Description
Position Title: Grant Compliance Manager
Reports to: Associate Director of Grant Compliance
Location: Boston, MA or remote within the U.S., with up to 15% international travel
Employment Type: Full time
Candidates must have authorization to work in the U.S. Please note that we are not able to sponsor U.S. work authorization for this role.
Position Overview:
Partners In Health (PIH) is looking for a motivated, detail-oriented Grant Compliance Manager, with at least five years of international development experience ensuring award compliance with policies and procedures for high compliance, donor-funded awards and audits. The position requires strong cross-cultural acumen and superb interpersonal and communication skills to support geographically diverse teams to develop and uphold strong compliance systems in accordance with PIH and donor requirements.
Reporting to the Associate Director of Grant Compliance, the Grant Compliance Manager will serve as the key contact for all compliance, policy, and procedure inquiries for a portfolio of PIH care delivery and academic sites. Responsibilities include reviewing, developing, and implementing policies, procedures and systems to support, strengthen, and monitor site compliance with PIH policies, donor requirements, applicable local regulations, and grant compliance standards. The Grant Compliance Manager will also plan, coordinate, and manage grant-specific audits and donor risk assessments.
Responsibilities:
Site-specific compliance support – 65%
- Work with care-delivery and academic site colleagues to develop, rollout, train staff on, and monitor adherence to policies and procedures relating to proper administration of high-compliance awards.
- Review award agreements and distill and communicate key donor requirements to project and operations staff. Work with project staff to monitor and advise on donor compliance throughout the life of the award.
- Serve as the main point of contact for care delivery and U.S. Coordination Site staff for compliance-related questions and to problem solve complex compliance issues.
- Coordinate with proposal leads and site grant management staff to respond to donor pre-award compliance inquiries and to ensure that compliance-related costs are included in proposal budgets.
- Support project and/or award management staff with the assessment and monitoring of sub-award recipients.
Audits and Assessments – 25%
- Coordinate and manage grant-specific audits by managing the audit schedule, coordinating staff to prepare for and fulfill requests from the auditors, and draft and review responses to audit inquiries.
- Follow up on post-audit and assessment action points. Guide and support the site teams on implementation and communication of post-audit corrective actions.
- Provide support for the organization-wide annual U.S. Government Single Audit.
- Liaise between care delivery site and U.S. Coordination Site teams to complete donor pre-award risk assessment questionnaires.
- Develop tools and systems to advance audit preparedness and train teams to build capacity for audits.
Organization-level support– 10%
- Work with the Grant Management and Compliance team to advance the