Description
Position Title: Senior Grant Compliance Manager
Reports to: Associate Director of Grant Compliance
Location: Remote U.S.; Boston, MA; or Hybrid, 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:
Reporting to the Associate Director of Grant Compliance, the Senior Grant Compliance Manager will support Partners In Health (PIH) staff throughout the organization on compliance with grant terms and conditions and preparedness for and response to donor-led grant audits. The Senior Grant Compliance Manager will participate in all aspects of the grant life cycle, providing inputs to proposal teams and responses to donor inquiries in the proposal phase, supporting development of compliance checklists and other compliance tools in the award phase, monitoring effectiveness of compliance processes in the implementation phase, ensuring completion of grant close out, and supporting or leading on audit response. In addition to supporting on specific awards, the Senior Grant Compliance Manager will work with a portfolio of PIH care-delivery and academic site staff to ensure that key staff at those sites have the tools, support, training, and capacity to implement policies and procedures necessary for donor compliance, and clearly and accurately demonstrate that compliance in audits and donor assessments.
Responsibilities:
Site-specific support (60%)
- Provide compliance inputs to PIH proposal processes such as ensuring compliance-related costs are included in grant budgets, supporting proposal teams on determinations of PIH eligibility, responding to donor inquiries regarding PIH legal structure, compliance capacity, policies and systems and other pre-award compliance inquiries.
- Support the PIH Legal team as needed in evaluating and negotiating compliance terms in award agreements.
- Support PIH legal and care-delivery or academic site legal, finance and grant management staff with the assessment and monitoring of grant compliance by PIH sub-award recipients.
- Conduct thorough reviews of new or newly amended award agreements to distill key donor requirements and communicate them to project, operations, and relevant administrative staff.
- In collaboration with U.S. coordination site and care-delivery or academic site project management, grant management, finance, and other operations and administrative staff, confirm or establish appropriate grant compliance systems and processes, and monitor ongoing compliance with such processes.
- Serve as the main point of contact for compliance-related questions and to problem solve complex compliance issues.
- Provide guidance to care-delivery and academic sites for the management of and response to allegations of misconduct including drafting donor communication and misconduct reports, investigation committee oversight, review of investigation materials, and implementation of corrective action plans.
Donor Audit support (15%)
- Manage (or support care-delivery or academic site-based staff in managing) donor-initiated audits, including developing or reviewing audit requests for proposals and terms of reference, planning and organizing audit workplans and timeframes, responding or reviewing responses to auditor inquiries,