Jobs in Kalungu Uganda Medical Research Council (MRC UK) /UVRI AND LSHTM UGANDA RESEARCH UNIT Jobs in Kalungu 2 Grants Officer Jobs in Kalungu at Medical Research Council (MRC UK) /UVRI AND LSHTM UGANDA RESEARCH UNIT 2 Grants Officer Employment opportunities Medical Research Council (MRC UK) /UVRI AND LSHTM UGANDA RESEARCH UNIT
Job Title ⇒ Grants Officer - RSO 2 Job Vacancies
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Organisation ⇒ Medical Research Council MRC UK /UVRI and LSHTM Uganda
Research Unit
Duty Station ⇒ Entebbe, Uganda
Reports to ⇒ Senior Grants Officer
Position Code ⇒ GO -321
About US ⇒
The Medical Research Council MRC UK is an internationally recognised centre
of excellence with dominant research themes in the areas of HIV and emerging
infections, vaccines and immunity, and chronic diseases and cancer. Through a
multidisciplinary approach, intersecting basic science, epidemiological
research, social-behavioural research and the conduct of new intervention
evaluation studies, the Unit contributes knowledge on changing epidemics and
diseases, the evaluation of innovative health care options, treatment and
prevention and the development of health policy and practice in Africa and
worldwide. Following the signing of strategic transfer agreements between the
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine LSHTM and the Medical
Research Council MRC UK, the Unit formally joined LSHTM on 1st February
2018. The exciting new partnership will boost research capacity into current
and emerging health issues in Africa and throughout the world. The Unit is
based at the UVRI Entebbe campus with established outposts in Kalungu, Masaka,
Wakiso and Kampala Districts.
Job Summary ⇒ The Grants Officer will mainly ensure the external grants
portfolio of the Unit is managed efficiently and accurately, including
administrative management of grant contracts and budget preparation and
justification. Maintaining accurate and up to date records on all external
grants and making sure all grant soft Shared intranet and hard folders are
kept up to date. Updating the grant tracker and assisting in in generating
management reports, maintaining an effective communication flow with internal
and external clients, preparation and review of agreements/contracts/MoUs.
Key Duties and Responsibilities ⇒
⇗ Assists PIs in preparing a budget for final review and agreement by Senior
Grants Officer and submitting the financial part of a grant application, and
the respective justification;
⇗ Drafting contracts and uploading these on the service desk for the
contracts team at LSHTM to review and follow up with both LSHTM team and the
partner/donor to ensure the contract gets executed in a timely manner;
⇗ Provides the PIs and or coordinators with regular monthly financial
information showing expenditures to date and projected costs until the end of
the project;
⇗ Ensures that grants recharge overheads are costed as per the donor
contract, follow up with accounts receivable officer to ensure all overheads
are captured before management reports are prepared;
⇗ Complete project cost centre request form and inform the PI when ready,
ensure that only correct costs are charged, raise call for reversal in case of
a miss post;
⇗ Submitting application, maintaining correspondences with donors and
partners, creating folders in the pipeline for each application submitted and
moving these to projects when awarded as well as updating the tracker;
⇗ Monthly reconciliation of fund balances to ensure the project does not
over/ underspend, alerting the Finance Manager/ senior Finance officer when
project is almost running out of funds;
⇗ Prepares periodic financial reports to PIs and Donors in a timely manner,
keep a proper record of all correspondences with external and internal
clients;
⇗ Support PIs with preparation of no cost extension and carryover of funds
requests;
⇗ Supervise Grants Assistant and ensure they are well guided as they execute
their duties;
⇗ Maintains and ensures the safe custody of financial documents and copies of
external grant contracts on file;
⇗ Provides support during project specific audits, carrying out due diligence
on partners and sub awardees;
⇗ preparation of monthly timesheet template, follow up with staff to ensure
all complete time sheets appropriately and filing them in respective folder;
and,
⇗ Ensures the key stakeholders receive a weekly report on the status of
contracts in progress.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience ⇒
⇗ The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in business
administration majoring in accounts of financial management, a partial
professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, KPA, CIMA;
⇗ Possession of a post graduate diploma is an added advantage;
⇗ Should possess three years' work experience as Grants officer in a busy
research organization or any NGO;
⇗ Knowledge and experience working with MS Dynamics Navision ERP packages and
budgeting is desired; and,
⇗ Should possess financial management skills.
How to Apply ⇒
Follow the link below to fill a form and submit your application
documentation
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Filling the form more than once will lead to automatic disqualification. High
level of integrity while filling the form is required and will be considered
during shortlisting. Combine all your application documentation i.e. cover
letter, CV & academic documents into one PDF document. Only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted for interview. This position is open to Ugandan
nationals only. Strictly follow the application procedure as failure to do so
will lead to automatic disqualification. Only online applications will be
accepted.
The applications should be addressed to
The Head of Human Resources,
MRC/ UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit,
P.O. Box, 49,
Entebbe, Uganda.
Deadline 26th March 2021 by 500pm
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