Introduction:
Aga Khan University, chartered in 1983 as Pakistan’s first private international University, is committed to the provision of education, research, and health care based on international standards relevant to Pakistan and the region. The affiliated Aga Khan University Hospital provides state-of-the-art clinical facilities and well-equipped diagnostic services. The University currently has teaching sites in Pakistan, East Africa, the United Kingdom, and Afghanistan and is a major component of the Aga Khan Development Network.
AKU is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and aims to adopt appropriate standards for ensuring and promoting a respectful relationship with and between all faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting the post award manager in grant project milestones, extensions, closeouts and site visits. Other responsibilities will include post-award grants management, including communication with internal and external stakeholders, management of grants data in the system, process improvements, preparation and maintenance of data for reports, and compliance of policies, and other related activities. In this position you will be responsible for:
- providing support to manager post award in management of grant post-award activities for External Funding, preparation and follow-ups with relevant departments (Legal, Finance, Security Control, Housing & Estates, Clinical Research Unit and Human Resource)
- assisting post-award manager on research field site visits to ensure policy compliance.
- ensuring that grant milestones are input into the system and deadlines are tracked.
- ensuring changes to grant activity are properly documented.
- ensuring timely data inputs of project milestones and project closeouts by grant administrators.
- working with Grants and Contracts team in Finance to understand the budget requirements and track the expenditure, highlighting under and overspends, and request explanations as necessary.
- monitoring grants variance report (GVR), discuss with PI about corrective and preventive measures with respect to utilization of grants.
- any other responsibility assigned by the supervisors.
Requirements:
The incumbent should:
- have a Master’s in Business Administration (additional qualification would be an added advantage) from a reputable national or international university
- have relevant experience of 2 to 4 years preferably with a Grants Management or Project Management background
- have strong interpersonal and communication skills
- have proficiency in computers especially MS Office
- be numerate with experience in budgeting
- be willing to travel to research communities / rural field sites
- have resilience and ability to cope with work pressure & stringent deadlines
- have excellent report writing skills
- have excellent Organization Skills and Analytical Skills
- have good spoken and written English
Comprehensive reference checks will be conducted.
