Grants and Sub-Contracts Manager DfiD Job Careers – Palladium

Organisation: Palladium
Project Name: DFID-funded Northern Uganda: Transforming the
Economy through Climate Smart Agriculture (NU-TEC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Team Leader
About US:
Palladium
develops and delivers solutions that create positive impact for communities,
businesses, societies and economies. We transform lives and create enduring
value by working with governments, corporations and non-profit organisations.
Palladium is built on the idea that progress will be supported by four key
pillars: International Development, Strategy Execution Consulting, Impact
Investment, Training and Events.
About DFID NU-TEC Program:
NU-TEC
Market Development (MD) is a five year DFID-funded programme that aims to
increase the incomes and climate resilience of poor men and women in northern
Uganda by (a) stimulating sustainable, pro-poor growth in selected agricultural
markets and (b) improving the position of poor men and women within these
market systems, to make them more inclusive for poor people. Palladium manages
the programme on behalf of DFID.
Job Summary: The Grants and Sub-Contracts Manager will offer support
to the team in developing and implementing the Intervention Agreements
mechanism of the programme. The incumbent will also be responsible for contributing
toward the project’s mainstreaming of gender and social inclusion initiatives.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. Intervention
Agreements Management:
  • Regularly review of the concept notes and
    supporting documentation to ensure completeness, consistency and adherence
    to the intervention fund terms;
  • In charge of drafting of the MoUs and
    Intervention Agreements which we have with our partners.
  • Keenly review project budgets and advise the
    Deputy Team Leader and Team Leader accordingly;
  • Regularly review the Fiduciary Risk
    Assessment Reports to identify key risky areas;
  • Ensure that relevant special conditions are
    included in the Intervention Agreement;
  • Support the production of all documents and
    tools needed for the Intervention Agreement;
  • Help in drafting Intervention Agreements;
  • Support the development and implementation of
    the due diligence, monitoring and evaluation procedures of the Programme.
2. Project Monitoring:
  • Supporting the team in making sure that
    progress reports (technical and financial) are submitted on time;
  • Keenly review, analyze and assess the
    Intervention Partner’s performance against KPIs as per intervention
    agreement;
  • Regularly review Intervention Partner’s
    financial reports and request any additional supporting documentation;
  • Follow-up on feedback sent to the
    Intervention Partner to ensure issues raised have been addressed;
  • Coordinate project expenditure verification
    and audit.
3. Overall Portfolio
Management:
  • In charge of the preparation of the
    intervention funding allocation, disbursements, and forecast schedules as
    required;
  • Regular tracking all financial disbursements
    to intervention partners;
  • Keenly review of site visit reports and
    following up on action points.
4. Intervention
Management Policies & Procedures:
  • Focusing on continual improvement in the
    intervention fund management processes ensuring at all times that the
    intervention management function is operating efficiently and effectively;
  • Ensuring that the Interventions Manual is up
    to date regarding intervention fund management policies and procedures
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The applicant for the DFID NU-TEC Project Grants
    and Sub-Contracts Manager job vacancy should hold a Bachelor’s degree with
    a specialisation in management, finance/accounting or other relevant
    field;
  • A minimum of four years of previous
    experience in finance and grant management;
  • Broad working knowledge of public sector loan
    processes including accounting and financial reporting;
  • Proven ability to interpret complex
    intervention funding requirements, submissions and budget projections;
  • Strong financial acumen;
  • Ability to work with international teams;
  • Ability to operate in complex situations;
  • English language skills. The ability to also
    speak Swahili is desired, but not essential.
  • Previous experience of working with DFID or
    other International Development organisations would be an asset;
  • At least two years’ experience in a
    developing country or similar environment (east Africa experience strongly
    preferred);
  • Previous exposure and experience in inclusive
    development, including gender issues within an understanding of market
    systems development (desired).
  • Good negotiation and debating skills;
  • Excellent analytical skills;
  • Good team leadership, management and
    interpersonal skills;
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure
    and to manage competing priorities;
  • Outstanding team player and willingness to
    learn and support learning of others.
How to Apply:
If
you want to work for the Palladium Group in the aforementioned capacity should
Apply Online by clicking on web link below.
Deadline: 26th May, 2016
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