Job Description With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children … Finance, Grants and Compliance Manager – Faith and Community Initiative (FCI) at World Vision Read more The post Finance, Grants and Compliance Manager – Faith and Community Initiative (FCI) at World Vision appeared first on Mwanampotevu Digital .
With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:
Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
**Recruitment is **Contingent upon Award and Donor Approval
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Country Financial Management (20%)
End Results
FCI Tanzania resources are effectively planned, budgeted, monitored and reported, with accurate and timely financial information supporting programme and management decisions. Cash flow, partner disbursements and expenditures are proactively managed; budget variances and financial risks are addressed promptly; and resources are demonstrably directed toward frontline service delivery in accordance with the FCI 80/20 efficiency commitment.
Compliance, Risk, and Audit (15%)
End Results
FCI Tanzania maintains strong financial controls and consistently complies with applicable donor requirements, World Vision policies and Tanzanian statutory requirements. Financial and compliance risks are proactively identified and mitigated, programme and partner records remain audit-ready, and audit/compliance findings and questioned costs are resolved promptly with minimal exposure to disallowed costs, fraud or misuse of resources.
**Sub-Grant Management and Partner Capacity (**15%)
Coordinate the country-level sub-grant management process, including partner due diligence, pre-award assessments, subrecipient risk assessments, subaward setup, budget review, agreement support, and start-up orientation in coordination with World Vision grants, finance, procurement, and compliance teams.
Assess, strengthen and document internal control frameworks across WVT and participating partners, ensuring controls remain proportionate to risk and compliant with donor requirements.
Review partner budgets, advance requests, liquidation reports, invoices, financial reports, procurement files, payroll support, and other supporting documentation for compliance, accuracy, completeness, and timely resolution of issues.
Develop and implement risk-based financial monitoring plans for CHAs, FBOs, and other local partners receiving project resources, using practical tools such as desk reviews, field monitoring checklists, partner visit reports, and corrective action plans.
Track partner advances, spending rates, budget balances, financial performance, compliance findings, questioned costs, corrective actions, and capacity-strengthening milestones through closure.
Provide hands-on coaching and technical assistance to partners on budgeting, financial reporting, internal controls, procurement documentation, payroll support, donor compliance, document retention, and audit readiness.
Coordinate subrecipient closeout processes, including final reconciliations, liquidation of advances, resolution of questioned costs, confirmation of asset disposition, retention of supporting documentation, and timely submission of final partner reports.
** End Results**
Subawards and partner resources are managed through effective due diligence, risk assessment, financial monitoring and accountability mechanisms. Partner advances and expenditures are timely and accurately accounted for, compliance issues are identified and resolved, and subrecipients successfully meet financial, reporting, documentation and close-out requirements.
**Financial Performance, Cost Efficiency and Sustainability (**20%)
Lead routine financial performance and efficiency analysis, including burn rates, budget utilisation, expenditure trends, unit costs and cost drivers, and provide timely recommendations to the Chief of Party and programme leadership for corrective action and resource optimisation.
Establish and maintain mechanisms to monitor the FCI 80/20 efficiency commitment, providing clear visibility of resources reaching frontline health workers, hubs, spokes, faith-based facilities and community service-delivery platforms compared with programme management and administrative costs.
Develop and periodically update cost-efficiency and value-for-money analyses, including cost per hub/spoke, facility or community platform, frontline health worker supported, major intervention and partner-management costs, to inform programme planning and resource-allocation decisions.
Work with the Chief of Party, Technical Director and MEL Manager to integrate financial and programme performance data, ensuring resources are prioritised toward interventions, locations and delivery approaches demonstrating strong performance, efficiency and contribution to programme results.
Provide financial modelling and analysis to support government, CHA/FBO and local partner ownership and domestic financing, including estimating recurrent costs, financing gaps, affordability and resource requirements for sustaining priority FCI-supported services, workforce and systems.
Support development and implementation of the programme’s financial sustainability and transition strategy, including costing functions proposed for government/FBO absorption, tracking financial commitments and co-investments, and providing evidence to inform phased transition and institutionalisation decisions.
End Results
FCI Tanzania demonstrates strong financial performance, value for money and transparent resource allocation, with the 80/20 efficiency commitment routinely monitored and management decisions informed by credible financial and programme evidence. Sustainable financing requirements are clearly identified, and Government, CHA/FBO and local partners are progressively supported to plan, finance and assume viable programme costs and functions for long-term sustainability.
**Localization and Partner Financial Capacity Strengthening (**15%)
Assess the financial management, grants compliance, internal controls, and documentation capacity of CHAs, FBOs, and other local implementing partners.
Develop practical partner-capacity strengthening plans, tools, checklists, and templates to improve budgeting, cash management, financial reporting, procurement documentation, audit readiness, and closeout practices.
Support local partners, including those with limited prior U.S. Government funding experience, to progressively meet donor and World Vision financial and compliance standards.
Track progress against partner-capacity strengthening milestones and provide regular updates to the Country Project Director, and Global Finance and Compliance teams.
End Results
Participating CHAs, FBOs and local implementing partners demonstrate progressively stronger financial management, internal controls, procurement, donor compliance, reporting and audit-readiness capacity, enabling them to responsibly manage donor resources and assume greater financial and implementation responsibility within FCI and locally owned health systems.
Coordination, Systems, and Grant Operations (15%)
End Results
Financial, procurement, programme, MEL and partner-management processes are effectively coordinated and supported by accurate and accessible financial systems, grant files and management information. Budgets, work plans, procurement plans and reporting timelines remain aligned, while financial modelling provides credible evidence for cost efficiency, domestic financing, government/FBO absorption and programme transition decisions.
KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE
Required Professional Experience
Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification
Bachelor’s degree required in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field; Master’s degree or professional certification such as CPA, ACCA, CIA, CFE, or equivalent preferred.
Preferred Technical competencies
Organizational Awareness:
Understands business operations and the mission, work and priorities of the organization. Applies understanding of the organization’s informal structure, culture and climate in achieving goals.
Program Design and Implementation:
Effectively design development and relief programs that transform communities in need. Understands how to acquire and integrate resources to support program design.
Sector Knowledge:
Understand current methodologies and standards associated with different sectors and effectively applies knowledge in designing, monitoring and evaluating programs.
Funding Mechanisms Knowledge:
Understands diverse funding mechanisms (e.g., cost proposals, etc.), how they operate, and the requirements for each, and applies knowledge in developing budgets.
Managing Resources:
Identifies appropriate people, facilities, tools and materials, time constraints, vendors, etc. for accomplishing goals. Considers potential costs and benefits of resources prior to allocating them.
Coaching and Developing Others:
Coach and mentor others effectively. Understands the performance evaluation process, how to give and receive feedback, how to find and set up developmental opportunities, and how adults learn.
Knowledge Management:
Effectively organizes and manages information resources so that current, critical knowledge is retained and information can easily be disseminated. Develops feedback loops to ensure best practice information is captured.
English Language Proficiency:
The ability to speak, understand and write fluently in English.
Please Note*: *World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments
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Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only
How to Apply:
Job type Full-time Job, To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
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