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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
About
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people. To achieve this mission, we provide thousands of grants every year to groups and individuals across the globe that work on the issues we focus on—promoting tolerance, transparency, and open debate. We also engage in strategic human rights litigation and impact investing, while incubating new ideas and engaging directly with governments and policymakers through advocacy to advance positive change.
The Role
To help us fulfill our mission, we seek Grants Officers, who will oversee complex strategic grantmaking activity, triage, monitoring and compliance, and clearance of conflicts of interest, sanctions, and data privacy. They will also support with managing urgent leadership directed grants where necessary.
Key Responsibilities
As Grants Officer, you will report to the Associate Director, Grants Management and be responsible for:
- Contributing to annual planning for US-based entities, forecasting resource allocation needs throughout the year.
- Leading grant closeout procedures, overseeing the collection of overdue reports for all grants funded by US-based entities, conducting FPR, OSI, OSPC processes. Manage the completion of the Grant Closure Project, identifying obstacles to report collection and establishing standard procedures for closing grants, including those for US-based funded programmatic units.
- Coordinating with Finance, Accounting & Compliance teams for audits of Open Society's US-based entities, as well as the preparation of annual tax filings and financial statements.
- Managing departmental budget, retreat/meeting schedules, and professional development opportunities.
- Conducting pre-award/post-award due diligence to ensure grants align with US-based entities' funding requirements and foundation policies.
- Facilitating internal audits for the Grants Management department.
- Collaborating with opportunities/programs colleagues to ensure timely and efficient proposal compliance review, grant award structuring, issuance of grant letters, payments and amendments, and grant closeout reviews.
- Providing comprehensive education and training on grant award compliance, grantmaking processes, Foundation Connect, GrantSmith, and Analytics Studio within the department and to colleagues across Open Society.
- Serving as a resource for Grants Assistants and other Grants Management colleagues, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing.
- Assisting in Grants Management processes related to equivalency determination, expenditure responsibility, OFAC compliance, COI compliance, and data privacy.
- Ensuring data integrity in the grantmaking system and provide reporting and analysis.
- Monitoring grant payment schedules and program budgets, ensuring financial efficiency.
- Liaising with Communications, Finance, GARA, Information Technology, the Office of General Council, outside organizations, and/or affinity groups on matters of mutual interest.
- Developing, documenting, revising, and implementing Grants Management policies, procedures, documents, templates, and multimedia materials.
- Representing Grants Management in cross-departmental staff meetings, workshops, retreats, and working groups.
- Supporting internal Grants Management operations and contribute to special projects as needed.
Key Metrics
Processing grants in accordance with the requirements specified by funding entities.
Key internal relationships
- Director, Opportunity Grants Management
- Associate, Policy, Knowledge & Training
- Associate Director, Grants Management, US Accounting
Experience
The ideal candidate must have a University Degree (BA or Bsc) and have the following experience and competencies:
- Extensive career experience within a large and complex non-profit organization.
- Previous working experience in individual grantmaking.
- Deep understanding and vision of how grantmaking aligns with programmatic strategy complemented by effective grantmaking practices.
Functional Competencies:
- Be diligently compliance-driven to ensure organizational adherence to laws and regulations, particularly within grant-making processes.
- Possess strong analytical skills for using data and information to conduct assessments and make well-informed decisions.
- Demonstrate proven project management and organizational capabilities.
Personal Competencies:
- Exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Display a high level of emotional intelligence, with the ability to build and maintain strong, trusting relationships internally and externally,
- across cultures and geographies, to advance unit objectives.
- Be committed to Open Society’s core values of humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, inclusivity, and integrity.
- Be dedicated to continuous learning and development in areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and social justice.
- Listen and collaborate with humility, fostering respectful interactions with all individuals and supporting an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives.
Languages:
- Possess an excellent command of English.
- Being proficient in additional languages would be an asset.
