• Job Description

  Req#: B019737

  The Foundation

  We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

  The Team

  The Africa Team works to enable the Foundation’s ambitious goals of scaling evidence-based interventions that target a range of disease and socio-economic conditions which are endemic across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Specifically, the focus of the Africa Team is to enable collective impact for the Foundation in Africa by influencing policy and finance towards key development priorities, strengthening capacity and enabling systems for delivery, and innovating and using cross-cutting enablers for impact at scale. The team performs its responsibility through direct country engagement to deploy interventions and delivery models, and by building the partner architecture to replicate successful interventions and models across multiple countries.
  
  The PC will be based at the Foundation’s SARO in Johannesburg, and will report to the Senior Officer, Strategy Planning and Management (SPM), Africa.

  Application deadline: 8th November, 2023.

  Your Role

  The Program Coordinator (PC), South Africa Regional Office (SARO), is an important member of the Africa Team.

  The primary purpose of this job is to support the Africa Team with the coordination, implementation, and maintenance of a range of projects and activities in support of the life cycle of grants and contracts. This includes coordinating the management of a portfolio of investments comprised of grants, contracts and other projects in support of multiple programmatic priorities and strategic goals. The PC will provide budget oversight and planning, financial analysis, financial reporting, and/or portfolio and operations process management and act a bridge between the Africa Team and the business support functions in Seattle.

  What You’ll Do

  • Investment Design and Management: Work with program officers, grantees, contractors, vendors, and business partners during early stages of investment making (e.g. assist in investment structuring, send out requests for proposals, drive key deadlines for submissions and revisions, coordinate the consolidation and resolution of feedback). Assist with grant management and evaluation by requesting and reviewing written materials (including grant summaries and reports). Conduct budget analyses for grant and contract proposals and grant annual reports to ensure consistency with project objectives and alignment with strategic priorities. Act as a thought partner in the design, development and management of grants and contracts.

  • Investment Coordination: Coordinate the end-to-end grants and contracts processes with internal parties (program team, business partners, accounting department) and external parties (grantees, contractors & vendors) within the investment systems. Shepherd the development, management, and close out of grants and contracts. Coordinate contracts, including tracking of invoicing and deliverables, receipt of required reports and monitoring expenses.

  • Analyze and Synthesize Portfolio Information: Manage data for all grants and contracts in investment management system and SharePoint sites. Provide detailed financial analysis of portfolio and ensure data integrity to support team's financial decision making. Work with manager and other Program Officers to keep all pertinent information accurate and up to date for reporting and analysis; serve as point-person regarding budget targets and individual investment portfolio management. Ability to analyze and synthesize key information for internal and external audiences.

  • Portfolio Management: Monitor/Manage progress of an initiative portfolio against payout targets. Track programmatic goals and results in coordination with leadership. Develop relationships with key internal and external partners. Work with leadership to develop processes and tools for performance management.

  • General: Serve as liaison across multiple internal teams. Serves as subject matter expert on processes, tools, systems, templates and provides training, ongoing coaching and process change support to program team and external partners to ensure successful adoption and sustained use.

  Your Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or similar field, with minimum of three years of relevant experience in a similar role is desirable.

  • Project management, portfolio management, program management, financial management, financial reporting, non-profit or related industry or business experience is preferred.

  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, deadlines and policy compliance.

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

  • Proficient in MS Office Suite and knowledge of CRM systems.

  • Knowledge of budgeting, financial analysis, and synthesis.

  • Ability to analyze data across multiple tools and databases.

  • Ability to work independently and as part of an integrated, diverse team and be comfortable in multiple, high varied settings, and tight deadlines with different work and learning styles.

  • Ability to manage multiple and competing demands and establish priorities.

  • A preference for rigor, purpose driven measurement and cost-effective use of resources.

  • Ability to effectively manage and adapt within a changing environment.

  Other Attributes

  • Comfortable in a wide range of cultural, geographic and operational situations, demonstrating culturally sensitive behaviour with a diverse range of people.

  • Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally.

  *Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

  Hiring Requirements

  As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

  Candidate Accommodations

  If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request here.

  Inclusion Statement

  We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

  All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.

• About the company

  We seek to unlock the possibility inside every individual. We see equal value in all lives. And so we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals around the world. From the education of students in Chicago, to the health of a young m...

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