Grants Associate at Disability Rights Fund

The Disability Rights Fund envisions a world where persons with disabilities participate fully in society and enjoy equal rights and opportunities. DRF supports disabled persons organizations (DPOs) around the world to build diverse movements, ensure inclusive development agendas, and achieve equal rights and opportunity for all. Our primary strategies include grantmaking, technical assistance, and advocacy.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Grants Associate

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full Time

Responsibilites
Grant Administration (20%):

• Facilitate proposal processing from application to closeout.
• Generate and coordinate grant-related correspondence, including agreements, amendments, and payment status updates.
• Ensure timely and accurate tracking of grant disbursements and required documentation.
• Become superuser of grants administration system and stay up to date on platform updates and training.

Compliance & Due Diligence (20%):

• Conduct compliance reviews of applications and progress reports.
• Work with program officers and grantees to ensure compliance with IRS regulations and foundation policies.
• Perform international watchlist screenings of grantee stakeholders using an approved list and investigate flagged results.

Data Integrity & Reporting (40%):

• Maintain accurate and clean records in the grants management system (GMS).
• Generate internal and external reports, including donor-driven reports requiring intermediate Excel skills (pivot tables, conditional formatting, data combination).
• Act as the first responder for troubleshooting grants system issues.
• Support the implementation and transition to a new grants management system as a superuser.

Relationship Management (15%):

• Address general applicant and grantee queries related to grantmaking policies and requirements.
• Troubleshoot GMS technical issues for internal and external users.
• Provide GMS training to staff, grantees, and external users.
•  Support donor reporting by providing data reports to internal DRF teams

Other Duties (5%):

• Collaborate with other staff and provide backup support during absences.

Qualifications
To fulfill these responsibilities, the ideal candidate will have/be able to:

• Bachelor’s Degree or 4 years work experience in a professional environment.
• 1-3 years of work experience with database management /customer relationship systems or in grants management in philanthropy, development, or in a grantmaking institution.
• Experience with grants or customer relationship management systems (e.g., Salesforce, Fluxx, SmartSimple, Foundant, Blackbaud, GivingData).
• Intermediate Excel skills, able to construct pivot tables, use conditional formatting, and merge data sets.
• Analytical skills to interpret and summarize grants management system data.
• Proactive, organized and detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple projects and competing demands.
• Excellent oral and written professional communication skills with the ability to draft clear and concise documents and explain processes to various audiences.
• Time management skills with the ability to prioritize and adjust as needed.
• Interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Able to solve problems, use good judgement, conduct research and share information.
• Able to navigate ambiguity, adapt to change, take accountability and responsibility, and to work effectively within the team and across the organization.
• Open to ongoing learning, feedback, and growth.
• A commitment to the human rights of persons with disabilities.
• Excellent technology skills (MS Office Suite, Zoom, etc.); willingness to learn additional applications and accessible technology as necessary.
• Fluency in English.

Preferred, but not required qualifications are:

• Experience in working as part of a small, fast-paced team and ability to work successfully in a virtual environment.
• Experience in working with staff members in different locations, across multiple nationalities, identities, and cultures.
• Familiarity with international grantmaking compliance and IRS regulations.
• Experience with data visualization tools.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online