Project/Proposal Summary:
MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan on a project named SUPPORT (Services Under Program and Project Offices for Results Tracking), and tasked with the responsibility of executing functions normally associated with USAID’s Program and Communications offices. As a part of the SUPPORT project, MSI is currently establishing an office compound suitable for USAID and partner meetings in Southern Sudan, hiring technical and support staff, and facilitating VIP visits. For more information on the SUPPORT project, please follow this link: http://www.msiworldwide.com/index.cfm?msiweb=project&p_id=150
Position Summary: MSI is seeking a consultant to provide assistance and expert guidance to technical teams in the Juba Project and Program Development Office (PPDO). Major duties will include the instruction of national staff on the design, planning, and implementation of activities; the drafting of results frameworks and activity descriptions; the preparation of program budgets; the completion of pre-obligation requirements; monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on activities; and ensuring that program activities are in compliance with USAID policies, per the ADS 200 Series.
This position undertakes responsibilities that are complex and multi-sectoral, involving the facilitation of relationships between governmental, nongovernmental, and private-sector entities to deal with innovative approaches to development problems and to achieve USAID results.
**This is a short-term assignment with a duration of approximately two months beginning in June 2011.
Responsibilities: • On the basis of thorough knowledge of USAID programming policies, practices and procedures, the consultant will train national staff on how to plan and manage USAID/Sudan’s annual program budget by aligning development objective activities with appropriate foreign appropriations funding accounts (ESF, DA, CSH, PL 480, and others, as applicable).
• Train national staff to provide budget analyses for new project designs and pipeline analyses for on-going activities, as well as providing oversight to ensure budget accuracy by activity/account, in order to prevent budget shortfalls and/or project demobilizations, and to uphold Agency forward-funding guidelines. • Train national staff to track allowances to the field and coordinate with the Financial Management Office to ensure that the Phoenix database reflects the budgets stated in the CBJ, Annual Report, and CNs.
• Assist and guide national staff to work with Technical Team leaders to properly complete budgeting aspects of internal documentation such as Action Memoranda, Scopes of Work, MAARDs, IEEs, and other pre-obligation and implementation documents as required. • Assist with creating and completing a database of project and procurement data, which will help the Mission as it adopts the OPS Master budget planning tool.
Qualifications: • B.A. or equivalent collegiate degree in relevant subject area (e.g., finance, accounting, economics, or public administration). • Five years of progressively responsible experience in development-related organization and two years of responsible experience in accounting, finance, and/or economics with USAID.
• Knowledge of and/or experience with OPS Master is highly preferred. • Extensive knowledge of the Foreign Assistance Framework is required. • Prior experience or completion of specialized courses on budget forecasting, analysis, modeling, and/or execution, as well as knowledge of the U.S. Government's budget process, are highly preferred. • Ability to perform financial and economic analyses on projects, multi-year budget forecasting, and/or modeling is desirable. • Knowledge of Microsoft Word and expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including the ability to create Pivot Tables and develop databases, are required. • English fluency is required.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
To apply, please visit our website: www.msiworldwide.com
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