Grants Manager (Honduras, Tegucigalpa)

Please note this position requires fluency in both Spanish and English.

The Grants Manager will contribute to achieving high quality programming by ensuring effective grants management including, compliance requirements, reporting, timely and quality proposal development, and internal and external communication. S/He will lead on organization assessments of partners and draft partner agreements and MoUs in coordination with the Head of Programme Support and Head of Support. The Grants Manager line manages the Grants Coordinator, ensures NRC programme/support teams are fully informed of relevant donor compliance regulations and NRC procedures, manages donor and other external reporting, and coordinates grant revisions. S/He will also contribute to the capacity building of NRC staff and NRC implementing partners as per the needs assessed. S/he also supports donor communication by ensuring effective channels of internal and external communications relating to grants are established and respected. S/He will contribute to the identification of lessons learnt and incorporate them into the next round of programming. The Grants Manager supports development of proposals and opportunity identification, as required, and support the Country Director and Head of Programme Support in external relations with donors and representation meetings. S/He will be responsible for the proper archiving of all project documents and maintenance of the online grant management platform, following PCM requirements. The latter includes the facilitation of all operation meetings, including Grant Opening, Grant Review and Grant Closing Meetings, in coordination with the various departments. The Grants Manager will travel across the countries of operations up to 40% of their time.

Generic responsibilities:

1. Adhere to NRC policies, guidance, and procedures.
2. Support overview and maintenance of all grants, donor requirements, rules and regulations, and internal and external deadlines.
3. Lead the development and revision of donor applications and reports, ensuring donor compliance and quality control.
4. Be updated on donor priorities and track and share relevant calls for proposals.
5. Contribute to continuously improve internal grant management systems.
6. Provide an internal help-desk on donor related issues, including donor rules and regulations, as well as proposal and report writing.
7. Coordinate the development and distribution of internal reports.
8. Contribute to PCM procedures and usage of the NRC PCM framework in the Country Office, including inclusion of cross-cutting programme elements and M&E structures throughout all stages of the PCM.
9. Represent with relevant partners and donors, as delegated by the Head of Programme Support.
10. Identify capacity building needs of NRC CO staff.
11. Promote the rights of refugees and displaced in line with NRC’s advocacy strategy.

Specific responsibilities

1. Accountable for the maintenance of the grants tracker, keeping the teams informed about priorities, and tracking the deliverables as per the established deadlines.
2. Establish grant and report writing workflows, processes and SOPs that result in high quality timely outputs.
3. Responsible for maintaining a document filing system for all project documentation and contribute to external audit processes.
4. Responsible for maintaining the online grant management platform updated throughout the project cycle.
5. Support the Head of Programme Support to identify new funding opportunities and contribute to developing the funding strategy.
6. Revise donor agreements and MoUs before recommending signature, with the support of relevant departments.
7. Contribute to the identification of lessons learnt and incorporate them into the next round of programming together with the M&E and programme teams.
8. Document, analyse and share learning outcomes from proposal and report writing processes and donor compliance.
9. Ensure capacity-building of the NRC team as per the needs assessed (general writing skills, proposal writing, reporting, PCM, specific donor compliance, etc.) to implement the Programme Cycle Management SOPs.

Professional competencies for this position:

• At least 4 years of relevant experience in a related field.

• Experience of donor relations and grants management (e.g., with institutional humanitarian and development donors).

• Good understanding of donor rules and regulations.

• Good understanding of project cycle management.

• Proven skills and experience in report and proposal development and working with multiple donors.

• Fluency in English both written and verbal.

• Working knowledge of Spanish.

• Excellent writing skills.

• Good personal organisational skills, including time management, and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong organisational and team working skills.

• Proactive attitude and ability to identify priorities and risks.

• Strong analytical skills (data and financial).
• Good computer skills.

Context related skills, knowledge and experience (shall be adapted to the specific position):

• Knowledge of the context in NCA&M is an asset.
• Experience with capacity building is a strong asset.
• Ability to use Logical Framework Approach as a tool in project/programme design and follow-up.

• Knowledge of rules and regulations of key donors and partners is an asset, mainly NMFA, Sida, ECHO, PRM, BHA, SDC, and UN Agencies

For the full job description click on the following link.

What we offer:

· Type of contract: 12 months’ employment contract

· Salary/benefits: According to NRC salary scale, terms and conditions

· Duty station: Tegucigalpa, Honduras

· Travel: 40% across Area Offices

NRC might review applications before advert deadline, therefore interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.

Please note this position requires fluency in both Spanish and English.