Regional Partnerships and Grants Adviser Latin America

What we are looking for

NRC is looking for a Regional Grants and Partnerships Adviser to join the Latin America Regional Office.

The role holder will be the partnership focal point, providing strategic leadership and technical support on partnerships to the country offices in the region, including a help-desk function, ensuring coherence with NRCs strategic direction on partnerships across the region, and sharing experience and learning across country offices. The Regional Adviser will also have the responsibility for the grants management of multi-country and/or regional grants, and act as grant and project cycle management focal point, including internal and donor compliance requirements, timely and quality grant reporting, revision and review, proposal development, and internal and external communications.

What you will do

• Partnerships Technical Support (development of country level strategies for partnerships; function as a helpdesk for the implementation of the partnership strategies and to review draft partnership agreements, coordinate due diligence exercises, etc.; develop tools for use; maintain and develop communication channels, building a networked approach that ensures sharing of best practice, learning, and coherence; and develop and deliver capacity building approaches relevant to local actors).
• Partnerships Strategic Support & Engagement (support strategic thinking and alignment on partnerships; refer to experience from the region to influence organizational positioning; ensure clarity on engagement with ‘non civil society’ partnerships; support the implementation of NRC’s Flexible Mini-Grants modality; and enable multi country partnerships with regional actors).
• Sharing & Learning (focal point for information on regional partnerships including enabling access to regional data mapping of local actors; share learning on the use of partnership with local actors; ensure alignment and networking with other relevant departments and offices within NRC). 
• Proposal Development (support on development of regional/ multi-country funding proposals; ad-hoc support to other proposals development and reporting; coordinate and support the development of high-quality multi- country funding and partnership proposals; review and provide feedback on high-risk donor proposals, and strategic value proposals; and compile accurate proposal budgets).
• Donor Reporting & Monitoring (coordinate the finalization of donor reports for multi-country office grants; highlight critical financial issues such as under/overspends; technical support on monitoring issues and budget revising; ensure donor budget lines as per the contract are in line with the financial system; and monitor grant payment schedules and income requests for respective portfolio).
• Donor Compliance (ensure high quality management of grants through meeting of performance indicators and deadlines; support and advise programme colleagues with queries related to donor compliance on grants; ensure all documentation required is ready and available for audits; oversee training and capacity building related to the project cycle management  framework/donor compliance; and ensure a correct and up-to-date grants management information on the approved systems).
• We highly encourage you to learn more about the role: please review the full Job Description here. 

What you will bring

• Partnerships experience.
• Evidence experience in donor relations and grants management.
• Institutional donor rules, regulations, priorities, and compliance requirements understanding.
• Report and proposal development track record.
• Governance and systems understanding, within complex international organisations.
• Organisational learning, and monitoring, evaluation and learning understanding in contribution to evidencing impact.
• Complex and volatile context exposure, working with displacement affected people.
• English and Spanish fluency, both written and verbal.

What makes this position attractive?

• NRC’s Latin America Regional Office was established in April 2024 with the focus of consolidating the operational structure and oversee the country programmes in the region, to provide strategic guidance and oversight across core programme, advocacy, and support functions in the countries where NRC is currently operating (Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, also starting up operations in Haiti as of early 2025). 
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
• Learn more about NRC’s operations here.

What we offer

• Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, or Mexico duty station.
• 12-month contract.
• 30% travel, approximately.
• Grade 9 in NRC’s National Salary Scale, with accompanying terms and conditions. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Find out more about the benefits of working for NRC. 

Important information about the application process

• To apply as an internal candidate, log in with your official NRC email address or click on Opportunity Marketplace.
• When creating your profile, include your full name as per your passport.
• Apply by completing all the system-required fields of your experience, employment history, and education in your application.
• Ensure to attach your latest CV.

Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

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NRC is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee that started relief efforts after World War Two. Today, we work in both new and protracted crises across 40 countries, where we help save lives and rebuild futures, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. 

We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. Are you one of those people? If you are, NRC offers you the opportunity to:

• Do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts.
• Join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
• Be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity.

Learn more about NRC here.