Grants Coordinator Nigeria Maiduguri

The Grants Coordinator supports the Grants Manager in ensuring high-quality programme delivery through effective grant management processes across NRC's operations in Nigeria. The role involves supporting donor compliance, contributing to donor reports and proposals, and fostering a culture of accountability and high performance within the programme team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain overview of all grants, donor requirements, compliance, rules and regulations, and internal and external deadlines, including filing of grant documents
• Support in the coordination of development of donor applications and reports, ensuring donor compliance and quality control
• Contribute to the development and revision of funding proposals, budgets and donor reports
• Be updated on donor priorities, trends and share relevant calls for proposals to relevant teams
• Document, analyze, and share learning from proposal and reporting process and compliance with donor rules and regulations
• Contribute to continuously improving internal grant management systems
• Provide an internal helpdesk on donor related issues, including organizing and delivering trainings in donor rules and regulations, proposal and report writing
• Coordinate the development and distribution of internal reports
• Contribute to PCM training and usage of the NRC PCM framework in the Country Office as delegated by the Grants Manager
• Support external donor audits
• Represent NRC towards relevant partners and donors as delegated
• Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy
• Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures and consideration of NRC global and regional strategies when executing functions related to this role
• Prepare reports for donors, partners, and government on program progress, ensuring all reporting requirements of donors are delivered on time and in a quality manner
• Ensure quality of program writing, including program activity plans, reports and informal updates
• Work with the Grants Manager to develop concept notes and donor proposals, and participate in writing them in close cooperation with relevant departments in NRC Nigeria
• Support in the development of generic concept notes, briefing notes and SITREPS to be used in donor meetings and visits
• Maintain program files and ensure copies of donor concept notes, proposals, contracts, and reports are correctly filed in the Filing Tree
• Responsible for donor compliance of the respective grants and project cycle management processes for allocated projects
• Support in the development and implementation of grants-related trainings, including donor compliance and proposal and report writing
• Support in ensuring that all programme staff are aware of requirements and conditions of grant agreements and contracts, through the use of grant opening/mid/closing meetings and other methods
• Support in the maintenance of an accessible and well-organized filing system for storing all grant-specific files for all of NRC’s past and active grants and ensure that grant coordination systems and processes are successfully implemented
• Support in keeping the Grants Tracker updated
• Support in ensuring all documentation required is ready and available for audits

Requirements

• Relevant University Degree or Higher Education, preferably international relations/development, development studies, social sciences, or project management
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in grants management in the humanitarian sector
• Experience from working with humanitarian and development donors
• Basic understanding of donor rules and regulations
• Skills and experience in report and proposal writing
• Strong communication, coordination and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• Above average computer skills, with proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Skills

• Grants Management
• Donor Relations
• Humanitarian Sector Expertise
• Development Donor Experience
• Donor Compliance
• Report Writing
• Proposal Writing
• Project Management
• Communications Skills
• Coordination Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• English Language Proficiency
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook

Languages

English