Grant Officer

Overview

Ensure effective WHO country presence through grant management.

You have:

• University degree in Business Administrations, Management, Humanities, Public Administrations, or related fields.
• One year of experience in the area of grant management and/or the administration of programme and budget activities.
• Excellent knowledge of English.
• Excellent knowledge of Arabic.
• Demonstrated experience working with costings and other financial tracking sheets.
• Knowledge in the area of administration in the area of budget and finance.

Contract

This is a NO-A contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 1 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be more than 3,607 USD.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

To ensure that effective WHO country presence is established to implement WHO country cooperation strategies that are aligned with Member State's health priorities, sustainable development agendas and harmonized with the United Nations country teams and partners to improve health outcomes and progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

1. Exchange information with national counterparts in donor agencies to identify support and ensure necessary reporting on programme performance on activities funded through various grants. 2. Ensure reports to be submitted to donors are in line with project requirements, focused on expected results and in compliance with related donor legal agreements. 3. Track implementation of WCO programme workplans and liaise with managers across the WCO in ensuring that workplans are developed. 4. Update the tracking tools and report on the implementation of planned activities, cost projections, and follow up with programme managers on activity performance. 5. Participate in the Resource Mobilization process by preparing draft proposals to donors in close coordination with technical officers and CRP. 6. Maintain an up-to-date tracking system to monitor deadlines for submission of proposal and reports to donors. 7. Create Award Distribution Requests (ADR) and Award Modification Requests (AMRs) in CEM, including integration and processing through GSC and monitor timely award closure engaging both finance and programme staff well in advance of closure deadlines. 8. Communicate with HQ and EMRO to secure the required clearance, including legal and financial clearances for proposals and donor agreements before signature. 9. Perform other incident related duties including replacing and backstopping as required.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: University degree in Business Administrations, Management, Humanities, Public Administrations, or related fields. Desirable: specialized training in accounting, programme and budget

Experience

Essential:

• One year of experience in the area of grant management and/or the administration of programme and budget activities.
• Demonstrated experience working with costings and other financial tracking sheets.

Desirable:

• Experience working in the United Nations system or another international organization.

Skills

• Sound knowledge in the area of programme management. • Good skills and knowledge in the area of grant management. • Knowledge in the area of administration in the area of budget and finance.

WHO Competencies

Enhanced WHO Global Competency Model: https://www.who.int/employment/WHO_competencies_EN.pdf?ua=1

• Teamwork
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• Communication
• Ensuring the effective use of resources
• Producing results

Use of Language Skills

Essential:

• Excellent knowledge of English.
• Excellent knowledge of Arabic.

Desirable:

• Working knowledge of another WHO official language.

REMUNERATION

Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at JOD 29,738 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable) and 30 days of annual leave.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level.

• Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply on-line through Stellis. For assessment of your application, please ensure that: 1 -Your profile on Stellis is properly completed and updated. 2- All required details regarding your qualifications, education, training and experience are provided under relevant sections. 3- Your experience records are properly entered with elaboration on tasks performed at the time.

• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

• A written test may be used as a form of screening.

• In the event that your candidature is retained for an interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.

• Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and Manual.

• Staff members in other duty stations are encouraged to apply.

• For information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int.

• WHO is committed to workforce diversity.

• WHO prides itself on a workforce that adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards and that is committed to put the WHO Values Charter into practice.

• WHO has zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct (i.e., discrimination, abuse of authority and harassment). All members of the WHO workforce have a role to play in promoting a safe and respectful workplace and should report to WHO any actual or suspected cases of SEA, sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct. To ensure that individuals with a substantiated history of SEA, sexual harassment or other types of abusive conduct are not hired by the Organization, WHO will conduct a background verification of final candidates.

• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.

• This is a National Professional Officer position. Therefore, only applications from nationals of the country where the duty station is located will be accepted. Applicants who are not nationals of this country will not be considered.

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