Global Awards and Donor Compliance Manager

Core responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end awards management: Oversee award negotiation, agreement review, start-up, compliance frameworks, and closeout processes to ensure strategic alignment and risk mitigation across Country Offices and Support office.
• Provide technical authority on compliance and risk: Serve as a key decision-maker in Go/No-Go, portfolio, and closeout reviews, advising on audit readiness, equipment disposition, and high-level compliance risks.
• Drive donor and partner compliance standards: Guide Country Offices and partners on donor regulations, oversee due diligence and sub-awards, and maintain up-to-date donor compliance and partnership modalities.
• Oversee performance, audits, and KPIs: Monitor global Awards Management KPIs/MIs, ensure audit readiness and policy adherence, and surface critical issues and lessons learned to Senior Management.

This role ensures effective management and compliance of awards across Relief International programs, helping to save lives, build resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing in communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster.

Required skills and experience:

• A Master Degree or qualified by experience
• Significant progressive experience in Awards, Grants, Compliance, and partnership management for an international organization, at manager level
• Knowledge and proven strong experience with US, European, Foundations and other international government donors
• Experience tracking award budgets, ensuring donor compliance and timely, accurate spending
• Proven experience with grants management software/databases
• Strong written and spoken English is essential, and experience in English narrative writing

We offer competitive salaries and benefit packages for all staff, that are applied fairly and transparently. This means we are unable to advertise the salary as it is dependent on the local job market of the staff member, we will inform shortlisted candidates of the salary range as part of the selection process.

Relief International is an international non-profit organization that partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience and promote long-term health and wellbeing. We work in 14 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, providing Health and Nutrition, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), Education and Livelihoods programming.