Grants Coordinator

The Grants Coordinator will support a diverse portfolio implemented across multiple geographic areas through both IRC teams and local partners, ensuring high-quality donor compliance, coordination, reporting, and award management.

The IRC has worked in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for more than forty years. Today, more than 2,200 staff work across the region, including in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria and Yemen, supporting people affected by some of the world’s most complex and protracted humanitarian crises.

Job Summary The Grants Coordinator is a strategic role responsible for managing IRC Yemen’s grant portfolio, ensuring compliance with donor requirements, and leading the development of high-quality proposals and reports. Reporting to the Deputy Director of Programs (DDP), the Grants Coordinator supervises the grants team, coordinates inter-departmental efforts to secure and manage funding, and serves as the primary focal point for donor communications and risk mitigation.

Main Responsibilities

• Proposal development and business development: Ensure that IRC’s proposal development system is understood and followed across management, program, finance and operations, resulting in timely, high-quality submissions.
• Grants administration: Maintain a broad and deep understanding of IRC policies and of the terms and conditions across the grant portfolio and ensure that the Grants unit develops and maintains the procedures needed to apply them.
• Donor compliance and relations: Serve as first point of contact for grants and compliance questions in-country, and advise staff (including senior management, finance and procurement) on resolving compliance issues.
• Reporting: Oversee the development and delivery of all internal and external reports in collaboration with the program, finance, supply chain and METAL teams.
• Team leadership and staff management: Supervise the Grants team and provide on-the-job training, especially in proposal development and report writing.
• Partnerships and program approach: Help ensure that Go/No-Go discussions and program design are consistent with the SAP partnership ambition and program approach.
• Representation and country program management: In coordination with the DDP, build and maintain effective working relationships with donors, government actors, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, local partners and other stakeholders, and represent IRC in relevant meetings, consultations and forums.