Overview
Experienced Grants Specialist to provide expert guidance and oversight across a diverse portfolio of global, regional, and multi-country grants, ensuring compliance and strengthening grant management practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage an assigned portfolio and specialist area.
- Lead assigned internal prioritisation, funding allocation or grant management processes.
- Maintain accurate and accessible grant information, documentation, and records.
- Support donor and partner engagement.
- Contribute to Grants Management quality reviews, health checks, and follow-up actions.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, coaching, and professional development of Grants Management staff.
- Work with relevant functions to strengthen ways of working for global, private, corporate and other non-traditional funding arrangements.
- Contribute to communities of practice, organisational learning, and knowledge-sharing.
- Provide temporary support across portfolios during periods of peak workload, absence or identified capacity gaps.
- Undertake other relevant responsibilities delegated by the line manager.
Required Experience
Minimum five years of relevant experience in Grants Management, programme management, institutional funding, donor administration or a related area within humanitarian or development work. Demonstrated experience managing complex proposals, agreements, implementation follow-up, revisions, and donor reporting across multiple stakeholders or locations. Experience working with global, regional, multi-country or otherwise complex grants. Experience providing practical technical advice, coaching, and capacity strengthening to colleagues with different levels of experience.
Qualifications
University degree or equivalent qualification, preferably at master’s degree level
