DRC Grants Management Officer Jobs Nigeria 2025 – NGO Jobs in Nigeria

DRC Grants Management Officer Jobs Nigeria 2025: The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is pleased to announce an exciting career opportunity for the position of Grants Management Officer, based in Abuja, Nigeria. Job Application Deadline: Jan 26th, 2025. Interested aspirants should include a current CV or all important documents. For the latest notifications on NGO job vacancies and news from the DRC Career, follow our website to stay informed and find more opportunities.

Important Dates: (Apply immediately before Jan 26th, 2025)

DRC Vacancy in Nigeria Short details

Position: Grants Management Officer
Organization: Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Job Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Application Deadline: Jan 26th, 2025

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

Support the Grants Management Coordinator in coordinating, scheduling, facilitating, and following-up grant start-up, review, and close-out meetings, providing presentations on important contractual stipulations, donor compliance, and deadlines. This also includes support in drafting, finalizing, and sharing agenda and relevant documents to ensure action points are monitored.
Ensure timely and accurate maintenance of grant files on DRC’s SharePoint, Insite, along with accurate and timely maintenance of the Grants Management System (GMS) on Dynamics in line with country office compliance.
Support the Grants Management Coordinator in ensuring timely and appropriate tracking of instalments received through current grants from donors and/or consortia leads. Correctly use DRC Dynamics functionalities in area of concern.
Contribute to technical revisions to donors for ongoing projects. If needed, provide a review for grammar and consistency across submission documents.
Manage reporting workflows and processes between program teams, senior leadership, and HQ to ensure the timely and quality development and review of reports.
Develop and prepare high-quality, timely reports for donors, partners, and government on program progress, ensuring all donor reporting requirements are met and strategically positioned to demonstrate DRCs leadership in programming in the country context.
Support the Grants Management Specialist in providing timely, thorough responses to information requests from internal and external sources.
In close collaboration with Programme and MEAL teams, support documentation of lessons learnt, best practices and proven innovations in programme design, implementation, monitoring and reporting to improve programme design and implementation strategy.
Support the Grants Management Coordinator in the facilitation of partner sub-awards including communication, report coordination, and monitoring of partner spending to ensure compliance within the financial stipulations of the sub-award.
Finalising and sharing minimum set of documents for successful partnership management.
Liaise with Finance colleagues and Grants Management Coordinator on budget follow-up and expenditure levels of active grants. Support Finance in the closing out of grants in a timely manner.
Work with colleagues to identify and find solutions to compliance-related issues or findings.
Identify areas and provide solutions to improve operational efficiencies in related areas.

Requirements:

At least 2 years of professional experience with an international development organization.
Familiarity with US and EU donors with special attention to reporting requirements.
Full professional proficiency in English with the capacity to produce well-written products for formal reporting and communication.
Bachelor’s degree in a field related to humanitarian work, political science, international development, economics or other relevant fields..
Strong organization and planning skills, with excellent attention to detail.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Skilled in obtaining information necessary to accomplish duties.
Problem analysis and solutions-oriented way of working.
Able to quickly research, learn and disseminate new knowledge and information.
Able to communicate clearly and in a timely manner.
Able to adapt quickly, with an openness to learn and ask questions.
Hausa (fluent) desirable

How to Apply for DRC Grants Management Officer Jobs Nigeria 2025?

Interested candidates should submit a current CV or resume, a cover letter, and details of relevant experience (if applicable). Please ensure you carefully review the eligibility criteria and job responsibilities before applying.