Grants Financial Specialist III

**This fixed term role is supported by grant funding that is approved for a one-year period**

Location: Arusha, Tanzania

This career specialist facilitates financial and compliance oversight of mid-to large-scale grants with broad scope and impact, frequently involving government and multilateral donors. This role operates with significant autonomy in budgeting, financial reporting, risk analysis, and compliance domains, ensuring adherence to both donor regulations and organizational policies. This specialist works closely with program leadership, providing financial insights that support decision-making and strengthen donor stewardship. Additionally, the role may mentor junior specialists or oversee grant program-specific financials. This role further coordinates improvements to financial systems or processes and coordinates efforts to build financial management capacity across multiple grants. He or she may coach other specialists and related staff concerning technical financial matters.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
• Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
• Facilitates financial management for complex donor‑funded awards, preparing high‑quality financial reports, forecasts, and analyses and ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and donor compliance. Further coordinates with field accountants to ensure proper recording to feed into deeper analysis.
• Ensures timely and accurate financial reporting to institutional and multilateral donors, as well as stakeholders. Utilizes financial reporting systems to track grant expenditures and ensure compliance with donor-specific requirements, as well as preparing regular reports for donor-funded projects.
• Within the scope of his/her own contributions, adheres to U.S. Government regulations, such as CFR, FAR, and OMB Circulars, as well as multilateral donor policies and procedures. Monitors financials to address any financial discrepancies or compliance issues and coordinates with partner teams and field accounting staff to ensure that procured goods are tracked, documented, utilized, and dispositioned at the end of grants according to donor requirements and organizational policies.
• Collaborates with the compliance specialist to facilitate vendor screening, ensuring compliance with U.S./EU excluded parties' lists while coordinating with external auditors during donor audits and assist in the preparation of audit schedules and documentation and serves as a point of contact for financial aspects of procurement audits, including third-party audits such as Single Audit.
• Develops limited budgets for government and multilateral donor-funded projects, ensuring accurate and realistic financial planning. Collaborates with global program and national offices to assist with forecasting and monitoring of financial performance against projections.
• Works closely with the finance team, global program, legal and other key stakeholders ensuring effective financial management of government and institutional funded projects and collaborates within the core grants team to ensure seamless coordination and integration of financial and programmatic activities.
• Monitors donor-funded projects to identify and address any financial discrepancies or compliance issues and coordinates with Controller, Compliance Specialist, and field accounting staff to ensure that procured goods are tracked, documented, utilized, and dispositioned at the end of grants according to donor requirements and organizational policies. Collaborates with the compliance team to enhance procurement-related financial management.
• Facilitate the use of financial management tools and resources to enhance the capacity of the finance team, ensuring compliance and efficiency in managing donor-funded projects. Provides training and support to program staff on financial management for institutional, government, and multilateral donor grants requirements.
• May coach other financial specialists and related staff concerning technical finance issues.

Faith

• Has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Culture

• Accountable for supporting, upholding, and engaging in Compassion's core "Cultural Behaviors" in all internal and external communication and relationships.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.

Licenses and Certifications

• Certification from a nationally or internationally recognized organization in a related field.

*Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above

Working Environment

Office – Standard Office Environment

Physical Demands

Sitting, standing, and/or walking for up to 8 hours per day

Travel Requirements

May be required to travel up to 10% of normal schedule