Grants Manager

Core responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end grant management for a five-year, USD 80M donor-funded program, ensuring full compliance, accurate financial tracking, and effective coordination across global teams
• Produce timely, high-quality narrative and financial reports, proactively flagging any issues in processes, data, or deliverables
• Serve as a central connector across program, finance, and Development and Partnerships teams to support successful program implementation
• Manage donor and other external reporting, coordinate grant revisions, and ensure program teams are fully informed of relevant donor compliance regulations and procedures

This role supports a five-year program that will provide support to approximately 400 early stage social enterprises in the African green economy that are creating and improving dignified work opportunities for women and youth, contributing to Acumen's mission of breaking the cycle of poverty through business and moral imagination.

Required skills, experience, qualifications:

• Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience managing complex, grant funded, multi-year projects
• Direct experience with major international, corporate donors, foundations and non profit organizations
• Exceptional organizational skills, including time and project management, and ability to meet deadlines
• Strong project and grant reporting experience with knowledge of systems like Salesforce, Asana, and programme management qualifications equivalent to PRINCE/PRINCE 2
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for diverse stakeholders across regions and at varying levels of accountabilities
• Experience in managing and understanding results frameworks, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems, logframes and learning agendas
• Authorized to work in Canada, based in Toronto

No specific compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the job description.

Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. They invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future, having impacted over half-a-billion lives since 2001.