Country: United States of America
Closing date: 17 Oct 2014
Counterpart International is seeking a Director of Grants, Contracts and Compliance(GCC) to lead a dynamic GCC department and serve as the in-house expert on compliance with contract provisions, award conditions, and audit requirements. The ideal candidate possesses a minimum of 15 years of expert knowledge in federal, multilateral, and private donor rules and regulations, including federal contracts, with a strong emphasis on USAID. Extensive experience with government contracts and procurement is required as is the ability to build strong working relationships with Client Agreement/Contracts Officers, Counterpart field staff, partners and subrecipients, and auditors.
The Director’s primary role is to lead the current team of Senior Grants, Contracts & Compliance Managers who are responsible for the organizational processes for award administration from proposal to close-out, ensuring full compliance with local laws, Counterpart policies, and Client rules and regulations. Similarly, the Director will create and oversee the implementation of methodologies for preventing unallowable costs; tailor and update templates for various types of sub-awards; author and contribute to the existing Grants and Contracts template library; and oversee/advise on field grants, procurement and field operation manuals at the expert level. .
The Director further advises on program development by ensuring quality control on all financial commitments proposed by Counterpart, including cost proposals including partner budgets, documentation for cost volumes (certifications, policies, manuals) technical proposals where appropriate, cost share commitments, partner teaming arrangements, and negotiations with Clients and prime partners both pre and post award. The Director interprets and applies Counterpart policy to ensure that the proposal is implementable and in accordance with Counterpart capabilities as well as in compliance with RFA/RFP terms and conditions.
Other responsibilities of the Grants & Contracts Director include the following:
• Represent Counterpart at industry level including responding to Federal Register announcements.
• Work closely with Finance/Internal Audit and Program teams on responses to audit reports to the OIG, SIGAR, extra, and private sector audit firms, to reduce and/or minimize risk to the organization.
• Appointing team members to serve as point person for Counterpart awards and for leading internal and external audits.
• Reviews all new awards before they are executed and leads negotiations with donor/prime on modifications and edits.
• Participates in kick off meetings with donors, primes, and subs.
• Orients the Chief of Party and relevant field staff to Counterpart templates, policies and procedures, and applicable regulations.
• Conducts field visits to train Grants Manager and Procurement Officers.
• Develop, update and regularly review and maintain a variety of Counterpart templates to be utilized under its prime awards by Counterpart staff.
• Maintain a central repository of approved templates in compliance with Counterpart internal policies and procedures and our respective donors.
• Focuses on ensuring that Counterpart has proper policies and procedures in place related to contractual compliance by developing, improving and revising policies related to procurement, grants and contractual compliance, in collaboration and partnership across departments to ensure integration and proper implementation.
• Participate in both organization and cross department initiatives.
• Design, develop, deliver and evaluate formal training for Counterpart staff on specific compliance issues or regulatory changes.
• Manage a portfolio of prime awards and serve as GC&C point of contact, working closely with HQ and field office program staff, to ensure smooth implementation of awards by providing guidance, regulation interpretation and advising on any award implementation issues that is contractual in nature.
• Provide backstopping support when needed for HQ Senior Grants, Contracts and Compliance Managers.
Requirements
• Master’s degree, preferably in Contract Administration (Juris Doctorate preferred).
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in international development with an NGO and/or for-profit in the development sector desired.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience with the administration of USG and non-USG awards (both contract and assistance) working knowledge and ability to interpret and apply USG regulation including FAR/AIDAR, CFRs, OMB Circulars and donor regulations, etc USAID, Dept. of State, and other international development donor experience, cost/price analysis, indirect rate development, indefinite quantity contracts, and grants and commercial contracting highly desirable.
• Overseas development and/or NGO experience a plus.
• Solid history of Supervisory experience, including mentoring and advocacy for both senior staff as well as junior staff.
• Proven effective and efficient leading and management skills in a diverse, multi-national and lingual work environment
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure with attention to details.
• Technologically savvy including experience with: Share point, Microsoft Excel, Word and Power point, Navision, Lingos or other online training platforms.
• Demonstrated experience in curriculum development, training delivery, and facilitation.
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