Grants Manager

**Requisition ID**: req41307

**Job Title**:Grants Manager

**Sector**:Grants

**Employment Category**: Fixed Term

**Employment Type**: Full-Time

**Open to Expatriates**: No

**Location**: Bogota, Colombia

**JOB OVERVIEW**:
The Grants Manager is the focal point for donor reporting, grants information management and grants management capacity-building efforts. He/She supports programmatic and budgetary monitoring, compliance with donors and internal IRC rules and regulations. The Grants Manager also supports proposal development (20%) and can be involved in managing and implementing IRC’s partnership work for the response activities. The Grants Manager will work closely with the in-country program teams and will report to the Senior Grants & Partnerships Coordinator.

**MAIN RESPONSABILITIES**:

- Submit high quality donor reports, narrative and financial according to IRC and donor regulations. Ensure all required documents are included, complete, correct and approved by the respective Program Coordinator/s and country management.
- Collaborate with the Program and Finance teams to develop standard reporting templates and tools that will support improved narrative, log frame and financial reporting.
- Maintain knowledge of grant agreement language and regulations, serving as a knowledge resource on assigned donors and advancing questions where needed.
- Raise compliance issues with supervisor
- Lead grant opening meetings, periodic grant review meetings, grant learning meetings and grant close-out meetings
- Lead grant management meetings, including monthly review of Budget vs Actual (BVA) reports to address any projected underspend or overspend
- Keep supervisor informed of any projected inabilities to meet contractual obligations, report submission and spend rates/significant budget variances. Be able to actively mitigate risks through proposing remedial solutions in consensus with department heads
- Compile and respond to information requests from IRC’s regional, London and NY offices.
- Work with grant counterparts in HQ and at the regional level to ensure coordination and adherence to proposal timelines and requirements.
- Spearhead project cycle meetings (design, opening, implementation, closing, and learning) to identify and help resolve needs, constraints, and other project cycle issues.
- Undertake other key grants management, program development, monitoring and evaluation, communications and partnership and external relations activities as requested
- Support the development of high-quality proposals and budgets that are relevant to IRC’s Strategic Action Plan and include input from key partners (finance, operations, programs, partners, etc.)
- Contribute to all aspects of the proposal development process - including compilation/editing of the technical narrative, development of budgets and budget narratives, drafting of required annexes, etc.

**Qualifications**
- Graduate degree - international development or similar, or bachelor’s degree with significant grants management experience and superior writing skills.
- At least three years of experience working in projects and/or grants management, proposal/business development/design, in various contexts.
- Strong understanding and knowledge of USG (USAID/OFDA/BPRM), European (ECHO, EU, SIDA), DFID, UN (UNHCR/UNFPA/UNDP/OCHA/WFP/FAO) and other donor rules and regulations.
- Proven competency with program design, M&E, proposal writing (including logical frameworks) and building budgets using MS Excel.
- Excellent writing skills and experience in writing proposals/concept notes.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to determine priorities and meet multiple deadlines.
- Detail-oriented with good multi-tasking abilities and communication skills, both oral and written.
- Able to work well both within a team and independently, in a challenging and fast-moving multicultural environment.