Posted on July 27, 2010

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Assistant Grants Administrator

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is expanding its financial team, creating an Assistant Grants Administrator position to work closely with the CFO, Controller and Grant Administrator to expand and improve the organization's grant management and reporting systems.

The Assistant Grants Administrator will work with the Finance and Research staff in various countries to build upon and further develop IPA's grant management and reporting systems. This includes tracking the terms and conditions of grants and contracts, including temporary and permanent restrictions; tracking the timing of deliverables and issuing invoices and reports to donors.

Responsibilities

The Assistant Grants Administrator will assist in providing operational and administrative support in the following ways:

• Work with in-country project staff and US-based finance staff to improve systems to track
• Grant requirements and deliverables
• Contract deliverables
• Invoicing schedules for all sources of funds
• Donor reporting requirements
• Prepare quarterly invoices and reports for donors as needed
• Communicate with donor institutions to ensure IPA remains compliant with donor requirements

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in grants management, preferably for a global nonprofit or academic institution.
• Bachelor's Degree with strong academic performance
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Computer proficiency
• Interest in working in a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment

We are looking for a commitment period of two years for this position, which we expect to start as soon as possible and not later than September 2010.

Application Instructions

To Apply

If you are interested, please do two things:

1. Complete the J-PAL/IPA common application (http://apply.povertyactionlab.org/apply/login) indicating that you are interested in applying for a "Type 1" position. Please note: you are not required to include transcripts or letters of recommendation upon initial submission. After submitting, you can edit your application at any time and may add these materials.

2. Send an email to jpaljobs@gmail.com, following these instructions exactly:

In the subject line: Put your full name, first (given) name followed by last (family) name.

Attachments: Please attach ONLY your CV.

In the email body: Copy exactly the following position line:

100193 IPAUSA, Assistant Grants Administrator

Please do not include any text besides the position line(s) in the body of the e-mail. Adding extra text will interfere with the processing of your application.

If you are applying to multiple positions, you can put multiple positions lines in the same email. And you may send multiple such emails. However, please do not do this for more than 10 positions per every 6 month period. So, if you put 10 position lines in one email, then that counts as ten. Or if you put 4 in one email, and 6 in another, that also counts as ten.

J-PAL and IPA work closely together to conduct rigorous impact evaluations to test and improve the effectiveness of poverty reduction programs. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.