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Grants officer (Ukraine nationals only) - Ukraine

Kyiv

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Kyiv
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Emergency Aid and Response
    • Donor
    • Cash-Based Interventions
  • Closing Date: Closed


The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

The purpose of the Grants Officer position is to provide essential grant management support to the Country Director in delivering quality programmes in line with the NRC Country Programme strategy and Plan of Action.

Job description

Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
Develop and maintain overview of all grants, donor requirements, rules and regulations, and internal and external deadlines, including filing of grant documents (including through the grants database - forthcoming).
Coordinate the development of donor applications and reports, as well as ensuring donor compliance and quality control.
Contribute to the development and revision of funding proposals, budgets and donor reports.
Be updated on donor priorities and track and share relevant calls for proposals.
Document, analyze, and share learning from proposal and reporting process, and compliance with donor rules and regulations.
Contribute to continuously improving internal grant management systems.
Provide an internal help-desk on donor related issues, including organize and deliver training in donor rules and regulations, as well as proposal and report writing.
Coordinate the development and distribution of internal reports.
Contribute to Project Cycle Management (PCM) trainings and usage of the NRC PCM framework in the Country Office, as delegated by the Country Director.
Support external donor audits.
Represent with relevant partners and donors as delegated.
Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.

Qualifications

• University degree.
• Between 2-4 years of relevant experience within field of expertise.
• Relevant experience from the project management in the humanitarian sector.
• Experience from working with humanitarian and development donors.
• Good understanding of donor rules and regulations.
• Skills and experience in report and proposal writing.
• Strong communication, coordination and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical skills (data and financial).
• Ability to mediate in high-stress scenarios with competing interest.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Above average computer skills.
• Knowledge of the context in eastern Ukraine.
• Proficiency in Ukrainian and Russian.
• Experience with humanitarian action/durable solutions for conflict-affected populations, notably for internally displaced persons and/or refugees.

Education level

  • Academy college / University

Personal qualities

• Planning and delivering results.
• Managing resources to optimize results.
• Influencing.
• Handling insecure environments.

We offer

Commencement: June 2017
Contract period: 1 year
Salary/benefits: According to NRC country policy
Duty station: Kyiv, Ukraine
Candidates can be invited to the interview before the deadline of applications.

Miscellaneous info

  • Travel: Approx. 75 days travel
This vacancy is now closed.