In-Country Grants Officer at AGRA Tanzania

In-Country Grants Officer
In-Country Grants Officer at AGRA Tanzania July 2024
AGRA and its Work to Transform Agriculture
AGRA
is an African-led institution that actively supports the drive towards
inclusive agricultural transformation and sustainable food systems. We
do this by empowering the continent’s 33 million smallholder farming
households to transform their agriculture from a struggle to survive to
profitable businesses. The continent’s farmers regularly face
challenges, and we aspire to provide uniquely African solutions that
respond to their agricultural and environmental challenges, leading to
increased harvests for reduced hunger and more income.

Working
in alignment with the development priorities of our focus countries, we
enable farmers to access improved and high-yielding seeds, gain
knowledge on sustainable farming, and linkages to profitable markets.

In
our work, we aspire to build the alliances, partnerships, and networks
required to drive an inclusive agricultural transformation. We work with
our partners to create an equitable youth-friendly environment that
harnesses the youth dividend on the continent to drive growth and
facilitate open employment opportunities for young women and men. We achieve our key objectives through a focus on the following four areas of intervention:

• Policy
  and state capability – We support governments in creating an enabling
  environment for private sector involvement in agricultural
  transformation.
• Seed systems – We trigger higher productivity by
  increasing the availability and access to improved seeds by farmers
  allowing them to increase their harvests for food security and better
  incomes.
• Sustainable farming – We support farmers in building
  resilient farming systems for sustained high yields through
  interventions such as mechanization and irrigation.
• Inclusive
  markets and trade – We work to increase the linkages between farmers,
  and other market actors for a positive, sustained cycle of
  commercialization and reinvestment.

Why Join Us?
People are the heartbeat of our organization and remain the true drivers of our delivery, impact, and success.

We
have cultivated a workplace that fuels Depth in Collaboration,
Excellence in Execution, Constructive Engagements, and a spirit of being
Increasingly Entrepreneurial; all underpinned by our cherished l-RISE
Values (Integrity, Respect, Innovation, Stewardship and Equity)

We
work with incredible people and partners who have roots in farming
communities across the African continent combined with an inclusive,
diverse, and talented workforce from over 25 nationalities. Our
commitment to a call to action goes beyond ourselves as we arise to
catalyze African Food Systems transformation and improve the livelihoods
of smallholder farmers.

We are looking for people who are
passionate about being part of a mission-driven team that is making a
real difference on the continent; love to work on cutting edge Ag
technologies; and able to grow their skills, expertise, and experience
career growth, while enjoying very competitive compensation and
benefits.

Are you ready to embark on this exciting transformative journey with us?
The Position
In-Country Grants Officer – Tanzania
Job Reference: GQ/PD/TZ/07/2024
The
In-Country Grants Officer is responsible for working flexibly and
collegially in offering support to the Country Director, grants and
programs staff as well as in processing grants and maintaining a grants
database.

S/he will oversee the grants monitoring and evaluation
processes in the assigned Country, and efficiently manages the flow of
grants as per donor rules and regulations and in compliance with AGRA’s
internal policies and processes and uses technology to achieve the set
turnaround times.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage day to day project and grants management of grantees within their portfolio.
• Creates
  and maintains a grant tracking database through the AGRA management
  information system (AMIS) and other tools to monitor the flow of project
  proposals from the time full grant documentation is received in the
  grants unit to the time a grant award is issued, and the first payment
  is made.
• Identifies grantees requiring technical assistance and
  provides relevant training on AGRA grants compliance and reporting
  requirements.
• Conduct pre-award due diligence for potential grantees including organization capacity assessments.
• Ensure
  adherence to donor compliance requirements by grantees during the life
  of the grant post grants issuance. Provide advice to the country
  leadership on grants compliance requirements.
• Provide grants
  portfolio performance reports to country leadership and provide
  corrective actions on parameters that include commitment budget uptake,
  disbursement, and burn-rate, closures, and implementation of audit
  recommendations etc.
• Collaborates with country leadership, and
  HO regional grants officers in implementing systems, policies, and
  procedures related to grants administration in the designated country.
• Collaborates
  with the program staff to analyze, revise and formalize any necessary
  modifications and/or amendments to grants and contracts.
• Builds
  capability of the AGRA grantees within priority countries through
  providing trainings and technical backstopping on M&E systems and
  tools as required.
• Advocates for compliance with donor and
  AGRA-specific regulations for grant making and all applicable delegation
  of authority policies, as they relate to signatory powers and
  thresholds.
• Track grant-making pipeline, Request for Concept Note processing and Grants Agreement Letter issuance.
• Ensure
  complete and accurate expenditure support documentation is uploaded by
  grantees and AGRA to AMIS in compliance with MCF and other donors as
  appropriate.
• Organize grants charter reviews and compiles grant materials for Grants Committee review.
• Delivers
  training to grantees and other In-Country users of grants tools and
  e-platforms e.g. AMIS and maintains a log of problems and gathers
  information to contribute to continuous enhancement of the database.
• Conduct grantee monitoring and portfolio performance health checks.
• Prepare
  and conduct start-up orientation workshops for new awards and
  coordinate monthly / quarterly meetings with project staff to ensure
  grant contract clauses and all project-related requirements are complied
  with.

Key Qualifications and Experience required:
Essential
o Bachelor’s degree in a commercial domain or equivalent experience in a related field
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Desirable

o
Ability to drive collaboration through inclusive and agile teaming,
breaking siloes, sharing information celebrating joint successes, o
Ability to execute excellently by delivering high-quality work at speed,
committing to decisions and plans, and increasing accountability to
deliver impact at scale.
o Ability to be sincerely constructive in
interactions with others by demonstrating trust, sincerity, and care, in
recognition of our joint purpose.
o Ability be increasingly
entrepreneurial by breaking hierarchies, embracing learning and
innovation to unlock the potential of diversity and ideas.

MODE OF APPLICATION:
If
you believe you are the right candidate for this position, kindly
submit your application with a detailed CV (including your e-mail and
telephone contacts) to recruit@agra.org. Please quote the job reference number in the subject line of the application e-mail.

Applications must be received on or before 24th July, 2024.
Go to our Homepage To Get Relevant Information. Due to the large volumes of applications, we usually receive, we will
only be able to contact those candidates who are shortlisted.