[Hiring] Grants Management Officer @Global Fund For Women

Role Description

The Grants Management Officer leads and continuously improves grantmaking operations at Global Fund for Women for their grantmaking portfolios. This role ensures efficient, compliant, and values-aligned grantmaking by managing systems, processes, and stakeholder engagement across the full grant lifecycle.

The Grants Management Officer is responsible for stewarding and accompanying applicants, grantees, and external partners through the grantmaking process while strengthening tools, systems, and practices that support gender justice movements globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage assigned grantmaking portfolios end-to-end.
• Own all operational tasks across the grant lifecycle:
  • Tracking funding sources and donor requirements
  • Customizations
  • Due diligence
  • Contracting
  • Payments
  • Reporting
  • Grant closures
• Steward relationships with grantmaking stakeholders.
• Manage grantmaking interactions with:
  • Applicants
  • Grantees
  • Fiscal sponsorship partners
  • Participatory grantmaking committees
  • Internal staff
• Operationalize the vision and needs of our grantmaking initiatives.
• Contribute to grantmaking strategy and timeline development.
• Support continuous improvement:
  • Synthesize feedback and learnings across portfolios and contexts
  • Identify patterns and surface recommendations
  • Strengthen grantmaking policies, systems, and practices
• Develop clear grantee communications:
  • Draft new email and form templates as needs arise
  • Gather internal and external recommendations on improving clarity
  • Review and update existing language on an ongoing basis
  • Facilitate translations
• Collaborate on systems design.
• Own grantmaking systems and data infrastructure:
  • Provide accurate and timely grantmaking data to stakeholders
  • Build customized Salesforce reports and dashboards
  • Analyze grantmaking portfolios in partnership with the Learning, Evaluation, and Analytics team
• Build grantmaking capacity:
  • Design and deliver trainings for relevant stakeholders

Key Talents/Ways of Being

• Strong interpersonal skills: attentive listening, transparency, emotional intelligence, and clear communication.
• Ability to work independently and proactively in a fast-paced environment.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Skilled at balancing big-picture strategy with attention to operational details.
• Collaborative decision-maker who actively solicits input and fosters collective decision-making.
• Comfort with navigating and documenting changes in strategies and processes.
• Ability to work with multiple expertise(s) and personalities.
• Cross-cultural skills; ability to understand and work across cultural and linguistic differences.

Key Skills/Ways of Doing

• Required:
  • A minimum of 4 years of full-time work experience in grants management or operations.
  • Demonstrated project management ability.
  • Experience with database systems or grants management platforms, preferably Salesforce.
  • Working knowledge of international development issues with emphasis on gender justice.
  • Oral and written fluency in English.
• Preferred:
  • Proficiency in at least one of Global Fund for Women’s official languages other than English (Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish) strongly preferred, particularly Arabic.
  • Salesforce experience.

Salary

Salary range of $75,000 - $110,000. This range is reflective of our high-market geo and will vary based on the candidate’s city and state of residence.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Global Fund for Women is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by law. Qualified candidates, including but not limited to women, people of color, disabled, and LGBTQI+ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.