Grants Officer – Yemen At Ark Group

ABOUT ARK:

ARK is a social enterprise, empowering local communities through the provision of agile and sustainable interventions to create greater stability, opportunity, and hope for the future.

We believe that resilient communities are the foundation of local, national, regional and international development and stability – and ultimately a safer, peaceful and more prosperous world. At ARK, we have delivered research and programmatic interventions validating this approach in over twenty countries since 2008. As a social enterprise we work in partnership with communities, our donors, and other implementers to build local capacities, generate opportunity and bring about sustainable change.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

ARK is recruiting an experienced Grants Officer to support the subawards component of a prospective 5-year USAID-funded strengthening community resilience to armed recruitment program in Yemen. The programme will prioritize building community awareness, prevention-mechanisms, and reconciliation, positively engage children and youth, advance economic empowerment opportunities to limit the drivers of recruitment, and care for individuals’ psychological and emotional needs through psychosocial and mental health support, including specialized assistance and referral services for women and girls who experience high rates of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Yemen. The Grants Officer will own the relationship with the project subawardees from selection, risk assessment, contracting, monitoring to close-out.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead on in-country (Yemen) subrecipient selection, contracting and management, including:

• Support the project team with compliant documentation of subrecipient selection process in Yemen.
• Lead on subrecipient risk assessment/organisational capacity assessment process and compliant documentation.
• Ensure proposed subrecipients meet all applicable eligibility requirements, including but not limited to sam.gov registration and vetting requirements.
• Draft subrecipient agreements and provide guidance to project staff on USAID specific compliance requirements.
• Lead on reconciliation of subrecipient monthly financial reporting and reimbursement requests, checking supporting documentation for compliance.
• Lead on subrecipient spend projections, liaising closely with the Finance Department.
• Ensure timely programmatic subawardee reporting and compliance with prime award terms and conditions.
• Lead on subrecipient capacity building (compliance, procurement, HR, audit), including delivering training direct to subrecipients on USAID compliance.
• Support the Chief of Party with performance monitoring of the subrecipients and raise issues affecting project compliance and/or subaward progress.
• Maintain accurate and up to date grantee files (electronic), readily available for internal and external audits and review.
• Maintain a subaward tracker, ensuring regular internal distribution and visibility for all stakeholders.
• Submit subrecipient reimbursement requests in a timely manner.
• Lead on compliant close-out of subawards.
• Provide guidance to project staff on USAID specific compliance requirements pertaining to subaward administration.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• A minimum of four years of experience in subgrants management under US funding.
• Knowledge of USAID compliance rules is required.
• Very good command of written and spoken English and Arabic.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel and Outlook).
• Ability to set priorities, organise time efficiently and work independently on several tasks simultaneously.
• Must be able to maintain highest level of confidentiality regarding work-related information.

Desired

• Bachelor’s degree in social science or a related field.
• Background in Finance.

Closing date for applications is 30 June 2022. Candidates must be available for a 1 August 2022 start date.

MORE ABOUT OUR COMPANY:

Us Different

We pride ourselves on being the first people able to access and operate in challenging fragile and conflict-affected environments. We are expeditionary by design and our systems and structures enable flexible and agile responses while ensuring safe, effective and compliant delivery.

Working with and through teams drawn from the communities in which we operate enables us to deliver impactful interventions built on intimate local understanding. In collaboration with our global network of international and local experts, we integrate nuanced understanding of the challenges we aim to solve with best practice and field-leading innovation to deliver programming that meets short-term stabilisation objectives and builds the evidence base and knowledge needed to lay the groundwork for long-term peacebuilding and development programming.

What We Do

We enjoy sectoral experience in civil society development, good governance, protection and human rights, refugees and migration, stabilisation, gender, security and justice, as well as cross-cutting experience in programme design and learning, organisational development and management, research and analysis, needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation, communications and capacity building.

Our People

Today, our team covers a diverse range of professional backgrounds; from diplomacy, humanitarian, development and the military, to the UN, civil society groups, multilateral organisations, journalism and the private sector.

They bring sectoral expertise in civil society development, good governance, protection and human rights, refugees and migration, gender and security and justice, as well as practical experience in programme design and learning, organisational development and management, research and analysis, needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation, communications and capacity building. The multi-disciplinary and multi-national nature of our team means the research we undertake and the programmes we deliver are grounded in empirical need and deliver measurable and sustainable impact.

ARK Group is an equal opportunity employer. We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. ARK Group does not discriminate on the basis of ability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation. We welcome all kinds of diversity. ARK Group places human dignity at the centre of its development and stabilisation work and is thus committed to the protection from sexual exploitation and abuse of children and adults. All ARK Group employees and related-personnel are expected to share this commitment, and only those who also uphold these values will be recruited as part of our team. This vacancy is therefore subject to a range of due diligence checks.