The Role
Coordinate grants across their full lifecycle, including setup, implementation, monitoring, reporting, compliance, risk management, and close-out. Interpret grant agreements, track obligations and deadlines, maintain accurate grant records, and collaborate with funders, recipients, delivery partners, finance, and internal teams. Provide specialist guidance and improve grant-management processes, templates, and workflows across a global organization.
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JOIN US IN CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR ANIMALS
We are looking for a Grants Advisor to help ensure World Animal Protection's grants are effectively coordinated, governed and administered throughout their lifecycle.
You will bring specialist grants knowledge to support a global portfolio of incoming, outgoing, pass-through and affiliate-funded grants, helping colleagues navigate grant requirements, compliance, reporting, monitoring and close-out. Working across internal teams and with funders, grant recipients and delivery partners, you will help ensure obligations, risks and reporting requirements across a wide range of grants are understood and effectively managed.
This is an opportunity to combine your grants expertise, attention to detail and collaborative approach to strengthen consistent and effective grant management across a global organisation. You will also contribute to improving our grant processes, guidance and ways of working.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate assigned grants throughout their lifecycle, ensuring obligations, milestones, conditions and reporting deadlines are effectively managed.
- Interpret grant agreements and requirements, helping ensure grant-funded activity aligns with organisational policies and donor expectations.
- Coordinate grant set-up, implementation, monitoring, reporting and close-out, maintaining accurate and accessible grant information.
- Work with colleagues, funders, grant recipients and other external stakeholders to coordinate grant delivery, reporting and compliance requirements.
- Monitor risks, dependencies and compliance obligations, identifying issues early and recommending appropriate action.
- Support grant governance and integrate grant management with planning, finance, performance reporting and wider delivery processes.
- Provide specialist advice to colleagues and help improve grant management processes, guidance, templates and ways of working.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
We would love to hear from you if you bring:
- Experience managing or supporting grants across one or more grant types within a complex organisational environment.
- A strong understanding of the grant lifecycle, including establishment, implementation, monitoring, reporting and close-out.
- The ability to interpret and manage grant agreements, reporting requirements, milestones, risks, compliance obligations and financial conditions.
- Experience coordinating grant activities collaboratively across multiple internal teams and external stakeholders, including experience with incoming, outgoing, pass-through or other complex grant arrangements.
- Sound judgement when identifying grant risks, compliance issues and opportunities to improve how grants are managed.
- The ability to provide specialist grant-management advice and work independently within established policies and procedures.
- A solutions focused mindset while working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders with the ability to navigate conversations diplomatically where there may be varying priorities and perspectives across teams.
- Experience using grant management, planning or reporting systems to maintain accurate information, track budget, enable visibility of any project requirements and monitor progress.
- Strong attention to detail, critical thinking and organisation skills to be able to work across a wide range of projects with different needs, timelines and dependencies.
Desirable, but not essential
- Experience working within a global or multi-stakeholder organisation managing complex funding arrangements.
- Relationship management experience and the ability to build strong relationships with external stakeholders
- Familiarity with Microsoft 365-based planning, reporting or workflow tools that support grant management.
WHY JOIN WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION?
At World Animal Protection, you will be part of a global organisation working together to create lasting change for animals. We value collaboration, inclusion, accountability, agility, learning and a global mindset. We welcome varied backgrounds, identities and perspectives and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone is valued, respected and empowered to contribute their strengths.
Benefits
Health and dental care – through SulAmérica Executivo, without co-payment and extended to dependents.
These benefits were updated with SulAmérica on March 1st, 2026. They do not require co-payment and include all dependents.
Life insurance – through Prudential, without co-payment.
Parental leave – 6 months for both maternity and paternity.
