United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Manager, Donor Reporting & Compliance
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 10 Feb 2014
About GAIN:
GAIN is driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. GAIN is a Swiss based international organization that mobilizes public-private partnerships and provides financial and technical support to deliver nutritious foods to those people most at risk of malnutrition.
The organization is delivering improved nutrition to over 700 million people in more than 35 countries, almost half of whom are women and children. Nutrition products are as varied as fortified cooking oil and flour in Africa, soy sauce in China and biscuits in India, as well as specialized products for infant and young child nutrition, and interventions to protect the most vulnerable affected by emergencies or chronic illness
About the role:
This exciting role is a core part of GAINs approach to deliver its mandate. It will play a key role in liaising with the teams delivering the projects and those working on our partnerships with donors. S/he will be responsible for supporting the management of GAINs partnerships with donors and partners, coordinating the submission of quality, timely, and narrative and financial donor reports and ensuring compliance with donor regulations.
Supporting not just the documentation, but also the tracking and analysis of the delivery of the projects that are supported by GAINs donors, the person in this role will need to have a strong eye to compliance, but also gain a core understanding of the type of work that GAIN does, how it delivers its projects and the challenges and opportunities that it sees in the project delivery.
Responsibilities:
Donor Reporting:
- Lead and maintain the overall approach, system and processes for GAINs reporting to donors and partners.
- Maintain a donor report tracking system to ensure that responsible staff are aware of upcoming
deadlines, including key donor and project milestones and deliverables, as well as tracking expenditures against donor budgets. - Maintain a matrix of clear roles and responsibilities for all individuals involved in the donor reporting process.
- Manage GAIN’s reporting schedule to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
- Coordinate the consolidation and editing of donor reports, including multi-country and multi-project reports.
- Ensure that the project progress reports are based on results-based monitoring and evaluation, including the impact of projects.
- Ensure that reports are coherent, of a consistent high quality and adhere to donor and GAIN standards prior to submission.
Donor Compliance:
- Act as a central point of organizational expertise on donor compliance requirements, ensuring that relevant staff is informed of donor requirements.
- Strengthen adherence to compliance with contracts and donor requirements by providing staff with the required technical support, guidance and training to ensure all projects are donor compliant.
Experience:
- At least –7-10 years of experience working in an International NGO. Overseas experience desirable.
- Project management experience.
- Experience of reporting to, and knowledge of compliance requirements of, major institutional donors such as USAID, DFID and the EU and ability and skills to establish compliance systems.
Skills & Attributes:
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to foster collaborative relationships with employees; highly approachable and responsive in nature.
- Ability to work with programme staff of extremely varied skills, experience and background and at all
levels without holding any direct line management authority. - Excellent communication skills (written and verbal). High level skills in written English and ability to draft reports effectively and to transform documents and reports developed by programme staff into dissemination standard documents.
- Strong project management skills with proven track record of completing short-term tasks under time-sensitive deadlines, while continuing to manage on-going long-term projects.
- Natural organizer with demonstrated expertise in developing processes and systems to track and analyse information. Excellent time management and prioritization skills.
Education:
- A bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
How to apply:
To apply for this post, please complete our online application form at http://oxfordhr.co.uk/vacancies/manager-donor-reporting-compliance. For general inquires or for more information, please email: gain-mg-donor@oxfordhr.co.uk.
