Location: Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. The Grants and Partnership Coordinator provides essential support to the Consortium Programme Manager and the Consortium Management Unit (UGC) in grant management, partnership management and compliance with donor rules, ensuring the quality and timeliness of processes throughout the project cycle (OCHA Humanitarian Fund consortium, DR Congo).
Responsibilities:
- Ensure adherence to NRC policies, manuals and guidelines and donor requirements.
- Prepare and submit reports and analyses; promote strategic use of data for country-level decision-making.
- Monitor contractual obligations, deadlines and key portfolio risks, and facilitate corrective actions.
- Coordinate between Programme, Finance, Logistics, MEAL and other support teams.
- Partnership agreements: coordinate the preparation, launch, monitoring and closure of sub-grant agreements with consortium and local partners, in line with NRC procedures and Humanitarian Fund rules.
- Donor/HF compliance: ensure activities and expenditure comply with contractual rules, including screening of beneficiary entities and traceability of funds; coordinate contractual amendments.
- Build partner NGOs' capacity in grant management (PCM, reporting, procurement, justification of expenses).
- Consortium coordination: prepare and report on UGC, Steering Committee (CoPil) and thematic working group meetings.
- Risk management: contribute to partner due diligence with NRC's Risk & Compliance team; promote accountability, ethics and fraud prevention.
- Capitalisation: document and disseminate good practices and lessons learned.
- Maintain an overview of grants, donor requirements and deadlines, archive grant documentation, and support external audits and donor spot checks.
- Contribute to proposal, budget and report review, and monitor relevant calls for proposals.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree (Bac+5) in economics, business administration, law, development or a relevant field (lower degree considered with at least 6 years of similar experience).
- 3 to 6 years of relevant experience in grant management in the humanitarian sector, including with institutional donors such as the Humanitarian Fund, EU, FCDO, OFA or ECHO.
- Experience managing consortium projects; strong proposal, narrative and financial report writing skills; good command of OneGMS.
- Strong analytical and organisational skills; excellent spoken and written French, functional English.
- Knowledge of the humanitarian context in Eastern DRC (Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu); Swahili or another local language is an asset.
- Ability to work in volatile security environments.
* Apply Before 20/10/2026, 10:00
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online through the NRC careers portal before 20/10/2026.
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