Job Opportunity in Jordan as a Regional Manager at Care

Care provides a job opportunity in Jordan as a Regional Manager. You will provide advice and interpretation of donor rules and regulations pertaining to CARE program implementation, guide and develop risk management strategies for managing agreement (donor agreements and partner funding agreements) portfolios, review new agreements, and support award negotiations, agreement monitoring, and compliance oversight.

You will be responsible for:

• Compliance with Donor Regulations.
• In consultation with CARE USA Award Management Solutions team members, serve as an expert resource to CARE staff, partners, and grantees to improve CARE compliance with donor rules and regulations through:
• Provide knowledge expertise, guidance, and technical support on donor rules and regulations to CIP teams.
• Maintain current, up-to-date knowledge and understanding of donor regulatory, statutory, and administrative requirements.
• Clarify and direct staff on how best to comply with donor and CARE policies and procedures.
• Support the CIP in responding to external audit questions and issues.
• Provide oversight monitoring of awards and partner funding agreements in compliance with donor rules and regulations.
• Carry out spot checks and field visits to high-risk CIP.
• Network with other peer organizations at regions and global levels for sharing knowledge and learning around compliance, risk management, donor regulations, and partner funding agreement management.
• Network with CARE USA and other CI Members and donor specialists for understanding donor regulations. Support CIP in effective negotiations with CI Members and donor organizations.
• Ensures appropriate engagement, management, monitoring, and compliance of awards and partner funding agreements including coordination and facilitation of pre-award to post-award transition, implementation, and close out. This includes:
• Oversight monitoring of grants and contracts to ensure processes and procedures are compliant with donor regulations and CARE policies, and responsiveness to corrective action plans, as applicable.
• Compliance oversight and quality control of award & partner monitoring, and support negotiations with donors.
• Provision of technical assistance to CIPs from the implementation phase to closeout of awards and partner funding agreements, ensuring that all requirements have been met and no outstanding obligations remain unsettled.
• Provide guidance to CIPs in responding to and addressing audit findings on award and partner agreement management.
• Provide risk identification, assessment, mitigation support, and support with audit follow-up regarding corrective actions by policy owners and management.
• Analysis of grants and contracts portfolios, tracking of management indicators, and agreement monitoring data.
• Provide guidance and capacity-strengthening on partner agreement management (including due diligence, monitoring processes, tools, responsibilities, etc.).
• Compliance and Risk Management Oversight.
• Provide oversight and support in the effective implementation of the “Risk and Compliance” framework by CARE USA COs in the region as follows:
• Facilitate the process of developing compliance champions in the organization specifically for award and partner agreement management.
• Develop and promote informal networks for the purposes of mutual support, problem-solving, and sharing knowledge & experience. 
• Design of the risk management program framework, reports, digital solutions, and tools.
• Provides training and coaching on the Register of Active Risks (ROAR). Supports CIPs in understanding the 6-point framework and provides guidance on the use of compliance program tools (i.e. risk registries).
• Seeks input from other units and feedback on Compliance Program effectiveness.
• Capacity building, monitoring, and responding to donor and CARE compliance, agreement management, and partner management risks/issues that are identified in ROAR (i.e. the risk registries).
• Site visits to the CIPs and providing response to risk/issues or coordinating with other units within CARE.
• Works with Deputy Regional Directors - Program Support (DRD-PS) to coordinate the Quarterly Risk Mitigation Plans in response to risks and issues identified on the CARE USA Country Offices' ROARs.
• Capacity Strengthening:
• Mentor and train staff to build up capacity in non - USG donor compliance, award, and partner management and coordinate the training program with the USG Compliance Support Unit within AMS.
• Develop guidance, manuals, templates, and quality management processes for implementation and monitoring donor awards and partner funding agreements. You will provide expertise and guidance on improvements in grants and contracts management systems and processes to insure alignment with CARE program approaches and partnership principles, processes and procedures that are compliant with donor regulations and CARE policies, and responsiveness to compliance risks and issues.
• Provide capacity support for partner funding agreement management in CIPs including review of partner funding agreement documents and files based on policy thresholds.
• Develop and participate in CIP assessment and spot-checking activities to identify capacity strengthening and skills development needs of staff and partner organizations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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You must have:

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance, or International Development or equivalent work experience.
• Contracts and/or Grants management certification.
• Project management training.
• At least 5 years of experience demonstrating knowledge of international nonprofit grants and contracts management and compliance practices working with and interpreting applicable donor rules and regulations.
• Demonstrated experience with contracts and grants training delivery and facilitation. 
• Experience working in a donor agency in the area of contract and/or grant management, regulatory compliance, or operations.
• Demonstrated experience managing donor awards and partner funding agreements.
• Country Office or field operational experience.
• English and Arabic Fluency in written and oral skills.

About Care:

For 75 years, CARE has led the way to a better life for the world’s most vulnerable people. In 2020, CARE worked in over 100 countries, reaching more than 90 million people through 1,300 projects.

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