Grants & Finance Specialist

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Description

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The Grants and Finance Specialist will manage grants, contracts, and budgets working with members of the Food and Land Use Coalition and WRI’s Food, Land and Water Programme. You will provide operational, financial and grant management support across a geographically dispersed team. Specific tasks will include managing budgets and grants, preparing financial reports, processing sub awards and invoices, and engaging with vendors and partners around the world. A growing team of operational professionals within the Food, Land and Water Programme will support you.

Grants and Sub award Management (50%):

• Assist team members in understanding rules of all assigned awards to ensure compliance with donor requirements and WRI’s policies
• Help track grant reporting deadlines for both incoming grant agreements and for outgoing sub agreements to partners
• Assemble sub agreement packages, procurement documentation and due diligence forms as directed, following standard WRI procedures
• Monitor expenditures under the assigned sub awards and review financial reports from partners
• Manage clear document filing for all assigned activities

Financial Management (50%):

• Develop and monitor fiscal year and grant budgets with the project managers
• Review and monitor all transactions, commitments, and revenue prospects to support healthy financial management and to help prepare for quarterly financial reviews and annual planning
• Maintain project budgets using WRI’s budgeting and forecasting software (TM1, Salesforce)
• Prepare financial reports and invoices for donors
• Develop budgets for new projects and grants
• payment requests and invoices from vendors for projects in compliance with WRI’s policies.

What will you need:

Education:

• You have completed a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, management or similar discipline related to the job description

Experience:

• You have 3 years full-time work experience in a non-profit setting
• You have experience managing project and grant budgets, preparing financial reports and supporting project operations
• You have experience delivering both competitive and non-competitive procurement, including sub-grants or similar awards
• You have experience working with international teams or projects
• You have MS Excel experience using other produces, including Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Comfortable to work in a fast-paced multicultural environment with multiple projects

Languages:

• Verbal and written English proficiency. Other language skills desirable

Requirements:

• Existing work authorization is required where this position. WRI is unable to authorize visa work authorization

Source: https://jobs.jobvite.com/wri/job/ocNJofwQ

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