Key Duties and Responsibilities
• Provides guidance to faculty, administrators, and other staff on proposal development and grant applications for external support opportunities.
• Monitors/Reviews research proposals before submission to Federal, and other agencies to ensure compliance with University and agency policies and procedures.
• Analysis of fund balances to determine burn rate calculations for progress reporting, carry-over requests, projections, and close-outs of research/grant awards.
• Maintain financial records in compliance with statutory requirements and agreement
• Develop and review policies to enhance performance and strengthen internal control systems
• Support the Head of Finance and Strategic management to provide documents and information to external auditors to carry out annual and specific audit
• Assess any possible risk and develop mitigation measures to support research administration.
• Act as a team member, by organizing meetings and effectively coordinating activities with collaborators.
• Performs and assists with reconciling award activity of expenses to budget in order to avoid cost over-runs
• Performs and assists with the preparation and review of financial reports or invoices in collaboration with the Finance and Strategic Management.
• Performs and assists with the monitoring of the awards revenues to the project accounts.

Qualifications, Skills And Experience
• A second Class Upper degree from a chartered University in either Commerce, Accounting, Finance or Auditing.
• Evidence of Membership with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda.
• A minimum of three(3) year’s (thirty-six months) qualification experience.
• Extensive Computer knowledge in Microsoft Excel, Vision Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SUN Accounting and Access is required
• Membership with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is an added advantage
• Knowledge and expertise in grant awarding institutions