Grants Manager: Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal
Location: Wenlock Road, London, N1
[Trialling hybrid working: 2 days in the office per month, which is subject to change]
Compulsory 2-week office attendance during an appeal
Salary: £40,560 per annum.
Contract status: Full time to December 2025
The Ukraine Humanitarian appeal raised £426 million and helped an estimated 6.9 million people in Ukraine and neighbouring countries. The Grants Manager is integral in working closely with DEC colleagues and members to build and sustain a solid understanding of the evolving humanitarian context. The Grants Manager will maintain strong oversight of the DEC funded programme including the reporting cycle, adaptive programming and facilitate strong and relevant engagement with DEC member charities and local partners and external briefings over the duration of the response.
Key responsibilities:
Communication and Collaboration
1. Key programmes point of contact regarding the DEC funded programme, responding to enquiries from member charity programmes and other related staff, facilitating timely and accurate communication.
2. Maintain strong understanding of response context.
3. Manage and provide timely response briefings to internal and external audiences, key stakeholders including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office [FCDO] and other key stakeholders.
Analysis and Reporting
1. Review, evaluate, and advise on member charity plans and reports for consistency, trends analysis and coherence of data across submitted documentation.
2. Contribute to the review and analysis of plans and reports submitted by member charities in response to DEC appeals.
3. Share timely and relevant information and analysis from plans and reports with DEC member charities and local partners.
4. Manage external reporting requirements including preparation of stakeholder reports and infographics.
Management and Leadership
1. Coordinate the team’s surge capacity to deliver points above, which may involve managing and inducting a team of external consultants and training them in the use of our knowledge management system [Box].
2. Coordinate with the Programme Quality, Accountability & Learning team to ensure monitoring, learning and accountability initiatives are timely and appropriate to the response.
3. Support with real-time reviews, community perception studies and other related MEAL activities.
If you have demonstrable humanitarian experience in Ukraine, with the competence to prepare timely and accurate reports and deliver credible presentations to diverse audiences, then you will be perfect to join an incredible team and organisation.
How to apply
Please apply with your anonymised CV & cover letter [i.e. please state your initials only, not your full name] to HR@dec.org.uk. We will be interviewing on a rolling basis, with the intention to fill the role by the end of October 2024.
The DEC is committed to the safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults and participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from successful applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
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