Grants & Contracts Manager

Center for Communication Programs is seeking aGrants & Contracts Managerwho will be a part of the CCP Finance Team working closely with Program Staff, Contracts, Human Resources, and CCP’s Country offices to provide analysis and strong management of 1-4 countries or a larger country project. This includes ensuring that projects are delivered on schedule, within the scope and budget and of the utmost quality.

This person will also work across all phases of financial management from new business development to close out ensuring that financial systems and reports are compatible with standard CCP accounting practices and follow donor rules and regulations. They will also be responsible for ensuring that the program and technical staff have the necessary financial analysis and guidance to make appropriate decisions throughout the lifetime of the projects.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide support to various groups and individuals within the organization who rely and benefit from financial information to make informed business decisions through financial analyses (i.e. current policies and processes, actual performance vs. budget), preparation of financial data for distribution to management; as well as donors.
• Responsibilities include actively assisting the project teams in the Monthly Reviews, budget tracking and monitoring.
• Compliance issues; overseas operational issues; travel oversight; procurement processing and management; annual budget process, quarterly forecasting, periodic analysis of operational compliance and performance, strategic input into large scale decision making on compliance and financial issues for programs, and supervision, training, and mentoring of staff.

Leads & Proposals:

• Provides input and review of proposal budget costs based on analyses of new and existing country implementation costs (e.g., activity costs, shared costs, market rates, etc.)

Start - Up:

• Ensures that countries have all the necessary financial management systems and support needed to effectively start-up new projects, and
• Conducts finance-specific tasks in start-up plan: support activities in start-up checklist e.g., hiring new finance staff; setup bank accounts; remote imprest fund set up and increases, orientation, and tracking of start-up budgets, etc.

Implementation & Control:

• Responsible for managing all financial and operational aspects of the award.
• Contributes to the strategic decision making for issues which have a broad programmatic impact.
• Develops strong work plan budgets and budget notes in accordance with JHU and donor requirements in coordination with country staff, sub-awardees, and field staff.
• Prepares scheduled or ad hoc financial reports for donors that are timely, complete and accurate and maintain a schedule of routine financial reports and analysis for donors.
• Performs pipeline analysis, including review of accruals and commitments of the current portfolio to ensure projects operate within allocated budgets and according to the contractual terms; prepare internal reports and charts to identify trends; and make recommendations for implementation.
• Reviews cost share accounts and against authorizations and cost share plan where applicable.
• Actively participates in subrecipient monitoring. To include:
• Review company profile, audits, financial statements for items of risk
• Complete risk assessment
• Work with program team to determine appropriate terms and conditions
• Work with field teams to develop a monitoring plan, ensure plan is followed
• Track subrecipients requiring annual yellow book audits

Close - Out:​​​​​​​

• Participate in close-out work plan and conduct all close out activities assigned (e.g., develop HQ close out budget, review country close-out budgets, pay all final invoices, close out contracts, sub-awards within donor guidelines).

Supervision:

• Supervise, train, and mentor 2-3 staff.
• Review the work of Grants and Contracts analysts and Sr. Grants and Contracts analysts for accuracy.

Procurement:

• Lead the project procurement team by providing direction, training, and advice as needed on procurements.
• Design and implement a streamlined system to track field procurement submissions and Baltimore workflow.
• Meet with program team during RFP development and make the official determination of the correct contracting mechanism needed.
• Oversee the processing of purchase order creation, payment, documentation and troubleshooting for a complex global award.
• Ensure the proper use of JH-OneDrive entries by FA’s.
• Ensure all source origin and approval requirements are adhered to by program staff.

Special Projects:

• Monitor any non-sponsored spending to ensure expenditures match authorization.
• Act as the Financial Analyst on new countries as needed.
• Ad-hoc requests as assigned.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Responsible for independently deciding for program staff the proper financial and contractual procedures to follow. The contractual decisions are particularly difficult and critical because they involve complex legal and regulatory issues, but require good judgment, weighing thoroughness against efficiency.
• Decisions often have to be made quickly and always in compliance with federal, contract and JHU regulations. These are independent decisions, and when further guidance is required it is obtained from Senior Management, USAID and/or the SHPH Office of Research Administration. Continual internal and frequent external international, domestic, and interoffice (within JHU) communications are required in both verbal and written forms.
• These contacts are mainly directed toward problem-solving, providing financial reporting and subawardee personnel to discuss contractual issues and provide financial reporting guidance. Other duties assigned by Supervisor.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge in the use of financial software applications, databases, spreadsheets, and/or word processing.

Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory):

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or equivalent experience.
• 5 years financial or cost management experience, preferably in support of US Government grants.
• Experience working with public and/or private donors.
• Experience with financial analysis, financial reporting, cash flow analysis, budget development, and forecasting.

*Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.

Special Knowlege, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong understanding of Microsoft Excel required. Working knowledge of SAP and QuickBooks preferred.
• Understanding of US government cost principles, GAAP accounting rules, and grant/contract management.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage several major activities simultaneously.

Classified Title: Grants & Contracts Manager
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PE
Starting Salary Range: $69,830 - $95,960 annually (commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F, 8:30-5
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: ​​​​​​​JH at 111 Market Place
Department name: ​​​​​​​Ctr for Communication Programs CCP
Personnel area: School of Public Health

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