Haiti Finance Grant Manager 377 views

Position Title: Finance Grant Manager

Reports to: Senior Director of Finance, Zanmi Lasante

Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Position Overview:
Reporting to the Zanmi Lasante Senior Director of Finance and based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the Finance Grant Manager will be responsible for the financial management of a portfolio of grants, including a multi-million dollar federal award. This position will focus on financial effectiveness, donor accountability, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain project financial tracking tools.
• Lead budget and budget narrative development processes, working closely with the programmatic team to understand program activities and implementation plan.
• Monitor cash flow and spend across grants to ensure appropriate expense allocation, adherence to budgets, and compliance with donor’s operational and contractual requirements.
• Prepare monthly internal financial reports for all grants; work with project teams to review and analyze spend against budgets, identify variances and determine action needed.
• Prepare timely and accurate donor financial reports that comply with all donor regulations.
• Monitor and strengthen financial grant management and compliance systems related to post-award activities including the review of procurement and human resource procedures, asset management, appropriate allocation of expenses, regular spending reviews with key stakeholders, and risk identification; design and implement strategies that address financial performance issues; identify, escalate, and coordinate responses to financial performance issues.
• Provide site-based accountants the necessary training and support so they have knowledge on the strengthening of internal controls, accurate records maintenance, and important donor regulations.
• Manage project-specific financial audits and ensure audit findings and recommendations are addressed and closed in a timely manner.
• Manage and monitor subrecipient and subcontractor financial reports and practices for adherence to budget and donor requirements
• Respond promptly to all ad-hoc donor requests that relate to financial matters. 

Qualifications: 

• 5-6 years of experience managing finance for U.S. government funded grants or contracts, ensuring compliance with contract terms and activities implemented according to contract and budget.
• MBA or undergraduate degree with a concentration in finance or accounting
• In-depth knowledge of USG financial management rules and regulations required
• Excellent financial and accounting skills
• Advanced Excel skills
• Strong attention to detail and problem solving skills
• Ability to learn new software and systems quickly
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent oral and written communication skills
• Fluency in English and Haitian Creole/French required
• Interest in social justice strongly desirable.

Organizational Profile 

Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build local capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change.

PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world. 

Zanmi Lasante (ZL), as PIH is known locally in Haiti, is a health care organization committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized in Haiti.  ZL partners with local communities and the Haitian Ministry of Health (MSPP) to deliver high-quality public health care, addressing the root causes of illness, train the health care workforce, advance research, and advocate for increased national investments in the health system.  ZL’s philosophy is rooted in sustainability and capacity building with the idea that the most powerful means of providing rights-based health care to patients is through leveraging a country’s own public health system.

Today, with a team of over 6,200 Haitians, including over 2,000 Community Health Workers (CHWs), ZL supports 12 public health facilities and is one of the largest health care providers in Central Haiti, serving an immediate catchment area of 1.3 million across the Central Plateau and the lower Artibonite.

Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.  PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.