This Senior Grants Administration Specialist ensures effective management, implementation, and compliance with government and other multilateral donors and often liaises with other staff and stakeholders supporting/managing grants. This Specialist provides technical support and guidance to National Offices (NOs) to ensure the successful execution of grants in alignment with donor requirements. The incumbent leads administration of grant startups and supports monitoring and reporting in collaboration with the Project leadership at the National Office, MERL and finance team members. Additionally, the incumbent supports the resolution of risk or compliance issues during grant activity in coordination with legal and compliance teams. At this career level, the incumbent leads administration of major grant initiatives for multiple countries. Further, she or he often coaches and oversees the work of other specialists and related staff.
What will you do?
Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
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. Assists in developing work plans, implementation schedules, and performance benchmarks.
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.
Why work here?
The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
Our 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, and more.
Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.
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Skills Required
- Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and upholds organization faith-based expectations
- Commitment to child protection and adherence to child safety policies, including reporting concerns
- Experience managing government and multilateral donor grants and ensuring donor compliance
- Experience leading grants administration for major, multi-national projects across multiple countries
- Proven ability to coordinate with legal, finance, and MERL teams on compliance, reporting, and risk resolution
- Financial oversight experience including budget tracking and expenditure monitoring for grants
- Experience engaging directly with donor representatives and preparing timely, high-quality reports
- Experience training and coaching national office staff on grant management and compliance
What We Do
Compassion International is a Christian child development ministry aimed at releasing children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty in Jesus’ name. We are church-based: Compassion believes the Church is God’s chosen instrument to bring hope to a hurting world. We believe the strategic placement of local churches makes them best suited to address the holistic needs of the children in their communities. And only they can effectively deliver the Jesus-based teaching and whole-life care that children in poverty deserve. Compassion partners with 8,000+ churches in 25 countries around the world to deliver our holistic child development program. We are child-focused: Compassion’s ministry is focused on the individual child and his/her development. We offer this assistance irrespective of caste, creed, class or religion. At Compassion, we believe entire communities will feel the positive impact of our presence because what happens in the life of a child ripples throughout his or her environment. We are Christ-centered: Jesus is the core of our ministry and his life and teachings shape our programs. They reflect the spiritual commitments of our staff. And they guide how we love people, respect communities and cooperate with nations. We are committed to integrity: We hold ourselves to the highest professional and biblical principles in all aspects of our ministry and maintain the highest industry standards for our allocation of funds. Compassion and Compassion International are registered trademarks of the United States government
