Grants Specialist - WorldFish

WorldFish is an international, nonprofit research organization that harnesses the potential of fisheries and aquaculture to strengthen livelihoods and improve food and nutrition security. Globally, more than 1 billion people obtain most of their animal protein from fish and 800 million depend on fisheries and aquaculture for their livelihoods. WorldFish is a member of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future.

Grants Specialist –Temporary (01 position)

Background

Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity (BANA) funded by USAID is hiring for the position of Grants Specialist. This activity aims to take a market systems approach, stimulating growth of the private-sector to deliver goods and services to the aquaculture sector in south-west Bangladesh, thereby ensuring the sustainability of investments. A key component of BANA is to assemble a team with experience of applying market systems approaches in development activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical assistance to the grant and financial management activities including negotiate of pre-award and post-award grant application processing of partners.
• Take necessary steps to exercise budgetary control, keep expenditure in check and ensure Activity functions within budget limit.
• Create, maintain and close donor grants in WorldFish's Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) system, One Corporate System (OCS) Unit 4 and manage sub-grantee agreements as per donor/sub-grantee requirements to ensure proper dissemination and understanding of WorldFish Grant Management Manual.
• Facilitate the understanding of USAID contracts, compliance checklists and issues, dissemination and discussions by maintaining close collaboration among budget holders and management.
• Build the capacity of grantees on USAID grant policies and procedures, grants development, and business management.
• Support in proposal writing particularly with the budget preparation ensuring that all proposals, contracts and amendments are appropriately authorized and uploaded to OCS system.
• Assist the Grants and Finance Manager and budget holders in monitoring expenditure and progress against allocations and time frames on a monthly basis.
• Produce and maintain monthly grants monitoring schedules and build capacity of partner organizations in regards to finance matters.
• Review and update partners' financial report in OCS system, ensuring fund disbursement and monitoring of financial activities are progressing as per policy PNGO's fund disbursement and monitoring their financial activities and reports are going on as per policies/procedure.
• Carry out duties as assigned by the Grants and Finance Manager.

Requirements

This job is open to Bangladesh Nationals with the following skills and qualifications:

• Bachelors' Degree in Finance, Accounting, or any other related field of study.

• Excellent working knowledge of finance and accounts and experience in USAID / donor financial reporting.
• 8 years of experience in Grants implementation, management of grantees, accounting, accounting, or finance.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work in fast-paced environment and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Proficient in MS office, excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and to support effective communication with experience of using accounting software packages.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and writing skills.
• A demonstrated record of inter-disciplinary, partnership building attributes and the desire to work in a collaborative environment.                             

Salary and Benefits

This is a six (6) months temporary position with salary ranging in between BDT 92,076 to BDT 100,614 monthly. WorldFish temporary staff shall receive comprehensive benefits including (but not limited to) insurance coverage for staff.

Eligibility, Location and Duration

This position will be based at WorldFish's Office in Khulna, Bangladesh. Interviews are expected to be held in July 2021 and only shortlisted candidates will be notified and expected to attend the interview. The successful candidate should be available to commence in July 2021 for an initial six (6) months temporary contract, with the possibility of contract renewal depending on performance and funding availability.

Our Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

WorldFish has seven offices across Asia, Africa and the Pacific, with more than 400 staff and 27 nationalities who contribute to a dynamic multicultural work environment.

WorldFish is committed to promoting a work environment where diversity and inclusion is valued and we seek to have gender balance in the organization. Our Leadership Team is 50/50 in terms of its gender split and 60% of our management cadre are women. We continue to seek diversity and gender balance across other dimensions and we support individual performance and potential in achieving our organizational goals and mission.

We are an equal opportunities employer and strongly encourage women and men from developing nations to apply

How to Apply

Interested applicants are invited to submit the following information online latest by 01 July 2021:

Apply Here

Screening will start immediately, and will continue until the position is filled. Due to the high volume of applicants for WorldFish positions, we appreciate all interest, but only short-listed candidates will be contacted.