Grants and Partnership Specialist

Job Description

Title: Grants and Partnership Specialist

Company Name: Concern Worldwide

Vacancy: 2

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Post-Graduate qualification in Accounting, Business or Finance and with CA course (CACC) completed. Preference will be given for partly qualified of Chartered Accountancy or partly qualified from other accounting professional body.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Type of Contract: Fixed Term Contract up to five (05) years up to 31 October 2024
∎ Job Purpose: This is a national staff positon based in Dhaka and will be responsible and dedicated for managing the grant, ensuring legal compliance, partners capacity building, partners financial reporting, partners monitoring, donor reporting, budgeting for the projects. This position will serve as the primary point of contact on grant and partnership issues for the assigned project. Reporting to the Accountant Grant, Budget and Partnership, as and when required. S/he will liaise and coordinate with partners Managers, Budget holders, system team to ensure pre-agreed key deliverables are achieved on target and on budget. This position will work across the projects as needed by the organization.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Prepare a compliance statement for the grant and update budget holders about the compliance requirement of the grant.
∎ Ensuring tools for the partner's assessment and selection are consistently and thoroughly applied during all PNGO/Technical partners' selection processes.
∎ Identify the weakness area of the partner's capacity and prepare an effective plan for the development of capacity.
∎ Preparation of an effective plan of support and development ensuring agreement with both Concern and Partner staff.
∎ Prepare the FD-4 financial report and submit to the auditor in time so that audit can complete in time following NGOAB policy.
∎ Contribute to the process of implementing quality programmes by ensure that the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) of accountability is conceptualized and effectively implemented throughout the organization.
∎ Promote and ensure compliance with the requirements of Concern's HR policies, Concern's Code of Conduct and its associated safeguarding policies to ensure maximum protection to programme beneficiaries, and to welcome feedback.
∎ Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by the Country Director/Programmes Director or the line manager.

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 5 years progressively responsible work experience in financial management, grants management, partnership management and budgeting in a development organisation, preferably in international Non-Government organisation.
∎ Proven experience working on managing a consortium with a large Grants
∎ Experience of working with major international donors, particularly EU, ECHO,UK aid.
∎ Knowledge of current relevant taxation laws and NGO Bureau rules.
∎ Good understanding on internal control process.
∎ Proven experience in dealing with different technical partners and financial monitoring
∎ Experience of working in an environment with institutional donors reporting on donor rules and regulations, y familiar with reporting systems.
∎ Good understanding of development work in the Bangladesh programme.
∎ Previous experience of financial management in different Donor grant.
∎ Partners monitoring experience with international NGOs or contractors.
∎ National level working experience in both Urban and Rural context.

Salary:
∎ Gross Annual Salary range (inclusive of Festival Bonus, Gratuity and Provident Fund): BDT 8,19,214/- to BDT 9,95,742/-

Application Deadline: November 2, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Concern Worldwide
∎ Business : Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world`s poorest countries. With its head quarter in Ireland, Concern has been working in Bangladesh since 1972.

Category: NGO/Development