Finance and Grants Officer Jobs at USAID

Vacancy title: Finance and Grants Officer

Jobs at: USAID 

Deadline of this Job:2nd August 2019.

Duty Station:Uganda , Kampala , East Africa

JOB DETAILS: 
USAID’s Act to End Neglected Tropical Diseases | East is a five-year program led by RTI International (RTI). The program supports national governments to reach NTD control and elimination goals through proven, cost-effective public health interventions and also provides critical support to countries in their journey to self-reliance, helping them to create sustainable programming for NTD control within robust and resilient health systems.
Due to expansion in scope of our program in Uganda, we are now seeking qualified and passionate individuals to join our team in the following role:
Purpose Of The Job::
Will provide administrative, financial, and technical assistance, support and review of all financial awards generated by the USAID/Uganda Act to End NTDs East (the Project). The incumbent will work with the finance and program team to administer the awards in compliance with
USAID policies and procedures, the project’s grants manual, operations manual, and relevant accounting principles. S/he will be responsible for reviewing and assessing sub-awardee financial and technical reports to ensure compliance. S/he will provide administrative support and engage in capacity building of sub-awardees. This position will work with and support the Finance & Grants Manager in the management of financial awards and subcontracts for local organizations and Government structures, including the award proposal process. The Grants Officer will focus on financial and operational support to the sub-awardees including review of monthly financial reports and the accompanying back-up including receipts, timesheets, and payment documents.
Through this financial and operational support, the Finance & Grants Officer will help the sub-grantees to carry-out their activities that create positive change in Act to End NTDs in districts..

  Job Responsibilities:
• Monthly Financial Reports:
• Financial Analysis, prevention of fraud and ensuring compliance:
• Support to Proposal Review:
• Sub-grantee Files:

Job Skills: Not Specified

  Job Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in Finance/Accounting; Business Administration and 3 years of experience or Bachelor’s Degree and 6 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience

Job application procedure
If you would like to take up any of these dynamic positions, please send an updated CV including three work related referees together with a cover letter (as one document ONLY) to the Human Resources Officer by email to aatim@rti.org  . Email should not exceed 2MB. Applicants must include the position as the subject line of their email. The closing date for submitting applications is Friday, 2ndaugust 2019. Please get the detailed Job description of any of the above positions from aatim@rti.org  . Equal Employment opportunity RTI is committed to the principles of workplace diversity. Qualified women and people living with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We do appreciate your interest in working with us. However, due to a large number of applicants only short-listed candidates shall be contacted for interviews through e-mail within two weeks of the deadline.