CATALYZE MS4G Deputy Country Director, Operations & Compliance
Company Overview:
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formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social,
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improve – economies, societies and most importantly, people’s lives. Palladium
is a child-safe organization, and screens applicants for suitability to work
with children. We also provide equal
employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color,
religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital
status.
Project Overview:
Launched
in 2020, CATALYZE: Market Systems for Growth (MS4G) drives private enterprise
expansion to contribute towards Ethiopia’s future economic growth and
prosperity. MS4G intends to foster enterprise-driven growth, especially among
private enterprises that have high growth potential and the capacity to
catalyse job creation throughout market systems. MS4G’s goal is to address
systemic challenges, including building business development services capacity,
creating a more conducive business environment, building the financial sector
infrastructure and capability within private finance providers, and expanding
the digital economy. MS4G catalyses private sector growth by improving access
to finance and facilitating transactions through targeted interventions across
market systems (demand, supply, and enabling environment).? Expanded access to
finance will also drive change across the market system by increasing business
revenue and necessitating job creation. The program is expected to operate through September 2024.
For its second year of implementation, project activities in the
agriculture and WASH sectors will take a larger priority. MS4G is required to
coordinate closely with other USAID and US Government (USG) activities. Across
all initiatives, there will be a cross-cutting focus on women and youth, as
well as a focus on ensuring that disparate ethnic groups and regions equitably
benefit from interventions.
Primary Duties
and Responsibilities
The CATALYZE MS4G Deputy
Country Director, Operations & Compliance will report to the CATALYZE
MS4G Country Director. (This position is comparable to a Deputy Chief of Party
position.) S/he will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of financial
management and contractual performance, including financial systems
implementation, budgeting, expenditure tracking, financial reporting and
accounting, operations, logistics, human resources, security, procurement, and
grants. The Deputy will establish and maintain sound financial management
practices and ensure the project’s compliance with Palladium and USAID
policies, rules, and regulations.
- Provides
overall financial and administrative coordination and support to ensure an
effective and efficient operating platform for the project. - Ensures
compliance of financial systems with Palladium’s policies and procedures,
USAID rules and regulations, contract requirements, and Government of Ethiopia
laws and regulations. - Develops activity
budgets with technical teams and monitors budget pipeline. - Provides timely
and accurate financial reports to Palladium home office and USAID as
required. - Reviews and
approves recommendations for financial planning and control, providing
relevant fiscal information to senior management team. - Conducts
internal financial audits of the activity and serves as primary point of
contact with external auditors. - Ensures
continual review of internal and strategic controls, communications, risk
assessments, and maintenance of documentation. - Works with compliance, procurement and technical staff to develop
innovative grants and performance-based subcontracting platforms that
enable efficient and compliant procurement and leverage local ecosystem
actors to deliver services at scale. - Provides technical
assistance and capacity building, as needed, to local partners on
financial compliance and reporting to ensure sound financial management
and operations. - Ensures that
subcontracts, grants, and local consultancy documents and procedures are
completed in a timely and correct manner and comply with Palladium and
USAID policies and regulations.
Required
Qualifications
- Significant
professional experience in administrative, financial, and grants
management of large complex projects of which at least eight years were in
the field of international development including experience in management
of USAID funded contracts of similar scale ($40M / 4 years). - Track record in
developing and managing large budgets - Demonstrated
ability to provide oversight to high volume grant and subcontract procurements
involving a variety of sizes, scope and partner types. - Knowledge of
and compliance to Federal Acquisition Regulations and USAID Acquisition
Regulations. - Strong
financial and operational management experience with proven management
skills. - Professional
level of oral and written fluency in English language. - Experience supervising
teams in fast moving, multi-component programs. - Experience
building capacity of local organizations and implementing partners in
financial management. - Relevant
computer software skills and familiarity with accounting software
(including, at a minimum, the standard applications in MS Office); Costpoint
preferred.
Preferred
Qualifications
- Previous experience
in launching and managing innovative grants and/or performance-based
sub-contract platforms; past experience designing and administering annual
program statements (APS) designed to enable private sector engagement,
partnerships and capital mobilization is a plus. - Previous professional
experience in administrative, financial and grants management of USAID
programs in Ethiopia or similar country contexts.
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