Country: United States of America
Closing date: 05 Feb 2015
Description
EDC is one of the world’s leading nonprofit research and development firms. EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs to improve education, health, and economic opportunity worldwide. Collaborating with both public and private partners, we strive for a world where all people are empowered to live healthy, productive lives.
EDC is Committed to Diversity in the Workplace
The International Development Division (IDD) has an opening for a Division Finance Director, reporting to the Senior Division Leadership. The Division Finance Director provides leadership, hands-on management, and quality assurance of the division financial budgeting and reporting, cost proposals for new business development and compliance assistance for EDC’s international portfolio. The position is located in Washington, D.C.
EDC’s International Development Division (IDD) focuses on three major areas: literacy and basic education, youth livelihoods and workforce development, and the application of technologies. Currently IDD manages more than $70 million of work primarily under contracts and cooperative agreements issued by USAID. EDC works with governments, agencies, and other partners in 20 countries in West and Central Africa, East and Southern Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS – As a member of the IDD leadership team, the person will work collaboratively for the good of the division, offering assistance to other managers as needed, and providing constructive criticism and problem solving where ever possible. The person in this position will communicate clearly and courteously; develop and maintain positive relationships with clients, consultants, collaborators, co-workers, field sites, and funders; and work respectfully with EDC colleagues. The job requires adherence to EDC policies & procedures.
Division Level:
- Develops and maintains close and cooperative working relationships within IDD, and in particular with EDC’s IDD Division Vice Presidents, Deputy Division Director, and the Director of New Business Development.
- Supervises, develops and maintains close working relationships with 5-6 financial and compliance staff in Washington, Waltham, and Lebanon, bringing them together as a single, coherent team.
- Develops and maintains excellent working relationships with Administration & Finance staff, particularly the CFO, Director of International Grants and Contracts, Controller, Manager of International Accounting, and Corporate Compliance Manager.
- Provides timely, accurate, and substantive information, as well as actionable analysis of division-wide financial and compliance matters to Division Directors and the IDD management team.
- Responsible for the compilation, review, and reporting of IDD’s annual financial projections and quarterly re-forecast processes.
- Works with project management to develop internal EDC fiscal year spending and indirect recovery projections and update quarterly as needed
- Serves as IDD representative on interdepartmental task forces or working groups related to international finance, policy or compliance matters.
Program Support:
- Develops, with input from IDD management team and Project Directors, a home office project staff training program (primarily for project coordinators/managers) which includes essential components of financial and compliance matters of project management.
- Helps implement, with input from EDC corporate finance staff and International Grants and Contracts Office, a comprehensive sub award monitoring policy with special emphasis on high-risk, low-capacity local sub-awardees including procedures and tools for selection, pre-award assessment, ongoing monitoring and review (both financial and technical), reporting, and plans for capacity building.
- Oversees and monitors IDD’s cost share commitment and assists project staff with development of adequate plans for timely and proper documentation and reporting.
- Oversees the recruitment of the field financial staff, ensuring staff are adequately trained and skilled; provides supervision and a direct link to home office for the field finance managers.
- Updates and provides training opportunities for project field staff, including a comprehensive field staff training program on operational, financial, and compliance processes.
- May provide direct support to one field project.
- Assists, personally or through finance team, with financial tasks associated with start-up and close-out of projects as requested.
Compliance Assistance:
- Identifies areas of financial, compliance and operational risk in project implementations (both general and project specific) and works with both home and field office project management to develop and implement policies and procedures to mitigate risk.
- Supervises the international compliance position. Oversees his compliance visits, risk assessments, reporting and assistance to field projects, etc.
Business Development:
- Works with the IDD New Business Development department to provide advice, review, and critical analysis of project proposal budgets and the recruitment of project finance staff, etc.
- Works closely with International Grants and Contracts Office and New Business Development to improve systems for costing proposals.
QUALIFICATIONS - This position requires strong supervisory and management skills; excellent writing skills; demonstrable initiative, creativity, and flexibility; ability to work independently and effectively in groups; and strong interpersonal & organizational skills. Specific requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree or CPA preferred
- At least 10 years experience in financial management in a sponsored research and non-profit environment; significant experience with USAID projects required; at least 5 years managing financial staff
- Significant experience in compliance management for USAID-funded projects
- Previous experience developing cost proposals and business plans
- Excel expertise and other applicable computer skills (Costpoint, COGNOS, or QuickBooks preferred but not required)
- Strong knowledge of USAID regulations required
- Experience with financial management of international and local sub-awardees; experience working with financial teams in field offices
- Ability and willingness to travel internationally several times per year sometimes on short notice and sometimes to offices in difficult environments
- Initiative and finesse with multiple tasks; attentiveness to detail
- Demonstrated capacity to establish and monitor systems
- Foreign languages skills preferred (French, Arabic, Swahili, or Spanish)
CONTACT:
No phone calls, please
Posted: 12/04/2014
As an EOE/AA employer, EDC does not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and veteran or disability status. EDC is a smoke-free workplace.
How to apply:
Please apply online using the following link: http://www.candidatemanager.net/cm/Micro/JobDetails.aspx?&mid=YEVYF&sid=UEVD&jid=UFDFFY&site=Education
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