Position: Compliance Advisor – CDC – ITOPSS 3.0
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The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) mission is to
promote the health and quality of life by preventing and controlling
disease, injury, and disability. As part of this mission, CDC is tasked
with implementing programs to ensure that people around the world will
live safer, healthier lives through protecting Americans at home and
abroad from health threats by implementing international prevention,
detection and response networks and promoting CDC and the United States
Government (USG) as trusted and effective resources for health
development around the globe. CDC addresses critical global public
health challenges through working with a diverse set of partners to
support the development and implementation of culturally-appropriate
public health interventions. Through health promotion activities, both
domestically and abroad, CDC contributes to reductions in global
morbidity and mortality.
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CDC’s
Center for Global Health (CGH) is in a position to bring its scientific
expertise and credibility to the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI):
“to protect the health of our people, while saving lives, reducing
suffering, and supporting the health and dignity of people everywhere.”
The key elements of CDC’s global health strategy are to:
• Assist Ministries of Health to plan, effectively manage, and evaluate health programs;
•
Achieve goals adopted by USG programs and international organizations
to improve health, including disease eradication and elimination
targets;
•
Expand CDC’s global health programs that focus on the leading causes of
mortality, morbidity and disability, especially chronic disease and
injuries;
• Generate and apply new knowledge to achieve health goals; and
• Strengthen health systems and their impact.
CAMRIS
is seeking a Compliance Advisor who will serve as a recognized expert
in a broad range of compliance and performance matters in providing
support to the CDC Tanzania, the Ministry of Health (MOH), and the
PEPFAR interagency team, focused around implementation and compliance of
approved activities and expenditure of funds.
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Responsibilities
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Serve as an advisor to the Extramural Branch Chief on all issues
related to proper compliance to USG rules and regulations by
implementing partners receiving cooperative agreement/grant funding
under the PEPFAR Tanzania portfolio
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Provide extensive review of implementing partners (listed above)
operation process to ensure compliance of Notice of Grants Awards (NGA).
The review requires Word Documentation of discussions and
recommendations on next steps. Deliverables are shared with the
Extramural Team to ensure compliance of the NGA.
- Perform review of new NGAs (each new publication) with IPs and Extramural Team. At a minimum provide quarterly progress reports of when IP the NGA reviews were completed.
- Ensures IPs submit timely quarterly progress reports related to overall performance of all PWS tasks. At a minimum quarterly progress reports shall provide a summary of reviews and updates of work plan meetings and review progress and priorities for the following quarter..
- Ensures IPs submits annual performance report related to overall performance of all PWS tasks and review with Extramural Team. At a minimum the annual performance report shall document annual accomplishments based on statement of work.
- Ensures all NGA restrictions are reported monthly and track the progress of these actions. Draft a monthly restriction report in support of this subtask.
- Conduct annual business assessment to understand IPs internal control process and identify potential risks. The annual business assessment report, in Word Document, are shared with the ExtramuralTeam and must contain these elements:
1. Name of the implementing partner
2. Attendee names
3. Date of visit
4. Issues discussed
5. Follow-up action plan and date
6. Recommendations on preventing issues going forward
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Provide IP guidance and training annually on the Notice of Grants Award
(NGA) and Grants Policy and Administration Manual (GPAM) to ensure IPs
are in compliance with regulations pertaining to allocation of USG
funds.
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Conduct site-visits across Tanzania to monitor implementing partners
and ensure proper compliance with USG rules and regulations in
accordance with the Grants Policy and Administration Manual (GPAM); Part
H, Chapter 2: Monitoring and Reporting ensuring proper adherence to
approved work plans and use of funds;
- Draft and provide within 5 days of each concluded site-visit a site-visit report. At a minimum site-visit report shall address:
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Documentation of all site-visit issues, decision points and concerns
surrounding the compliance of funded implementing partners to facilitate
timely USG action and response.
