Closing date: 01 Mar 2019
The Global Road Safety Partnership (www.grsproadsafety.org) is a hosted programme of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and is a voluntary association of governments, businesses and civil society organisations. Both the IFRC and Global Road Safety Partnership are headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The aim of the Global Road Safety Partnership’s work is to reduce death and serious injuries as a result of road crashes in low- and middle-income countries. Globally, road crashes are estimated to cause some 1.4 million fatalities and 50 million serious injuries annually. One important way to address this humanitarian crisis is to ensure that strong, evidence-based laws are in place and effectively implemented in order to protect road users.
GRSP manages two separate competitive grants programmes: The Road Safety Grants Programme and the Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge. The Road Safety Grants Programme’s primary objective is to support civil society organizations and National Societies to advocate for the passage and implementation of evidence-based policies to protect road users. This support includes the provision of funding, building the capacity of grantee organizations to effectively advocate, and broader capacity building of grantee organizations to effectively manage projects and funding. At present, the Road Safety Grants Programme is operational in 14 countries and 10 mega-cities around the world. The Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge (“The Challenge”), funded by Fondation Botnar, is a programme designed to address locally relevant road safety problems that affect children in small- and mid-sized cities in six priority countries (India, Mexico, Romania, South Africa, Tunisia and Vietnam) with practical, innovative and evidence-based interventions. Project cities will involve the provision of technical support to local consortiums made up of government agencies, civil society organizations, and private sector actors. The Challenge will provide funding to local government agencies and civil society partners. GRSP is providing the technical support under the Challenge and managing the grants programme. The consultant will provide support to both programmes.
Consultancy Purpose:
The Financial Compliance consultant is a highly technical consultancy position. It will support the Advocacy & Grants Programme to ensure compliance with donor and IFRC requirements governing the Road Safety Grants Programme and Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge; conduct analysis of individual grants against relevant United States tax and legal codes with regard to the use of grants funds for direct lobbying activities (for the Road Safety Grants Programme); build the capacity of grantee organizations to become healthy and sustainable; and provide on-going reviews and analyses of grant application budgets, grantee financial reports, and other Road Safety Grans Programme and Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge finance-related documents.
Consultancy deliverables:
Complete financial due diligence, per IFRC/GRSP requirements, on all new grantee organizations under the Road Safety Grants Programme and Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge.
Evaluate and identify lobbying and non-lobbying activities, as defined under United States tax and legal codes, for all new grants under the Road Safety Grants Programme.
Review and evaluate all budgets and associated financial documents submitted with new grant applications against grant programmatic objectives.
Review and evaluate all financial reports and associated financial documents submitted by grantees as part of the regular reporting and monitoring structure of the Road Safety Grants Programme and Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge.
Conduct or assist in on-the-ground grant negotiations and site visits, as identified in conjunction with relevant Advocacy & Grants Programme and Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge staff. Provide training and support to Advocacy & Grants Programme and Botnar Child Road Safety Challenge staff on grants financial management, budgeting, and other finance-related issues, at the direction of the Programme Manager.
Experience:
- More than 7 years of experience providing financial compliance support to an international grants programme, including reviewing grant application budgets and grantee financial reports
- More than 7 years of experience providing technical support, including capacity building, to civil society organizations in low- and middle income countries
- Experience working for the Red Cross /Red Crescent; or international NGOs / multi-lateral organisation with a focus on policy change or other humanitarian organisation.
How to apply:
If you are interested, take a look at the full description of Financial Compliance Consultancy. The deadline is on 01 March 2019