World Relief Grants Management Specialist Jobs in South Sudan

Position Summary

The Grants Management Specialist is responsible for leading and managing all proposal development efforts for the South Sudan office, including with existing and new programmatic initiatives.

This involves leading the process of developing narratives, budgets, and relevant attachments and coordinating inputs from all other staff relevant to the initiative at the field and home office level.

The Grants Management Specialist also maintains working relationships with donor institutions at the Juba level.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Specific Job Details

• Lead the development of all new and amended public funding proposals originating from the South Sudan country-office including narratives, budgets, and relevant attachments.

• Coordinate among relevant program, finance, and operations staff for inputs on proposal materials.

• Represent WRSS with donors at the Juba level including but not limited to USAID/OFDA and UN agencies.

• Advise the Country Director and other senior management on strategy for program development and Go/No-Go decisions for specific funding opportunities.

• Collaborate with the Program Officer and other support staff at the Home Office to develop USAID/ OFDA proposals and other proposals being led at the home office.

• Serve as the point person for WRSS in any consortium development proposals in which WRSS is a sub-recipient.

• Work with the Program Officer at the Home Office to respond to support the development of private fundraising (foundations, major donors, and churches) materials and asks.

• Support the WRSS programs staff in monitoring and donor compliance for large awards as defined by the Country Director.

• Work with other Program and M&E Staff to finalize all reports before submission to the Country Director or external audiences.

• Build the capacity of other staff in key competency areas related to program development.#

• Any other tasks as assigned by the line manager.

Knowledge ,Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated flexibility, adaptability and ability to manage multiple projects at once

• Proficiency

in Microsoft Office

• Experience in developing and/or managing grants from public funding (USG, UN, EU, etc.)

• Ability to understand, develop, and advise on budgets.

• Conflict resolution and negotiation skills; interpersonal and cross-cultural sensitivity and experience

• Technical experience in one of the WRSS’s technical intervention areas (health, nutrition, WASH, FSL, education in emergencies) is a plus

• Christian faith and adherence to World Relief’s Mission, Vision and Values

• Ability to maintain performance expectations in a hardship location

Requirements

• Mature and personal Christian faith

• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief

• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities

• Bachelor’s degree in a humanitarian field required, health or nutrition area desired, Master’s degree preferred

• 2-3 years’ experience in humanitarian response, at least one year in a management role is a plus

• Demonstrated experience managing people whether directly or through the influence

• Excellent, professional English writing skills are essential for this position.

Applications that do not demonstrate skills at this level will be disqualified.

• Excellent oral English communication skills; Arabic language skills a plus

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations

• The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds.

• Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including the ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information.

• The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; World Relief Grants Management Specialist Jobs in South Sudan

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