Grants Coordinator

VVOB is an international NGO with programmes and projects in 10 countries worldwide. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium.

When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals. We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. Our teams of national and international experts achieve this by providing technical assistance to governmental and other education actors. In doing so, worldwide we ensure capacity building of governmental and other education actors.

Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced as well that quality education guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world?

We are looking for a Grants Coordinator who will operate from our headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Do you want to take on this challenge? Then continue reading!

Purpose of the function:

VVOB is a growing and ambitious organisation with a diversified funding base. This requires an optimal management of our grants and contracts. As our Grants Coordinator, you will play a key role in the development of new projects, contract negotiation and monitoring compliance of projects in implementation. You will be part of our programme team, led by our Global Director of Programmes. In this role you work closely together with several other functions within the organisation, such as the other Grants Coordinator, the Global Strategic Education Advisors, HR, Finance, Communication and of course with our teams in the VVOB country offices.

You will:

· You ensure that VVOB is always ready to respond quickly to new funding opportunities and you support colleagues in calculating budgets, writing concept notes and full project proposals.

· You monitor platforms of large donors for interesting funding opportunities, and you keep track of new requirements from our donors.

· You coordinate the drafting and reviewing of agreements with funding and consortium partners

· You develop, follow up and improve processes and tools that cover all financial, administrative, and reporting needs per project/programme and share relevant lessons learned with the organization

· You coordinate among departments and country teams to ensure that reports to our funders are qualitative and go out on time

· You are both an internal (for colleagues) and external (for funding partners) point of contact for questions related to financial, administrative, and other requirements related to the funding partners.

Your expertise and experience

· Master’s Degree in Economics, Law, Business Management or other related field or equivalent experience

· You have experience with managing grants and contracts of international, institutional donors

· You have experience with project cycle and grants management in the context of international development

· You have experience with budgeting and cost projections

· You are Fluent in English

· You are authorized to work in Belgium

· You’re willing to undertake short work trips to support our teams in VVOB’s partner countries.

What we’re offering:

· full-time contract

· A dynamic working environment in an international context

· An exciting job in a growing organisation with varied responsibilities

· A supportive environment enabling continuous professional development

· An attractive salary and benefits package