Job Title: Grants Manager
Reports to: You will report to the Programme Director (PD), and work closely with Area Coordinators (ACs), Programme Managers (PMs), Technical Coordinators and Advisors, Operations Director (OD), Country Financial Controller (CFC), Dublin Technical Advisors and Desk Officer (DO).
Terms: This is 12-month role with unaccompanied terms based in Port Sudan (depending on visa and security situation)
Salary: GB5; €42,136 – €46,818
Requirements: Extensive travel within Sudan, including conflict-affected and remote areas, may be required. The post holder must be willing to undertake missions under challenging security and logistical conditions, in compliance with organizational security protocols.
About Concern: Established in 1968, Concern is a non-profit, non-governmental humanitarian organisation, dedicated to the reduction of suffering and the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
Concern’s vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. Concern strives for a world free from poverty, fear and oppression.
Our culture is values driven and we believe that our people are central to all that we do and are key to delivering on our goal of Reaching the Furthest Behind First. We are committed to ensuring a workplace where everybody feels valued and are enabled to succeed in their work and contribute to delivering on our mission.
Role Purpose: You will ensure high-quality support in designing programmes, identifying funding opportunities, writing proposals and ensuring compliant grant management, including reporting, across the Sudan Country Programme. As Grants Manager, you will ensure that Concern’s Sudan Programme implementation is in line with the country strategy, commitment to donors, and quality standards such as Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), SPHERE and Concern’s Programme Quality Guidelines. You will support the Sudan Programme in the development and growth of the funding portfolio and ensure that the current portfolio is complying with donor and internal rules and regulations.
Responsibilities:
Programme Development and Fundraising
- Support in developing and diversifying the country funding portfolio, including engagement with donors, consortia and other relevant stakeholders.
- Coordinate funding opportunity processes, including go/no-go discussions, pipeline tracking and identification of funding gaps and priorities.
- Lead, coordinate and draft if necessary inputs to concept notes, expressions of interest and proposals, ensuring strong theories of change, logical frameworks, SMART indicators, cross-cutting issues and quality standards.
- Coordinate the development of accurate, realistic proposal budgets with programme and finance teams and ensure timely, compliant submission of funding applications.
- Maintain up-to-date proposal, donor and organisational information and ensure effective use of the Grants Management System (GMS) for institutional learning and future programme development.
- Ensure learning, programme evidence, needs, gaps and cross-cutting priorities inform the development of high-quality proposals and new funding opportunities.
Grants Management and Donor Compliance
- Oversee the country grants portfolio, ensuring managers are informed of donor requirements, contractual obligations, reporting deadlines and compliance standards.
- Coordinate grant start-up, review and close-out processes, ensuring effective engagement of programme, finance, logistics, HR and partner teams.
- Maintain the country grants matrix and ensure timely, accurate and high-quality donor reporting in coordination with programme, finance, HQ and technical teams.
- Provide guidance and technical support to programme teams on donor compliance, reporting requirements, templates, visibility obligations and contractual conditions.
- Represent Concern in donor, consortium and other relevant meetings as required, and ensure key information and actions are communicated to relevant colleagues.
Knowledge Management and Communications
- Ensure complete, accurate and accessible grant and programme documentation is maintained in the GMS and across relevant country offices.
- Coordinate the collection and quality assurance of programme evidence, including case studies, photographs, field reports and other materials, to demonstrate programme achievements, challenges and learning.
- Coordinate the production of programme updates, briefing materials, annual reports and other internal and external communications in collaboration with relevant teams.
- Ensure timely and appropriate communication of grant, programme and donor information to HQ, donors and other stakeholders.
Capacity Building and Organisational Learning
- Identify and address capacity-building needs of programme and grants teams in proposal development, donor compliance, reporting, documentation and knowledge management.
- Provide training, coaching and technical support to programme teams and local partners to strengthen proposal development, reporting quality and understanding of donor requirements.
- Promote effective learning, collaboration and knowledge sharing across programme teams and locations, ensuring relevant evidence and lessons inform programme development and grant management.
- Promote and uphold Concern’s Programme Participants’ Protection Policy, Code of Conduct and other organisational policies and standards.
- Undertake other duties as assigned by the line manager
- All managers are responsible for upholding and promoting Concern’s values, demonstrating leadership on workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, and role modelling a positive safeguarding ethos.
- All managers are required to actively participate in any emergency response as and when required.
Role Holder Requirements:
Essential:
- Relevant graduate degree (humanitarian/development studies, economics, social studies, business/administration or equivalent)
- Minimum three years relevant field based experience in the development/ humanitarian sector
- Robust understanding of Project Cycle Management and budgeting
- Demonstrated experience in programme development, including the logical framework approach, with key humanitarian donors
- Demonstrated experience in robust reporting for key humanitarian donors
- Excellent English writing skills
- Excellent people skills, coordination skills and communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise, often to strict deadlines.
- Strong analytical and problem solving abilities.
- Empathy with Concern’s goals and a commitment to capacity building, protection and participation.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity.