR-RHITES-EC@urc-chs.com