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Position Title: Financial Consultant
Minimum Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree and 20 years of relevant experience
Substitutions and Equivalents: Master’s degree and 16 years of relevant experience, JD/ABD and 14 years of relevant experience, or Ph.D. and 10 years of relevant experience.
Anticipated Start Date: October 23, 2023, or October 30, 2023
Project: Partnerships Incubator
Location: Virtual
Level of Effort: Part-time Consultancy (Total number of hours will depend on the periods of performance and scopes of work assigned)
Project Director: Donna Vincent Roa, Ph.D., ABC, CDPMⓇ
About Kaizen
Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven, organizational, and institutional performance improvements and shift the development model into one that is bottom-up and ongoing. We leverage existing knowledge, new technologies, and innovative business models.
Kaizen is hiring a highly motivated professional looking to create a social impact in a fast-paced and rewarding work environment. We seek applications for the Financial Consultant position for the USAID-funded Partnerships Incubator. This five-year project started in October 2019 and ends on September 30, 2024.
About The Partnerships Incubator
USAID aims to diversify its partner base by removing barriers to engagement and creating avenues for new and nontraditional partners to work with the Agency. The Partnerships Incubator was set up as a global service hub to address this need by amplifying USAID’s external communications efforts to strengthen and diversify the Agency’s partner base, expanding Agency capacity for partnerships, and supporting partner organizations working with USAID.
The Partnerships Incubator works with USAID headquarters and Missions to identify and engage new and local partners, provide training and capacity-strengthening assistance, and develop tools, resources, and models to advance USAID’s partnership goals. The project also designed, developed, and launched WorkwithUSAID.org, a free, USAID-funded resource hub designed to connect partners to peers and experts, improve their organizational readiness, and prepare them to receive USAID funding.
Position Overview
The Financial Consultant will play a critical role in supporting local USAID implementing partners on resources, tutorials, and best practices for financial planning, management, and reporting in order to meet USAID requirements. They will review partner systems to determine if those systems are in compliance with USAID standards, and make recommendations for organizations to come into or improve compliance. The consultant will advise partners how to structure departments and delegate responsibility within their organizations in order to ensure alignment with USAID’s financial regulations.
The Partnerships Incubator is establishing a pool of consultants who may be assigned to scopes of work (SOWs) immediately or at any time up to September 30, 2024. Consultants may be assigned to any SOW based on Incubator needs and in alignment with a consultant’s skillset, as identified in their resume, cover letter, pre-engagement questionnaire, and during Incubator evaluation. While the Financial Consultant position is virtual, the Incubator operates globally and consultants may be assigned SOWs in any country or region based on need and skillset. Consultants may also be assigned to individual or team SOWs based on Incubator need.
Principal Responsibilities
- Advise and guide local USAID partners on resources, tutorials, and best practices for financial planning, management, and reporting in order to meet USAID compliance requirements.
- Review partner systems (i.e. manuals, processes, allocation of responsibilities, procedures, etc.) to determine if those systems are in compliance with USAID financial standards.
- Provide recommendations and lead implementation for organizations to come into or improve financial compliance.
- Advise partners how to structure departments and delegate responsibility within their organizations in order to financially manage awards compliantly.
- Review the partner’s process for forecasting and projecting activity expenditure.
- Instruct organizations on how to develop and maintain the project’s budget in alignment with USAID regulations.
- Contribute to sections of the partner technical assistance final report as necessary.
- Other related duties, as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 20 years of relevant experience, OR Master’s degree and 16 years of relevant experience, OR JD/ABD and 14 years of relevant experience, OR Ph.D. and 10 years of relevant experience.
- Proven experience in financial management.
- In-depth knowledge of USAID financial regulations and compliance, including knowledge of FAR, CFR, ADS, AIDAR, and the USAID-implementing partner paradigm is required.
- Demonstrated track record mentoring others, implementing training/workshops, and/or designing training modules related to financial management and budgeting in either the development or humanitarian sector.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Attention to detail and commitment to financial accuracy.
- Effective communication and collaboration abilities.
- Proficiency in financial software and tools such as Concur, Costpoint, and QuickBooks highly preferred.
- Ability to work in multiple cultures, highly motivated, self-starting, intellectually curious, flexible, a passion for learning, and deeply committed to social impact.
- Knows the importance and relevance of taking initiative and being a problem solver.
- Strong interest and ability to deliver innovative solutions.
- Strong interest and experience in international development; experience with USAID programs is a plus.
- Spanish, French, or Arabic language skills are a plus.
Qualified applicants should send a resume/CV with a well-written cover letter (let your writing skills shine – please delight us).
Applicants must submit all requirements to be considered for the position, including a resume, cover letter, and a pre-engagement questionnaire which will be shared by email. The deadline to submit is 11:59 p.m. on October 18, 2023. We intend to hold interviews on a rolling basis.
No phone calls, please. Only finalists will be contacted.
The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Please note: All current employees are contracted through September 2024. The stated term of employment is aligned with the fifth year of our contract.
At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment where everyone can fulfill their potential equally. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal-opportunity employer.
For candidates applying for positions based in Kaizen’s office in Washington, DC, we utilize career.place to mitigate bias in the recruitment process. Upon submitting an application, candidates will receive an email from career.place, prompting them to go through the anonymous screening. In order to be considered for a role, candidates must respond to career.place and proceed with the application. We do not currently use career.place for project positions outside of the United States.
At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.
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