May 21, Center for Reproductive Rights Manager, Global Institutional Funding Jobs in Kenya

The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is the premier global litigation and legal policy organization using the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world. Headquartered in New York City, the non-profit, non-partisan organization has regional offices in Bogota, Geneva, Kathmandu, Nairobi, and Washington, DC; a staff of approximately 200 diverse professionals; an annual budget of approximately $40 million with an additional $22 million in donated services from leading law firms around the globe.

The Center’s game-changing litigation and advocacy work, combined with its unparalleled expertise in constitutional, comparative, and international human rights law, have transformed how reproductive rights are understood by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide. It has played a key role in securing landmark legal victories in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the United States on issues including access to life-saving obstetrics care, contraception, safe abortion services, and comprehensive sexuality information, as well as the prevention of forced sterilization and child marriage.

It has brought groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. Committees, and regional human rights bodies, led the development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights, and has built the legal capacity of women’s rights advocates in more than 60 countries.

The Role:

The Manager, Global Institutional Funding reports to the Senior Manager Institutional Partnerships and supports the Senior Director as well as the Associate Director of Foundations in planning and implementing the Center’s global institutional funding plan. This includes, specifically, managing an institutional grants portfolio which includes Foundations, bi-lateral (government agencies) and multi-lateral (the UN) funders.

The Manager, Global Institutional Funding will manage donor outputs for all grants in their portfolio across the grant life cycle, including pre-bid capture, proposal coordination and submission, donor reporting and other award activities, and knowledge management. This individual will also provide support across the Institutional Funding unit, as needed, and participate in weekly unit updates and quarterly planning and replanning exercises.

The Manager will work closely with the other departments, principally the programs team, including the global regional teams in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, as well as with the Finance, Compliance units and the Strategy, Evaluation, and Learning unit.

This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Primary Responsibilities:

New Business and Pre-Bid Management

Monitors new funding opportunities and synthesizes information from external list-serves, dashboards, subscriptions, and donor databases.

Develops succinct summaries of solicitations and carefully tracks the status of opportunities in the pre-bid/pre-proposal phase.

Develops capture plan and manages its implementation in coordination with other departments.

Engages in partnering discussions.

Undertake sector, country and other competitive research proactively as may be required.

Proposal Development

Supports the entire proposal-development process in response to specific funding opportunities, from proposal kick-off through post-submission debrief.

Uses proposal-management system to track tasks and follow up on actions to ensure timely completion of deadline-driven deliverables.

Manages proposals as assigned.

Writes and edits select portions of the proposal, as assigned.

Coordinates responses during award-negotiation phase.

Post-Award Management

Ensures timely, complete, and compliant submission of all grant deliverables, including required reports, modification requests, and close-out actions.

Manages cross-departmental response to funder requests and required deliverables.

Works closely with the Global Legal Program and finance to ensure grant deliverables are delivered on time and the project budget is spent as planned.

Knowledge Management

Updates knowledge management system (Raiser’s Edge) according to specifications and serves as focal point for other departments for key pre and post award documents and emails.

Cross-Cutting Unit Support

Manages proposal consultant onboarding processes.

Contributes to development and refinement of systems and tools to enhance institutional grants management.

Serves on cross departmental working groups as needed.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Strong commitment to the Center’s mission, purpose, and values.

Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree a plus.

At least 7 years of professional experience in proposal development, donor relations, and grant management.

Experienced in managing the end-to-end bid process, including bid management process, bid documentation, and submissions.

Demonstrated success in winning bids through effective proposal management Experienced in facilitating teams to develop collaborative processes.

Demonstrated excellent writing and verbal communications skills.

Ability to draft and copyedit written communication effectively such as memos, talking points, presentations, and emails.

Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams and influence stakeholders and various levels.

Solutions-oriented approach with strong analytical/reasoning skills.

Must be able to work proactively and independently, multi-task, and work under tight deadlines.

Experience working with or in partnership with an institutional funding agency is a plus.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Center for Reproductive Rights Manager, Global Institutional Funding Jobs in Kenya

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