JOBS project- Grants Assistant عودة إلى الفرص

Tunisia Job Opportunities and Business Success (JOBS)

SCOPE OF WORK

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