Grants Officer Job Vacancy in Nairobi Kenya

Our client operates in Somaliland and Puntland with its main office in Nairobi Kenya. This position supports the Grants Management unit in ensuring Donor Compliance in Donor reporting and controls on any under or over expenditure as well as Donor currency fluctuations within the projects.  The position will also advice on the need of budget evaluations and funding gaps in the projects which will affect Management decisions in Somalia Program.The roll out of PAMODZI came with many challenges, wrong posting of transactions, none allocations of shared cost, capacity and knowledge which has resulted to gaps in Grants management.  These among other things have led to the urgent need to have an additional staff to assist with reporting. The gap has also led to delayed submission of Monitoring, Donor reports and Audit Statements, as well as disbursements due to withheld reports. Due to the above changes and the skeleton staff in the Unit, there is need of support in the grants team to prepare all donor and monitoring reports for all grants to bring us to a place where we can easily pick up and continue. 
In addition, the organization is on the selection list for A133 audit for FY12, and therefore there is need to ensure that the company improves its readiness for the upcoming audits through the Grants Management function
 Working closely with the Finance team and reporting directly to the Grants, Budgeting and Reporting Manager to ensure that controls applicable to each grant, this person is expected to perform the following:Donor regulations, mapping donor budget line item to organization’s Chart of Account, Ensuring expenses are within budget line item and budget flexibility, To provide support to Project Managers and Program Coordinators, To inform all concerned about budget over/under expenditures and recommending actions such as line item re-alignments and other budget revisions.  Perform data analysis and all report preparation activities in co-ordination with the Grants, Budgeting, and Reporting Manager.  Ensure sub grant management including partners’ grant agreements, sub recipients’ financial reporting and budgeting monitoring.Monitoring and Donor reports are submitted and are up to date with the donor reporting schedule as at August 2013
All Donor reports are reconciled to the PS for period 1 to 10
Ensure sub grants financial reports, burn rate, and reconcile advances and liquidations

Requirements:

Minimum of 5 years experience, with some experience in senior management position  Bachelors’ degree in Business administration, Commerce, Finance/accounting option with CPA IV or its equivalent to demonstrate the required skills for this position Solid knowledge of key donor regulations, and compliance requirements (USG, EU, and ECHO).Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel and word and good skills at using financial software applications. Proficiency in English Language.Analytical thinkingHigh integrityPlanning and organizing skillsIf interested, kindly send in your CV to recruitkenya@kimberly-ryan.net with the job title as the subject