USAID/Rwanda Hinga Wunguke Exercise
Co-Funding Fund (CIF) Officer
CNFA
CNFA is a not-for-profit group based mostly in Washington, D.C., devoted to stimulating financial development within the agricultural sector and enhancing livelihoods by cultivating entrepreneurship. CNFA focuses on fostering non-public sector investments in coaching, progressive applied sciences and advertising and marketing as a way to extend the general competitiveness of agricultural worth chains and rural improvement, to extend folks’s incomes, to develop abilities within the rural workforce, and to facilitate exports.
Program Description USAID Feed the Future Hinga Wunguke Exercise
The aim of the USAID Feed the Future Hinga Wunguke Exercise (Hinga Wunguke) is to help elevated agriculture productiveness and earnings, entry to finance and markets, and entry and consumption of nutritious meals merchandise in Rwanda, whereas growing the resilience of the agriculture and meals techniques to the altering local weather. To attain this aim, the Exercise will sustainably enhance agricultural productiveness, enhance entry to finance for farmers and agribusinesses, enhance producers’ vitamin and market outcomes, and strengthen the enabling setting to foster market-driven outcomes in agriculture.
To attain program targets Hinga Wunguke will deploy a Co-Funding Fund (CIF) and Catalytic Service Supplier Fund (CSPF) throughout all Exercise elements. The CIF can be used to leverage non-public sector funding and formalize partnerships with market actors to inclusively strengthen meals market techniques within the Hinga Wunguke goal districts. CIF partnerships will lead to formalized grant awards between Hinga Wunguke and the award recipient to co-invest in new and sustainable enterprise fashions or applied sciences, increasing current fashions to new geographies or new meals merchandise, and enhancing inclusion of girls, youth, and folks with disabilities in meals market techniques. The CIF will apply a Market Methods Improvement (MSD) method and be demand-driven, aggressive, and performance-based to facilitate a variety of transformative investments within the agricultural sector of Rwanda.
The Hinga Wunguke Zone of Affect contains the next goal districts: Bugesera, Ngoma, Kayonza, Gatsibo, Gakenke, Burera, Nyabihu, Rubavu, Rutsiro, Ngororero, Karongi, Nyamasheke, and Nyamagabe.
Place Description
Reporting to the Partnership and Funding Director, the CIF Officer will help the CIF and Element groups in all elements of CIF grants administration, together with supporting grant making from solicitation to close-out, and guaranteeing environment friendly and compliant grants administration aligned with program targets.
Duties and Duties
The primary duties of the CIF Officer embrace, however usually are not restricted to:
- Assist the CIF crew within the administration of CIF grants from solicitation to closeout, together with CIF/grant solicitation improvement, software assessment and choice, due diligence, award negotiation, monitoring, and reporting.
- Coordinate with Kigali-based element groups, administrative administration items, and provincial workplaces to make sure clean implementation of grant actions.
- Assist employees coaching on the way to operationalize program methods via CIF grant partnerships consistent with insurance policies outlined within the CIF Handbook and Procurement Handbook.
- Function a Hinga Wunguke useful resource on the way to operationalize CIF partnerships (grants), and the way to establish CIF vs. Catalytic Service Provision Fund (CSPF) contract alternatives.
- Collaborate with program and technical groups to establish CIF partnership alternatives (grants) aligned with Exercise targets.
- Present technical help and steering to potential companions all through the CIF software and implementation course of.
- Coordinate with CIF and element groups to make sure applicant questions are addressed and that the executive assessment and analysis scoring templates are up to date as wanted.
- Monitor, monitor and type grant purposes on a weekly foundation consistent with Hinga Wunguke submitting techniques, together with updating the applicant tracker.
- Coordinate carefully with the Partnership and Funding Supervisor to replace and preserve the CIF grants tracker on a weekly foundation.
- Conduct thorough pre-award assessments of potential companions and all required due diligence.
- Assist the grantee preparation, planning, kick-off, assessment, and monitoring conferences as requested.
- Collaborate with the Finance crew to make sure correct monetary administration and reporting consistent with USAID rules.
- Keep complete grant pipeline and related trackers information, monitoring disbursements, modifications, and every other related data.
- Guarantee grant information are maintained and guarantee they’re at all times up-to-date and prepared for audit.
- Use Hinga Wunguke CIF Handbook, Procurement handbook and CNFA templates as instruments to make sure compliance.
- Help in implementing inside compliance procedures and controls to mitigate dangers and guarantee accountability.
- Assist exterior audits and evaluations, offering vital documentation and knowledge as required.
- Different duties on the request of the Partnership and Funding Director or their designee.
{Qualifications}
The required {qualifications} of the CIF Officer embrace, however usually are not restricted to:
- College diploma in accounting, enterprise, finance, public administration, agricultural economics or a associated subject.
- Minimal of three years of grants administration expertise in USAID-funded program(s) and demonstrated data of USAID guidelines & rules (FAR, AIDAR, ADS 303).
- At the very least 4 years progressive work expertise for complicated donor-funded challenge(s) associated to agricultural finance, worth chain improvement, agricultural funding, non-public sector funding, and/or entry to finance.
- Demonstrated skill to barter budgets, assessment monetary vouchers, and expense experiences.
- Administrative expertise with NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and NGO procedures.
- Demonstrated expertise supporting all levels of a grants administration (e.g., supporting the event of solicitations, supporting candidates full grant purposes, taking part within the assessment, analysis and number of grant purposes, supporting implementation and close-out).
- Expertise administering grants funds with cost-share necessities is most popular.
- Organized crew participant, with pro-active and versatile work model.
- Confirmed expertise in managing a number of and competing duties whereas sustaining high quality of deliverables inside deadlines.
- Robust laptop abilities particularly in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Phrase, PowerPoint, and expertise in utilizing monetary administration software program.
- Superior verbal and written communication abilities in English required: Fluent Kinyarwanda required; French abilities are thought-about an asset.
- Have to be versatile, dependable, responsive, resourceful, and have immense consideration to element.
Place of Efficiency
The situation of obligation efficiency is primarily in Kigali, with occasional subject work within the Hinga Wunguke Zone of Affect.
Software Directions
All and certified Candidate can ship their software (motivation letter, up to date CV, certificates and references) paperwork to: ModAg@cnfarwanda.org no later than 05th September 2023 at 6:00 PM. Please quote the job title within the topic and title your CV file with YOUR NAME, POSITION APPLIED. Solely candidates chosen for interview can be contacted.
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