Consultant at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant

Location: Abuja (FCT) 
Employment Type: Contract

Project Background

• CRS has a long and rich history of collaboration with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund). In Nigeria, CRS has been a Co-Principal Recipient (PR) of the Global Fund Malaria grant since January 2017. As a Co-PR, CRS partnered with its sub-recipients, the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP), the State Malaria Elimination Program (SMEP), and other stakeholders to coordinate and implement Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention since 2018.
• For the 2024-2026 Grant Cycle 7 (GC7) of the Global Fund Malaria grant, CRS has remained a Co-PR with NMEP, strengthening the synergy and collaboration with NMEP to improve access, efficiency, and impact of quality malaria services in the 13 GF-supported states.
• These critical interventions include malaria treatment and prevention services such as facility and community-based case management of malaria, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), ITN campaign/Routine distribution, Integrated ITN and SMC campaign, social and behaviour change activities, and routine M & E activities. CRS implements through three sub-recipients - Society for Family Health (SFH), Malaria Consortium (MC), and Management Sciences for Health (MSH) to support SMC implementation in 8 states (Adamawa, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Niger, Taraba, and Yobe) in collaboration with the NMEP who provides leadership and ICT4D support for the campaign.

Duties and Responsibilities
The Consultant will be working to support the CRS Finance team under the direct supervision of the GFM Deputy Finance and Grant Director.

Their Duties and Responsibilities are as follows:

• Review and analyze supporting documentation of financial transactions to ensure all required documents are accurate and complete for external reviewers and auditors.
• Ensure total compliance with donor and CRS grant regulations and reporting requirements.
• Monthly complete validation of SR transactions.
• Work with assigned SR to ensure timeliness in meeting various financial reports submission deadlines.
• Follow-up and Close-out all compliance and other findings during the quarterly monitoring visits to the assigned SR.
• Assume other tasks as directed by the GFM Deputy Finance and Grant Director for the GF grant implementation.

Key Requirements

• B.Sc. degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business Administration. Strongly preferred courses in accounting.
• Professional qualification in accounting (ACA/ACCA/CPA) an added advantage
• Minimum of three years accounting experience, preferably with an international or local NGO.
• Familiarity with Global Fund regulations is preferred.
• Proficient in Excel and experience with Word and PowerPoint.

Personal Skills:

• Excellent analytical skills with ability to detect and report inconsistencies.
• Excellent organizational skills with great attention to detail.
• Ethical conduct in accordance with recognized professional and organizational codes of ethics.
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions and results oriented.
• Ability to work collaboratively.
• Effective verbal and listening communications skills

Duration

• This engagement will be for an initial period of Seven (7) Months, subject to renewal upon satisfactory performance.

Remuneration
The Consultant will receive a remuneration that corresponds to his or her level of experience, in accordance with the CRS policy on remuneration for services rendered. Modalities for payment will be specified in the service contract, which will be signed between the Consultant and CRS.

Application Closing Date
8th December, 2025; 5:00pm (Nigeria Time).

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Instructions to Bidders
Please ensure the following information is included in your submission:

• Clearly state your availability for the dates mentioned above.
• Resume’s that are not appropriately formatted (generally) will be disqualified.
• Please note that this RFQ does not constitute an award.
• CRS will deduct applicable Withholding Tax in accordance with the Nigerian tax law.
• If you do not get feedback from us by 30th of December 2025 at the latest, this means your proposal was not successful at the evaluation stage.

Deliverables
The following deliverables are expected:

• Proper filing of SR documents in preparation for external audit.
• Quick retrieval and submission of SR documents as requested by the external auditors.
• Validated pragmatic capacity development/performance improvement response strategy, outlining the SR’s capacity needs/gaps, operational bottlenecks and mitigating action(s) required.
  • To be provided in Excel for ease of tracking and follow-up, using the format in the template to be provided.
  • One tab per month of activity
  • Should be validated by each SR finance backstop prior to submission.

Note

• Only qualified persons will be contacted and invited for interview.
• Candidates that do not adhere to application format or submit more than one application will be disqualified.
• Equal Employer Opportunity: CRS is an equal–opportunity employer, does not discriminate based on race, color, religion and we are committed to gender-sensitive programming and management etc.
• Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Safeguarding: CRS is committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of all people who interact with our work. We uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and expect all staff and partners to respect and protect the dignity and rights of everyone from any form of harm, abuse, harassment, or exploitation. All staff are required to follow CRS’s safeguarding policies and procedures and to complete mandatory safeguarding e-learning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.
• Statement of Commitment to Protection: ‘’CRS’ recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation’.