Job Details

We are seeking a Financial Project Manager who will lead comprehensive financial and award management, overseeing the accounting, finance, and contract needs of the SMART4TB Consortium. The Financial Project Manager is a member of the SMART4TB Senior Management Team and provides high-level financial project management to ensure financial, contractual, process efficiency, and compliance of the project. The Financial Project Manager leads development of the project's granting component, including development of transparent procurement processes; grantee expenditure tracking; and grantee capacity-building in fund management and reporting.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the Supporting, Mobilizing, and Accelerating Research for Tuberculosis Elimination (SMART4TB) in 2022. SMART4TB is a five-year, up to $200 million initiative to identify more effective methods and tools for finding, treating, and preventing tuberculosis (TB) in high TB burden countries. SMART4TB is now managed out of the Bureau for Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD) at the U.S. Department of State. The current funding ends July 31, 2027. This initiative will build research capacity in high TB burden countries by supporting studies that evaluate novel approaches, interventions, and tools to combat TB-including new diagnostic tests, new treatment regimens, and new prevention regimens. Led by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the current SMART4TB core consortium partners include the University of California, San Francisco, and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, working in close collaboration with research partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall financial management, reporting, and compliance with JHU, sponsor, and federal policies and regulations.
• Responsible for sub-contract management, including initiation, prior approval requirements, document collection, invoice processing, and troubleshooting.
• Responsible for monthly reconciliation of all program accounts.
• Establish and maintain sound and transparent accounting and fiscal control procedures for financial, sub-contracts, small grants, and operations aspects of the project.
• Ensure compliance of financial and operational systems with JHU policies and procedures, US Government rules and regulations, award contract requirements, and partner government laws.
• Develop, analyze, and monitor program budgets and pipelines; monitor and track obligations and expenditures against budgets; create projections on anticipated project spending.
• Review project procurement requests to ensure allowability, allocability, consistency, and reasonableness.
• Advise the Chief of Party (COP) and Project Director on project financial and compliance status, availability of funds for project activities, and other financial and operations-related matters.
• Prepare and submit annual and quarterly financial and accrual reports.
• Liaise with internal and external auditors during project financial management reviews.
• Identify and monitor implementation of any corrective actions needed.
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to local partners on financial compliance and reporting.
• Contribute to the development of high-quality work plans, quarterly and annual reports, financial reports, cost share reports, and other reports as required by JHU and GHSD.
• Supervise and/or mentor administrative, finance, procurement, and grants staff, including performance evaluation; develop staff capacity and facilitate professional growth.
• Ensure continual review of internal and strategic controls, communications, risk assessments, and maintenance of documentation.
• Support sub-recipients as needed to ensure sound financial management and operations.
• Ensure that sub-recipients, sub-grants, and consultancy documents and procedures are completed in a timely manner and comply with JHU and GHSD policies and regulations.
• Maintain good working relationships with officials, government ministries, implementing partners, and the international and local NGO community.
• Prepare and present quantitative and qualitative financial analyses focusing on variances from budget.
• Provide strategic information to SMART4TB Leadership on project finances to aid in developing and implementing strategies.
• Assist COP & Project Director in facilitating, managing, and tracking cost-sharing contributions from the SMART4TB Consortium, Industry Partners, NGOs, Foundations, Private Donors, and Local Research Organizations.
• Develop long-term projections based on different scenarios to aid decision-making, budget allocation decisions, and the efficacy of budget allocation plans toward defined objectives.
• Develop strategies to mitigate emerging budget shortfalls or potential over-expenditures.
• Assist the Project Director in representing the SMART4TB consortium and liaise on matters dealing with award fiscal discussions with JHU & GHSD officials.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
• Five years of related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

Classified Title: Financial Project Manager
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PE
Starting Salary Range: $73,300 - $128,300 Annually ($100,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F 8:30am-5pm
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Remote
Department name: SOM DOM ID TB Center
Personnel area: School of Medicine