Grants Manager
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Raising Voices
Remote (local)- Location: Mali, Burkina Faso
- Career category: Fundraising/ Grant management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 30/11/2025
- Location: Mali, Burkina Faso
Raising Voices is a small, results-oriented organization based in Kampala, Uganda that works on issues of violence against women and violence against children. Raising Voices developed an evidence-based methodology for preventing violence against women called SASA! Together, which is being used in many countries around the world.
Duties and Responsibilities
Strategic Support:
- Support selection of partners including national or regional activist/feminist organizations that are working on VAW prevention in Burkina Faso and Mali; and a feminist learning partner the West Africa region with experience in researching VAW.
- Create and facilitate participatory processes and systems to build and maintain trust, relationships and accountability among partners.
Grants Management, Reporting and Technical Support:
- Co-create grant management systems and practices that are distinct and enhance the spirit of Technical Assistance partnerships. This includes planning and facilitating an inception meeting to ensure feminist partnership principles as well as grant requirements are discussed, as well as regular meetings throughout the partnership.
- Support partners in creating and finalizing their budgets and narrative descriptions of their SASA! Together implementations.
- Create internal structures and systems that allow Raising Voices to manage the funds and fulfil the fiduciary responsibilities e.g., partnership agreement, reporting templates and schedules.
Financial and Operations Oversight
- Support preparation of budgets.
- Prepare financial reports every 6 months and submit them to Raising Voices.
- Monitor and ensure the effective and efficient use of grant and sub-grant funds across the project, ensuring that budgets are adhered to and that funds are used according to agreed-upon priorities.
- Work closely with the finance team to track expenditures, ensure proper accounting, and resolve any financial issues. This includes ensuring work advances are accounted for in a timely manner.
Learning and Assessment:
- Participate in and support scheduling of learning processes related to the research partnership, as requested.
- Review and analyze progress reports from sub-grantees to assess effectiveness and outcomes and work with technical support team and learning partner to consolidate recommendations.
Essential Knowledge:
- In depth Knowledge on women’s rights issues and feminist analysis of VAW.
- Understanding of effective VAW Prevention approaches and the current state of the field.
- Feminist partnership understanding and experience, demonstrated feminist understanding of power dynamics as it relates to funding and grants management.
- Fluency in both French and English is essential.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to demonstrate respect and foster positive communication with partners and colleagues.
- Willingness to travel to offices in Mali and Burkina Faso.
- Minimum – BA Degree in development, social work, gender, human rights fields, finance or any other related area.
- Experience creating and facilitating processes to build trust and relationships within grant partnerships.
- Extensive experience in facilitating capacity-building initiatives and training sessions in project management.
- At least five years of experience managing grants. Experience in managing sub-grants with partner coordination a plus.
- At least three years of experience with financial and narrative report writing in English and French.
- Experience in creating grants management systems and structures.
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