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Grants Manager

Acumen
Location not specified
Full Time
Posted November 27, 2025
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Job Description

The Grants Manager will oversee end-to-end grant management for a large, multi-year donor-funded program supporting social enterprises in Africa, ensuring compliance, financial tracking, reporting, and effective coordination across teams to support program implementation and donor relations.

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 partners, including drafting agreements, conducting assessments, and supporting capacity building.
  • Lead donor reporting by preparing high-quality narrative and financial reports, monitoring financial performance, and tracking grant disbursements.

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.

Benefits & Perks

Work environment perks (implied through coordination and communication support)
Support for travel according to grant requirements and work across time zones
Opportunities for organizational and partnership capacity building
Potential for professional development through managing complex, multi-year projects and systems like Salesforce and Asana

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