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Position Title: Grants & Compliance Manager

Supervisor: Deputy Chief of Party

Type of Appointment: Full time, local hire position

Organization: Pact

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Pact Overview:

Pact is an international nonprofit that works in nearly 40 countries building solutions for human development that are evidence-based, data-driven and owned by the communities we serve. Founded in 1971, Pact works with partners to build resilience, improve accountability, and strengthen knowledge and skills for sustainable social impact.

Department Overview:

Programs - Pact strives for a world where all people are heard, capable, and vibrant. The Programs Team helps realize this objective by bridging program management, technical support, and business development, enabling Pact to achieve its global strategy. We ensure program excellence through continuous learning, monitoring and evaluation and provide organizational and industry-wide thought leadership by leveraging a complementary set of cross-functional, multi-disciplinary skills, expertise, and experiences. The Programs team: influences progressive change through the development and implementation of global and regional strategies and business plans; supports advancement of innovative solutions; pursues new business opportunities; and drives effective internal and external engagement to maximize Pact’s impact across the globe. Across all aspects of its role, the Programs Department adheres to and promotes a culture of inclusion, accountability, and respect.

Position Summary:

Pact seeks a Grants & Compliance Manager for the Supporting Social Resilience Program (SSRP). The program supports local partners working with communities. The Grants & Compliance Manager will lead the SSRP grants portfolio in Thailand, coordinate on grants management with the SSRP grants team in Myanmar, and work with the SSRP DCOP, MEL and Finance teams in Thailand to ensure program grants are effectively administered, monitored, reported, and data captured. The role will provide administration of the full cycle of the grants and contracts management for the project, beginning with solicitations for procurement and grants, pre-award, assessments, managing deliverables, monitoring and ensuring compliance with rules and regulations, managing close-out procedures, and managing complete files and data management for each award. The position will ensure direct technical assistance to sub-awardees, as well as monitoring implementation of program activities under the project’s sub-awards.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in facilitating the selection of partners to work with Pact under the project.

• Assist in the design, development, and implementation of awards in close coordination with other Pact staff, to ensure compliance with donor and Pact policies and procedures, achievement of intended results.

• Lead support focused on compliance, grants, and successful implementation of grants and contracts.

• Assist in negotiation of final terms and conditions for grants and contracts, under the direction of the DCOP, and review and analyze budget estimates for all allowability, reasonableness, and consistency.

• Assist in proper preparation and execution of grant and contract documents, and grant disbursements consistent and compliant with donor and Pact requirements, and project procedures and best practices. Documentation required will include grant agreements, negotiation memos, grant activity forms, branding and marking plans, and others.

• Work closely with Program staff to ensure that sub-award monitoring and evaluation is conducted as required and that financial deliverables, deadlines, programmatic outputs and impact are captured and recorded in the project databases in an accurate and timely manner.

• Assist sub-awardee assessments, cost and price analysis and facilitate the communication of the needed information to obtain donor approval.

• Ensure all required documentation is available and stored as per respective Pact policy.

• Ensure timely and accurate use of Pact's subaward management system (Salesforce) for subaward issuance and management.

• Assist in closing of awards in the required timeframe.

• Assist with the resolution of internal/external audit findings.

• Support in delivering information for contractual reporting purposes as needed.

• Perform other duties as assigned by the DCOP.

 Basic Requirements:

• University degree in Public Management, Public Policy, Public Finances, Law, or related field.

• Minimum of 3 years in a similar position with a program supported by international donors.

• Proven understanding of awards management cycle.

• Good organizational skills and ability to manage a complex workload and deadlines.

• Highly effective administration skills, including computing, word processing, and data management and visualization.

• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) in English.

• Understanding of the situation confronting vulnerable groups in Myanmar and a strong interest in helping.

• Thailand resident.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Myanmar civil society organizations.

• Experience managing the award and administration of federal grants and contracts in other organizations performing work similar to Pact.

• Understanding of local business culture.

• Strong analytical skills to successfully perform financial reviews, determination of responsibility, and other forms for quantitative analyses.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit a cover letter and CV to Pact Thailand Human Resources Unit by August 31, 2022 via thailandrecruitment@pactworld.org

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.