Grants and Finance Manager

What is this The A Project that's hiring?

The A Project is a non-governmental organization that envisions a society where sexuality and mental health are reclaimed by women and gender non-conforming people, cared for, respected, recognized in their diversities, and not utilized against them.

We aim to create platforms that reaffirm agency and autonomy in sexuality and mental health, while advancing, through practice and theory, a political discourse around sexual, reproductive, and mental health and seeking alternatives to counteract medical patriarchy's restrictive and reductive approaches towards all bodies, especially those of women and gender non-conforming people in Lebanon.

Who makes up The A Project?

The A Project is small team, staff-wise; but quite a large and powerful one, membership-wise. We are a majority women and trans* persons group.

Are you the Grants and Finance Manager we are looking for?

The Grants and Finance Manager shall be dedicated to the project full-time. S/he will provide overall technical and administrative leadership in the areas of financial management and grants management for the program. The Finance and Grants Manager will play a critical role in supporting the implementation of The A Project’s projects throughout the year. S/he will participate in grants proposal writing, development and reporting. S/he will also provide guidance and practical support to the project coordinators on all matters related to accounts payable, cost allocation, monthly reporting, payroll, budget preparation, grants management contract and subcontract management, and compliance.

We are especially interested in someone who has a passion for working on gender justice and women's rights matters, and particularly on reproductive and sexual health. For the grant proposal writing segment of this job opportunity, the applicant should have strong writing skills and values work on advancing women and trans* health and rights. Do mention in your cover letter if you have work or volunteer experience in women's rights work. The grants managment is more of an interest to us than the finance segment, as the finance segment can be learned if the applicant has strong numeracy and organization skills.

Duties:

• Prepare funding proposals and complete reports to already-existing donors
• Identify potential donors and opportune calls for funding
• Manage donor contracts as required, tracking the progress on outputs of contracts, providing timely updates and highlighting any issues.
• Balance sheet reconciliations and month end adjustments
• Match invoices to purchase orders and ensure payments are properly authorized
• Ensure payments made are allocated to budgeted spend
• Update internal systems with financial data, and backup data in filing and digitally
• Prepare monthly financial reports
• Assist with budget preparation
• Ensure contracts and subcontracts are prepared

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in humanities, social sciences, NGO management or related fields
• Fluent English speaker, with very strong written English.
• Fluent Arabic speaker.
• Strong numeracy skills.
• Strong IT skills, proficient in use of Microsoft Word, Access and Excel.
• Ability to work effectively within a small team.
• Demonstrated experience in grants management or program development
• A self-starter, able to organize and manage their own time.