Associate Director, Opportunity Grants

Há 5 dias

Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Open Society Foundations Tempo inteiro

Associate Director, Opportunity Grants. Amman. Posting Date: 10/22/2024. Deadline: 11/21/2024

Role Title

Associate Director, Opportunity Grants Management

Reporting To

Director, Opportunity Grants Management

Team Name

Grants Management

Role Purpose

The Opportunity Model orientates OSF’s programmatic activities around opportunities for impact. The Associate Director, Opportunity Grants Management will be responsible for managing a team of Grant Associates and ensuring the Grant Associates are allocated as necessary to Opportunity Teams and other grant making units within OSF where they will provide administrative support to grant management activity.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure provision of administrative support for grant making activities and/or other opportunities by effectively managing resources and identifying administrative needs of various programs.
  • Oversee and manage the update of grants system with relevant grants/grantee information.
  • Allocate Grant Associates to Opportunities as required.
  • Accountable for reporting and other documents for compliance, accuracy, and readability.
  • Accountable for the review of data to assure that it is accurate and complete in accordance with appropriate protocols.
  • Oversee the enforcement of global GM policy, procedure and compliance across OSF and within Opportunities.
  • Ensure cohesive working with program officers, grantees, and legal to help accelerate grant from ‘idea to out the door’.
  • Ensure that the team remains fit for purpose and appropriately resourced, leading on performance management on an ongoing basis.
  • Creating structure and generating clear goals to enable the team to accomplish its objectives and helping the team analyze their effectiveness.
  • Routinely generate Foundation Connect/GrantSmith reports and utilize grantmaking data to monitor progress on priority work, monitor and ensure timely processing of grants and grant payments, identify gaps in information, and to manage workload distributions.

People Responsibilities (Total Team/DRs)

Yes (8 individual contributors)

Key Metrics

  • Effective resource management, data accuracy and compliance.
  • Facilitate, structure and coordinate early engagement.
  • Oversee and effectively manage advisory function of Grants Associates during pre-compliance.
  • Issue spot challenges and escalate accordingly.
  • Provide ongoing learning and encourage adequate opportunity for growth/professional development.

Key Internal Relationships

Director, Opportunity Grants Management; Associate Director, Policy, Knowledge & Training; Associate Director, Grants Data and Analytics; Associate Directors, Global Grants Management

Key External Relationships

N/A

Qualifications

Essential:

  • University degree – BA or BSc

Experience

Essential:

  • Substantial management experience providing high impact leadership and effective resourcing across teams.
  • Extensive prior experience with grant processing, grant making systems, compliance, and risk management.
  • Thorough understanding of compliance law for US-domiciled foundations and reporting requirements for US-domiciled foundations administering grants to global grantees.
  • Demonstrated experience leading large-scale complex, cross-functional projects.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

  • Exercises specialized knowledge and provides technical guidance when required on reviewing and evaluating recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
  • Strong leadership capability to build agile teams.
  • Managing resources by efficiently planning and coordinating activities and identifying critical paths to accomplish objectives.
  • Creating an environment that supports the team’s development and efficient training of new colleagues through formal and informal training and development opportunities.
  • Strong compliance mindset to ensure the company adheres to local laws and regulations.
  • Ability to collaborate with impact at all levels within different departments to align on goals and identify pathways to achieving both own goals and those of the Opportunity teams.
  • Advanced technical competence in all areas of grant making processes, compliance, risk and regulations (including U.S. regulations) – sufficient to mentor and develop less experienced staff members.

Personal Competencies:

  • People supervisory and development experience (i.e., as direct line management or as a project leader).
  • Demonstrates commitment to OSF’s core values of humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, inclusivity and integrity.
  • Commitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism, and social justice.
  • Commitment to listening and working with humility; ways of working that are respectful to all people; and that support space and voice for all diverse perspectives in our workplace.
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Languages:

  • An excellent knowledge of English.
  • Knowledge of other languages would be an asset.

Competitive rates of pay apply.

Open Society Foundations is committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion, and to building a diverse staff that reflects the movements, issues and communities that our mission serves. Candidates from all underrepresented backgrounds, identities and communities are encouraged to apply.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and colleagues with disabilities.

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