Grants Management Specialist

Ensure that DRC is compliant with country grant management guidelines, lead on donor obligated reporting, and liaise with the Support Services team on donor-requested information.

About you

To be successful in this role, we expect you to have at least 3 years of grants management experience with an international NGO. Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required

• A Bachelors degree in Social Sciences, International Development, Economics, Management or other relevant field.
  
• Knowledge of donor rules, regulations, and procedures of donors, including but not limited to US and European donors, EU funding mechanisms, UN agencies and foundations.
  
• Proven experience in successfully submitting reporting packages.
  
• Proven experience in capacity building and training of national staff and partners.
  
• Full professional proficiency in English with the capacity to produce well-written products for formal reporting and communication.
  

Grants management and compliance

• Assess and build the country office’s capacities to comply with DRC's grant management guidelines and donor compliance.
  
• Ensure country office compliance with grants management system (GMS) on Dynamics.
  
• Ensure all the grants’ related information is well organized and follows a clear filing structure on SharePoint.
  
• Assist country office in preparing, facilitating, and following up on grant meetings as well as in drafting, finalizing, and sharing minimum set of documents required for grant meetings.
  
• Actively participate in monthly Project Management Meetings of on-going projects and disseminate grants management resources and updates to the team.
  
• Support the tracking of donor financial disbursement against signed contracts.
  

Reporting

• Gathering inputs from the programme and MEAL team, follow up, as per the grants tracker and provide quality review to ensure timely, accurate submission of reports.
  
• Assist Programme Quality Assurance unit in conceptualizing and facilitating the implementation of programme quality tools developed including reporting schedules.
  
• In close collaboration with programme and MEAL team, support documentation of lessons learnt, best practices and proven innovations in programme design, implementation, monitoring and reporting to improve programme design and implementation strategy.
  
• Liaise with the programmes and MEAL team and facilitate OPM and UNHCR’s reporting to the Refugee response plan.
  

Partnership management:

• Facilitating partner assessment process and drafting, finalising and sharing minimum set of documents for successful partnership management.
  
• Assisting the Partnership Specialist in drafting and finalising partnership agreements.
  
• Assisting the programme and support team in partner capacity building.
  

Others

• Contribute and lead on communications tasks, as appropriate.
  
• Liaise with finance colleagues on budget follow-up and expenditure levels of running grants; support with preparation for scheduled audits.
  
• Conduct or facilitate training for the country or regional office, including but not limited to proposal development, and/ or reporting.
  
• Inductions of new colleagues.
  
• Assist the Programme Development and Quality Manager with proposal development tasks, including providing input to narratives, budget narratives, and other required annexes as appropriate