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Grants Manager, USAID Jamaica Caribbean Basin Security Initiative

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Company Profile:
MSI is a Washington, D.C.-based international development firm providing specialized short- and long-term technical assistance. Since its 1981 founding, MSI has grown in size and technical scope, now implementing and managing more than 70 projects worldwide. More than 30 are long-term, many in conflict-prone or fragile states that include Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Sudan. Today, our range of technical expertise includes analytical and field projects in democracy and governance, economic growth, strategic planning, organizational capacity building, health and the justice sector. MSI focuses on helping our local partners foster progress, manage change and improve the effectiveness of development assistance. We expanded our global footprint in 2008 by becoming part of Coffey, a leading geoscience, international development and project management firm, and a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange. Alongside the international development arm of Coffey, MSI has corporate offices in 17 countries. Together, MSI and Coffey employ more than 1,400 professionals worldwide. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
Project/Proposal Summary:
The purpose of the USAID Jamaica Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) is to build on previous initiatives in Jamaica to strengthen community and civil society organizations, increase citizen cooperation and accountability, improve community policing practices, strengthen juvenile justice and at-risk youth programs. The program will also aim to improve the ability of communities to better respond to climate change and extreme weather events.
Responsibilities:
  • Overall responsibility for managing the grants under contract mechanism that will be awarded under the program.
  • Work with grant recipients to ensure that such awards conform to USG procurement and competition requirements.
  • Monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the grants.
Qualifications:
  • Relevant Master’s degree and at least 10 years grant management experience (or a relevant Bachelor’s degree with more than 12 years of grants management experience), specifically on preparing, negotiating, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating grants and working with local recipients.
  • Extensive experience and technical expertise working with community-based organizations and NGOs.
  • Experience working in dynamic inner-city communities and an understanding of the socio-cultural issues and nuances of working in such communities is highly desirable.
  • Knowledge of or prior experience working on community policing, civil society and community strengthening activities is a plus.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. (This position is open to Jamaican nationals only). No phone calls, please.
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