Grants Officer
USAID Local Enterprise Support Project
Total years of experience :10 years, 9 Months
Secondary Role: Technical Officer
1. Grants Solicitation and Evaluation
• Conduct technical evaluation of grant applications as needed.
• Participate in Grant Evaluation Committees, as assigned.
• Participate in the preparation of the grants solicitation workshops and other orientation sessions taking place, as assigned. Contribute in taking notes, answering questions, etc…
2. Grant Due diligence: Same contractual tasks in addition to the technical part works with grantees to finalize the needed documents like; budget, program/activities description, milestones table and M&E plan.
3. Grantee Training and Monitoring
1. Managing and overseeing a grant component both technically and contractually that contain three solicitations which total 1.5 million. In addition to solicitation writing and delivering solicitation workshops.
2. Managing and mastering a grant portfolio with a huge number of grants (FOGs/FAAs and IKGs)
3. Grants workshops, trainings and other events
4. Knowledge Management System (KMS)
5. Grant Due Diligence:
• Liaising with short-listed grantees to finalize budgets, ensuring that all costs are reasonable and necessary; obtain documentation to support budgeted costs for payroll, rent, utilities and other shared or unique costs.
• Working with short-listed Grantees to obtain required documentation to verify the organization has the financial and administrative capacity to manage a USAID-funded award.
• Writing and reviewing program/ activities description for each grant
• Prepare the contracts and all documents for each grant Agreement, Neg-memo, amendments, closeout letters)
Research Analyst, Dajani Consulting - Amman, Jordan. December 2014 - April 2015
Project: Monitoring and Evaluation for the ETVET System in Jordan/ILO project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Role: Research Analyst
-Assisted in the Development the interview guidelines and questions;
-Assist in the development of mechanisms for measuring KPIs from E-TVET Performance Assessment Framework.
-Assists in implementing the mechanisms in order to establish baseline values for future benchmarking.
- Analysis of data and assist in drafting final reports.
KPIs:
(1) The level of policy coordination among E-TVET institutions.
(2) Public perception toward TVET in Jordan.
Research Analyst, Dajani Consulting - Amman, Jordan. November 2014 - April 2015
Project: Impact Assessment / FINCA Jordan
Role: Prepare a project plan; assisted in training a team of researchers and consultants to conduct the field study; assisted and translated the impact assessment research tools; participated in data analysis and preparation of draft report.
Research Analyst, Dajani Consulting - Saudi Arabia. August 2014 - April 2015
Project: Capacity Building and designing INJAZ Saudi Arabia M&E System
Role: Assisted in the design of Log-frames & KPIs, and KPI tracking sheets. I have participated in the design of the impact evaluation questionnaires and focus group guides. Also, I assisted the evaluation experts design and draft the M&E Manual.
Research Analyst, Dajani Consulting - Amman, Jordan. June 2014 - August 2015
Project: Jordan Competitiveness Program/ USAID
Role:
• Collecting data for Jordanian enterprises in three sectors (Clean Technology; ICT; Health and Life Sciences) and performed data analysis.
• Categorize the collected data by ISIC 4 Code.
• Check the quality of collected data.
• Prepare a clean database of enterprises.
• Member with group of students working on a project called DJUCO Student Forum which aims to create fair universities.
• Facilitating workshops in different universities.
• Make a presentation in dialogue meetings in the universities
• Assistance with consulting projects.
• Working on feasibility studies and proposals.
• Making Project Researches for companies and organizations
“My world 2015”, Make a Difference campaign.
• Spreading ballots all over Jordan.
• Trying to figure out the priorities that Jordanian people want.
• Helping the UN to make an Agenda with the most wanted priorities.