Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company (Kaizen) is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven development and spur sustainable entrepreneurship and investments. We leverage existing knowledge, new technologies, local peer networks, and innovative business models to support local reforms that are sustained through market forces.

Since our inception, we have provided support to more than 200 government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations in emerging markets worldwide. We have created solutions that achieve outcomes across a broad range of sectors including education, health, finance, agriculture, governance, economic growth, energy and environment, and water.

Kaizen is searching for a Grants Manager for the anticipated USAID Managing Market Access and Innovative Finance (MMAIF) activity. The purpose of the activity is for USAID to acquire support service and technical assistance on a range of market access and innovative financing activities to improve global health outcomes.

Duties

The Grants Manager will be responsible for providing administrative, grant-making, and monitoring and work closely with technical team member on capacity strengthening support to grantees. The Grants Manager will lead the development of the grants process manual. The Manager will lead or support the selection process and organize selected applicants at the interview stage and organize and facilitate evaluation committees. They will also lead, conduct, or support the due diligence process associated with grant applicants. The Grants Manager will report to the DCOP and coordinate closely with other project objective leads in designing and implementing the grants program.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of ten years’ experience in USAID grants design, administration, management and oversight

• Bachelor’s degree in international development, business administration, accounting, finance, or a related field, Master’s degree preferred

• Minimum of five years’ of experience in a supervisory role, leading small or medium size teams on projects of similar size and complexity 

• Minimum five years’ experience managing grants-under-contract, with a similar scale to anticipated project, and ensuring their effective implementation. Five years’ of the financial compliance of grantees in accordance with USAID policy and procedures 

• Ability to efficiently communicate and navigate USAID operations, bureaus and missions, and the program cycle. Experience with USAID hub mechanisms that operate across multiple countries, with a wide range of grant sizes, and experience with grantees with a diverse range of organizational maturities including organizations with no prior USG grant experience

• Experience applying CLA and/or innovative approaches to the USAID grants process

• Demonstrated capacity to supervise a complex financial management or general ledger system

• Experience in reviewing and negotiating budgets, reviewing financial reports, preparing for and monitoring audits of grantees, and file management with attention to detail

• Experience supporting innovative development and USAID and/or other donor innovation portfolios a plus

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in English mandatory, other language proficiency is a plus

• Must be authorized to work in the United States

   

  For candidates applying for positions based in Kaizen's office in Washington, DC, we utilize career.place to mitigate bias in the recruitment process. Upon submitting an application, candidates will receive an email from career.place, prompting them to go through the anonymous screening. In order to be considered for a role, candidates must respond to career.place and proceed with the application. We do not currently use career.place for project positions outside of the United States.

  At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.

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