Grants and Compliance Manager - I - (Field Only) at Catholic Relief Services' (CRS)

Functional Supervisor: Head of Operations

Department: Uganda, Programming

Location: Kampala

Deadline: September 11, 2026 no later than 5pm

Note: CRS is recruiting in anticipation of an award – recruitment for all candidates is contingent upon successful award of the project.

Job Summary 

The Grants and Compliance Manager is responsible for compliant implementation of the project in Uganda, leading grant implementation as it relates to compliance, milestone reporting, agreement management, and financial issues in line with donor and CRS policies.

Grant Financial Management

• Serve as principal point of contact on the project for grant financial management and compliance issues with program staff, sub-awardees, the project’s core global team, CRS HQ Finance, and country program finance and compliance staff. Ensure that relevant staff are aware of donor requirements. 
• Contribute to project start-up, mid-term and close-out meetings to ensure broad understanding of finance related requirements.
• Support the project’s global team, country program, HQ finance and compliance colleagues. Address issues/questions on grant conditions and the need for modifications or clarifications.

Subaward Management

• Support development, review, and approval of Fixed Amount Award agreements at the sub-award levels, ensuring adherence to CRS and donor requirements. Develop and process amendments if/as required. 
• For any exceptions to FAA agreements with local partners, if such exist, provide support for the timely assessment of the project’s Uganda partner financial capacity and ability to adhere to specific donor requirements. Develop related action plans with program and finance staff to address any capacity or system gaps. 
• Monitor and enforce safeguarding policy compliance for the project in Uganda with sub-awardees. Conduct required assessments.
• Develop and maintain a reporting tracking and communications system to ensure that sub-awardees adhere to reporting deadlines, milestones, expiration dates, and donor approved changes in grant procedures.
• Review sub-awardee progress reports to compare milestone achievement to spending, analyze reported financial or compliance impediments to the project plan, recommend reimbursement as appropriate to the Project Director, resolve questioned costs if/as needed. 

Reporting

• Prepare financial reports in CRS financial systems to support easy reconciliation and budget monitoring of projects.
• Co-develop progress reports that tie milestone achievement to spending for donor reporting. Contribute analysis of deviations arising from finance/compliance issues. 
• Support finance requests for CRS and sub-grantee questions about budgets, spending as related to milestone achievement, and reporting. Provide guidance on requirements and practices of donor/CRS finance policy.

Compliance

• Develop tools, operations manuals, and communication to ensure global grant staff and sub-awardees are aware of and implement donor policies on compliance issues e.g., time keeping, travel, and procurement. Collaborate with country and global staff to ensure that CRS’ safeguarding policies are followed throughout project implementation.
• Assist with financial audit preparation if/as required. Ensure timely closure of audit recommendations. Oversee the preparation, implementation and monitoring of related action plans.
• Oversee and lead the financial close-out of the project.

Cost Application Development

• Provide oversight in the development of follow-on cost applications and milestone plans, ensuring budgets are reasonable, accurate, and adequately reflect the costs of activities required to successfully carry out the program.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

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