Job Title: Partnerships and Grants Manager
Hiring Organization: Northern
Rangelands Trust
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Non
profit
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 04/17/2024
The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) is an indigenous non-profit
community conservancy membership organisation. Its mission is to develop
resilient community conservancies that transform lives, secure peace, and
conserve natural resources. NRT currently supports 45 community conservancies
across Kenya in 10 counties (Marsabit, Laikipia, Isiolo, Meru, Baringo,
Samburu, Garissa, Tana River, Lamu and West Pokot counties) and Uganda.
The Partnerships and Grants Manager will manage a portfolio of significant multi-lateral
and bi-lateral funders. This involves identifying and evaluating potential
funding opportunity, cultivating relationships with targeted funders (formal
and informal reporting), leading and writing proposals and bids, coordinating
internally across NRT’s cross-functional departments (finance, programmes,
communications, M&E) to develop compelling proposals that help fill funding
gaps, report on status of the grants. The Account Manager is also responsible
for monitoring and tracking opportunities throughout the funding cycle, helping
mitigate any risks or challenges that arise and working as a high performing
team member.
Key roles/responsibilities:
- Manage a
portfolio of bilateral, multi-lateral donors – ensuring both compliance
and engagement plans to build strong, long-term partnerships.
- Develop grant
proposals and bids – especially for large funders such as European
Commission, USAID, DANIDA, Sida, AfD, FCDO, UN, World Bank.
- Develop and
implement engagement strategies to deepen relationships with funders and
donors, creating long term relationships of trust mutual accountability.
- Manage ad hoc
teams and coordinate grant project planning and reporting – with ability
to initiate internal teams of peers around an agreed timeline and set of
deliverables.
- Support basic
proposal budgeting and reporting, helping review and explain financial
reports and monitor burn rates.
- Demonstrate
sensitivity in handling confidential information.
- Ensure
compliance with NRT policies and procedures and external (donor/legal/IRS)
requirements.
- Manage or
participate in complex or sensitive negotiations with implementing
partners, conservancy members and boards, and funders.
- Convey the
mission of NRT to diverse groups who are important stakeholders.
- Travel
frequently and on short notice, work long and flexible hours as needed.
- Coordinate
reporting and providing information needed by
partners/donors/stakeholders; ensuring financial, MERL and Program reports
align.
- Any other duties
that may be assigned, including dedicated special initiatives
Key
requirements
- At least 5-8
years relevant experience in managing large grants for Bilateral and
Multilateral
- agencies.
- Experience in
convening proposal development workshops and leading process of developing
- grant proposals.
- Interest in
environment, climate, community based natural resource management, marine
and
- terrestrial
conservation, peace-building and development.
- Deep familiarity
with Kenyan or Ugandan conservation and development issues.
- Experience in
building and maintaining long-term relationships with external
stakeholders.
- Experience in
managing and tracking multiple prospects of donors in a donor tracking or
CRM
- system.
- Conversant in
monitoring, evaluation, adaptation and learning frameworks – comfortable
- creating and
reporting against logframes or result-based management indicators.
- Experience in
working with diverse, fast paced cross functional teams.
- Experience,
coursework, or other training in fundraising principles and practices.
How to
Apply
Interested and qualified
candidates are required to submit their application including a cover letter,
detailed Curriculum Vitae highlighting relevant experience by close of business
on Monday, 22nd April 2024 to: recruit@nrt-kenya.org
