Hybrid Grants Manager

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About the role

  • Grants Manager leading all aspects of grant management lifecycle at FILE. Focusing on climate change legal strategies while collaborating with various internal and external teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead all aspects of the grant management lifecycle across selected portfolios, working closely with the relevant Strategy Leads.
  • Serve as the key point of contact for all grants related matters for its portfolio(s), both internally and externally.
  • Help safeguard funds, manage risk, monitor progress, ensure compliance, strengthen partners’ organisational effectiveness, support partnerships, and enable impact for both FILE and grantees.
  • Coordinate closely with colleagues across FILE’s Finance, Research, Impact and Learning, and Philanthropic Partnerships teams, as well as with grantee partners.
  • Manage grantmaking processes across the full grant lifecycle: due diligence, proposal, approval, contracting, monitoring, evaluation and closure.
  • Advise the Strategy team, and wider organisation on best practice approaches in grantmaking.

Requirements

  • Experience in grant management, impact evaluation, financial reporting, compliance and risk management required.
  • Experience in legal strategy, advocacy, climate-related programmes or global land use/energy sectors desirable.
  • Experience developing or strengthening grant management policies and practices desirable.
  • Communicates clearly and confidently, both in writing and verbally, with partners and internal teams across different cultures.
  • Builds trusted, equitable relationships and aligns diverse stakeholders to deliver a strong partner experience while maintaining governance, compliance, and risk standards.
  • Manages multiple grants and deadlines end to end, prioritising effectively and keeping processes on track through clear planning, tracking, and follow through.
  • Works proactively with minimal supervision, identifies risks and opportunities early, and takes ownership to drive solutions and continuous improvement.
  • Adapts easily across portfolios, shifting between portfolio leadership and surge support and adjusting priorities to meet changing needs across teams and portfolios.

Benefits

  • Private healthcare
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
  • Enhanced sick leave
  • Flexibility working remotely and also abroad
  • A matching contribution to a pension scheme
  • Generous annual leave policy and additional time-off to support wellbeing

Job title

Grants Manager

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

€63,000 - €73,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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