Babban Gona Farmers Services Nigeria Limited is a leading award winning highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, they offer a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping farmers to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale and other related farming hurdles.
Babban Gona is actively recruiting for the position below.
Role Title: Grants Associate
Location: Lagos State.
Role Responsibilities:
- You will be responsible for researching for effective and authentic funding opportunities having a lawful registration and proven track record
- Investigate if the grants are implemented according to the operational and financial needs of the organization
- Manage and support the grants requirement and implementation for the organization
- Identify and develop strategies to optimize the grants administration process
- Carry out relevant research to identify available grant opportunities and evaluate the results
- Get actively involve in grant writing by coordinating with grant writers or coordinators
- Preparation of financial or budget plans and allocation along with the planning and finance department in accordance with each requirement
- Analyzing the budget trends and make recommendations for cost control and reduction for various grants
- You will be responsible for giving detailed reports to the funders and the board of directors with respect to the organization's progress
- Supervision of paperwork and other related documents connected with grant-funded programs
- Maintenance of records of all payments and receivables and prepare monthly records for all grant related activities
- Manage the fundraising team to ensure proper coordination of work
- You will be responsible for keeping the relevant staff informed about upcoming deadlines and deliverables, thereby ensuring smooth completion of work responsibilities
- Investigate if other grant staff (coordinators, writers and administrators) is complying with their job responsibilities
- Investigate the job of invoicing, accounting, reporting, and other administrative functions to ensure successful execution of grant process
- You will be responsible for providing training to the new staff on grants management and reporting requirements
- You will be required to design grant programs and determining funding needs.
- Preparation and supervision of budgets and management of timelines and deliverables.
- Directly involved in all relevant 3rd party relationships including investors, banking relationships, auditors etc.
Required Qualifications:
- Possess relevant education qualification
- Experience with basic financial management skills including developing and monitoring budgets and financial reporting
- Solid understanding of the organization's overall business and its objectives
- Possess excellent knowledge of planning and strategizing financial and budgeting issues
- Must have excellent interpersonal and presentation skills and ability to work within a team and provide support to the junior staff
- Proven ability to perform in cross-functional team approach and job responsibilities
- Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines and produce quality results on time with attention to detail.
- Ability to perform grant research, grant writing, grant program design and implementation, compliance and grant reporting.
- Proven experience in managing and monitoring administrative projects with excellent project management skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and strong command over written and verbal communication
- Competence in the use f computers with proven knowledge of software programs and Internet
Application Deadline:
Ongoing
Application Guidelines:
To apply, click on the link below.
