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- Closing date: July 25, 2025
- Hiring location: Nairobi
- Seniority Level: Associate
- Education Level: Bachelor Degree
- Experience: 3+ Years
Description
The Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, are the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for rights, equity, and justice. The Open Society Foundations give grants to a diverse array of groups and who work in different ways to promote democratic practice, human rights, equity, and justice. We support this work at both national and global levels through advocacy in our own name, as well as through impact investing and legal action.
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Associate Director – Opportunity Grants, the Grants Associate provides administrative support to Opportunity Teams for grant management activities. The role is crucial for accelerating the grant life cycle from ‘idea to out the door” to maximize impact. He/she is expected to be an expert user of the grant management system and is responsible for system updates, data review, training support and ensuring compliance with global policies and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
• Provide advanced administrative support for grant making activities and operational work to achieve program goals.
• Update the grant management system with relevant grant and grantee information.
• Review reports and documents for compliance, accuracy, and readability.
• Ensure data accuracy and completeness according to established protocols.
• Support the delivery of knowledge building and training across opportunity portfolios.
• Enforce global grant management policy, procedure, and compliance in collaboration with Central Grant Management.
• Provide data to support portfolio analytics.
• Build and maintain training materials for the grant management system based on updates and changes.
• Manage relationships with grantees and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate on the construction, maintenance, and assessment of grant portfolios and for portfolio strategy design.
• Support in obtaining and recording Equivalency Determinations.
• Monitor grant payment schedules and budget against actual grant spending.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance or related field
• At least 3 years’ experience within grants management administration, processes and systems, either from a grants management of programmatic team
• Experience collaborating with multi-country stakeholders within a multinational organization and/or with significant complexity
The ideal candidate will have…
• Extensive knowledge and experience working with grant management processes and systems.
• Ability to facilitate and provide training on systems.
• Experience working with and nurturing relationships with grantees.
• Knowledge of the field and partnerships, with experience in developing and designing grant selection processes.
• Ability to generate, capture, and organize information and knowledge to deliver prescribed outcomes.
• Demonstrate commitment to OSF’s core values such as humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, and integrity.
• A commitment to; listening and working with humility, to ways of working that are respectful to all people, support spaces and voices for diverse perspectives in the workplace.
• Willingness to adjust working hours to accommodate calls and discussions with colleagues and vendors in various geographic regions.
• Commitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and social justice.
NB:
This is a temporary role; 6 months with the possibility of an extension
Skills
Work Type
On site
