Grants Adviser Afghanistan (National Position)

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 8 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 8 (NRC) contracts.

NRC is looking for a Grants Advisor to join the Afghanistan mission. The role holder will ensure effective grants management through internal and donor compliance requirements, timely and quality reporting, and supporting proposal development. The position is crucial to oversee the collection of inputs from multiple area offices, implementing partners, and consortium members to ensure a structured, timely, and harmonised approach to grants coordination. **This position is open to Afghan Nationals only**

If you are an organised, procedure-driven executive; with strong coordination, networking, and stakeholder management skills; as well as a keen eye for detail; and an ability to build constructive and collaborative relationships, then this is the role for you!

What You Will Do

• Grants Management (overview and maintenance of all grants, donor requirements, rules and regulations, and internal and external deadlines; development of donor applications and reports, ensuring donor compliance and quality control; development and revision of funding proposals, budgets, and donor reports; continuously improve internal grant management systems; provide an internal help-desk on donor related issues; Provide suitable advice on donor’s guidelines; and contribute to project/grants cycle management procedures and usage of the project/grants cycle management framework).
• Funding Identification & Proposal Development (organise proposal planning meetings; dissemination of information; build relationships to coordinate and support the development of proposals; and compile proposal budgets).
• Due Diligence Assessments (support the due diligence assessment; ensure the organisation is up to date with donor’s assessments; and ensure that the organisation’s risk ratings are aligned as per current programming and policies).
• Grant Agreements (develop budgeting tools; communication on allocated budget; summarise key reporting and compliance requirements; ensure budgets are correctly allocated and aligned; and ensure Grant Opening Meetings take place in timely manner and that all internal documents are in place).
• Donor Reporting, Monitoring, & Review (development and review of donor and partner reports, ensuring consistency between narrative and financial reports and that they meet quality standards; highlight critical financial issues to Managers and budget holders; monitor grant payment schedules and income requests; and support the development of country factsheets and other relevant information for donor visits/meetings).
• Donor Compliance (familiarity with organisational and donor portfolio compliance requirements; and ensure high quality management of grants through meeting of indicators and deadlines; support and advise programme colleagues with queries related to donor compliance; ensure all documentation is ready and available for audits; support openings and close out of grants; and assist in training and capacity building of field staff).
• General Administration (maintaining a high standard of information management/filing systems; representation and attendance at meetings; area and/or field office visits; and ensure correct maintenance of an up-to-date grants funding tracker and online database).

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Grants management experience in a humanitarian early recovery/emergency context.
• Donor relations experience (with institutional humanitarian and development donors).
• Donor rules and regulations understanding.
• Proposal and report writing expertise.
• English fluency, both written and verbal.
• Local language fluency (both Pashto and Dari).

What Makes This Position Attractive?

• The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is complex, protracted, and worsening. The country is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with a risk of systemic collapse and human catastrophe.
• This is an opportunity to contribute to the protection and assistance of vulnerable and crisis-affected women, girls, boys, and men. NRC is a prominent humanitarian agency operating in Afghanistan and is one of the leading humanitarian response agencies (particularly for Afghans forced to flee). NRC is present in, and focused on, some of the most difficult parts of the country that are affected by displacement, maintaining a presence of 12 offices and over 1,000 staff in 14 provinces across the country.
• Operational since 2003, NRC has focused on three primary sectors to directly assist and protect people that have been forced to flee their homes: Information, Counselling, and Legal Assistance; Shelter; and Education. It also has complementary activities in other technical sectors, such as Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene; Livelihoods and Food Security; and Camp Management services in urban displacement and out-of-camp settings.
• Meaningful work that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities. NRC Afghanistan meets immediate humanitarian needs, prevents further displacement, and contributes to durable solutions. The organisation strives to influence wider policy and strategy in the interests of people who have been forcibly displaced, promoting humanitarian access, humanitarian protection, and long-lasting solutions that help families restore their lives and integrate into local society, and improving the wider quality of response.
• NRC is currently supported through multiple institutional, bilateral, and multilateral donors. These include the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the European Commission-Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the Danish International Development Agency, U.K.’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, the E.U. Directorate-General for International Partnerships, and UN agencies such as the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Common Humanitarian Fund, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, etc.
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.

What We Offer

• Kabul, Afghanistan duty station.
• 12-months contract duration.
• 30% travel, approximately.
• Grade 8 in NRC’s Salary Scale. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

Key Information - Please Take Note When Applying

• We highly encourage you to learn more about the role: please review the full Job Description here.
• Learn more about NRC’s operation in Afghanistan here.
• This position is open to Afghan Nationals only.
• Apply by completing all the system-required fields of your employment history, experience, responsibilities, and education in your application.
• Ensure to attach your latest CV.
• Submit your application and CV in English.
• When creating your profile, include your full name as per your passport.
• To apply as an internal candidate, click on the suitcase icon “I am an employee” on the top right of the page to be redirected to NRC’s internal career site.
• Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. NRC is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
• Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We receive many applicants for each vacant position. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to give detailed feedback to applicants who have not been shortlisted.
• For any queries, please email us at [email protected] with “Grants Advisor Afghanistan” as the subject line.