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Senior Grants and Subcontracts Manager USAID/Kenya and East Africa, Scaling Inclusive Food Systems
Palladium
Food Services & Catering
KES
Confidential
3 weeks ago
Job Summary
Job Description/Requirements
Senior Grants and Subcontracts Manager, USAID/Kenya and East Africa, Scaling Inclusive Food Systems Activity
About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4, talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
This Opportunity:
The purpose of this Activity is to promote inclusive agricultural-led growth, with a focus on climate-smart approaches that leverage private sector resources and catalyze investment in the agricultural sector; strengthen the resilience of people and systems; and improve nutrition, especially among women and children.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Senior Grants and Subcontracts Manager will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and management of all the Activity grants and subcontracts operations for the USAID-funded Activity.
- Working in close tandem with technical Component Leads, responsible for designing partnerships with private sector, technology providers, and civil society organizations that facilitate systems-level change in agricultural productivity, resilience, and nutrition
- Responsible for overseeing grants and subcontracts and ensuring compliance with USAID requirements
- In accordance with Palladium’s USAID-approved GUC Manual, develop and execute all aspects of the GUC process
- Design and manage grant and subcontracts tracking systems to ensure the timely and compliant execution of all grant agreements
- Participate in the implementation and monitoring of grants milestones, tracking grants deliverables and monitoring grants delivery against grants budget
- Coordinate grants and subcontract management activities with home office project management unit
- Guide and advise grantees/subawardees on the interpretation of grant terms and conditions and client rules and regulations; provide training, guidance, and mentorship to grantee/sub-awardee counterparts
- Take initiative and provide creative solutions to complex contractual/compliance problems, working with Palladium team members on project-wide initiatives and issues
- Prepares, organizes, and maintains grant records and files documenting grant award, modification, performance and compliance
- Review and process request for payment invoices for milestone(s) achieved and verified
- Maintain the grant portfolio database and project grant data on relevant grant database system and Project SharePoint site for all grants mechanisms, ensuring up to date records at all times
- Manage the development and presentation of internal and external reporting (for example: Internal grants reviews, grants risk assessments, grants annual reviews, and grants deliverables)
Key Competencies Required:
- 5 - 7 years’ experience in leadership roles managing international grants, preferably managing large complex USAID grants; experience with performance-based mechanisms preferred
- 3 – 5 years’ experience leading teams overseeing
- Demonstrated background ensuring compliance on large complex donor funded programs and current knowledge of USAID rules and regulations
- Proven track record of working collaboratively with various external stakeholders
- Strong interpersonal skills to maintain good relations with the relevant partners and counterparts
- Well organized, able to work independently, skilled in handling multiple tasks, able to adhere to deadlines
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, including ability to develop and communicate a common vision and foster collaboration across an interdisciplinary team
- Strong management skills to guide all project human, technical, and financial resources
- Strong interpersonal, writing, and oral presentation skills in English
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
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