Consultant: Grants Strategy, Management and Training
Full Time
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Posted
Job description
Hours: 80 hours between May 2022 through November 2022
Department: Global Operations and Business Development
Salary: Commensurate with required experience and qualifications
Corporate Monitor: Maria Alejandra Peláez as Corporate Monitor
Grade: N/A; Consultant
Location: Remote; in-person operations based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, US
University Research Co., LLC (URC)
Guided by a strong vision of equitable and resilient systems that respond to people’s needs and emerging threats, URC helps countries and local actors to build, implement, and sustain science-driven, scalable solutions. Established in 1965, URC offers a range of technical expertise to empower governments, communities, and service providers toward strengthening their own health and social systems and improve service quality. We aim to expand access to and improve the quality of services, addressing maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; global health security and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; nutrition and water, sanitation, and hygiene. In our interactions with each other and our clients, we stay true to our values for transformative change by focusing on:
- Creativity: by unleashing our creativity, we enhance engagement and interaction to improve problem-solving.
- Collaboration: not only our work towards the same vision and mission instill staff with a strong sense of purpose, but also enables us to complement each other’s skills and allocate work to maximize everyone’s strengths.
- Accountability: we hold ourselves responsible for accomplishing goals, completing assignments, and making decisions.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion: we embrace the importance of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, where our leadership and staff model behavior that enriches our organization, demonstrates respect for all people, and supports opportunities for all staff.
- Transparency: we understand that when employees deeply trust one another and their leaders, they will be more engaged in their roles because they will not be worried about unfair treatment.
Responsibilities:
URC seeks a consultant with significant experience, skills and qualifications in grants management to guide the organization by sharing best practices and delivering training on how to effectively integrate grants into existing processes for business development and project implementation. URC will engage the consultant through a blanket purchase agreement under which specific work orders with prescribed deliverables and timelines will be issued. The expected deliverables URC requires of this consultant as work orders under a blanket agreement might include:
- Developing and delivering trainings on different grants mechanisms, the design of grants programs in proposals (grants under contracts and grants under grants) and their execution in implementation
- Providing subject matter expertise in the creation and integration of grants programming in project design for business development efforts
- Advising on best practices for using grants to accelerate local capacity development
- Assessing grants programs under existing projects
- Assessing and revising/updating URC’s grants manual
- Advising and/or leading on the development of a grants management function
Qualifications:
Required Experience and Qualifications
- At least 10 years of progressively responsible grant management experience in international development
- At least 5 years of grants management experience under USAID-funded projects in complex environments
- Deep understanding of operational and compliance requirements of international donors
- Experience integrating grants programming in proposal development and project design
- Prior experience developing and deploying grants management programs at both a corporate and project level
- Experience developing and delivering grants management trainings
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