Global Roving Emergency Grants Manager

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contracts.

Background

NRC’s Emergency Response Section (ERS) leads the organisation’s overall capacity to respond to new and emerging humanitarian crises, including through active monitoring, innovation and system development, crisis activation and emergency deployments. Working across all organisational levels, the ERS provides guidance and capacity to enable established country offices to respond to emerging crises and leads on the establishment of new country start-ups responding to critical humanitarian situations. The ERS’ multi-disciplinary team of roving emergency experts is backed by a small team of technical leads at head office, focused on ensuring that NRC’s emergency responses are principled, timely, agile and relevant to the priorities of people affected by crises.

What you will do

• Lead the proposal development process for start-ups and emergency responses, including writing winning proposals
• Line management of Grants Coordinators, including development of the staff members, if applicable during deployments
• Develop and maintain overview of all grants, donor requirements, rules and regulations, and internal and external deadlines, including filing of grant documents (including through the grants database - forthcoming)
• Coordinate the development of donor applications and reports, as well as ensuring donor compliance and quality control
• Contribute to the development and revision of funding proposals, budgets and donor reports
• Be updated on donor priorities and track and share relevant calls for proposals
• Document, analyse, and share learning from proposal and reporting process, and compliance with donor rules and regulations
• Contribute to continuously improving internal grant management systems
• Provide an internal helpdesk on donor related issues, including organize and deliver trainings in donor rules and regulations, as well as proposal and report writing
• Coordinate the development and distribution of internal reports
• Support external donor audits
• Represent with relevant partners and donors as delegated

Note: Reference to specific responsibilities is outlined in a separate Deployment Requests which will be developed for each assignment.

Professional Competencies and Qualifications Required

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant and related experience working in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Strong grants management experience
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile with documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Experience working with humanitarian and development donors
• Good knowledge of humanitarian donor guidelines and procedures
• Demonstrable skills and experience in formulation of project proposals and reports
• Detail oriented and strong organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision.
• Be an active listener; open-minded; good inter-personal relations, excel in analysing information and giving feedback and have a positive attitude toward people
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal. French, Spanish or Arabic language skills are an asset

Behavioural competencies

• Handling insecure environments
• Strategic thinking
• Empowering and building trust
• Influencing
• Initiate action and change
• Analysing

What We Offer

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

We offer an opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause and a chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply and join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility: At NRC we think outside the box. We encourage ideas and give responsibility to all employees at all levels, to help solve the complex issues that we face. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take initiative.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve, and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

Additional Information:

Duty Station: Global roving.

Travel: Up to 75%

Duration of contract: 24 Months.

Grade 9 in NRC's grading structure

Reports to (overall reporting): Head of Emergency Human Resources

Reports to (during deployments): Head of Programme

Provides supervision to: Defined per deployment

We invite applications from all qualified and interested candidates to be sent on or before July 9, 2023.

All applications should be submitted in English!

This position is open to qualified candidates of all nationalities!

Please ensure you attach copies of your academic and professional certificates.

For more information regarding the role, here is the detailed job description.

For any queries, please email us at [email protected] with “Global Roving Emergency Grants Manager” as the subject line.