What we offer:
- Exceptional opportunities to learn and grow, from annual professional development allowances to onsite training and learning conversations with visiting experts.
- Top-notch benefits and perks to promote well-being and a healthy work-life balance. Including generous time off, flexible work arrangements, employer-paid health insurance, retirement savings plan, progressive paid parental leave, reproductive and family planning support, and much more. (Benefits vary by location.)
- A commitment to nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace so you can bring your whole self to work and make a positive impact.
We aim to build an inclusive workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve, and actively seek applications from those who are marginalized and underrepresented. We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and colleagues with disabilities.
Competitive rates of pay apply.
Open 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. Candidates from all underrepresented backgrounds, identities and communities are encouraged to apply.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and colleagues with disabilities.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
The Role
To help us fulfill our mission, we seek Grants Officers, who will oversee complex strategic grantmaking activity, triage, monitoring and compliance, and clearance of conflicts of interest, sanctions, and data privacy. They will also support with managing urgent leadership directed grants where necessary.
Key Responsibilities
As Grants Officer, you will report to the Associate Director, Grants Management and be responsible for:
- Contributing to annual planning for US-based entities, forecasting resource allocation needs throughout the year.
- Leading grant closeout procedures, overseeing the collection of overdue reports for all grants funded by US-based entities, conducting FPR, OSI, OSPC processes. Manage the completion of the Grant Closure Project, identifying obstacles to report collection and establishing standard procedures for closing grants, including those for US-based funded programmatic units.
- Coordinating with Finance, Accounting & Compliance teams for audits of Open Society's US-based entities, as well as the preparation of annual tax filings and financial statements.
- Managing departmental budget, retreat/meeting schedules, and professional development opportunities.
- Conducting pre-award/post-award due diligence to ensure grants align with US-based entities' funding requirements and foundation policies.
- Facilitating internal audits for the Grants Management department.
- Collaborating with opportunities/programs colleagues to ensure timely and efficient proposal compliance review, grant award structuring, issuance of grant letters, payments and amendments, and grant closeout reviews.
- Providing comprehensive education and training on grant award compliance, grantmaking processes, Foundation Connect, GrantSmith, and Analytics Studio within the department and to colleagues across Open Society.
- Serving as a resource for Grants Assistants and other Grants Management colleagues, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing.
- Assisting in Grants Management processes related to equivalency determination, expenditure responsibility, OFAC compliance, COI compliance, and data privacy.
- Ensuring data integrity in the grantmaking system and provide reporting and analysis.
- Monitoring grant payment schedules and program budgets, ensuring financial efficiency.
- Liaising with Communications, Finance, GARA, Information Technology, the Office of General Council, outside organizations, and/or affinity groups on matters of mutual interest.
- Developing, documenting, revising, and implementing Grants Management policies, procedures, documents, templates, and multimedia materials.
- Representing Grants Management in cross-departmental staff meetings, workshops, retreats, and working groups.
- Supporting internal Grants Management operations and contribute to special projects as needed.
Key Metrics
Processing grants in accordance with the requirements specified by funding entities.
Key internal relationships
- Director, Opportunity Grants Management
- Associate, Policy, Knowledge & Training
- Associate Director, Grants Management, US Accounting
Experience
The ideal candidate must have a University Degree (BA or Bsc) and have the following experience and competencies:
- Extensive career experience within a large and complex non-profit organization.
- Previous working experience in individual grantmaking.
- Deep understanding and vision of how grantmaking aligns with programmatic strategy complemented by effective grantmaking practices.
Functional Competencies:
- Be diligently compliance-driven to ensure organizational adherence to laws and regulations, particularly within grant-making processes.
- Possess strong analytical skills for using data and information to conduct assessments and make well-informed decisions.
- Demonstrate proven project management and organizational capabilities.
Personal Competencies:
- Exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Display a high level of emotional intelligence, with the ability to build and maintain strong, trusting relationships internally and externally,
- across cultures and geographies, to advance unit objectives.
