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 stakeholder meetings
- Oversee financial compliance by reviewing expenses, maintaining budgets, and ensuring accurate financial reporting
- Build and maintain relationships with partners, conduct due diligence, and support partner agreements and capacity building
- Lead donor reporting by drafting, reviewing, and finalizing narrative and financial reports, and monitoring financial performance
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 organisations.
- 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.
- 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 US, UK, Africa.
- Authorized to work in Canada, based in Toronto.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range (not specified in the posting)
Work schedule (not specified in the posting)
Work environment perks (not specified in the posting)
Opportunities to work on a five-year, USD 80M donor-funded program
Potential for travel across time zones including US, UK, and Africa
Contribution to impactful social enterprise projects in the African green economy
Collaborative work with global teams and stakeholders
Development of skills in grant management, donor reporting, and program coordination
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