Females are highly encouraged to apply

What we are looking for:

 NRC Kenya is seeking a seasoned Grants and Partnership Manager to lead fundraising, grant management, and strategic partnerships. The role involves identifying donor opportunities, supporting donor engagement, and overseeing the preparation, administration, and reporting of grants. 

The postholder will develop and implement a fundraising strategy that ensures program sustainability and quality. They will also manage NRC’s partnership processes as outlined in the partnership strategy, including proposal development, contracting, and implementation support—serving as a key liaison between NRC and partner organizations. Additionally, the role is responsible for ensuring effective grants management across all projects, including compliance with internal and donor requirements, timely reporting, proposal development, and coordination of key activities under NRC’s Project Cycle Management framework.

What you will do:

Generic responsibilities:

1. Ensure compliance of NRC’s PCM Framework and facilitate relevant PCM activities, 

2. Maintain overview over all grants in the Kenya and ensure up-to-date grants management information, 

3. Be updated on donor priorities and track and share relevant calls for proposals. 

4. Act as an internal helpdesk on donor related issues and partnerships. 

5. Responsible to set up and continuously improve internal grant management systems, partnership internal ways of working and processes; analyse. 

6. Provide technical support to partners and involving other programme/support colleagues as needed. 

7. Represent NRC with relevant partners and donors, as delegated by the Head of Programme. 

8. Support the Head of Programme to identify partners, assess their capacity, develop capacity building plans, conduct, and document due diligence, and transfer relevant NRC experience and tools. 

9. Capacity building of staff on PCM and donor regulations 

10. Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures, and a specific responsibility for the functions policies and procedures 

11. Responsible for the administrative and technical line-management of Grants Coordinator and Consortium management Coordinator. This includes performance management, as per NRC policies. 

12. Any other tasks assigned by your line-manager; the Head of Programmes. 

Specific Responsibilities:

Funding Raising:

• Support the Head of Programme and Country Director to develop a context specific fundraising strategy and donor priority mapping. This includes the mapping of potential new funding opportunities with input from relevant stakeholders and documenting any fundraising policy positions agreed by the CMG. 

Grant Management:

• Maintain overview over all grants in the country office and ensure a correct and up-to-date grants management information, review data to identify relevant funding trends, donor mapping exercises, and development of Capacity Statements, including filing of grant documents. 

Partnership Management:

• Support the Head of Programme to identify partners, assess their capacity, develop capacity building plans, conduct, and document due diligence, and transfer relevant NRC experience and tools. 

• Provide technical support to partners and involving other programme and support colleagues as needed. 

Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position as the above responsibilities are just a short summary. 

What you will bring

Generic professional competencies: 

• Minimum 4 years of experience of donor relations and grants management within a relevant context (e.g., with institutional humanitarian and development donors) 

• Knowledge of institutional donors’ rules, regulations, priorities, and compliance requirements – 

• Track record of report and proposal development, or similar in funding or partnerships, working with multiple donors and consortia 

• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts, with preference for previous experience working with displaced populations 

• Strong planning and organisational skills, including ability to coordinate the inputs of self and others to meet a variety of deadlines for different proposal, budgetary and reporting requirements. 

• Good interpersonal skills, and ability to build collaborative working relationships with a wide range of colleagues internally and externally. 

• Good cultural awareness and sensitivity 

• Highly proficient computing skills, including all Microsoft office (word, excel, ppt), online/cloud-based information management and sharing systems, and databases 

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. 

Context related skills, knowledge and experience: 

• Ability to build staff capacity in grants management and partnerships. 

• Willingness to travel to field offices and work in difficult environments as required 

• Fluency in English, both written and verbal. 

• Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision. 

• The post holder enjoys shifting between leading others, developing things individually and contributing to work of others. 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, 

• Excellent analytical, presentation and reporting skills. 

• Significant experience in managing coordination and communication within multipart or complex environments, alongside excellent interpersonal abilities. 

• Strong understanding of the Kenya landscape with focus on the displacement affected populations. 

What we offer:

• Duty station: Nairobi_Kenya

• Contract Duration: national 1 Year (Renewable based on funding availability)

• Travel: 40% travel to Country Office field sites

• Salary/benefits: grade 9 on NRC’s national country salary scale. 

• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.

• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

Find out more about the benefits of working for NRC

Important information about the application process:

• Internal candidates only: To apply as an internal candidate, log in with your official email or click on Opportunity MarketPlace.

• When creating your profile, include your full name as given on your passport. Complete all the system-required fields for experience, employment history and education.

• Submit your application and CV in English, taking care to attach your latest CV.

• Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered. Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We receive many applicants for each vacant position.

• This position is open to candidates who have the legal right to work in Kenya. NRC will not sponsor the visa nor residency permits.  

• If you have any questions about this role, please email ESA Recruitment esa.recruitment@nrc.no with the job title as the subject line.

Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

Watch this short video to see NRC in action.

Kenya hosts more than 400,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers in the two camps Kakuma and Dadaab, as well as in urban areas. Most of the refugees are from Somalia and South Sudan. Some have lived in Kenya for decades, while many fled to Kenya during the 2010 drought and the civil war in South Sudan. Freedom of movement is constrained in the camps and livelihood and working opportunities are limited.

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to seek refuge in Kenya. Somali citizens no longer automatically receive refugee status. In 2016, the Kenyan government announced that Dadaab will close, but this was blocked by the High Court in 2017. In 2019 and 2020 there were renewed calls for the closure of Dadaab and a roadmap for camp closure has been agreed upon between UNHCR and Government of Kenya.

Internal displacement in Kenya is often overshadowed by the refugee situation. Kenyans have been internally displaced by droughts, food insecurity and floods, as well as ethnic conflicts. The present situation in Arid and Semi-Arid Land counties across Kenya remains precarious due to more droughts. 

You can also learn more about NRC’s operation in Kenya here.

We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. Are you one of those people? If you are, NRC offers you the opportunity to:

• Do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts.

• Join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.

• Be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity.

Learn more about NRC