Senior Grants Officer at The North East Regional Initiative (NERI) Nigeria

The North East Regional Initiative (NERI) Nigeria - An International Development Organization is seeking applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Grants Officer
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time
Reports To: The Deputy Chief of Party – Programs
Supervises: The Grants Officer in Kafanchan

Position Summary

• The Senior Grants Officer serves as the principle point of contact and management for grants administration.
• The Senior Grants Officer is responsible for ensuring effective and efficient management and grants administration and to ensure flexible, innovative, and rapid-response mechanisms are managed in target areas of Nigeria.
• The Senior Grants Officer ensures that grants management and administration is consistently in compliance with Creative and USAID’s policies and procedures.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provides oversight and management of Grants Officer in Kafanchan
• Organizes and coordinates organizational staffing structure and workflow of grants staff activities and administration.
• Responsible for ensuring quality control and the integrity of data in both OTI and Creative’s online grants database and ensures that the data in the system is always up-to-date.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with Creative’s grants policies as detailed in the Field Manual and the projects Grants Manual.
• Coordinate closely with Procurement and Programs to ensure activity-level spending is on track and provide quality control on any required budget modifications.
• Manage the grants and direct implementation pipeline.
• Manage the financial commitments, spending, and deobligations of the Transition Activities Pool (TAP) and all program fund sources.
• Lead the Grants Team to serve as a central point of grant activity coordination and facilitation.
• Provide support to technical units on grants compliance and the online grants database.
• Coordinate closely with program staff to ensure timely administration and monitoring of grant agreements.
• Coordinate with finance, procurement, and program staff to facilitate grants monitoring and closeout of grant activities.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years professional experience working in complex and challenging field operational contexts.
• Excellent written and spoken English essential.
• USAID program experience desirable.
• Ability to work under pressure and efficiently handle multiple tasks.
• Ability to work under own initiative or as a part of a team.
• At least 3 years of experience specific to grants administration and management.
• Bachelor's Degree or Professional Accounting / Financial qualification is required.
• Competent in computers and using financial software essential.
• Understanding of budget and cost control management essential.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified should send their CV (Listing all their work experience and qualifications) and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the mail.

Note: Please reference the Job Title and Location on the subject line, your cover letter and resume / CV

Application Deadline  3rd June, 2021.