Director of Finance and Administration - USAID / Nigeria for Health / Forecast at the AlbertaTalent Insights - 5 Openings

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Job Title: Director of Finance and Administration - USAID / Nigeria for Health / Forecast

Locations: Adamawa, Bauchi, Kebbi, Sokoto, and Taraba
Employment Type: Full-time

About The Project

• Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is seeking a Director, Finance & Administration for a potential 5-year USAID Healthcare Financing and Human Resources for Health Forecast Project.
• The program will seek to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency of health spending while increasing the availability of trained and equipped healthcare workers to promote more affordable, accessible, and higher quality health services for all Nigerians.

About Your Role As Director Of Finance And Administration

• The Director of Finance and Administration (DFA) reports to the Chief of Party and works closely with the project leadership team to provide high-level financial management and operations leadership, contract and grant management support.
• S/he ensures that financial and operational functions support the timely and effective implementation of the project’s technical scope of work.
• S/he provides counsel to help project leadership ensure that resources are allocated and used in compliance with contractual requirements, applicable regulations, and appropriate standards and procedures.
• The DFA will liaise with the project leadership team, local partners, USAID and MSH’s headquarters regarding any aspects of program implementation, contractual, risk management, cost share, governance and all other matters related to finance and administration. S/he will work with the project leadership team to ensure that all expenditures, payment, procurement, vehicle management are done according to USAID and MSH standards and regulations. The DFA provides authoritative leadership on all 2 budget, expenditure monitoring, financial reporting and contract matters to ensure timely and effective implementation of the program's activities in Abuja, Nigeria
• The Director of Finance and Administration will oversee the financial management for all Name of Project activity in Abuja, Nigeria. This includes oversight of procurement, grants, construction, logistics, accounting and finance, and records.
• This individual will be responsible for managing the contract budget and preparing financial reports for submission to USAID.
• S/he will ensure funds expended are compliant with USG regulations and policies. S/he will implement fraud mitigation practices and ensure systems and processes are implemented effectively to support the award's implementation.
• This position is contingent upon award and funding.

How will you accomplish this?

• As the Director: Finance and Administration you will be expected to provide authoritative leadership on all budget, expenditure monitoring, financial reporting and contract matters to ensure timely and effective implementation of the program's activities in Madagascar.
• This includes oversight of procurement, grants, construction, logistics, accounting and finance, and records. You will be responsible for managing the contract budget and preparing financial reports for submission to USAID.
• You will ensure funds expended are compliant with US Government regulations and policies and implement fraud mitigation practices and ensure systems and processes are implemented effectively to support implementation of the award.

Specific areas of accountability will include:
Financial Management activities such as:

• Lead program annual budget development process that includes managing the annual work plan, life-of-project and activity budgets and ensuring compliance of program expenditures with approved budgets; ensure the consistency, inclusion and accuracy of costs and that they comply with agreed policy and practices, and work with staff in developing budgets for technical activities as necessary. Revise overall and sub-budgets as needed throughout the work plan year.
• Maintain systems for program budget monitoring and tracking that include financial and contractual data. Provide routine pipeline analyses to COP and USAID. Also, provide any ad hoc reports requested by USAID. In addition, perform routine financial analysis on program expenditures, documenting and monitoring overall performance, analyzing trends, identifying gaps to ensure efficient and sound project management.
• Responsible for coordination of contract management activities. Work with program staff, home office and partners to draft, manage and monitor implementation of contracts. Provide routine progress reports to program management team.
• Serves as a local office lead with MSH headquarters for preparation of budgets and budget amendments to be submitted to USAID. Submission to the USAID officer shall be reviewed by the MSH contracts officer or Senior Contracts officer prior to submission.
• Monitor adjustments to the annual budget whenever required.
• Coordinate monthly requests of funds, based on budget and cash flow projections, to ensure the program has all the necessary funds for the operations.
• Review purchase orders and confer with team leader for approval, prior to issuance of the purchase orders for program procurement of commercial goods and services within agreed upon thresholds.
• Ensure all program staff is trained on USAID Rules and Regulations and compliance with the Cooperative Agreement or Contract.

Grant Management activities such as:

• Supervise grant and contract administration functions. Supervise the grant management team for the project.
• Correspond as necessary with grantees, local subcontractors, and MSH Home Office.
• Lead the grants program design; make recommendations to the Chief of Party for selecting the grant instruments.
• Manage the development of the Request for Applications; determine appropriate deadlines and scope of work. Collaborate with the Corporate Contract Office in the development and revision of all grant templates.
• Participate and be a voting member of the selection committee. Prepare, present, and negotiate grants; amend as needed.
• Document the process by which grantees are selected for awards; notifies applicants and other stakeholders of award decisions.
• Conduct pre-award surveys of the grantees and complete capacity building plans and compliance monitoring plans for each grantee.
• Oversee compliance with the terms and conditions of the grants. Provide technical assistance to grantees to build their capacity.
• Monitor grantees’ compliance with the terms and conditions of the grant and the grantees’ policies and procedures.
• Keep abreast of, interpret, and provide training and guidance to project staff and grantees on all donor regulations and policies (including Circulars A-110, A-122). Educate program staff and grantees on agreement compliance and operational topics.
• Approve invoices and payments to grantees. Supervise all aspects of grant close out.

Qualifications
What do you need to apply?

• MSH employs people of passion, we seek those individuals who dream of a better world. We look for professionals who combine experience, local knowledge, and an understanding of international best practices.
• Individuals who share our values of treating everyone with respect while being equitable and holding all of us accountable to make an impact.

Application Closing Date
31st December, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note

• Candidates should provide 5 character reference (a person, or persons), that can be contacted to give a statement of the employee's good qualities values, and work ethics using the following information:
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