Grants Assistant -Chemonics International Retour vers les opportunités

Title: Grants Assistant 

Length of Assignment: Long-Term 

Reports to: Grants Manager 

1. BACKGROUND 

The Tunisia Jobs, Opportunities, and Business Success (JOBS) project is a five-year project funded  by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The purpose of JOBS is to create jobs in  Tunisia by providing targeted technical assistance to individual firms, in order to increase that firm’s  competitiveness, enabling it to expand and hire additional workers. At the same time, in support of the  goal of job creation, the project will assist Tunisia with workforce development and job placement as  well as identify and advocate for improvements in Tunisia’s business enabling environment 

2. POSITION DESCRIPTION 

The Grants Assistant will be responsible for assisting the grants manager for the contractual and  administrative implementation of the grants. S/he will support the processing and the issuance of  grants and under this project. 

3. DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES 

– Assist in activities related to grant solicitation and selection, grant awards, grant  

implementation, grant monitoring and evaluation, and grant close-outs; 

– Facilitate panel reviews/evaluations of grant applications 

– Draft negotiation memo and grant agreements under supervision of the Grants Manager – Assist in performing pre-award assessments to determine technical capacity to administer  grants awards, when necessary. 

– Ensure the highest levels of honesty, integrity, openness and transparency in administering  grant award processes and procedures 

– Coordinate the receipt among all implementation of the grants of monthly milestones 

– Assist in financial and administrative tracking in grant management 

– Work directly with local, regional or international vendors and service providers to obtain  quotations and/or initiate procurements of requested commodities and services under grants – Managing the payments of the milestones under grants in collaboration with the grant  manager 

– Maintain all documents and files (electronic and hardcopy) and ensure files are complete and  in compliance with regulations 

– Maintain and routinely update any grant database; 

– Perform other duties as assigned by the Grants Manager to achieve the project’s goals and  objectives. 

– Conduct all the procurement and routinely update purchase orders database for Inkind grants – Keep an inventory record of equipment purchased under grants 

– Perform other duties as assigned by the Grants Manager to achieve the project’s goals and  objectives

4. LEVEL OF EFFORT AND PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE 

This position is long-term, on a full-time basis. 

5. LOCATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT 

The assignment will be in Tunis. 

6. SUPERVISION AND REPORTING 

The Grants Assistant will report to the Tunisia JOBS Grants Manager