The Grants Manager will contribute to achieving high-quality programming by ensuring effective grants management including, compliance requirements, reporting, timely and quality proposal development, and internal and external communication. The Grants Manager reports to the Head of Programme. Some of your roles and responsibilities include:

Proposal development

• Build positive working relationships with other teams in the Country Office to coordinate and support the development of high-quality proposals using relevant NRC grant management tools and guidance (go/ no-go checklist, proposal development calendar, procurement plan, internal budgeting tool).
• Work closely with budget holders, programme teams and support (finance, HR, Logistics) to compile accurate proposal budgets and assess whether all necessary costs have been included.
• Coordinate the partner selection process, from mapping through due diligence to the proposal development and contracting phases.

Grant management

• Work in close collaboration with the Area Manager and Core Competencies Leads to ensure that project deliverables are timely met, flag any challenges requiring amendments and coordinate the project revision (amendments of contracts).
• Ensure all documentation required to be kept by donors is available in the NRC online Filing Tree (Office 365) and in hard copies.
• Together with the Grants and Partnership Officer, summarize key reporting and compliance requirements (compliance checklist) including potential issues for grant opening meetings.
• Ensure PCM(Project Cycle Management) requirements are arranged and planned for each project:
  • Facilitate grant opening meetings and grant closing meetings.
  • Ensure regular grant review meetings for each project are planned and conducted at the area office level.

Reporting, Monitoring and Compliance

• Coordinate the timely finalization of donor reports ensuring consistency between narrative and financial reports and that they meet quality standards.
• Ensure that donor rules and regulations are well communicated to the team during key PCM activities and that specific training or cheat sheets are developed for complex compliance requirements/donors.
• Support compliance and finance teams in ensuring the availability of donor documentation (agreement, reports, communication) as well as conducting RoDs (reconciliation of deliverables) spot checks as per the NRC SSD (Securing Supporting Documentation) guidelines.

Implementation of strategic priorities

• Ensure that NRC’s proposals consider cross-cutting and thematic areas (Safe and Inclusive Programming, gender, environmental impact, etc.).
• Support the Grants and Partnership Officer in developing local partners’ mappings and potential strategic partnerships, and work closely with the regional office in establishing regional partnerships.
• Visit area and/or field offices to support capacity building of staff and partners and for monitoring purposes when possible.
• Represent NRC with partners and donors as delegated.

What You will bring

• At least 4 years of relevant experience in a related field
• Experience in program and grants management in the humanitarian/recovery context
• Experience working in complex/ insecure environments and with displaced populations
• Good understanding of donor rules and regulations
• Proven skills and experience in proposal development and reporting as well as in working with multiple donors
• Solid writing skills
• Fluency in English and French, both written and verbal
• Good knowledge of the context in Cameroon, and more specifically in the Far North, North-West South-West and East regions
• Knowledge of humanitarian donors
• Solid organisational and team working skills
• Previous experiences in capacity-building will be an asset
• Willingness to travel to field offices and work in challenging environments
• Behavioural competencies in Planning and delivering results; Working with people; Analyzing; Empowering and building trust; Initiating action and change; Managing performance and development

What We Offer

• 12-month contract renewable based on performance and funding
• Grade 8 in NRC’s Salary Scale.
• An opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause
• A chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields