Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 24 Dec 2017
Job Title: Grants Manager
Sector: Grants
Employment Category: Regular
Location: Ethiopia
Job Description
IRC Ethiopia seeks a Grants Manager to be responsible for proposal development, grants management, and donor reporting and compliance, with a major focus on UNHCR proposals, reports, and donor relations. Excellent communication and organizational skills are essential. The Grants Manager reports to the Grants Coordinator, with complementary oversight from and a close working relationship with the Sr. Grants Coordinator and Deputy Director of Programs. The position based in Addis Ababa, but may require travel to the field.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Proposal and Budget Development
- Draft quality concept notes, proposals, budgets, and other funding application annexes by coordinating with the Grants Coordinator, Sr. Grants Coordinator, DDP, IRC technical sectors, and IRC operational units (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, Human Resources). The Grants Manager will be expected to take the lead on particular proposals (notably UNHCR), and play a supportive role on other funding opportunities.
- Draft and assemble quality amendments, modifications, NCEs, cost extensions, and other mid-project grant adjustments.
- Ensure proposals and modifications are internally reviewed according to IRC policy.
Reporting and Grants Management
- Draft quality donor narrative reports and review financial reports for appearance, neatness, and formatting compliance. Ensure reports are internally reviewed according to IRC policy.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of IRC internal policies, rules and regulations for donor organizations funding IRC Ethiopia projects, and support the monitoring of grants for compliance.
- Liaise with relevant program and operational (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain) teams to ensure timely, efficient, and high-quality grants management.
- Contribute to multi-departmental tracking/monitoring tools and processes when requested to support overall improvements to and streamlining of IRC tracking and reporting systems.
- Ensure grants management tools and resources are streamlined and disseminated to relevant IRC staff in the main and field offices.
- Ensure documentation of all key grants and sub-grants management meetings and communications.
- Ensure all donor report deadlines are being tracked and reports are submitted by deadline.
Capacity Building
- Provide on-the-job mentoring to Grants Officers to build their capacity to produce high-quality documents meeting IRC Ethiopia and donor standards.
Others Projects
- As requested, support the IRC country program with internal communications products, funding updates, etc.
Qualifications
- Excellent English writing skills are mandatory and the most important qualification.
- Experience writing and coordinating high-value proposals for major donors (notably UNHCR).
- Experience developing budgets for major donors (notably UNHCR).
- Program development experience mandatory, including development of key project documents such as proposal narratives, budgets, logical frameworks, implementation plans, etc.
- Familiarity with major donor rules and regulations; grants management experience mandatory.
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field from a recognized university with at least two years of relevant work experience.
- Minimum of one year of field experience with an international NGO.
Personal specifications:
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure, long work hours, and high workload.
- Ability to independently organize work and prioritize tasks.
- Self-motivated, honest, highly responsible, and punctual.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
How to apply:
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