The Grants and Contracts (G&C) Manager will be responsible for delivering an efficient and effective grants management function. The G&C will lead grant management for all programs, and develop best practice grants management processes across the Jordan Country Office. The role has three main aspects to it: lead and develop the Country Office grant management effort; business development, and reporting.
The G&C Manager will work closely with program staff, finance, program quality and operations to ensure quality management of CARE Jordan programs in the portfolio.
The individual will be responsible for working with all other teams in the Country Office and CARE partners to develop the capacity of all staff and provide on-the-job support including capacity building for staff, and contributing to the development of best practices, systems and processes.
The individual will play a strong coordination role across CARE global network and with donors to identify funding opportunities. They will co-ordinate development of high-quality proposals that are reflective of CARE and donor strategic objectives, ensuring proposal budgets are accurately costed. During implementation they will provide support and information to the technical and field-based teams to deliver donor compliant grants and high quality and timely donor reports.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:
Grants Management and Compliance (45**% of** Time)**
Reporting and Communicating (30 % of Time**)**
Business Development (25% of Time)
QUALIFICATIONS
A. Education / Training
Required:
· Bachelor’s degree in *Social S**ciences,*** *Business Administration, International Development and/or in a relevant field of study***
Desired:***
· Master Degree in related field
B. Managerial Know How
Involves integrating and harmonizing requirements of diverse functions in operating, support, and administrative situations. It may be exercised through consultation as well as direct action; Management requires a combination of planning, organizing, controlling, and reviewing along with direct and indirect execution. Choose one of the following: Task; Minimal; Related; Diverse; Broad.
This position requires (Diverse) managerial know-how.
c. Experience Required:
· At least 5 years of professional experience in related field.
· Proven track record of in-country grant portfolio management and knowledge of major donors’ compliance requirements
· Proven experience writing proposals and managing information and reporting to donors (USAID, BPRM, FCDO, ECHO, UNHCR, OCHA, etc.)
· Proven track record of supporting a senior management team
· Demonstrated experience of working closely with program operations, business development and support services teams on activity planning and monitoring grants.
· Understanding of operational programming, including humanitarian and development settings.
· Experience communicating with impact in a complex stakeholder environment
d. Skills *Required
· Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organize a workload comprised of varying and changing tasks and responsibilities.
· Good attention to detail and analytical skills
· Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in managing multicultural teams
· Demonstrates the ability to work cooperatively and effectively with others
· Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, participatory approach and sustainable development.
· High level of expertise in using Microsoft Word & Excel
· Ability to work under pressure
· Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work on one’s own and complete tasks and produce high quality output.
· Should be customer focused, communicating with impact and managing performance effectively.
· Proactive in problem solving, initiating actions and making operational decisions***.***
E. Human relations skills
Consists of active practicing skills in the area of human relationships. In the work context Human Relations Skills include all capabilities that are needed to interact on a direct person-to-person basis, and through varied approaches build understanding of, acceptance of, or commitment to, courses of action that are important for the organization. These skills may be applied in relation to peers, subordinates or peers within the organization, or to people outside the organization. Human relations skills could be Basic, Important (Influencing) or Critical (See Guidelines for definitions).
The Human Relations Skills for this position are designated as Important
COMPETENCIES
CARE Core Competencies:
PROBLEM SOLVING
Thinking Environment: Broadly Defined
Thinking Challenge: Adaptive.**
ACCOUNTABILITY **
Is the answerability for actions and for their consequences. It is the measured effect of the job or position on end results. It has three dimensions in the following order of importance:** Freedom to Act; Impact on End Results; and Magnitude**.**
A) *Freedom to Act* is the degree to which personal or procedural control and guidance for work (or lack thereof) exists. This is a function of the organizational framework, the personnel and policy direction, and the flows, processes, and systems that are established in the organization. Choose one of the following: Limited; Prescribed; Controlled; Standardized; Regulated; Clearly Directed; Generally Directed; Guided; or Strategically Guided. (See Guidelines for definitions).
· This position would be designated as Clearly Directed
B) *Impact on End Results* considers the principal nature of the job’s influence on end results, which ranges from very direct control to very indirect support. Choose the Impact category that reflects the basic purpose of the job most clearly. Ancillary; Contributory; Shared; Primary (See Guidelines for definitions).
· This position would be Shared
C) *Magnitude*: Financial: What parts of CARE’s revenue and/or expenses are impacted by the job’s primary goals? Use current fiscal year amounts. e.g. project budget, fundraising or contract goal, budget managed or monitored, donations processed, purchases made, contracts negotiated/signed, benefits costs.
· What is the $/EUR amount related to job’s primary goals? 00000**
· What is the $/EUR amount of signing authority for this position? 0000000
CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
List the primary external and internal relationships, which the employee is expected to maintain. State the purpose of these interactions.
Position Title
Relationship Purpose
Internal:
ACD-PO
Direct Report
Finance Controller
Program Managers
ACD-PQ
Govt. Liaison officer
Coordination
Coordination
Coordination
Coordination
External:
Donors
Coordination
WORKING CONDITIONS: **
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