Grants Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Grants & Compliance

• Ensure that reports to donors are submitted on time and are coherent and accurately written (quarterly, interim and/or final report).
• Maintain hard and soft files on RI Lebanon’s grant portfolio.
• Lead Grant Opening and Closing meetings of RI Lebanon Grants.
• Monitor and support the use of grants management tools such as Budget versus Actuals (BvAs), procurement planning, recruitment plan and activity plans amongst program teams to ensure accurate tracking of implementation and timely alerts to potential challenges/obstacles.
• Support in grants modification: Cost or non-cost extension, amendments, etc
• Work with all departments to ensure audit readiness for each grant.

Proposal Development

• Support program staff teams in the development of quality proposals. Act as the lead writer for some proposals.
• Liaise with RI Middle East grants units to ensure proposals meet internal standards, apply RI’s Program Framework principles and are donor compliant.
• Visits to field sites in order to work directly with program staff on the development of proposals and to regularly visit RI’s program activities.

Training and capacity building

• To offer training and capacity building of all staff on program reporting and RI’s program specific documents.
• Ensure that all staff are aware of and integrate the RI program framework into all programs.

Information management/data collection

•  Ensure comprehensive grant files are maintained up to date and are available for use.
• Provide briefing papers and support development of external communication tools as relevant for donor visits/meetings on RI Lebanon programs.