Grants Compliance Officer Swedish NGO Jobs – Diakonia
Job Title: Grants Compliance Officer
Organisation: Diakonia
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Country Finance and Administration Officer
About US:
Diakonia is a Swedish development organization working together with local partners for a sustainable change for the most vulnerable people of the world. In Uganda, Diakonia works mainly in the North Eastern Karamoja region, focusing on improving the living standards of the most vulnerable people. Diakonia also has strategic relations with civil society organizations in the capital Kampala, and in other parts of Northern and North Eastern Uganda.
Job Summary: The Grants Compliance Officer will provide technical support to partner organizations, ensuring their compliance with Diakonia policies, as well as funding and reporting requirements from inception to contract closure in accordance with grant agreements and other appropriate protocols
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Grant Management
- Offer technical support to partner organizations in the development of work-plan and budget to be followed during the award contract period
- Review work-plans and budget from partners to ensure compliance with Diakonia’s planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME) policy guidelines
- Ensure implementation of donor reporting by partners
- Facilitate and process grant payment to partners, obtain and record grant payment receipts in accordance with PME guidelines
- Receive and assess financial reports from partners ensuring compliance with PME hand book requirement on proper reporting of expenditures, invoicing, procurement and asset management
- Receive and assess audited financial reports, including management letter from partners
- Follow up on issues raised by auditors in the management letter from partners and ensure resolution.
- Upload and track processes in relation to disbursement receipts, financial reports, completed assessment tools and audited financial statements to Diakonia’s FixIT
- Provide guidance and facilitate partner institutional capacity strengthening plans, ensuring partner organizations implement programmes effectively, efficiently and sustainably
- Participate in assessment and induction of new partners on financial management
- Prepare grant financial reports in relation to the allocated programme
- Monitor adherence and compliance to financial control systems, policies and procedures
- Support the coordination, planning, and execution of annual audit from partner organizations
Monitoring
- Track partner grants disbursement and expenditure and provide internal reporting schedules
- Monitor partner compliance, conducts field office site visits to ensure consistency with grant terms and conditions, timelines, budgets, and performance measures.
- Conduct financial assessment of partners, identify and mitigate risks in situations where contractual obligations may not be met
- Establish and maintain electronic and hard copy files for each grant-funded project to be used for tracking and reporting purposes
- Ensure monitoring log for the respective partner organization is updated in respect to financial information
- Review and assess partner procurement processes to ensure purchases comply with policy guidelines
- Review partner records and archiving system to ensure compliance with policy guidelines
Financial Management
- Ensure strict adherence and compliance to financial control systems, policies and procedures
- Post financial data into the ledger and maintain custody of scanned payment vouchers monthly.
- Maintain up to date assets register including undertaking annual asset inventory
- Maintain a monitoring log in respect of financial information due from partner organizations.
- Review and verify that partners maintain proper books of accounts, including an up-to-date register of assets as well as proper filing and archiving of financial documents
- Support the coordination, planning, and execution of annual audit of partner organizations
Procurement and Logistics
- Review partner procurement processes and ensure that purchases comply with policy guidelines
- Liaise with procurement unit to provide sound advice on procurement actions
- Review partner records and archiving system to ensure compliance with policy guidelines
- Perform other related duties and functions as requested.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Commerce, Economics or equivalent qualification
- Fully qualified accountant from recognized accountancy body CPA/ACCA
- Computer training in accounting software and MS Word, Excel, etc.
- Training in human resources management and development
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy
- Analytical, report writing and communication skills
- Demonstrates consistency in upholding integrity and ethics
- Acting as a team player and facilitating team work
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and accounting software
- Effective communications and interpersonal skill
How to Apply:
All interested and qualified persons are strongly encouraged to apply by submitting their application and CV along with the contacts of three professional referees to The Director, Future Options Consulting Ltd, 4th Floor, DTB Centre, Kampala Road, P.O. Box 34934, Kampala, Uganda by email to : hr@futureoptionsug.com; Tel: +256 414 231204/6.
Please note: Application and CV should be in one document including the relevant attachments. Only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Deadline: 15th March 2019 by 5.00pm.
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