Sr. Grants Administration Specialist

Compassion International, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote - USA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintaining a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion.
• Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children, understands Christ’s mandate to protect children, and commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks, and activities across the ministry.
• Acts as the main liaison between offices for management of major grants such as US government or other institutional grants.
• Leads the oversight of the grants portfolio by organizing regular meetings with technical specialists from home and field offices to evaluate program progress and effectiveness.
• Facilitates communication and collaboration between grants management stakeholders.
• Represents the organization in meetings with donors, partners, and other external stakeholders as needed.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on the Core Grants Team to analyze market trends and competitors, identifies grant opportunities, and assesses their strategic alignment with organizational strategic goals and values.
• Recommends risk mitigation strategies for grant implementation.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on the Grant Acquisition Team contributing to scoping, positioning, and developing proposals, collaborating with both home and field office teams.
• Provides technical oversight and deep subject matter expertise for government-funded and other major, complex, and multi-national projects, ensuring they adhere to project plans, timelines, and budgets.
• Coordinates the implementation across National Offices.
• Works with legal and compliance teams and senior stakeholders to ensure all projects comply with grantor regulations and donor requirements.
• Conducts regular compliance reviews and addresses management bottlenecks with leadership as needed to ensure effective implementation and management of grant-funded programs.
• Engages directly with donor representatives to facilitate compliance and reporting, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality reports to government and other institutional donors.
• Trains National Office staff on grant management, compliance, and reporting, and leads specialized workshops to enhance grant management skills.
• In partnership with the finance team, provides financial oversight of grants, including budget tracking and expenditure monitoring.
• Serves as a subject matter expert with regards to data collection and analysis frameworks to ensure accurate reporting.
• Monitors and supports the effectiveness of the risk management plan for the grants portfolio, ensuring robust processes for risk management and fraud prevention are in place.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in grants administration, preferably in a non-profit or international development organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as business administration, international relations, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of grants management principles, including compliance, reporting, and risk management.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and project management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and build strong relationships with colleagues, donors, and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data and develop recommendations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

🏖️ Benefits

• Receive generous paid time off.
• 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary.
• Excellent healthcare coverage.
• Free short-term professional counseling.
• More.

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About Compassion International, Inc.

Compassion International is a Christian child-development organization founded in 1952 that partners with local churches in 29 developing nations to release children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty. Through one-to-one sponsorships, donors fund holistic programs providing education, nutrition, health care, mentoring and Christian discipleship for more than two million children from infancy through young adulthood. The Colorado-based nonprofit operates under a Statement of Faith aligned with evangelical Christianity and maintains financial transparency through annual audited reports and Charity Navigator ratings.

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