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Partnerships and Grants Manager

Right To Play Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
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Role description

Location:
  • Preferred: Ethiopia, Ghana, Jordan, Lebanon, Rwanda; OR
  • Burundi, Mali, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom
Contract Type: Hiring Salary: Appendix Target Start Date: Application Closing Date: Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

About Right To Play:

About No Child on the Sidelines Project

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Benefits Highlights:

  • Connect and collaborate with a global team who are passionate about protecting, educating and empowering children and youth using the power of play!
  • Culture premised on our Culture Code (accept everyone, make things happen, display courage, demonstrate care, and be playful)
  • Paid leaves
  • Competitive benefits
  • Learning opportunities and 5 learning and development (L&D) days per year
  • More information on what we offer is available on our website.

Job Description:

Job Title: Grade: Reports to: Location:
  • Preferred: Ethiopia, Ghana, Jordan, Lebanon, or Rwanda; OR
  • Burundi, Mali, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom
Direct Reports: Department:

1. Purpose:

2. Accountability and Responsibilities

Managing and Coordinating Relationships with CSO Subgrantees (70%)
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact for CSO sub-grantees across a multi-country portfolio, building trusted, responsive, partnership-oriented relationships — with sensitivity to conflict, displacement, and insecurity in which many CSOs operate
  • Support CSO onboarding, orientation, and implementation of programme requirements, including coordination of reporting obligations and participation in storytelling/communication initiatives
  • Support proactive identification and mitigation of risks, in collaboration with CSOs and SFM
  • Conduct regular virtual check-ins and, where security allows, periodic in-country visits
  • Assist review and consolidation of CSO financial and programmatic reports, and support milestone-based disbursements
Coordinating Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Activities (15%)
  • Help identify CSO technical assistance needs through capacity assessments and ongoing monitoring
  • Coordinate with RTP's global technical staff to respond to technical assistance needs and coordinate Community of Practice (CoP) offerings. This includes supporting facilitation of virtual and/or in-person CoP sessions among CSOs.
Supporting Stakeholder Engagements (15%)
  • Represent the programme at regional and global forums
  • Maintain relationships with program partners, including local/regional civil society networks, women-led and refugee-led organisations, national and international governance bodies, and humanitarian coordination mechanisms
Perform other duties as assigned.

3. Scope (Geographic and/or Functional), Impact and Autonomy

4. Leadership and Staff Management

5. Information requirement for decision-making:

6. Innovation and Improvements

7. Relationships and Communication

8. Expertise

  • Post-secondary degree in a relevant field, or equivalent combination of education and practical experience. PMP or other similar professional certifications are considered an asset.
  • 7 years' experience working with local CSOs in roles related to partnership management, capacity building, or organizational development in one or more of the following regions: MENA, South Asia, and/or Africa, with proven experience applying principles of localization and trust-based grant making experience.
  • Experience in conflict-affected, or fragile contexts; with sensitivity to do-no-harm principles
  • Experience facilitating group learning across diverse cultural/linguistic contexts
  • Experience with results-based reporting, and donor compliance oversight
  • Excellent relationship-building skills, and sensitivity to funder-grantee power differentials
  • Fluent in written and spoken English and French; proficiency in Arabic, and/or Urdu is an asset.
  • Proficiency in digital collaboration tools, including emerging AI technologies
  • Technical background in one or more of the following is considered an asset: education in emergencies, child protection, psychosocial support, or sport/play-based development

9. Core Competences

  • Collaboration: Works effectively across RTP teams, CSO partners, and technical colleagues, sharing information openly and bringing diverse stakeholders together around shared program goals.
  • Growth Mindset: Seeks out feedback and lessons learned across the CSO portfolio and adapts partnership management approaches in response to evolving donor requirements or partner needs.
  • Resilience: Maintains sound judgement and quality of output when managing competing partner deadlines, multi-country compliance demands, or unexpected implementation challenges.
  • Professionalism: Demonstrates integrity, confidentiality, and accountability in donor compliance monitoring, financial reporting, and external representation of RTP.
  • Management and Interpersonal Skills: Communicates clearly and diplomatically across funder-grantee power differentials; manages multiple partner relationships and competing priorities effectively.

10. Additional Information

Appendix: Hiring Salary for Each Country

  • Burundi: BIF 2,601,803 per month
  • Ethiopia: ETB 258,574 per month
  • Ghana: GHS 15,156 per month
  • Jordan: JOD 2,838 per month
  • Lebanon: USD 3,873 per month
  • Mali: XOF 1,244,044 per month
  • Pakistan: PKR 448,947 per month
  • Palestinian Territories: ILS 17,116 per month
  • Rwanda: RWF 2,581,173 per month
  • Tanzania: TZS 7,276,275 per month
  • Uganda: UGX 9,750,052 per month
  • United Kingdom: GBP 54,374 per annum