- Be committed to Open Society’s core values of humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, inclusivity, and integrity.
- Be dedicated to continuous learning and development in areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and social justice.
- Listen and collaborate with humility, fostering respectful interactions with all individuals and supporting an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives.
Languages:
- Possess an excellent command of English.
- Being proficient in additional languages would be an asset.
The salary range for this role in the U.S. is $86, 900 - $160, 800 (USD). The final offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set and level of experience
Competitive rates of pay apply.
Open 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. Candidates from all underrepresented backgrounds, identities and communities are encouraged to apply.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and colleagues with disabilities.
What does a perfect country for everybody with sight loss look like? Everyday 250 people begin to lose their sight. RNIB is driving the creation of a world where there are no barriers for people with sight loss. We believe standards for design of mainstream environments and solutions should be accessible by default.
With a new purpose of building the perfect country for everybody with sight loss and refreshed leadership team, we are now primed and ready for an innovative leader to grow our income and engagement results to serve more individuals across the UK. To achieve this, we will appoint a new Chief Income and Engagement Officer.
RNIB
Chief Income and Engagement Officer
Permanent
Flexible location, with a requirement of 2 days per week in the London office
£125,000
The new Chief Income and Engagement Officer will provide leadership and direction on all aspects of RNIB's fundraising strategy, creating innovative, sustainable fundraising programmes and initiatives. You'll empower the effective income and engagement team to grow our restricted and unrestricted income, ensure our income targets are delivered while developing positive and lasting relationships with donors and partners. Reporting to the CEO and as part of our senior leadership team, you will lead the income and engagement department to embrace ambition and celebrate success, while maintaining excellent relationships across other departments.
As the Chief Income and Engagement Officer, you will lead a fantastic team of income and engagement individuals across all disciplines, contributing nearly £70m of fundraised income to RNIB each year. You will harness the power of effective storytelling and fundraising technology while ensuring the incredible portfolio of current fundraising activity is effectively stewarded and celebrated. The ideal candidate will enjoy driving forward new strategic fundraising ideas and will have led fundraising strategy in previous positions. They will also have substantial senior management experience and be dedicated to delivering successful change to support more individuals with sight loss.
Application information
Closing date for completed applications is midnight Sunday 21st April 2024.
Interviews with Prospectus will take place week commencing Monday 29th April 2024 and interviews with RNIB the week commencing Monday 6th May 2024.
To apply:
Working for RNIB means working towards a world where there are no barriers to people with sight loss. If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application, then please contact Rhiannon Mehta at Prospectus. You can download the pack in word text format at the bottom of this page too.
If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.
We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will arrange for a meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
About
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people. To achieve this mission, we provide thousands of grants every year to groups and individuals across the globe that work on the issues we focus on—promoting tolerance, transparency, and open debate. We also engage in strategic human rights litigation and impact investing, while incubating new ideas and engaging directly with governments and policymakers through advocacy to advance positive change.
The Role
We seek a Grants Associate to provide advanced and complex administrative support for grantmaking activities and/or other opportunities by performing operational work that helps achieve the program’s goals and plans.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Global Central Grants Management (solid line) and liaising with the Director of Programs (dotted line), the Grants Associate will be responsible for:
- Maintaining accountability for updating the system with relevant grants/grantee information.
- Reviewing reports and documents for compliance, accuracy, and readability.
- Ensuring data accuracy and completeness in accordance with appropriate protocols.
- Assisting in acquiring and reviewing expenditure responsibility reports.
- Supporting the delivery of knowledge building and training across opportunity portfolios.
- Collaborating with Central Grant Management to enforce global Grants. Management policy, procedure, and compliance.
- Providing support for portfolio analytics through data provision and entry.
- Developing and maintaining training materials for the grant management system based on implemented updates and changes.
- Managing relationships with grantees and other stakeholders in the field.
