Grants Manager at North East Regional Initiative (NERI)

Position Summary:
The Grants Manager will serve as the principal point of contact and Manager for Grant Administration. S/he will be responsible to ensure effective and efficient management of grants administration and to ensure flexible, innovative, and rapid-response mechanisms are designed to target key zones within Nigeria. S/he will also ensure that the Grant Management and administrative function is always in compliance with the organizations’ policies and procedures; and will work towards capacity building of the recipients as well as other staff members in the area of grants management.

Reporting & Supervision:
The Grants Manager reports to the Operations Manager/Deputy Chief of Party. The Grants Manager supervises Grants Officers and Grants Specialists.

Primary Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Provides oversight and management of grants staff and grants program;
• Organizes and coordinates organizational staffing structure and workflow of grants staff activities and administration;
• Responsible for ensuring quality control and the integrity of the online grant database and ensures that the data in the system is always up-to-date;
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with the organization’s grant policies as detailed in the Field Manual and the projects Grant Manual;
• Coordinate closely with program staff to ensure timely administration and monitoring of grant agreements;
• Coordinate with finance, procurement, and program staff to facilitate grantee kick-off meeting, monitoring and closeout of grant activities;
• Provide guidance and interpretation for program staff as well as grantees of organization’s grants policies and procedures and IDO regulation;
• Manage the grants and direct implementation pipeline;
• Ensure that grant master files are always up-to-date and ready for audit;
• Lead the grants management team to serve as a central point of grant activity coordination and facilitation;
• Provide support to technical units on grants compliance and the online grants database;
• Provide training in grants compliance to project staff;
• Other tasks as needed.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of five (5) years professional experience (including at least two years of supervisory experience) working in complex and challenging field operational contexts;
• Bachelors’ degree or professional accounting/financial qualification is required;
• Experience managing teams,
• Minimum two years financial administration experience essential
• Competent in computers and using financial software essential
• Understanding of budget and cost control management essential
• Excellent written and spoken English essential
• IDO program experience desirable
• Grants program experience desirable
• Ability to work under pressure and efficiently handle multiple tasks.
• Ability to work under own initiative or as a part of a team