WHAT IS START NETWORK?
Our purpose is to be a catalyst for system-level change that improves the efficiency, effectiveness and ethics of humanitarian action. We do this by working as a network to develop, test & spread new ways of collaborating and resourcing locally-led crisis response and anticipation.
Our current membership is made up of nearly 100 local, national and international NGOs based all around the world. We also support 10 national and regional hubs made up of civil society organisations and NGOs as our vehicle for devolving power, resources and accountability.
OUR SOLUTIONS
DECENTRAISLING & LOCALLY-LED ACTION: Shifting power and resources and decentralising decision-making to locally led networks and organisations.
EARLY & RAPID FINANCING: Building a global financing system that reduces risk, anticipates, and acts ahead of predictable crises.
COMMUNITY-LED INNOVATION: Incentivising innovative, locally led, and contextual solutions and learning from them together with people affected by crises.
For more information about Start Network and what we do, please visit our website.
OUR VALUES
WE PUT PEOPLE FIRST: Communities come first in our decision-making and programming.
WE ARE BRAVE: We have great ambition and are willing to explore new things and take risks to achieve it
WE OPERATE COLLECTIVELY: We leverage the value of working as a network, sharing risk and resources, and learning together.
WE ARE INCLUSIVE: We see the value in diverse perspectives and work to remove the barriers that prevent voices from being heard.
WE ARE OPEN: We work transparently and with integrity, building mutual trust in all levels of our work, from governance to programming.
WE ARE ETHICAL: We behave and operate based on key principles of anti-racism, non-discrimination, and anti-colonialism. This is a work in progress.
JOB PURPOSE
Start Network is looking for an experienced grant management professional with strong financial acumen, a strategic mindset and the ability to influence a variety of senior stakeholders and establish new systems and ways of working. This role is critical to future proofing our grant management function and enables us to set up the right systems and processes for us to manage multiple 7-8 figure grants from a wide variety of donors, while also helping us identify what would be needed to manage a lager portfolio of complex grants in the future.
The Grants Manager will contribute to the impact and accountability of our work by ensuring transparent, compliant and accountable management and control of funds awarded to Start Network by a variety of institutional donors, trusts and foundations, and corporates, plus potentially other donors in the future. Based in the Grant Management team under the Finance Directorate while acting as a ‘business partner’ to the teams across the organisation this role will be responsible for leading the full grant cycle of large-scale awards, working closely with Resource Mobilisation, Operations, and Programmes functions, as well as project teams across Start Network’s global membership.
This position requires strategic vision, gravitas, strong communication skills, extensive grant management experience and a desire to shape and lead new ways of working in an innovative humanitarian organisation, as well as a high level of technical grant knowledge and the ability to manage budgets, navigate finance systems, and build financial reports from scratch.