Senior Grants Manager

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  • Kenya
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 8 days ago
Senior Grants ManagerDepartment: Public PolicyEmployment Type: Permanent - Full TimeLocation: AfricaDescriptionJob Location: Kenya/South Africa/NigeriaAbout the RoleSun King is seeking a Senior Grant Manager to oversee and shape the growth of its expanding portfolio of results-based financing (RBF) and grant programs across Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of grant compliance, commercial insight, and impact measurement.This is not a traditional grant administration role. The successful candidate will act as a key link between Sun King's policy, finance, and delivery teams, ensuring that grant programs meet high standards while generating insights that inform business direction.The Senior Grant Manager will design and continuously improve Sun King's grant management system, while also overseeing the full grant portfolio across multiple markets. The role blends strategic oversight with hands-on execution, ensuring that grants are thoughtfully selected, effectively implemented, and well integrated into the business, while maintaining strong reporting, compliance, and donor engagement practices.This role reports to the Global Vice President for Public Policy and Government Relations and works closely with country teams, finance, legal, operations, sales, and external partners.What you will be expected to do:Grant Strategy and Portfolio Management
  • Oversee Sun King's grant and RBF portfolio, ensuring alignment with business strategy, market priorities, and delivery capacity
  • Review and shape grant opportunities, providing input on strategic fit, delivery requirements, risks, and trade-offs
  • Ensure the portfolio remains aligned with commercial priorities as well as donor expectations
  • Maintain a forward-looking view of the grant pipeline to inform planning and prioritization
  • Identify ways grants can enable scale, reduce risk in new markets, and improve affordability
  • Maintain a portfolio tracking system to provide visibility on value, risk, and workload
  • Contribute to positioning Sun King as a reliable and delivery-focused partner for donors
Grant Lifecycle Management
  • Manage end-to-end grant processes, from opportunity identification through to close-out
  • Coordinate proposal development, ensuring submissions are high quality, realistic, and compliant
  • Oversee grant setup, including alignment on scope, budgets, reporting, and operational considerations
  • Act as the primary point of contact for donor compliance, reporting, and audit readiness
Grant Operations and Compliance
  • Establish and improve grant management processes, templates, and tools
  • Manage reporting timelines and ensure submissions are timely and accurate
  • Coordinate audits, verifications, and donor reviews, addressing issues as they arise
  • Ensure grant requirements are integrated into business operations
  • Act as a point of contact for compliance or delivery-related risks
Cross-functional Coordination
  • Work closely with country managers and program teams on grant delivery
  • Coordinate inputs from finance, legal, operations, and sales teams
  • Streamline data requests by improving standardization and aligning reporting with business KPIs
  • Promote clear awareness of donor requirements and grant obligations across teams
External Engagement and Partnerships
  • Manage relationships with donors, fund managers, and verification partners
  • Coordinate external consultants facilitating proposals, compliance, or audits
  • Represent Sun King in donor engagements related to grants and RBFs
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
  • 7+ years of experience in grants management, results-based financing, or donor-funded programs
  • Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder grants or RBF programs
  • Strong data management capability, with familiarity in M&E and impact measurement frameworks
  • Experience engaging with international donors, DFIs, or fund managers (e.g., World Bank, FCDO, GIZ/EnDev, IFC, or similar)
  • Practical knowledge of impact reporting and delivery requirements for credible results
  • Ability to operate effectively across teams in fast-paced environments
  • Familiarity with sector reporting frameworks such as GOGLA methodology and World Bank/ESMAP/GIZ indicators
What Sun King offers
  • Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
  • An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
  • A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
  • Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, national origin, color, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.

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