- Collaborating in the construction, maintenance, and assessment of grantmaking portfolios, as well as in the design of portfolio strategies.
- Assisting in obtaining and recording Equivalency Determinations.
- Supporting cash flow forecasting processes.
- Monitoring grant payment schedules and comparing actual grant spending against budgets.
- Providing support in checking Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) and Conflict of Interest compliance systems taking responsibility for providing advanced and complex administrative support for the Grants Management department, including processing grantee audit confirmation letters, liaising with the Finance audit team, processing payment of contracts, invoices, and expense reports, publishing grant lists, and planning departmental meetings and event
Key internal relationships
- Grants Management team; Opportunity Team; Director Opportunities; MEL; OGC; Finance
Qualifications
- University degree – BA or BSc
Experience
- Prior career experience of working within grants management administration, processes and systems – either from within Grants Management or from Programmatic teams.
- Proven experience in collaborating with multi-country stakeholders within a multinational organization, and/or organization with significant complexity.
Functional Competencies
- Have extensive knowledge and experience of working with grant management processes and systems.
- Ability to facilitate and provide training to others on systems.
- Experience in working with grantees and nurturing those relationships.
- Knowledgeable of the field and partnerships, and of developing and designing the grant selection processes.
- Ability to generate, capture and organize information and knowledge to deliver prescribed outcomes for area of responsibility.
Personal Competencies:
- Demonstrates commitment to OSF’s core values of humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, inclusivity and integrity.
- Commitment to listening and working with humility; ways of working that are respectful to all people; and that support space and voice for all diverse perspectives in our workplace.
- Willingness to adjust working hours to include calls and discussions with colleagues and vendors located in various geographic regions.
- Commitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism and social justice.
Languages:
- Possess an excellent command of English.
- Fluent in the local language where the opportunity is based.
What we offer:
- Exceptional opportunities to learn and grow, from annual professional development allowances to onsite training and learning conversations with visiting experts.
- Top-notch benefits and perks to promote well-being and a healthy work-life balance. Including generous time off, flexible work arrangements, employer-paid health insurance, retirement savings plan, progressive paid parental leave, reproductive and family planning support, and much more. (Benefits vary by location.)
- A commitment to nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace so you can bring your whole self to work and make a positive impact.
We aim to build an inclusive workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve, and actively seek applications from those who are marginalized and underrepresented. We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and colleagues with disabilities.
The salary range for this role is $76,300 - $133,500 (USD). The final offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set and level of experience.
Competitive rates of pay apply.
Open 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. Candidates from all underrepresented backgrounds, identities and communities are encouraged to apply.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and colleagues with disabilities.
An exciting opportunity for an Interim Director of People to join one of the UK's largest providers of housing and social care.
The interim Director of People will be responsible for overseeing and leading on the delivery of the People Teams business as usual activities and the delivery of the People Plan priorities in addition to line management of the direct reports.
- Own and oversee the core HR systems & technology and ensure data integrity across all employee platforms working towards a goal of improving the employee self-service experience and a manager’s self-service platform.
- Continually improve the end-to-end employee experience, making the organisation an attractive and leading place to work in the industry.
- Work with the wider business to join-up and continuously improve the end-to-end people experience for our people and our clients.
- Review, report on and produce an improvement plan to improve the core basic people processes within the function.
- Promptly manage any underperformance within the team through line management.
- Create a clear set of delivery objectives for all line reports (specifically focusing on the People Operations).
- Oversee the ongoing key projects within the People Delivery Plan.
- Take responsibility for leading on any high level/complex Employee Relations.
- Shape and develop people initiatives, policies and processes balancing the need to improve the employee experience with commercial reality. Streamline process to make them more effective for the end user and to reduce heavy admin burdens within the team.
- Prepare and present papers for relevant committees (People & Culture Committee, Health & Safety Committee, Delivery Committee and Executive Board) as and when required.