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Grants & Partnerships Coordinator (Expats and National)/11477


Duration : 6 months
Start date : 15-Mar-2026
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The Grants and Partnerships Coordinator ensures the strategic, compliant, and high-quality management of the Mission’s institutional funding portfolio while strengthening Action Against Hunger’s partnership and localization agenda. The position leads and coordinates the development of proposals, concept notes, and donor reports in line with donor regulations and internal validation processes, and serves as the Mission’s focal point for grant management and donor compliance. In parallel, the role oversees consortium coordination and sub-grant management, supports the development and operationalization of the Mission’s localization strategy, and ensures robust partner mapping, validation, and engagement processes. Through strong internal coordination, donor intelligence, and external relationship management, the Grants and Partnerships Coordinator contributes to sustainable funding, strategic positioning, and principled partnership development across the full project lifecycle.


Key activities in your role will include

Objective 1: Identification, coordination, preparation, writing and submission of quality and timely proposals/concept notes, following Action Against Hunger’s validation processes and considering the donor guidelines 

Tasks:

  • Under the direction of the Senior Coordinator (functional manager) and Country Rep (dotted line), and in consultation with Technical Coordinators (WASH/Health/FSL), MEAL Coordinator, Logistics, HR, and Admin/Fin Coordinator, the Grants Coordinator will design, coordinate, gather inputs, collect relevant information to lead programme development and design (including proposal narratives, and other required annexes, such as the budget and PPP) or Concept Notes to be presented to donors. The Grants Coordinator will ensure that the proposals are written, validated and submitted on time.
  • The Grants & Partnerships Coordinator will assist programme teams in designing Project proposals in response to various proposals such as Call for Proposals (CFP), Requests for Proposal (RFP) or Concept Notes (CN), and as such, will participate to early technical discussions with the donors, when and if feasible.
  • The Grants & Partnerships Coordinator will follow Action Against Hunger’s Syria’s Strategic Framework and promote the harmonization of indicators and means of verification. The coordinator will ensure the respect for Action Against Hunger’s Syria standard operating procedures and the validation procedure defined by HQ. The coordinator will ensure that proposals take into consideration Gender, Protection and Accountability Guidelines, according to Action Against Hunger policies.
  • The Grants & Partnerships Coordinator will ensure that proposals and concept notes are drafted in accordance with donor frameworks, guidelines and language and are at the highest quality.
  • The Grants & Partnerships Coordinator will coordinate any donor feedback and ensure timely submission of requested feedback and resubmission
  • The Grants & Partnerships Coordinator will liaise with ACF HQ and donors in following up/tracking of submitted proposals, to support the Mission’s budgetary planning.
  • The Grants & Partnerships Coordinator will lead and support the drafting process of proposals and concept notes together with the Technical Coordinators
  • The Grants & Partnerships Coordinator will track donor strategies, present them at the bi-monthly SMT meetings, and will ensure comprehensive follow-up of changes in donor guidelines with support of the Grants Manager.


Objective 2: Coordinate and lead the production and submission of quality and timely donor reports

Tasks:

  • Coordinate donor reporting processes as outlined at mission and HQ level, with the relevant departments to collect the information/inputs and ensure the timely submission of high-quality programmatic reports
  • Coordinate with Admin/Finance Coordinator or Deputy Country Director to ensure timely submission of financial reports.
  • Assist field teams in drafting of donor reports by ensuring that reports are in accordance with donor requirements and are submitted on time
  • Liaise with either HQ or donor in following-up/tracking of submitted reports
  • When feasible, ensure that reporting requirements are kept minimal for the Mission and that processes are streamlined and efficient.
  • Follow up on the reporting Tracker, ensure the Grants Manager presents them to all relevant departments on a weekly basis, and oversees the presentation of the Reporting Tracker at the SMT meetings


Objective 3: Grant Management & Donor Intelligence

Tasks:

