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Overarching:
•To support programme and support staff to manage existing and future institutional funding grants/contracts in Myan-mar, with a particular focus on high quality reporting and internal and donor compliance.
•To support the programme teams in the development of well-designed projects and programmes for submission to institutional donors, consistent with Trócaire’s Organisational and Myanmar’s Country Strategic Plan.
In particular this role will involve the following components:
Grants Management & Compliance (50%)
•Delivery of strong, high quality and timely reports that satisfy donor requirements through review, revision, and as necessary, drafting of reports, in close coordination with programme teams and the Business Development Manager.
•Perform quality and administrative checks on financial reports that satisfy donor requirements.
•Support programme teams to ensure careful adherence across programmes to both Trócaire and donor compliance requirements, including adherence to supply chain and financial management policies and procedures, fraud etc. in coordination with the Business Development Manager, the Finance and Administration Manager, and respective counterparts in Head Office.
•Keep up-to-date of donor rules and regulations and communicate any relevant changes to staff and partners.
•Provide comprehensive training for staff and partners entering into new institutional donor contracts, including compliance with regulations on financial management, procurement, audit, reporting, visibility and communications.
•Support programme and support staff and partners in preparing contract amendment documentation for donors.
Overarching:
•To support programme and support staff to manage existing and future institutional funding grants/contracts in Myan-mar, with a particular focus on high quality reporting and internal and donor compliance.
•To support the programme teams in the development of well-designed projects and programmes for submission to institutional donors, consistent with Trócaire’s Organisational and Myanmar’s Country Strategic Plan.
In particular this role will involve the following components:
Grants Management & Compliance (50%)
•Delivery of strong, high quality and timely reports that satisfy donor requirements through review, revision, and as necessary, drafting of reports, in close coordination with programme teams and the Business Development Manager.
•Perform quality and administrative checks on financial reports that satisfy donor requirements.
•Support programme teams to ensure careful adherence across programmes to both Trócaire and donor compliance requirements, including adherence to supply chain and financial management policies and procedures, fraud etc. in coordination with the Business Development Manager, the Finance and Administration Manager, and respective counterparts in Head Office.
•Keep up-to-date of donor rules and regulations and communicate any relevant changes to staff and partners.
•Provide comprehensive training for staff and partners entering into new institutional donor contracts, including compliance with regulations on financial management, procurement, audit, reporting, visibility and communications.
•Support programme and support staff and partners in preparing contract amendment documentation for donors.
•Ensure all grant files are maintained and organized, including ensuring everything is accurately recorded on Trócaire’s Salesforce and Box systems.
Programme Growth & Development (40%)
•Advise programme staff and partners on donor funding streams and opportunities that match organisational strategic plans and projects/ programmes.
•Where necessary, represent Trocaire in external spaces, such as donor presentations, workshops and arranged meetings
•Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of major bilateral and multilateral donors and funding streams in Myanmar
•Pro-actively identify opportunities for securing institutional funding from bilateral and multilateral donors, in collaboration with the Business Development Manager and colleagues in Trócaire’s Head Office in Ireland.
•Analyse selected funding calls to assess the range and scope of the calls’ objectives, so as to provide programme staff with ideas and maximising potential.
•In response to new funding calls, provide surge support to programme teams in the process of planning new projects, supporting the initial design and workshop facilitation, coordination of the proposal development process, and sup-porting the formulation of objectives and plans.
•Support programme teams in drafting, reviewing and revising proposals and concept notes to mobilise funding in close coordination with the Business Development Manager.
•Support the Programme Finance team in drafting proposal budgets that adequately cover programme and organisational costs
•Support the renewal of Trócaire’s country institutional funding strategy, in line with country programme needs and ex-eternal funding opportunities.
Capacity Strengthening (10%)
•In collaboration with the Capacity Strengthening team, advice and support programme teams on building the capacity-ties of partners to handle contractual commitments and compliance issues.
•Advise and support programme teams on how to comply with audit and expenditure verification requirements.
Other
- Participate in wider organisational strategic planning, advocacy and review work, as and where appropriate.
- Any other reasonable duty as may be assigned by the line manager, Head of Programmes or Country Director that is consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility.