Overview
Experienced leader sought for the global Grants Management Function, responsible for setting direction, policies, tools, and guidance to ensure a cohesive approach to Project Cycle Management (PCM) and Grants Management.
Key Responsibilities
- Line management responsibilities for directly reporting staff, including performance management, workforce planning, recruitment, and duty of care.
- Responsible for PCM and Grants Management support, developing relevant training and coaching.
- Lead and further develop the PCM and Grants Management Function, standardising approaches, tools, and guidance.
- Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of Cycles, NRCs digital grants management system.
- Liaise with Head of Finance to optimize support of finance and grants.
- Build collaborative working relationships with other Global Support structures.
- Accountable for providing and updating training and capacity building on grants management, proposal and report writing, donor rules, and PCM.
- Responsible for ensuring standardised approaches to PCM and Grants Management are followed and developing compliance practices.
- Establish and maintain a proactive community of practice for PCM and Grants Management.
- Support the development and roll out of Cycles.
- Establish cost allocation methods for pooled staff and ensure fundraising for staff capacity.
- Ensure the PCM Framework is updated and maintained, and create a Grants Management handbook.
- Lead the Internally Competing Proposals process.
- Decision maker in the usage of the Proposal Development Roster mechanism.
- Undertake quality assurance tasks for specific project proposals or reports.
- Undertake delegated donor representation, including liaising with consortia partners, supporting new business negotiations, and funder reporting.
Required Experience
- Minimum 8 years of relevant experience, including leadership or management experience within the humanitarian/development field.
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
- Proven experience of leading change processes in complex organisations.
- Understanding leadership, management, influencing and development within a matrix structure.
- Professional credibility to influence stakeholders and drive change internally.
- Familiar with programme and other quality standards, donor requirements and trends in the humanitarian sector.
- Good interpersonal skills, and ability to build collaborative working relationships.
- Comfortable with leading development projects, working with a broad range of colleagues and developing user friendly tools, frameworks and guidance.
- Experience in leading teams.
- Experience with leading teams remotely is a clear advantage.
- Understanding of NRCs ways of working.
- Passion for developing a new function, lead and setting direction and structure is a strength.
Qualifications
• Relevant higher education, preferably at master’s degree level.
