Grants Manager

Global Greengrants Fund (GGF) is a public charity registered in Boulder, Colorado, and London, UK, that supports grassroots activists and civil society organizations around the world working to address environmental and social justice in over 160 countries. GGF applies a participatory, decentralized model for making grants to grassroots groups through regional and thematic boards of advisors, global partner networks, and partner funds to support grassroots environmental and social justice action. Global Greengrants Fund believes solutions to environmental harm and social injustice come from people whose lives are most impacted. Every day, our global network of people on the frontlines and donors comes together to support communities to protect their ways of life and our planet. Because when local people have a say in the health of their food, water, and resources, they are forces for change.

The Grants Manager is responsible for ensuring Global Greengrants’ grantmaking program is legally compliant, efficient, and not overly burdensome on our advisory network. The Grants Manager is responsible for leading on grants management strategy, optimization, and collaboration across the organization – including within our shared grantmaking program with Global Greengrants Fund UK.

• Mentor and provide day-to-day direction to the grants management team, who may be working remotely in multiple locations across multiple time zones.
• Contribute to ensuring the grants management team can meet their day-to-day needs to reach their goals in alignment with the organizational vision.
• Provide supervisory support to direct reports in meeting their day-to-day needs to reach their goals in alignment with the organizational strategies and work plans.
• Mentor the team and individual members and aid in setting goals and milestones for success, professional evaluation, accountability, and growth.
• Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and day-to-day line management support to one’s direct reports in creating the team practices and collaborations to meet their performance goals, reach program goals, and ensure program strategies are implemented.
• Create and ensure meeting goals and metrics for success are reflective of how we define progress within our strategic plan.
• Lead and integrate steps towards more collaboration and ensure the team has the tools, resources, support, guidance, and information they need to reach team goals and maintain a collaborative and trust-based environment.
• Contribute to the development of a high-quality team in the organization through participation in recruitment, evaluation, and career development.

Essential Values and Competencies

• Commitment to the guiding principles, mission, and values of the Global Greengrants Fund.
• Commitment to a value-based intersectional framework and its implications for organizational practices and principles of anti-oppression.
• Transparency and accountability.
• Critical thinking and analysis.
• Strategic risk management.
• Build strong interpersonal relations from the role – across both organizations (up, down, across, and externally).
• Influencing and resolving differences across boundaries.
• Self-awareness and insight.
• Collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented approach towards team members and the wider organization. 

Essential Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Experience

• Significant relevant experience in similar roles in grants management for environmental justice, feminist, gender, Indigenous, human rights organizations, and/or funding organizations.
• Demonstrated experience in grants management, ensuring timely grant decisions, efficient processes, and clear procedures. 
• Demonstrated experience in international grants compliance, with a focus on due diligence processes under IRS regulations in the US and HMRC & Charity Commission regulations in the UK. 
• Experience managing a grants management database, or a similar database. 
• Demonstrated capacity to think strategically, innovatively, and analytically, with expertise in complex problem solving, decision-making, and critical thinking skills, displays good judgment.
• Excellent interpersonal understanding, relationship building, and interpersonal skills to build strong alliances with diverse constituencies and manage complex politics, positioning, and relationships.
• Strong financial management acumen; knowledge of accounting procedures and protocols, budgeting, and financial analysis.
• Experience working with diverse communities from multiple identities across the globe, in a virtual environment.
• Fluency in English; proficiency in other languages preferred.
• Strong expertise in the use of various software and a high level of computer literacy (MS Office Suite, Google Apps, instant messaging, and virtual team collaboration software such as Trello, Zoom, Slack, Asana, Raiser’s Edge, Smart Simple, or other donor management systems).

Personal Characteristics

• A transparent and adaptive leader with a commitment to lifelong learning and a drive to mentor, coach, and share leadership. 
• Experience and skills to give, receive, and work with feedback constructively, with the intellectual and emotional resilience necessary to take up critical responsibilities for an international global organization. 
• Experience in complex human resource management; ability to work with a diverse and virtual team and engage team members, build consensus, and build high-performance teams.
• Able to innovate and navigate uncertainty and thrive in seeing and taking up opportunities in the context of the ongoing organizational transformative journey.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Experience

• Relevant lived experiences related to GGF’s work and community.
• Deep understanding and experience with some of the following: grassroots social movements, environmental issues, capacity building for civil society organizations, and/or the role of community-led grantmaking.