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General Information:

  • Job Title: Grants and Partnership Manager
  • Job Identification: 19462
  • Job Category: Donor relations
  • Posting Date: 11/06/2025, 07:29 AM
  • Apply Before: 11/21/2025, 05:30 AM
  • Degree Level: Bachelor’s Degree
  • Job Schedule: Full time
  • Locations: Nairobi
  • Contract Duration: National 1 Year (Renewable based on funding availability)

Generic responsibilities:

  • Ensure compliance of NRC’s PCM Framework and facilitate relevant PCM activities,
  • Maintain overview over all grants in the Kenya and ensure up-to-date grants management information,
  • Be updated on donor priorities and track and share relevant calls for proposals.
  • Act as an internal helpdesk on donor related issues and partnerships.
  • Responsible to set up and continuously improve internal grant management systems, partnership internal ways of working and processes; analyse.
  • Provide technical support to partners and involving other programme/support colleagues as needed.
  • Represent NRC with relevant partners and donors, as delegated by the Head of Programme.
  • 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.
  • Capacity building of staff on PCM and donor regulations
  • Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures, and a specific responsibility for the functions policies and procedures
  • Responsible for the administrative and technical line-management of Grants Coordinator and Consortium management Coordinator. This includes performance management, as per NRC policies.
  • Any other tasks assigned by your line-manager; the Head of Programmes.

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.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should send their application through Online [Apply-Now]. For more details visit official website: www.nrc.no

NRC Overview:

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental organisation that protects the rights of people affected by displacement. This includes refugees and internally displaced persons who are forced to flee their homes as a result of conflict, human rights violations and acute violence, as well as climate change and natural disasters.