Overview
The Senior Grants and Partnership Manager - PlayMatters is responsible for leading compliance and effective grants management for the PlayMatters consortium, supporting high-quality programming and service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead internal Project Management Committee (PMC) reporting with programs and finance teams.
- Manage reporting timelines and processes for consortium.
- Support development, review, and amendment of partnership, service, and collaboration agreements/amendments.
- Support the development and review of annual project planning documents.
- Support preparations for audits.
- Manage internal and consortium-wide quarterly progress review meetings.
- Support overall financial management of project.
- Lead knowledge management of project.
- Advise consortium on all external branding and intellectual property matters.
- Lead routine technical monitoring and evaluation of consortium partners and IRC country programs.
- Lead documentation and communication of achievements, lessons learned, challenges, and changes needed.
- Lead building of consortium’s capacity in grants, compliance, and partnership skills.
- Build capacity of RPT to utilize effective partnership approaches and consortium grants management tools.
- Proactively identify Grant management risks throughout the consortium and creatively develop solutions.
- Develop relevant communications materials, updates, and presentations for donors, senior leadership, or other external bodies.
- Support drafting or review donor communications.
- Lead quarterly updating of consortium organograms.
- Support RPT to liaise with relevant IRC HQ-based functions.
- Support relationship building with potential partners.
Required Experience
- At least 5-7 years of experience in program and grants management, and communications at an international NGO or similar organization.
- Experience providing supportive and respectful staff management and capacity-building.
- Ability to accurately develop and review budgets is highly preferred.
- Experience working in conflict and crisis settings and knowledge of humanitarian programming is preferred.
- Knowledge of the East Africa context, with direct experience working in Ethiopia, Tanzania and/or Uganda preferred.
- Consortium management experience is a plus.
- Understanding of IRC grants systems and policies (e.g., OTIS and PEERS, etc.) and experience implementing grants in an IRC country program is a plus but not required.
Qualifications
Master’s degree or equivalent in Project Management, Business Administration, International Relations, Development studies, Economic, or another relevant subject.
