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Job Description
The Grants Manager will oversee end-to-end grant management for a large, multi-year donor-funded program, ensuring compliance, financial tracking, and effective communication across global teams to support social enterprise development in Africa.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end grant processes, ensuring compliance, financial tracking, and timely reporting
- Coordinate and support program operations, including documentation, milestone tracking, and meeting logistics
- Oversee financial compliance by reviewing expenses, maintaining budgets, and ensuring accurate financial reporting
- Build and maintain relationships with program partners, stakeholders, and donors
- Lead the preparation, review, and submission of donor reports and monitor financial performance
- Support donor communication and organize external and internal program assets for reporting and meetings
Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience managing complex, grant funded, multi-year projects.
- Direct experience with major international, corporate donors, foundations, and non-profit organizations.
- Exceptional organizational skills, including time and project management, and ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong project and grant reporting experience with knowledge of systems leading project and grant reporting systems e.g., Salesforce, Asana, etc., and programme management qualifications equivalent to PRINCE2.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills for diverse stakeholders across regions and at varying levels of accountabilities.
- Experience in managing and understanding results frameworks, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems, logframes, and learning agendas.
- Prior regional, in-country experience working in East and West Africa (preferred).
- Willingness to travel according to grant requirements and work across time zones including US, UK, and Africa.
- Authorized to work in Canada, based in Toronto.
- Self-reflective and aligned with Acumen’s values.
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Compensation/salary range
Work schedule
Work environment perks
Support for travel across time zones
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