Grants Manager Human Mobility Hub - Middle East Office

The Grants Manager will provide strategic leadership and oversight of grants management for NRC's Human Mobility Hub in the Middle East, ensuring donor compliance, high-quality proposal development and reporting, strengthening project cycle management, supporting resource mobilization, donor engagement, and building partner capacity for sustainable portfolio growth.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight of grants management ensuring donor compliance and high-quality proposal development and reporting.
• Strengthen project cycle management and internal grants management systems, processes, SOPs, and documentation.
• Lead development of concept notes and proposals, coordinate project revisions, oversee donor reporting ensuring consistency, quality, and compliance.
• Lead partner due diligence, organizational assessments, agreements, contract management, and partnership management systems.
• Support partners to access funding opportunities and build organisational capacity through technical guidance, training, and capacity strengthening.
• Conduct field visits to monitor implementation and support learning.
• Support fundraising strategy development, identify and pursue new funding opportunities, coordinate donor engagement, and represent NRC in donor and coordination forums.
• Collaborate with regional teams to expand funding and programming opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Five years of relevant experience in donor relations and grants management within humanitarian and development sectors.
• Experience working in complex environments and with displacement affected people.
• Good understanding of donor rules and regulations, notably NMFA, Norad, SDC, ECHO, Dutch MFA.
• Proven skills and experience in report and proposal development and working with multiple donors.
• Good personal organisational skills including time management and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Willingness to travel to areas of HMH operations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Arabic.
• Strong knowledge of the Middle East and/or North Africa context.
• Experience working alongside local actors and partners, shifting power to a more local level.
• Significant experience managing coordination and communication within multipart or complex environments.
• Expertise in cross-functional management environments and exceptional teamwork abilities.
• Good cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision.
• Experience writing high quality reports and proposals.
• Experience contributing to positive organisational change.
• Knowledge of NGO operations and humanitarian sector dynamics in Middle East and North Africa.
• Fluency in French is a strong asset.
• Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Amman, Jordan; no work permits or visa sponsorships provided.

Skills

• Donor Relations
• Grants Management
• Humanitarian Context Knowledge
• Development Sector Knowledge
• Donor Rules and Regulations
• Report Development
• Proposal Development
• Time Management
• Cross-functional Management
• Coordination Management
• Communication Management
• Cultural Awareness
• Local Partner Engagement
• Organizational Change Management
• Project Cycle Management
• Resource Mobilization
• Partner Capacity Building
• Middle East Context Knowledge
• North Africa Context Knowledge
• NGO Operations

Languages

English, Arabic, French