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Job Title: Grants Coordinator

Sector: Grants

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location:

 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

The IRC has a focus on narrowing the gender gap in humanitarian aid and ensuring that we contribute to gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in both our programs and operations by working to establish a context where our clients (including those from minority groups) enjoy the same rights and opportunities as well as an equal access to services. The IRC also has a strong commitment to creating an equitable and inclusive culture, where safeguarding is upheld in our workplace and programs. We are determined to protect our clients and staff from safeguarding violations through prevention and, where misconduct is alleged, to address it without fear or favor.

Job Overview:

The Grants Coordinator supervises the Grants team and provide grants development, grant management, budgeting and compliance support to the Ethiopia Country program. The Grants Coordinator reports directly to the Senior Grants Coordinator, who oversees the entire Grants Department and reports to the Deputy Director of the Grants and Partnership Unit. In the current structure, the Grants Coordinator is tasked with overseeing post-award management, directly supervising three direct reports and indirectly supervising four additional staff members.

The Grants Coordinator is responsible for tracking, documenting, and filing grant-related documents for program continuity as per the IRC internal guidelines/systems and is responsible for coordinating the timely submission of all donor reports at high quality. Additionally, she/he assists or leads in the development of proposals and budget realignment and project revisions. This position is based in Addis Ababa but occasional trips to field sites are required. The person will also work collaboratively with the Grants and Partnership Unit members, the technical coordinators, operations team, and the finance team. The IRC Ethiopia is made of grants mostly from BHA, BPRM, EU, GAVI, OCHA, SIDA, UNHCR, WFP and private foundations.

Major Responsibilities Include:

Grants Management

  • Coordinate all reporting for the full grants’ portfolio ensuring quality control of reports, coordinating HQ reviews and approvals before submission to the donor. This includes sending out the reporting tracker to team members bi-monthly on all reports due in the coming 90 days.
  • Oversees all government reporting requirements are met.
  • Ensure all Project Cycle Meetings (PCM) are set up using the latest PCM guidance, where possible in the field. Where needed coordinate with the Field Coordinator to ensure monthly BvA meetings are held and support follow-up actions to resolve grant challenges.
  • Ensure project start up is done according to the Start Projects On Time (SPOT) SOP.
  • Oversees MOU/LOUs are initiated and signed promptly.
  • Ensure that grants are implemented in compliance with IRC and relevant donor regulations.
  • Ensure the Active Grants and Reporting Tracker and other information management systems and the grants filing on Box and OTIS are up to date.
  • Monthly monitor burn rates and implementation progress and flag grant underperformance and compliance issues to relevant Field Coordinators, Program Coordinators and the Senior Management Team.
  • Lead and timely submit any grants realignments or revisions, including technical and budget narrative updates, budget realignments.

Business Development/Proposal Development

  • Coordinate and oversee new proposal development (including budget development) for the recurrent grant proposals, following the donor compliance guidelines, working with and gathering input from technical coordinators, technical advisors, the Finance Department, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation staff, and the Regional Unit. This includes facilitating design meetings where needed as per IRCs Project Design Meeting guidelines.
  • Ensure accurate review of new proposals (including budget) prior to timely ET Finance, HQ and donor submission this includes OTIS workflows are up to date.
  • Collaborate closely with IRC NY, UK, Sweden and Germany to ensure proposals meet internal standards, apply IRC’s Outcomes Evidence Framework (OEF), are in line with IRC Ethiopia’s Strategic Action Plan (SAP) and are donor compliant.

Capacity Building

  • Lead capacity development of relevant country program staff to ensure that they have the skills and knowledge on how to write donor reports and donor compliance
  • Provide orientation and on-the-job training to the Grants team members.
  • Undertake regular 1 to 1 meeting with grants team members under his/her supervision and follow-up action points.

Liaison and Special Tasks

  • Act as a focal point for donor

 communications.

  •  Communicate with donors and attend donor meetings in order to share IRC’s accomplishments as well as to stay up-to-date on the latest donor developments and requirements. edW279V BTn6yA
  • Coordinate that all visibility requirements for the grants in the portfolio are met in a timely manner and accurately documented.
  • Complete special projects as assigned by the Sr Grants Coordinator that may fall outside the job description and backstop the Sr Grants Coordinator, as needed.
  • Perform tasks and take the responsibility on behalf of the Sr Grants Coordinator when absent

Safeguarding Responsibilities: –

  • Promote and actively participate in initiatives and efforts to build team engagement, inclusion and cohesion in IRC [team/office.
  • Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue and reflection to strengthen safeguarding and to promote IRC values and adherence to IRC policies

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

  • BA degree required; master’s degree in business management, International Affairs, Social Sciences, strongly preferred.

Preferred experience & skills

  • 6 years of related experience with postgraduate or with first degree respectively
  • At least 4 year of management experience
  • Prior experience in program management and or grants management and proposal/business development/design
  • Prior knowledge of donor (ECHO, EU, USAID, BHA, BPRM, DFID, SIDA, GAC, UNICEF, UNHCR, OCHA etc.) and government regulations preferred.
  • Advanced MS Excel and Math skills required (skills will be tested through an exam).
  • Good communication with strong organizational, time management and analytical skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal, cultural and respectful skills.
  • Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements.
  • Strong capacity to mentor and build capacity of staff.
  • Ability to balance priorities, meet demanding deadlines and work under pressure in unstable security environments.
  • Strong digital literacy required.
  • Previous successful experience developing projects, writing winning proposals and donor reports preferred.

Language Skills:

  • Proficiency in English, spoken and written, is the most important requirement for this job; Proficiency in Amharic required. (The written English skills will be tested through an exam).

More Information

  • Job City Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

Since October 2012, the IRC has been responding to humanitarian needs of Nigerians. The IRC initially intervened in response to floods that affected over 7 million people across the country, destroying harvest and damaging homes. The IRC is currently implementing programs in Health, Protection, WASH, Nutrition, Food Security, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) in Adamawa and Borno States in North-Eastern Nigeria.

The IRC is dedicated to making women and adolescent girls healthier from the earliest phase of acute crises (a target group most vulnerable during crisis) and implements evidence-based reproductive health interventions in line with the SPHERE-standard Minimum Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health in Crises (MISP). The goal is to ensure that the IRC’s health responses in emergencies include the core package of Reproductive Health (RH) services in its interventions.

The IRC’s Reproductive Health (RH) program is currently implementing (MISP) for RH in 4 health care centers in MMC and Jere LGAs and 1 IDP camp clinic. In addition the program is starting up an emergency mobile programming outside of these areas of Maiduguri in coordination with the WPE team. The focus of this program is to provide quality comprehensive RH and WPE services to conflict-affected women and girls in a timely manner. In addition to the mobile program, the WPE and RH joint mobile teams will be in charge of rapid assessments and rapid response. The mobile teams will be focused in the newly opened LGAs and emergency areas previously inaccessible due to conflict and insecurity. These teams will provide life-saving services to populations outside of Maiduguri, who have not had access to services in approximately 3 years.

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Job Title: Grants Coordinator

Sector: Grants

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location:

 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

The IRC has a focus on narrowing the gender gap in humanitarian aid and ensuring that we contribute to gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in both our programs and operations by working to establish a context where our clients (including those from minority groups) enjoy the same rights and opportunities as well as an equal access to services. The IRC also has a strong commitment to creating an equitable and inclusive culture, where safeguarding is upheld in our workplace and programs. We are determined to protect our clients and staff from safeguarding violations through prevention and, where misconduct is alleged, to address it without fear or favor.

Job Overview:

The Grants Coordinator supervises the Grants team and provide grants development, grant management, budgeting and compliance support to the Ethiopia Country program. The Grants Coordinator reports directly to the Senior Grants Coordinator, who oversees the entire Grants Department and reports to the Deputy Director of the Grants and Partnership Unit. In the current structure, the Grants Coordinator is tasked with overseeing post-award management, directly supervising three direct reports and indirectly supervising four additional staff members.

The Grants Coordinator is responsible for tracking, documenting, and filing grant-related documents for program continuity as per the IRC internal guidelines/systems and is responsible for coordinating the timely submission of all donor reports at high quality. Additionally, she/he assists or leads in the development of proposals and budget realignment and project revisions. This position is based in Addis Ababa but occasional trips to field sites are required. The person will also work collaboratively with the Grants and Partnership Unit members, the technical coordinators, operations team, and the finance team. The IRC Ethiopia is made of grants mostly from BHA, BPRM, EU, GAVI, OCHA, SIDA, UNHCR, WFP and private foundations.

