Overview
The Grants and Partnerships Specialist ensures effective grants management, compliance, and partnership coordination for a multi-donor facility focused on localisation in Sudan and the region. This role oversees the grants lifecycle and provides guidance to partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Support application processes, including guidelines, templates, and evaluation criteria.
- Support partners on proposal development, conduct due diligence and vetting.
- Prepare and administer grant agreements and amendments.
- Provide Technical Assistance Facility linkages, partner monitoring, and capacity building.
- Oversee the development and roll-out of the Fund Grant Management System (GMS).
- Ensure partners comply with grant conditions, Fund Operations Manual, and donor requirements.
- Update and maintain the Fund risk register and dashboard.
- Monitor grant implementation, ensuring timely and quality report submission.
- Follow up in regular meetings with partners and ensure timely escalation of risks.
- Liaise with the Operations Manager for timely grant processing.
- Track partner spending against budgets and flag variances.
- Support partners in developing procurement plans, risk registers, capacity-building strategies, and staffing plans.
- Provide partner training on grant report writing, donor compliance, and operational procedures.
- Ensure all grant-related documents are uploaded and backed up in the GMS.
- Maintain detailed records of grants.
- Coordinate review meetings with partners and follow up on action points.
- Review partner reports and provide qualitative feedback.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders for robust project oversight.
- Provide an effective interface with prospective and current fund partners.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience in grants management within the NGO/INGO or donor sectors.
- Proven expertise working with institutional donors (e.g., FCDO, EU, ECHO, SIDA, NORAD).
- Strong understanding of donor regulations and compliance.
- Experience working in Sudan and strong understanding of the Sudan context.
- Ability to prioritise workloads, meet deadlines, and adapt to complex environments.
- Previous experience in partnership management and capacity building.
- Experience working with Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, or similar ERP systems (desirable).
- Familiarity with Power Apps or internal grants systems development (desirable).
- Experience working with Group Cash Transfer mechanism (desirable).
Qualifications
- University degree in international development, business administration, political science, or a related field.
- Certifications in grants or partnership management are an advantage.
