Grants Coordinator

Provide essential grant management support to deliver quality programmes

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Overview

Provide essential grant management support to deliver quality programmes

You have:

  • Between 2-3 years of relevant experience within field of expertise
  • Relevant experience of grant and/or partner management in the humanitarian sector
  • Experience from working with humanitarian and development donors
  • Good understanding of donor rules and regulations
  • Skills and experience in project cycle management, report and proposal development writing
  • Strong communication, coordination and interpersonal skills
  • Strong analytical skills (data and financial)
  • Ability to mediate in high-stress scenarios with competing interest
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
  • Above average computer skills

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.

Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world's most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.

At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.

Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:

• treat everyone with respect and dignity

• contribute to building a safe environment for all

• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)

• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH

The purpose of the Grants Coordinator position is to provide essential grant management support to the Grants Manager in delivering quality programmes in line with the NRC CO strategy and Plan of Action.

Position: Grants Coordinator

Grade: 7

Reports to: Grants Manager

Duty station: Yangon

Travel: 20%

Duration and type of contract: 12 months (fixed term contract)

Highly encoraged to learn more about the role, please review Job description here.

Qualifications

  1. Between 2-3 years of relevant experience within field of expertise
  2. Relevant experience of grant and/or partner management in the humanitarian sector
  3. Experience from working with humanitarian and development donors
  4. Good understanding of donor rules and regulations
  5. Skills and experience in project cycle management, report and proposal development writing
  6. Strong communication, coordination and interpersonal skills
  7. Strong analytical skills (data and financial)
  8. Ability to mediate in high-stress scenarios with competing interest
  9. Excellent attention to detail
  10. Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
  11. Above average computer skills

Responsibilities

  1. Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures and consideration of NRC global and regional strategies when executing functions related to this role
  2. Contribute to the development and maintenance of overview of all grants, donor requirements, rules and regulations, and internal and external deadlines
  3. Ensure standardised information management/filing systems for all grants documents, as per NRC policy (including through the grants database - forthcoming)
  4. Coordinate the development of donor applications and reports, as well as ensuring donor compliance and quality control
  5. Contribute to the development and revision of funding proposals, budgets and donor reports
  6. Be updated on donor priorities, trends (such as interest in cash-based interventions) and track and share relevant calls for proposals

Potential interview questions

Can you describe a time when you managed a grant successfully? To understand your practical experience in grants management. Detail the processes you followed and the outcomes achieved.
How do you ensure compliance with donor requirements? To assess your understanding of compliance in grants management. Pro members can see the explanation.
Tell me about a challenging situation you faced with a donor and how you resolved it. Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Describe your experience with project cycle management. Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
What tools do you use for managing grant documentation? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: nrc.no