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The Program Manager will oversee a large and complex portfolio of grants, manage grantee relationships, ensure compliance, monitor performance, review, and approve reports and amendment requests, and facilitate successful grant closure.\nKey Responsibilities\nSupport the Associate Director of the Open Grants Unit with strategy, workplan development, and implementation.\nOversee and manage a large and complex portfolio of grants.\nServe as the primary point of contact for grantees, ensuring efficient management of the grantmaking process, including amendments, payments, reports, and other related processes.\nConduct pre-award/post-award due diligence to ensure grants are aligned with Open Society’ funding requirements and internal policies.\nManage grant closures by collecting, reviewing, and approving grantee narrative and financial reports.\nSupport grantee-related internal and external audits, as needed.\nCollaborate closely with team members in the Open Grants Unit and across the Open Society network to ensure the effective achievement of team objectives and targets.\nCollaborate with Grants Management, the Office of the General Counsel, and the Finance Department to ensure that grantmaking practices align with Open Society’s principles and comply with both internal policies and external regulations.\nMonitor the implementation of grants, including tracking delays, assessing risks, providing relevant status updates, and ensuring compliance with grant terms and conditions.\nCoordinate consultants, as needed.\n20% travel is required.\nPeople Responsibilities\nN/A\nKey Metrics\nN/A\nKey Internal relationships\nOpen Grants Unit; Grants Management, Office of the General Council, Finance Department\nKey External Relationships\nGrantees\nPerson Specification\nQualification Essential:\nUniversity degree – BA or BSc\nExperience Essential:\nAt least 7 years of prior working grantmaking/grants management experience and operating within the non-profit or international development community, including programmatic and/or compliance experience.\nAdvance understanding of and vision for good grantmaking practices and compliance.\nPrior work experience in Salesforce or other grants management systems and organizing/planning tools.\nExperience managing consultants or staff.\nFluent in local language where the role is based.\nCompetencies\nFunctional Competencies:\nCompliance driven to ensure the organization adheres to laws and regulations (within grantmaking),\nStrong analytical skills to use data and information to undertake assessment and informed decision-making,\nProven project management and organizational skills.\nWillingness to absorb and internalize new skills and uptake on-the-job trainings when applicable.\nKnowledge of grant making best practices and the field of philanthropy.\nDemonstrate care and concern about partner organizations and the people who work in them.\nPersonal Competencies:\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to build consensus with diverse audiences/stakeholders.\nHigh level of emotional intelligence and ability to build and maintain strong, trusting relationships, internally and externally, across cultures and geographies, to further unit goals.\nDemonstrates commitment to OSF’s core values of humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, inclusivity, and integrity.\nCommitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism, and social justice.\nCommitment to listening and working with humility and cultural sensitivity; ways of working that are respectful to all people and that support space and voice for all diverse perspectives in our workplace.\nAbility to work independently and being self-motivated.\nWillingness to adjust working hours to include calls with colleagues, vendors, grantees, and partners located in various geographic regions.\nLanguages:\nAn excellent knowledge of English\nAn excellent knowledge of at least one additional language.\nCompetitive rates of pay apply.\nOpen Society Foundations is committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion, and to building a diverse staff that reflects the movements, issues and communities that our mission serves. 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Washington, D.C.. Posting Date: 09/11/2024. Deadline: 09/25/2024\nRole Title\nProgram Manager, Open Grants Unit (2 vacancies)\nGrade Level\nLevel E, Grade 11\nContract Type\nFixed Term (Until December 31, 2025), with the possibility of extension\nReporting To\nAssociate Director, Open Grants Unit\nUnit Name\nOpen Grants Unit\nLocation\nBogota, London, Mexico City, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Washington DC\nRole Purpose\nThe Program Manager is part of the Open Grants Unit that is responsible for managing open grants from across the Open Society network. The Program Manager will oversee a large and complex portfolio of grants, manage grantee relationships, ensure compliance, monitor performance, review, and approve reports and amendment requests, and facilitate successful grant closure.\nKey Responsibilities\nSupport the Associate Director of the Open Grants Unit with strategy, workplan development, and implementation.\nOversee and manage a large and complex portfolio of grants.\nServe as the primary point of contact for grantees, ensuring efficient management of the grantmaking process, including amendments, payments, reports, and other related processes.\nConduct pre-award/post-award due diligence to ensure grants are aligned with Open Society’ funding requirements and internal policies.\nManage grant closures by collecting, reviewing, and approving grantee narrative and financial reports.\nSupport grantee-related internal and external audits, as needed.\nCollaborate closely with team members in the Open Grants Unit and across the Open Society network to ensure the effective achievement of team objectives and targets.\nCollaborate with Grants Management, the Office of the General Counsel, and the Finance Department to ensure that grantmaking practices align with Open Society’s principles and comply with both internal policies and external regulations.\nMonitor the implementation of grants, including tracking delays, assessing risks, providing relevant status updates, and ensuring compliance with grant terms and conditions.\nCoordinate consultants, as needed.\n20% travel is required.\nPeople Responsibilities\nN/A\nKey Metrics\nN/A\nKey Internal relationships\nOpen Grants Unit; Grants Management, Office of the General Council, Finance Department\nKey External Relationships\nGrantees\nPerson Specification\nQualification Essential:\nUniversity degree – BA or BSc\nExperience Essential:\nAt least 7 years of prior working grantmaking/grants management experience and operating within the non-profit or international development community, including programmatic and/or compliance experience.\nAdvance understanding of and vision for good grantmaking practices and compliance.\nPrior work experience in Salesforce or other grants management systems and organizing/planning tools.\nExperience managing consultants or staff.\nFluent in local language where the role is based.\nCompetencies\nFunctional Competencies:\nCompliance driven to ensure the organization adheres to laws and regulations (within grantmaking),\nStrong analytical skills to use data and information to undertake assessment and informed decision-making,\nProven project management and organizational skills.\nWillingness to absorb and internalize new skills and uptake on-the-job trainings when applicable.\nKnowledge of grant making best practices and the field of philanthropy.\nDemonstrate care and concern about partner organizations and the people who work in them.\nPersonal Competencies:\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to build consensus with diverse audiences/stakeholders.\nHigh level of emotional intelligence and ability to build and maintain strong, trusting relationships, internally and externally, across cultures and geographies, to further unit goals.\nDemonstrates commitment to OSF’s core values of humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, inclusivity, and integrity.\nCommitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism, and social justice.\nCommitment to listening and working with humility and cultural sensitivity; ways of working that are respectful to all people and that support space and voice for all diverse perspectives in our workplace.\nAbility to work independently and being self-motivated.\nWillingness to adjust working hours to include calls with colleagues, vendors, grantees, and partners located in various geographic regions.\nLanguages:\nAn excellent knowledge of English\nAn excellent knowledge of at least one additional language.\nCompetitive rates of pay apply.\nOpen Society Foundations is committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion, and to building a diverse staff that reflects the movements, issues and communities that our mission serves. 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