Grant and Knowledge Management Specialist

The Grant and Knowledge Management Specialist supports the Humanitarian Response Division (HRD) in Geneva by managing grants and knowledge to strengthen resource mobilization and reporting on UNFPA’s emergency responses. The role involves coordinating donor proposals, ensuring compliance with grant requirements, and facilitating knowledge management and dissemination within HRD and with partners.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to overall coordination of HRD proposal development to donors for new and ongoing multi-country grants for the HRD.
• Compile and produce quarterly, bi-annual, and annual donor reports for all HRD-led grants and other corporate global requirements such as CERF and CBPFs in collaboration with all HRD units and relevant stakeholders, ensuring a harmonized and streamlined approach.
• Monitor compliance of grant and reporting requirements and needs of all relevant HRD Units and HRD-led grants.
• Finalize all reports for timely submission to donors.
• Coordinate multi-unit grants to ensure effective implementation.
• Support donor engagement and communications.
• Support the development of UNFPA’s HRD knowledge management priorities in line with the HRD results framework and related policies.
• Ensure that documentation and compilation of good practices are consistently captured in a harmonized and structured manner, following UNFPA standards.
• Support linkages between different HRD units and the ROs and relevant HQ units to promote the dissemination and use of information and knowledge products and strengthen synergies across units, geographic and thematic areas.
• Support the maintenance and utilization of a HRD’s Knowledge management repository and support effective dissemination and utilization of knowledge products.
• Support partnerships with think tanks, academia, policy institutes and KM networks.
• Performs any other duties as may be directed by the Head of the External Relations Unit, the Director and/or Deputy Director, including emergency deployment.

Requirements

• Advanced University degree in public health, medicine, sociology, demography, gender, economics, international relations, international development, public administration, marketing, management, or another related field.
• 5 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in grant management relevant to sexual and reproductive health, gender and population and development of which three at the international level.
• Substantive knowledge Management and research experience; knowledge and practical experience in knowledge management and strategic information management.
• Experience in programme and/or technical assistance with the UN System and other international development organizations will be desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and the ability to explain complex ideas and findings in a way that can be easily understood.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Working knowledge of other UN languages an asset.

Skills

• Grant Management
• Knowledge Management
• Strategic Information Management
• Research Experience
• Programme Assistance
• Technical Assistance
• Resource Mobilization
• Donor Coordination
• Compliance Monitoring
• Reporting
• Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Gender and Population Development
• International Development
• UN System Experience
• Written Communication
• Verbal Communication

Languages

English