Under the supervision of the Grants Coordinator, and in cooperation with the staff of the Programme Management Unit, the Programme Support Officer will be responsible for the following:

To assist the Grants Coordinator in:

• Developing and announcing the call for proposals as well as managing proposal evaluations, specifically regarding communication with the pool of proposal reviewers
• Following up on the activities of the winning proposals and financial reporting to be done by the grant recipients
• Managing quality control processes of the funded proposals, especially with regards to communication with the pool of reviewers
• Reporting to the World Bank on progress and results as well as finalising and summarising annual reporting to the World Bank
• Organising steering committee meetings (virtual)
• To communicate with and respond to enquiries from prospective applicants
• To communicate and coordinate with the grant recipients on work plans and budget, inception reports and financial reports
• To organise internal ICIMOD meetings as well as workshops to present the outputs of the activities funded by the programme
• To carry out a public awareness campaign to facilitate the achievement of programme objectives.
• To manage web contents of the information related to the programme.
• To coordinate with the ICIMOD Finance Unit on timely disbursement of funds to the grant recipients and on financial reporting and control
• To carry out any other responsibilities concerning the programme and assigned by the Grants Coordinator