Grants Officer at Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

Location: Yola, Adamawa
Contract Type: National Contract

The position

• The overall purpose of this role is to support the Program Quality Assurance unit perform its key tasks including grants management, reporting and visibility.

Responsibilities
Reporting:

• Assist RCS in gathering inputs from the team and follow-up, as per the reporting schedule;
• Assist Program Quality Assurance unit in conceptualizing and facilitating the implementation of program quality tools developed;
• Support grant opening, review and closing meetings, including attendance at meetings when possible;
• Assist Program Quality Assurance unit in conducting secondary research to inform new opportunities and designs, as required;
• Assist RCS in maintaining up to date filing on DRC Dynamics and facilitate the dissemination of specific information and documents, as and when required; and,
• Provide the required support for donor visits and evaluations, when required.

Internal Communication:

• Regularly monitor sources of internal and external information, data and knowledge products and share this information/updates with relevant team members, as and when required;
• To be the base focal point for project staff seeking grant management documents and ensure timely and effective responses to inquiries for grant documents.

Communication & Visibility:

• Assist field-level visibility including the recording of visibility by travelling to field sites as needed to collect information for success stories and photos to be used by RCS for publications;
• Support RCS in the roll-out of visibility training at all bases.
• In close collaboration with program and M&E team, support documentation of lessons learnt, best practices and proven innovations in program design, implementation, monitoring and reporting to improve program design and implementation strategy; and,
• Create a culture of sharing this knowledge among staff members.

Key Requirements
Essentials:

• University degree in a relevant field such as international relations, project management, development studies, business administration, social sciences or equivalent;
• At least 2 years of professional experience with an international humanitarian / development organization with responsibilities of grants/program management;
• Knowledge of relevant sectoral areas implemented by DRC Nigeria programmes - including protection, food security, WASH, shelter, NFIs, humanitarian mine action and armed violence reduction;
• Familiarity with USAID, DFID, UN and EU donors with special attention to reporting and archiving requirements;
• English - fluent with the capacity to produce well-written products for formal reporting and communication.

Desirables:

• Knowledge and fluency in Hausa and other languages used in northeast Nigeria
• Ability to represent DRC to local groups and community members;
• Demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively in a multi-cultural environment with competing priorities, tight deadlines, and in a complex emergency context.

Conditions:

• Availability: ASAP.

Salary and Conditions

• In accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment;
• The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigeria laws.