Grants Manager -Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The Organization

Splash is an international development organization founded in 2007 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA. In 15 years, we have reached nearly 1,000,000 children in cities around the world. In 2019, we embarked on an exciting, five-year initiative, Project WISE (WASH in Schools for Everyone), focused on reaching over 800,000 children in three major growth cities – Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar, Ethiopia and Kolkata, India – with improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure, WASH behavior change programs, and strengthened school-based menstrual health programs. Looking ahead, we aim to expand our impact to new cities across 3-5 countries.

Splash supports local leaders, institutions, and partners to drive lasting change on the ground. We believe that local capacity to solve problems at scale exists, and our job is to strategically support and magnify the impact of local governments, nonprofit and for-profit actors for the good of children and families across the cities in which we work.

Our core values guide everything we do, including every hiring decision we make. They are:  

• People – People first. People second. People third.
• Quality – Beautiful products that function and last.
• Honesty – No drama, no surprises, no BS.
• Joy – Kids at heart, seeing potential everywhere.
• Mistakes – Make them, don’t repeat them.

Splash values the unique skills and experiences everyone brings to the organization, and we are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants for employment. To learn more, please visit www.splash.org.

The Job

This is a full-time position that is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and reports to the Director of Strategic Partnerships.

Position Overview

We are looking for a detail-oriented person to support Splash’s relationships with donors and the government. A key focus of the role is the provision of accurate, timely, and compelling narrative reports on our programmatic progress, which will entail sourcing information from the Programs and Finance teams in Ethiopia while coordinating with the Global Business Development team in the U.S. In addition, the Grants Manager will support local relationships with Ethiopian and international donors by facilitating site visits, and recognition ceremonies, and responding to other donor requests.  The Manager works to maintain the performance and project management system, ensuring that information is up-to-date and complete. The Manager will also contribute to the preparation of concept notes and proposals. They coordinate closely with the Programs team to facilitate grant kick-offs and project review processes; and support the annual planning and budgeting processes of the Splash Ethiopia office.

The position holder will collaborate with the Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation (MLE) team in Ethiopia and globally to ensure that all data provided to donors for proposals and reports is consistent across the organization.  The position would also contribute to knowledge management as well as the documentation and sharing of best practices and lessons learned endeavors.

This position requires excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong project management, and an analytical mindset. Qualified candidates should get energy from working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

 Roles and Responsibilities

• Support the organization to secure potential funding opportunities, and forge collaborative partnerships with different stakeholders and partners.
• Collate/compile multi-year and annual plan/strategy documents to ensure that all objectives specified in multi-year and annual plans are included within the scope of agreed projects and are tracked by key performance indicators.
• Work closely with program and support staff to maintain project and performance management systems with clear utilization of performance indicators, targets, and organizational structure.
• Ensure that timely, valid, and accurate data and reports are submitted by performance indicator owners and report focal persons.
• Support monitoring, internal, and external evaluation efforts such as LSHTM Evaluation study, real-time appraisals, mid and end-of-project evaluations, impact studies, and case studies as needed.
• Facilitate the process of compiling monthly, quarterly, mid-year, and year-end and other reviews of progress against the government plan through coordinating inputs from different departments to produce a transparent, clear, and realistic view of organizational status.
• Manage and coordinate with department heads and U.S. business development staff to prepare concept notes, proposals, and reports for government and donors
• In collaboration with the Country Director and Director of Strategic Partnerships, serve as the key point person on the Splash Ethiopia team for tracking external donor deadlines, work plans, and reporting needs and communicating them to all members of Ethiopia team (across departments) as needed.
• Work in collaboration with concerned/relevant staff of the country office and the HQ in creating, sharing, using, and managing the knowledge and information of the country office.
• Facilitate the preparation of success stories and lessons learned for donor communications.
• Handle other activities as needs arise and as assigned by line manager.