Grants and Administration Officer

• Job Title: Grants and Administration Officer
• Location: London, with occasional international travel
• Reporting to: Department Manager
• Duration: Permanent Contract
• Salary: £32,390.70 Gross per annum
• Deadline:16 December 2022 09:00 UK time

Job purpose

The Grants and Administration Officer supports grants administration within the Europe Asia Department across specified projects/programmes… This includes supporting contract set-up and management with donors and partners, enabling project compliance with external and internal requirements, and ensuring administrative processes are contextually appropriate.

Person specification
Essential knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience of working in an administrative and support position to a team.
• Strong organisational skills including planning, developing, implementing and maintaining administrative systems.
• Experience of providing financial administrative support to projects, including on support to financial reporting, reviewing partner and team expenditure and preparing budgets.
• Experience working to build grantee and partner capacity for grants management and monitoring performance.
• Understanding of grant and procurement best practice and donor compliance
• Experience of working with databases, handling diverse sources of information and maintaining accessible filing systems.
• Experience of working in a multicultural environment.
• Experience remotely supporting partners on the successful joint delivery of work.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Willingness to undertake some international travel.
• Strong commitment to, and experience of, team and cross-organisational working.
• Appreciation of issues of confidentiality, and cross-cultural and political sensitivity.
• Initiative, enthusiasm and a problem-solving approach to new challenges.
• Experience of hostile environment training or willingness to undertake hostile environment training.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Good working knowledge of written and spoken Russian

Desirable knowledge, skills and experience

• Relevant financial qualifications and experience
• Experience using Podio or similar project and data management software.
• Understanding of and interest in peacebuilding and conflict transformation processes.
• Knowledge of and interest in contexts relevant to the department and its work.
• Experience supporting project management on a European Union funded project.