Grant Systems Specialist, BRAC PRL
Job Description
Title: Grant Systems Specialist, BRAC PRL
Company Name: BRAC
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's in any of the following disciplines - Finance/Accounting/MIS
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Grant Management System:
∎ Actively contribute to the design, launch, roll out and embedding of the Grant Management System across BRAC International and BRAC Bangladesh
∎ Serve as co-lead trainer for the GMS system during roll-out and embedding phases
∎ Work as part of a team to integrate the GMS with other BRAC systems (CRM, financial systems)
∎ Manage all necessary updates/enhancements to GMS system on a regular schedule (annually)
∎ Act as organizational resident expert on system - troubleshooting desk
∎ Manage a community of GMS super-users in each country, decide on SOW for super-users and work to ensure global fidelity to system use.
∎ Dashboards:
∎ Maintain and regularly update the dashboard of the grant acquisition performance of the organization ensuring consistency, currency, and quality of the data in the pipeline.
∎ Analyse pipeline data and trends and prepare regular reports on the pipeline and fundraising performance for the senior leadership and governing body on key strategic priority areas.
∎ Work with Finance to extract necessary quarterly information for inputting into Portfolio Health Dashboard
∎ Support Director with analyzing data and identifying trends
∎ Support Director with compiling and implementing reporting timeliness and quality baseline, KPIs and monitoring system
∎ Knowledge Management:
∎ Decide on and build a central Grant Management intranet site to house all policies and procedures that are easily accessible to staff all around the world
∎ Maintain the intranet site by controlling content, updates
∎ Due Diligence of Downstream Partners:
∎ Support Head of Grants with embedding grant management procedures within Bangladesh Country Offices more generally and TBD by Head of Grants
∎ Specifically, as resident expert in due diligence tool, support programs to embed practice by accompanying teams on due diligence visits and participating in assessments
∎ Grant Management Surge Support:
∎ As needed, contribute to budget development and budget reviews for opportunities
∎ As needed, deploy to Country Offices to provide extraordinary grant management support
∎ Core Budget:
∎ Contribute to the development and management of the PRL team budget, regularly providing updates to PRL management
∎ Safeguarding:
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme's goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.
Additional Requirements:
∎ 5 years of relevant experience, especially on financial management and systems in the international development context
∎ 2 years experience in grant management and information systems.
∎ USAID Budgeting Course
∎ Advanced knowledge on using MS Excel
∎ Financial analysis, business planning
∎ Familiarity with IT systems, platforms
∎ Familiarity with specific donor budget templates (e.g. USAID, SDC) and relevant financial calculations
∎ Excellent command of English, written and spoken
∎ Demonstrated experience on technology platforms, knowledge management
∎ Proven ability to prioritize, handle multiple tasks, and meet deadlines.
Salary: Negotiable
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus, Contributory Compulsory Provident Fund, Gratuity, Health and Life Insurance and others.
Application Deadline: 24 Sep 2020
Company Information:
∎ 17 Sep 2020
∎ BRAC
∎ Business : BRAC’s vision is a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realise their potential. The organisation was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 and acts as a catalyst, creating opportunities for people to transform their lives. BRAC believes in integrity, inclusiveness, effectiveness, and innovation in all areas of work. BRAC uses an integrated model to change systems of inequity, through social development programmes, humanitarian response, social enterprises, socially responsible investments and a university. It operates in conflict-prone and post-disaster settings in 12 countries across Asia and Africa.
BRAC is a global leader in developing cost-effective, evidence-based programmes, and has been ranked the #1 NGO in the world for the last five years consecutively by NGO Advisor.
Category: NGO/Development