Benefits Hub – Main available benefits:
Maternity kit, childcare reimbursement (enrollment fees), and school supplies reimbursement
Nutritional, psychological, and legal assistance
Income supplementation during leave and medication reimbursement
In-person medical consultations and telemedicine (Einstein Conecta)
Employee discount club with exclusive offers
Support for permanent home office work – BRL 710.00 per month
Monthly meal voucher – BRL 1,510.00 per month, via flexible Caju card
Wellhub – employee-funded global corporate wellness platform providing access to a wide network of gyms, studios, online classes, and physical & mental health apps
Sesc partnership – access to discounts and a wide range of cultural, sports, leisure, health, and education services, including theaters, swimming pools, hotels, courses, and dental consultations, often at reduced or free costs
English course – via FluencyPass platform
Generous Holiday entitlement plus Mid year Wellbeing Closure days and End of Year Closure days
2 days Volunteer Leave
An increase to annual leave through length of service - 1 additional days leave after each years' service up to max 5 days.
Opportunity to flex public holidays to an alternate day that better suits an employee and their beliefs.
A range of 'Inclusivity Benefits': to aid belonging and inclusion at work, and to give our employees support in the moments they most need it:
These benefits were updated with SulAmérica on March 1st, 2026. They do not require co-payment and include all dependents.
Life insurance – through Prudential, without co-payment.
Parental leave – 6 months for both maternity and paternity.
Benefits Hub – Main available benefits:
Maternity kit, childcare reimbursement (enrollment fees), and school supplies reimbursement
Nutritional, psychological, and legal assistance
Income supplementation during leave and medication reimbursement
In-person medical consultations and telemedicine (Einstein Conecta)
Employee discount club with exclusive offers
Support for permanent home office work – BRL 710.00 per month
Monthly meal voucher – BRL 1,510.00 per month, via flexible Caju card
Wellhub – employee-funded global corporate wellness platform providing access to a wide network of gyms, studios, online classes, and physical & mental health apps
Sesc partnership – access to discounts and a wide range of cultural, sports, leisure, health, and education services, including theaters, swimming pools, hotels, courses, and dental consultations, often at reduced or free costs
English course – via FluencyPass platform
Generous Holiday entitlement plus Mid year Wellbeing Closure days and End of Year Closure days
2 days Volunteer Leave
An increase to annual leave through length of service - 1 additional days leave after each years' service up to max 5 days.
Opportunity to flex public holidays to an alternate day that better suits an employee and their beliefs.
A range of 'Inclusivity Benefits': to aid belonging and inclusion at work, and to give our employees support in the moments they most need it:
- Bereavement/Compassionate Leave (10days)
- Carers/Dependent Leave (3 days)
- Disability Leave (10 days)
- Menstrual and Menopause Leave (12 days)
- Pregnancy Loss Leave (10 days)
- Fertility Treatment Leave (5 days per cycle, up to max 3 cycles)
- Gender Affirming Medical Leave (20 days)
- Companion animal bereavement Leave (2 days)
- Pawternity’ leave (2 days)
About
At World Animal Protection, we are a global organisation dedicated to ending the exploitation of animals. For over 75 years, we have been at the forefront of animal welfare, exposing cruel systems, promoting animal-friendly alternatives, and influencing policy change. We aim to create a world where animals live free from cruelty and suffering.
Skills Required
- Experience managing or supporting grants across one or more grant types in a complex organizational environment
- Strong understanding of the grant lifecycle, including establishment, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and close-out
- Ability to interpret and manage grant agreements, reporting requirements, milestones, risks, compliance obligations, and financial conditions
- Experience coordinating grant activities across multiple internal teams and external stakeholders
- Experience with incoming, outgoing, pass-through, or other complex grant arrangements
- Sound judgment in identifying grant risks, compliance issues, and process improvement opportunities
- Ability to provide specialist grant-management advice and work independently within established policies and procedures
- Solutions-focused approach and ability to navigate stakeholder discussions diplomatically
- Experience using grant management, planning, or reporting systems to maintain information, track budgets, and monitor progress
- Strong attention to detail, critical thinking, and organizational skills
- Experience in a global or multi-stakeholder organization managing complex funding arrangements
- Relationship management experience with external stakeholders
- Familiarity with Microsoft 365-based planning, reporting, or workflow tools
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The Company
What We Do
World Animal Protection is a global organization dedicated to ending animal exploitation and cruelty. They work to create a world where animals live free from suffering by exposing cruel systems, promoting animal-friendly alternatives, and influencing policy change.
