{"id":7142,"date":"2024-07-11T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T05:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secardo.org\/grants-subcontract-and-procurement-director-kabul-afghanistan-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T05:47:45","slug":"grants-subcontract-and-procurement-director-kabul-afghanistan-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secardo.org\/?p=7142","title":{"rendered":"Grants, Subcontract, and Procurement Director | Kabul, Afghanistan | 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag country\">Country: Afghanistan<\/div>\n<div class=\"tag source\">Organization: Chemonics<\/div>\n<div class=\"date closing\">Closing date: 17 Jul 2024<\/div>\n<p>Chemonics seeks candidates for a Grants, Subcontract, and Procurement Director for the LIVE proposal, a five-year, USAID-funded initiative focused on Afghanistan Women and Men in Agriculture Activity (WAMA) in Afghanistan. This $60 million activity aims to enhance food security, build household and community resilience to climate change shocks, particularly water stress, and generate income for households. The activity places a strong emphasis on women\u2019s participation, especially women-headed households, farmers, and women-owned and led businesses, ensuring they benefit from the agriculture sector. Additionally, the activity will support farmers and communities transitioning away from poppy cultivation to sustainable, USAID-supported value chains, as well as recent returnees seeking livelihood opportunities in the agriculture sector.<\/p>\n<p>The fundamental objectives of this activity include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Objective I: Food Security Improved through Increased and Inclusive Resilience, Productivity, Diversification and Stability of Agricultural Value Chains<\/li>\n<li>Objective II: Enhanced Communities\u2019 Resilience to Climate Change-induced Shocks, specifically Water Stress<\/li>\n<li>Objective III: Women\u2019s Economic Empowerment strengthened, and<\/li>\n<li>Objective IV: Selected Emerging Agricultural or Economic Growth Issues and Challenges are Addressed Across Afghanistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This position will be based at Afghanistan or Almaty, Dubai, Doha, and Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Responsibilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Serve as the primary point of contact for subcontractors, grantees, and\/or vendors<\/li>\n<li>Ensure subcontractors and\/or grantees are provided with sufficient technical assistance in financial management and reporting<\/li>\n<li>Responsible for reviewing the draft RFP\/RFQs before they are released to properly compete vendors and subcontractors<\/li>\n<li>Monitors subtask orders, purchase orders, and other technical procurements to ensure compliance with USAID\/Chemonics rules and local laws. Supervise the Grants and Procurement Assistants and build their capacity to effectively assist in implementation and monitoring of grant activities<\/li>\n<li>Ensures compliance with USAID rules and regulations governing grants and ensure subcontracts and negotiation memos are drafted in accordance with Chemonics\u2019 policies, procedures, and best practices.<\/li>\n<li>Monitors contracts and purchase orders issued to vendors and follow up as necessary to ensure compliance to contract terms and conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Reviews subcontract deliverables and confirms deliverables are in accordance with contract terms and conditions<\/li>\n<li>Provides procurement status reports to the deputy chief of party<\/li>\n<li>Works closely with deputy chief of party and technical leads to support the implementation of all grants and subcontracts instruments<\/li>\n<li>Collaborates closely with Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL team) to ensure activity results under grants and subcontract interventions are properly measured and tracked<\/li>\n<li>Work with activity leadership to ensure inputs are being delivered according to established work plans and that lessons learned are successfully incorporated from program implementation into new activity developments.<\/li>\n<li>Establishes systems and procedures to manage activity Grants Program. Provides appropriate training to grants and procurement team, as well as technical team and short-term consultants, to foster clear understanding of grants procedures<\/li>\n<li>Experience in reviewing budgets and financial reports, preparing for, and monitoring audits of grantees<\/li>\n<li>Manages the execution of grant agreements and ensures the proper closure of all activities<\/li>\n<li>Responsible for the monitoring of individual grant budgets to ensure availability of funds<\/li>\n<li>Reviews applications, evaluates the cost application for cost realism and cost effectiveness, finalizes grant documents, and manages and monitors the grants approvals<\/li>\n<li>Provides training to project staff in procurement and subcontract policies and procedures<\/li>\n<li>Ensures that procurement requests are conducted in a timely manner and that procurement, and subcontract-related files are maintained in a current and complete manner and are audit-ready at all times<\/li>\n<li>Perform other duties as required or assigned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Qualifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Master\u2019s degree in relevant field including, monitoring and evaluation, international development\/social studies, business administration or economics, or closely related field. An additional 5 years of relevant technical experience can substitute a Master\u2019s Degree<\/li>\n<li>Advanced degree, preferable in business administration, finance, or related field<\/li>\n<li>Minimum 10 years of procurement and grants management experience<\/li>\n<li>Experience with implementing grants under task order programs on USAID projects preferred<\/li>\n<li>Creativity and analytical capacity to manage subcontract\/grant compliance issues and assist other staff in ensuring the implementation of SAF activities<\/li>\n<li>Proven ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with donors, subcontractors, grantees, and multiple host-country counterparts<\/li>\n<li>English language proficiency is required, and local languages proficiency preferred<\/li>\n<li>Excellent verbal communication skills, strong writing and analytical skills are required<\/li>\n<li>Proven ability to interact with multidisciplinary team of professionals on large and complex international development programs<\/li>\n<li>Experience managing and mentoring a multicultural team of staff<\/li>\n<li>Experience building and maintaining relationships with host country professionals including implementing partners and grantees<\/li>\n<li>Preference will be given to Afghan nationals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id='how-to-apply'  id=\"boomdevs_1\">How to apply<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Application Submission Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in this opportunity, or know of someone who might be, kindly submit your EOI and\/or recommendations to AfghanistanWAGrecruit@chemonics.com by <strong>COB July 16, 2024<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/job\/4076976\/grants-subcontract-and-procurement-director-kabul-afghanistan-2024\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Country: Afghanistan Organization: Chemonics Closing date: 17 Jul 2024 Chemonics seeks candidates for a Grants, Subcontract, and Procurement Director for the LIVE proposal, a five-year, USAID-funded initiative focused on Afghanistan Women and Men in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[2455,683,883,2454,1130,2453],"course":[],"event":[],"internship":[],"class_list":["post-7142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-jobs-2","tag-afghanistan","tag-director","tag-grants","tag-kabul","tag-procurement","tag-subcontract"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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