Major Responsibilities Include:

Grants Management

  • Coordinate all reporting for the full grants' portfolio ensuring quality control of reports, coordinating HQ reviews and approvals before submission to the donor. This includes sending out the reporting tracker to team members bi-monthly on all reports due in the coming 90 days.
  • Oversees all government reporting requirements are met.
  • Ensure all Project Cycle Meetings (PCM) are set up using the latest PCM guidance, where possible in the field. Where needed coordinate with the Field Coordinator to ensure monthly BvA meetings are held and support follow-up actions to resolve grant challenges.
  • Ensure project start up is done according to the Start Projects On Time (SPOT) SOP.
  • Oversees MOU/LOUs are initiated and signed promptly.
  • Ensure that grants are implemented in compliance with IRC and relevant donor regulations.
  • Ensure the Active Grants and Reporting Tracker and other information management systems and the grants filing on Box and OTIS are up to date.
  • Monthly monitor burn rates and implementation progress and flag grant underperformance and compliance issues to relevant Field Coordinators, Program Coordinators and the Senior Management Team.
  • Lead and timely submit any grants realignments or revisions, including technical and budget narrative updates, budget realignments.

Business Development/Proposal Development

  • Coordinate and oversee new proposal development (including budget development) for the recurrent grant proposals, following the donor compliance guidelines, working with and gathering input from technical coordinators, technical advisors, the Finance Department, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation staff, and the Regional Unit. This includes facilitating design meetings where needed as per IRCs Project Design Meeting guidelines.
  • Ensure accurate review of new proposals (including budget) prior to timely ET Finance, HQ and donor submission this includes OTIS workflows are up to date.
  • Collaborate closely with IRC NY, UK, Sweden and Germany to ensure proposals meet internal standards, apply IRC's Outcomes Evidence Framework (OEF), are in line with IRC Ethiopia's Strategic Action Plan (SAP) and are donor compliant.

Capacity Building

  • Lead capacity development of relevant country program staff to ensure that they have the skills and knowledge on how to write donor reports and donor compliance
  • Provide orientation and on-the-job training to the Grants team members.
  • Undertake regular 1 to 1 meeting with grants team members under his/her supervision and follow-up action points.

Liaison and Special Tasks

  • Act as a focal point for donor

 communications.

  •  Communicate with donors and attend donor meetings in order to share IRC's accomplishments as well as to stay up-to-date on the latest donor developments and requirements. edW279V BTn6yA
  • Coordinate that all visibility requirements for the grants in the portfolio are met in a timely manner and accurately documented.
  • Complete special projects as assigned by the Sr Grants Coordinator that may fall outside the job description and backstop the Sr Grants Coordinator, as needed.
  • Perform tasks and take the responsibility on behalf of the Sr Grants Coordinator when absent

Safeguarding Responsibilities: -

  • Promote and actively participate in initiatives and efforts to build team engagement, inclusion and cohesion in IRC [team/office.
  • Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue and reflection to strengthen safeguarding and to promote IRC values and adherence to IRC policies

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

  • BA degree required; master's degree in business management, International Affairs, Social Sciences, strongly preferred.

Preferred experience & skills

  • 6 years of related experience with postgraduate or with first degree respectively
  • At least 4 year of management experience
  • Prior experience in program management and or grants management and proposal/business development/design
  • Prior knowledge of donor (ECHO, EU, USAID, BHA, BPRM, DFID, SIDA, GAC, UNICEF, UNHCR, OCHA etc.) and government regulations preferred.
  • Advanced MS Excel and Math skills required (skills will be tested through an exam).
  • Good communication with strong organizational, time management and analytical skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal, cultural and respectful skills.
  • Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements.
  • Strong capacity to mentor and build capacity of staff.
  • Ability to balance priorities, meet demanding deadlines and work under pressure in unstable security environments.
  • Strong digital literacy required.
  • Previous successful experience developing projects, writing winning proposals and donor reports preferred.

Language Skills:

  • Proficiency in English, spoken and written, is the most important requirement for this job; Proficiency in Amharic required. (The written English skills will be tested through an exam).

2024-11-30

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