Job
Title – Grant Manager
Location: Lagos State.
About
Company: Our
client is a leading Graduate Business School that offers Executive MBA and Post
Graduate Education Programs with a world-class facility and faculty. The school
and its programmes are consistently ranked among the best in the world.
The
Company is seeking to hire a Grant Manager to coordinate grant activities
covering philanthropy, project, and research grants. He/she is responsible for implementing
proactive administrative and operational strategies aimed at securing funding
for the institution's activities, projects, and research, and advising on
regulations and policies on grants and also, provide leadership to the MSAs and
the entire research group.
The
ideal candidate for this role must demonstrate excellent skill in acquiring and
managing grants from philanthropy, projects, and research.
Responsibilities:
Essential duties/ key job roles and
responsibilities include but are not limited to the following;
- Interacting with various groups in the
institution to access their grant needs and determine possible sources of such
grants.
- Developing a database of the funding
needs of the entire institution and possible sources of such grants.
- Designing grant programs.
- Identify prospective funding sources,
new funding initiatives, and support for all the institution's activities.
- Liaising with funding bodies on their
procedures, regulations, terms, and conditions to ensure these are adhered to
promptly and accurately.
- Manage applications for all grants
including proposal development, budgeting, completion of proposal forms,
progress report submission, expenditure reconciliation, grant compliance
requirements, subcontracts, renewals, exit, and sponsors' terms and conditions.
- Optimizing the grant administration
process.
- Managing timelines and deliverables.
- Preparing and monitoring budgets.
- Tracking grant applications.
Requirements
Skills:
- Demonstrate excellent skill in
acquiring and managing grants from philanthropy, projects, and research.
- Must have very strong skills in one of
the grant types and good skills in the other two.
- Evidence of scholarship in research.
- Must have published at least 3 papers
in a peer-reviewed journal.
Others:
- Maintain liaison and effective
communication and build beneficial relationships with individuals and
organizations at various levels across the grant community.
- Provide technical support to the
Research Director in strategic planning and implementation of policies and
procedures to promote grant activities in the institution.
- Identify prospective participants and
coordinate the development of faculty interdisciplinary research teams and
other proposals.
- Develop and facilitate workshops,
meetings, or conferences that enhance the grant skills of faculty and
professionals within the institution.
- Prepare substantive administrative
reports and documents.
- Manage a varying voluminous caseload of
complex assignments and projects from multiple sponsors requiring deadlines and
timely submissions.
- Represent the unit in committees and
relevant university meetings.
- Any other specific or ad hoc duty to be
assigned by the line manager from time to time.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree
(or 3-7 years of work experience in grant writing).
- MBA is an added
advantage
- Demonstrate
analytical and persuasive writing skills experience as well as superior editing
skills, including the ability to convey complex information clearly to a
diverse audience.
- Strong
administrative skills, self-motivated, with the ability to set priorities and
manage multiple tasks under minimal supervision effectively and efficiently.
- Intermediate to
expert skills in Microsoft Office (specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
- Familiarity and
experience working with national, governmental, and other external funders.
- Ability to work
under pressure and respond to deadlines without sacrificing quality.
- Must have 5+ years
of experience in fundraising, grant writing & grants management.
- Must have 3+ years
dealing directly with grant donors locally and internationally.
- Must have 3+ years
of direct involvement in philanthropy, project, and research initiatives.
Benefits
N500-650K Monthly Net + Other Benefits
