Water.org is hiring Senior Regional Grant Specialist 2022 in Dhaka.

Water.org is hiring Senior Regional Grant Specialist 2022 in Dhaka.

Key Responsibilities

Pre-Award Planning + Administration (25%)

Act as a key resource to the region’s business planning and operations to consolidate tracking of new funding needs and ensure timely, accurate preparation of concept notes, proposals, and other methods to secure funding for execution, including, but not limited to:

• Support management of the pre-award tools and processes for communicating and tracking funding within data management systems and other applications/platforms, such as PowerBI.
• Lead assigned proposal development processes, in partnership with relevant regional and/or global stakeholders, including accurately representing regional strategic and execution priorities, budgetary needs and other resource needs. Ensures adequate stakeholder management and communication across regional and/or global teams.
• Write, review and edit grant proposals and budgets, and other donor communications requested by Strategic Development to ensure they are high quality and meet internal and external deadlines.
• Respond to donor questions, feedback and revise proposals as needed.

Post Award Planning + Administration (50%)

Provide overall administration and monitoring of an assigned portfolio of awards within the region. This includes implementation of the award management cycle, including but not limited to:

• Implement post award processes from kick off to close out, bringing a deep understanding of grant deliverables, deadlines, and agreement terms, as well as partnering closely with business line teams to ensure awards are integrated into ongoing execution processes and progress towards deliverables is achieved.
• Manage a calendar of report deadlines and coordinate across team members to ensure grant reports meet internal and external deadlines as well as reporting requirements and standards.
• Act as the Point of Contact for assigned donor reports, convening related stakeholders to compile programmatic, financial and impact data to develop a compelling narrative that meets internal and external requirements and deadlines. Content may also include case studies, borrower stories, etc.
• In collaboration with regional finance and business line teams, ensure regular review and analysis of spending plans and ensure accurate forecasting of grant spending and time utilization documentation is submitted on time and available for regional metric analysis and reporting.
• Provide overall project management support and close coordination with regional leadership and other key stakeholders for scope change orders that affect an awards’ deliverables and/or spending plan.

Award Management Performance & Tracking (25%)

• Regularly evaluate assigned portfolio in terms of KPIs and related metrics through comparison of actual performance with budgeted/planned objectives and determine causative factors in expenditure trends; formulate and escalate corrective actions, as applicable.
• Partner with Regional Insights and business line teams to track and consolidate impact and partner-related data necessary for award management processes and deliverables.
• As directed or assigned, identify and/or coordinate assessment of pre- and post-award process improvements and/or other initiatives designed to improve efficiency of the region’s operations.
• As directed or assigned, identify training and capacity development needs; participate in designing and implementing training designed to ensure consistent performance award management standards and metrics for the region.

Management Responsibility:

• Individual contributor with no subordinates.

This description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required. Some duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Summary

The Senior Regional Grant Specialist within the Global Impact department is responsible for day-to-day administration of the organization’s pre and post award workstreams, processes and deliverables at the regional level. This individual will act as a strategic business partner to the region’s business functions to coordinate alignment of country/regional-level interventions across multiple funding streams, ensuring adherence to and integration of award management global standards and compliance necessary for integrity of the organization’s funding processes.

Reporting to the Team Lead, Award Management, South Asia, this position plays a critical role in proposal writing and coordination, report writing for a portfolio of active awards and supporting internal process optimization and special projects with minimal support from the supervisor. The Senior Regional Grants Specialist consistently exhibits effective behaviors and skills to support effective business partnering and communication across multiple functions, operational rigor and integrity to ensure exceptional stewardship of philanthropic assets.

About The Company

1 in 10 people around the world lack access to safe water and 1 in 4 people don’t have access to a toilet. We are working every day to change this. We are Water.org. We’re here to bring water and sanitation to the world. We want to make it safe, accessible and cost-effective because we believe that water is the way to empower a bright future that we can all share, worldwide. We are an international nonprofit organization based in Kansas City, Missouri that has positively transformed millions of lives around the world through access to safe water and sanitation. Founded by Gary White and Matt Damon, we pioneer market-driven financial solutions to the global water crisis. For more than 25 years, we’ve been providing women hope, children health and families a future.