• Site-visit report must be provided to the CDC-Program Officers/Activity Manager and Interagency Work Group (IWG).
- Assist CoAg Management team with corrective action plan within 7 days of sharing site visit results and findings. At a minimum the corrective action plan shall address:
• Issues or deficiencies with the IPs
• What are the agreements to correct the issues or deficiencies?
• When will IPs correct the issues or deficiencies?
• Date of next follow-up to review progress.
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Conduct annual review of work plans and budgets for compliance with
Tanzania Country Operating Plan guidance (subject to revision). Draft
and submit a Compliance Report analyzing results of annual review for
Project Officer action. At a minimum the Compliance Report must address;
- Review of budget object class codes and determination of whether IP requests align with Country Operating Plan (COP) guidance.
- Review of overall workplan to ensure activities align with CDC Tanzania’s program priorities.
- Recommendations on correcting discrepancies and setting timeline for corrective action plan.
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• The issues found in the MDL or audit letter
• Action plan on how to rectify the issues
• Timeline of when actions will complete
• Corrective Action Plans shall be drafted within 7 calendar days of reviewing the MDL and submitted to the Extramural Team
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Assist cooperative agreement team in tracking progress of all
implementing partners’ audit resolutions including reports of
outstanding audit reports and recommendation of corrective actions.
Draft a Tracking and Monitoring Report and present to the management
team quarterly . At a minimum each Tracking and Monitoring Report must
address:
- Audit findings and issues
- Date of when audit was submitted to Office of Grants Services (OGS)
- Was an MDL issued to the IP and follow-up actions to A.1.6.
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Coordinate with PEPFAR office, Project Officers, and other agencies to
communicate, attend meetings, and share compliance reports by
implementing partners.
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Travel in-country (Tanzania) and international to fulfill a specific
program’s monitoring or training requirements and share PEPFAR guidance
and knowledge in extramural, financial, and program management with CDC
staff and implementing partners.
-Draft
a trip report for each instance of travel identifying the purpose of
the trip and findings. At a minimum each trip report must address
• Attendance/list of participants, issues addressed, outcomes of trips, and recommendation on way forward.
-Must share and present finding with cooperative agreement team.
Qualifications
• Minimum of five years’ experience in oversight, infrastructure, compliance, audit or HIV/AIDS health consulting in a resource-limited setting.
• Minimum of two years prior experience working for PEPFAR programs.
• Working level proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
• Level IV English proficiency.
• Level III Kiswahili proficiency.
• Only U.S. citizens or non-U.S. citizens who have lived in the U.S. at least three of the last five years are eligible to provide services under this task order. The exception to this is an incumbent non-U.S. citizen contractor employee with current, valid security clearance for physical and logical access to CDC and embassy facilities and network.
• If the exception stated above is used, Do not include any contractor employee who is considered an ordinarily resident in your proposal.
The definition of an ordinarily resident is listed below.
Ordinarily resident: A U.S. citizen or Third Country National who: (1) is a local resident;(2) has legal, permanent resident status within the host country; and (3) is subject to host country employment and tax laws. This also includes host country citizens.
• Minimum of five years’ experience in oversight, infrastructure, compliance, audit or HIV/AIDS health consulting in a resource-limited setting.
• Minimum of two years prior experience working for PEPFAR programs.
• Working level proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
• Level IV English proficiency.
• Level III Kiswahili proficiency.
• Only U.S. citizens or non-U.S. citizens who have lived in the U.S. at least three of the last five years are eligible to provide services under this task order. The exception to this is an incumbent non-U.S. citizen contractor employee with current, valid security clearance for physical and logical access to CDC and embassy facilities and network.
• If the exception stated above is used, Do not include any contractor employee who is considered an ordinarily resident in your proposal.
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Ordinarily resident: A U.S. citizen or Third Country National who: (1) is a local resident;(2) has legal, permanent resident status within the host country; and (3) is subject to host country employment and tax laws. This also includes host country citizens.
