Grants monitoring and compliance officers, Scaling Up Nutrition Fund

Job Description

• Conduct due diligence assessments of proposed grantees to assess their ability to manage grants and to identify where KPMG can provide support and capacity to manage grant funds;
• Receive and review grantee financial and narrative reports;
• Conduct quarterly verification of information (VOI) visits;
• Advise on SUN FUND grantee performance;
• Advise on SUN FUND grantee disbursement requests
• Undertake independent data quality audit of results reported by grantees
• Undertake regular expenditure verifications to ensure that expenditures are incurred according to grant agreements and budget and workplan

Desired Skills & Experience

• A Bachelors degree in finance or accounting from a reputable university;
• Either of the following professional qualifications: CA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent;
• 3-4 years experience in fund/grant management/auditing in a professional services firm or an international NGO;
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain accounting and financial management systems;
• Demonstrated ability to develop and review budgets;
• Demonstrated ability to review and verify grant expenditures
• Demonstrated excellent personal integrity and confidentiality
• Excellent command of English, oral and written
• Zambian national

Company Description

Grants monitoring and compliance officers, Scaling Up Nutrition Fund

Lusaka, Zambia

Ref: IDAS /2013/05-GM

Positions are contingent upon project award and funding

KPMG is a leading provider of professional services, which include audit, tax and advisory. KPMG’s International Development Advisory Services (IDAS) unit is based in Nairobi, Kenya and has adopted a pan-African approach to development work, employing full-time experienced development experts within the KPMG Africa team at our headquarters in Nairobi, together with a network of offices under taking development work across the twenty countries of KPMG in sub-Saharan Africa including Zambia.

The IDAS unit focuses on understanding clients’ organizations and operations, and supporting them in delivering their development programmes. Our clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and foundation and national governments. DFID, on behalf of cooperating partners in nutrition recently, wishes to secure the services of a non-state service provider to manage the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Fund for Zambia to support the implementation of the First 1000 Days Programme. The Fund is expected to provide between £15-20 million in support of the programme over a three year period, with a possibility of extension to 5 years. The objective of this assignment is to administer the SUN Fund as a joint financing mechanism to support the Zambian National First 1000 Most Critical Days Programme. The aim of the SUN Fund is to promote harmonization and alignment among key Cooperating Partners and stakeholders, avoiding duplication of efforts as well as reducing transaction costs for all partners including the Government of Zambia KPMG Zambia is seeking an experienced grants monitoring and compliance officers to be based in Lusaka, Zambia, who will be responsible for grant monitoring and compliance to ensure that grants provided by the Fund are used in accountable manner and for the intended purpose and objects by grant recipients. S/he will report to the senior grants and finance manager.

If your career aspirations match this exciting opportunity, please forward your curriculum vitae giving details of your qualifications and experience quoting the job codes listed per job indicating the country on orbefore 31 March 2013 to eadwa@kpmg.co.ke

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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