  • Maintain an updated calendar of project report obligations and project development, and ensure key staff are aware of it and respect the deadlines by sharing it regularly with the SMT and HQ project manager. This includes the maintenance of the related sections in GESPRA (Online Project Management Tool), at least on a weekly basis.
  • In coordination with the Deputy Country Director Programs, liaise with HQ staff (throughout the Action Against Hunger International network, including the Donor Relations Unit and with Madrid HQ Operations) on potential funding opportunities, as and when requested, including donor’s mapping/intelligence.
  • Support the Senior Coordinator and Country Rep in booking regular meetings with the International Donor Relations Unit (iDru) to share regular updates regarding strategic directions of donors, potential upcoming calls and other relevant donor intelligence  
  • Ensure comprehensive grant files are created and regularly updated and are available for use. Provide briefing papers and support the development of external communication tools relevant for donor visits/meetings.
  • Set up and constantly update database for donor guidelines and regulations and create fact sheets for main donors.
  • Inform programme and support teams on any changes to existing donor guidelines and regulations
  • Act as a focal point for the Mission for external communications with donors for all grant management and reporting matters
  • Act as focal point with the Bases (Beirut, Zahle, South) for organizing donor field visits, preparing agendas and submitting them to donors
  • Coordination with Admin/Finance Coordinator on donor compliance issue and contractual issues
  • Follow up with Programme Managers and Technical Coordinators on Programme Implementation and collection of data according to means of verification, from kick-off meeting to contract closure, to allow pro-activeness in the monitoring of the grant and related tasks (such as ad-hoc donor requirements or extension/amendment requests)
  • Support Programme Teams (and if applicable, communication officer) in ensuring donor visibility requirements are met and, in the planning, and organization of donor field visits.
  • If time allows: Efficiently coordinate with and provide support to Deputy Country Director Programs in coordination tasks with consortium partners and organizational partners (sub-grants)


Objective 4: Partnerships 

Tasks:

  • Lead with coordination with the Technical Coordinators and the Deputy Country Director Programs on developing a comprehensive partnership strategy and mapping of new and existing partners 
  • Conduct the Action Against Hunger Partner validation procedure on all new and upcoming partners for Action Against Hunger programs
  • Prepare and ensure the validation of MOUs with new partners, comprehensive revisions of contents of the MOUs, and signatures for all procedures related to partnership 
  • Ensure partnership strategy is well aligned with external agreements 
  • Participate in the LHIF localisation working group and other relevant external foras


Objective 5: Security

Tasks:

  • Respect the security rules specified in the mission and base security plan, see to it that the team under his/her responsibility complies with the security plan and perform the security management tasks that can be assigned in its protocols.
  • Communicate to the security managers of the working location any security related information or noncompliance with the security plan


Objective 6: Support humanitarian activities of Action Against Hunger        

Tasks:

  • Support the emergency interventions of the organization as per the employee’s abilities.
  • Support any activity that helps reaching our humanitarian goals, as per the employee’s abilities.
  • Promote gender equality within the humanitarian and/or development work

Do you meet the profile required criteria?
  • Education: Degree or Master’s degree in Humanitarian Action, International Relations, Development Studies, Political Science, Law, Communications, or a related field.
  • Professional Experience: Minimum four (4) years of progressive experience in grants management, programme development, and donor reporting within the humanitarian or development sector. Demonstrated experience leading proposal development processes, including coordination of multi-sector inputs and budget alignment. Proven experience managing institutional donor contracts and ensuring compliance with major donor regulations. Experience in consortium management and/or sub-grant coordination is strongly desirable. Experience contributing to partnership development is an asset.
  • Technical Knowledge: Strong knowledge of Project Cycle Management (PCM) and results-based management frameworks (log frames, indicators, theory of change). Solid understanding of institutional donor rules, validation procedures, contractual compliance, and reporting standards. Knowledge of due diligence, partner validation, and sub-grant management processes. Understanding of the humanitarian coordination architecture (UN agencies, clusters, INGOs, local NGOs).
  • Skills and Competencies: Excellent analytical and drafting skills, with demonstrated ability to produce high-quality narrative proposals and reports in English. Strong organizational and planning capacity, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously under pressure. High-level coordination and facilitation skills to obtain timely inputs from multidisciplinary teams. Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgement, and identify compliance or implementation risks proactively.
  • Languages: English: mandatory, with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Arabic is an asset.

Our remuneration package:
  • Formal work contract: 6 months
  • Base: Damascus
  • Salary: according to Action Against Hunger salary scale and to candidate’s previous experience.

Due to the high number of application received, only potential applicants will be contacted.


Action Against Hunger provides equal opportunities to candidates regardless of their origin, nationality, race, gender, regional and sexual orientation. This vision aims to integrate equal treatment and opportunities among females and males in all HR processes and policies within the organization.



Action against Hunger is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work such as but not limited to sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and/or financial misconduct; We expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through endorsing our code of conduct and other related policies and only those who share our values and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.

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