Grants Manager
“Hiring for this position is contingent on funding. Qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview as we prepare for this effort.”
Conservation International protects nature for the benefit of humanity. Through science, policy, fieldwork, and finance, we spotlight and secure the most important places in nature for the climate, biodiversity, and for people. With offices in 30 countries and projects in more than 100 countries, Conservation International partners with governments, companies, civil society, Indigenous peoples, and local communities to help people and nature thrive together.
POSITION SUMMARY - This position is based in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Peru or Suriname.
This position provides direct support to the Grants and Contracts team within the Finance Department and reports to the Senior Grants Manager, Grants and Contracts Unit.
This position will develop a business-partner relationship with assigned programs in HQ and the field, providing full-cycle grants and contracts support and training to staff and sub-recipients. The position will ensure that all administrative and financial aspects of grants and contracts management are performed efficiently and to a high standard of quality, from the planning and application phase through contracting, reporting, and close-out. This position will play an integral role in ensuring that their portfolio of grants and contracts complies with the prime donor’s requirements with an emphasis on oversight of financial reporting, contractual compliance, and strengthening the sub-recipient’s grant management capacity. Specifically, this position is responsible for assessing and managing grantee risk and compliance, generating grant agreements, contracts, and amendments, ensuring the integrity of data in the grants and contracts database(s), analyzing data, reviewing grantee financial reports, trouble-shooting reporting problems, and processing disbursement requests.
The Grants Manager will support the Grants and Contracts Unit to ensure that grants management systems meet program needs and continuously work to refine systems to reduce organizational inefficiencies. In this role the Grants Manager will identify organizational system needs, training needs, and guidance tools that will support user adoption.
This position will support the operations of the organization’s grants and contracts management. The incumbent has the authority to openly communicate with program teams, field staff, individual grantees, headquarters CI, and consultants to ensure efficient and well-coordinated grant management. The incumbent has the authority to process new agreements and amendments and to process disbursements on grants and contracts. The incumbent may delegate some work to, and help oversee, Grants Coordinators
This job requires an independent, flexible person to manage urgent requests and changes in priorities. This position requires a person with creativity, flexibility, and a positive attitude to manage the growing needs generated by expanding and emerging funding initiatives. This person will make recommendations to the Grants Management team for improved efficiencies and will be expected to take an active role in system innovation.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Sub Awards
Sub-award Financial and Contractual Compliance
Systems & Processes
Participate in the continuous improvement efforts to streamline systems and processes.
WORKING CONDITIONS
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
Preferred
To apply for this position please submit a resume and cover letter.
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Conservation International is an equal opportunity, affirmative action, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility-committed employer. We are proud to have a diverse, global workforce where employment decisions are based on qualifications, experience, position requirements, business needs, market conditions, merit, and other legitimate nondiscriminatory factors.
As a science-based organization, CI follows CDC recommendations for COVID-19 and other vaccines. Accordingly, for the health and safety of our employees, their families, and our community, subject to applicable local law, all Conservation International staff are expected to be vaccinated against COVID-19. However, vaccination is no longer a mandate or condition of employment and employees are not required to provide proof of vaccination. This means we will not require an individual to be vaccinated to enter a CI office, attend CI events or travel on CI-related trips. This applies for our community partners as well. This vaccine expectation applies to all team members working remotely, in a hybrid work arrangement, and on-site. Job applicants are NOT required to state their COVID-19 vaccine status in their application.