Grant Management

Overall Job Responsibility

The ELI Grant is a forward-looking and innovative grant that operates as a catalytic funder and partner to organisations building impactful solutions for persons with disabilities. This role is ideal for someone who is driven to support organisations in transforming ideas into well-executed projects to deliver real-world impact.

The Assistant Manager will support the full grant lifecycle - from application and evaluation to implementation, reporting, disbursement and impact measurement. He/She will work with funded organisations to resolve challenges, keep projects on track and serve as both a rigorous grant administrator and a trusted partner.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Grant Management and Administration

• Solution alignment and clarity of innovation value, and support applicants throughout the process to refine and strengthen their proposals.
• Prepare approval papers to seek grant awards, and funding agreements that set out detailed project deliverables and grant amounts for awarded grants, to enable project commencement.
• Review periodic progress reports and facilitate timely disbursements to funded organisations in line with approved milestones and funding conditions.
• Support funded organisations in communicating project impact and facilitate opportunities to catalyse follow-on funding or partnerships beyond the ELI grant period.

2. Social Impact Data & Measurement

• Drive the use of outcome and impact measurement frameworks for funded projects, working with funded organisations to define meaningful indicators, baselines and targets aligned to each project’s context.
• Monitor outcomes and impact data submitted by funded organisations, and identify where mid-course intervention or additional support may be required.
• Consolidate, analyse and synthesise data across the grant portfolio to surface trends and evidence of impact, translating findings into clear insights for management reporting and external communications.
• Maintain integrity and proper documentation of data submissions, and recommend improvements to data collection tools and processes to strengthen the quality and consistency of impact reporting over time.

• Relevant degree, with at least 3 years of working experience in a related role.
• Critical thinking skills to assess applications and provide considered inputs for funding recommendations, in line with grant criteria and objectives.
• Good data literacy skills, including data analysis and data visualisation, with the ability to monitor the quality and completeness of data submitted by grantees, and consolidate and interpret trends across a portfolio of projects.
• Effective written and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate ideas clearly to diverse audiences.
• Sound numerical and administrative skills to manage grant reporting and disbursement processes with accuracy and due governance.
• Good interpersonal skills to engage and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work under tight timelines, adapt to changing circumstances, and demonstrate resourcefulness in problem solving.
• Prior experience in the disability sector or familiarity with disability issues would be an advantage.

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