Fresh Jobs at Dragnet Nigeria

Job Overview

• The Grants and Project Coordinator is a critical, high-impact role responsible for securing and managing the organization's funding pipeline.
• This involves identifying and successfully obtaining grants while simultaneously overseeing end-to-end project execution to guarantee strict compliance with all funding and regulatory requirements.
• This role demands meticulous attention to detail, robust project management skills, and exceptional diplomacy in liaising with internal teams, partners, and external donors.

Key Responsibilities
Funding Acquisition & Compliance:

• Research: Proactively research and identify suitable, high-value grant opportunities for the organization.
• Proposal Development: Develop and submit persuasive, compliant grant proposals, including accurate budget formulation.
• Documentation: Manage all grant application processes and maintain accurate, up-to-date documentation.

Project Management & Financial Oversight:

• Execution & Oversight: Coordinate the planning and execution of all grant-funded projects to meet established objectives and deadlines.
• Financial Accountability: Monitor project budgets and expenditures meticulously, ensuring full financial compliance and tracking milestones.
• Reporting: Prepare and submit timely, comprehensive progress and final reports for both internal management and external funders.

Stakeholder Management:

• Relationship Building: Establish and maintain strong, effective relationships with donors, funding partners, and internal collaborating teams.
• Confidentiality: Uphold the highest standards of professional integrity, discretion, and confidentiality in all dealings.

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess relevant qualifications with experience.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Strategic Planning and Mission Accomplishment
• Corporate Governance
• People Management
• Project Management
• Operations Management
• Financial Planning and Control
• Marketing Management
• Values

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS :

• Education to BA/BS level at minimum
• MBA or Post Graduate Education/Certification
• At least three years of working experience in a managerial role.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE :

• Demonstrable experience of working at a strategic level.
• Experience in project management.
• Resilience and flexibility, able to work calmly under pressure and deal with a fast-changing workload and sometimes demanding deadlines.
• Proactive, ingenious, and creative approach to solving problems.
• Ability to produce well-presented, coherent written and visual materials  quickly.
• Outgoing, helpful disposition and the ability to deal with people  respectfully, diplomatically and firmly as appropriate.
• Experience of effective teamwork in a virtual setting with staff  worldwide.
• Excellent English language communication skills, including the ability to  produce precise, grammatically correct written documents and      presentations.
• Able to deal with confidential matters discreetly.
• Organized, systematic and able to organise a filing system that makes it easy  to collate, curate and retrieve documents electronically (digitally) and  physically.
• Numeracy and financial literacy.
• Experience of and sensitivity to diversity in all its forms in a multi ethnic and globally oriented organisation.

DESIRABLE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Competency in other major local and world language(s) in addition  to English will be desirable or a future goal. 
• Advanced graduate degree study