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Grants Advisor

World Animal Protection Kenya Full Time Posted 2026-11-05
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World Animal Protection is seeking a Grants Advisor in Nairobi to coordinate grants from setup through implementation, monitoring, reporting, and close-out. The successful candidate will provide specialist advice on grant agreements, risks, compliance, milestones, and financial conditions while working with internal teams, funders, and other stakeholders.

  • Full-time grants management role in Nairobi
  • BA/BSc/HND qualification required
  • Manage the full grants lifecycle and reporting deadlines
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World Animal Protection is seeking a Grants Advisor in Nairobi to coordinate grants from setup through implementation, monitoring, reporting, and close-out. The successful candidate will provide specialist advice on grant agreements, risks, compliance, milestones, and financial conditions while working with internal teams, funders, and other stakeholders.

  • Full-time grants management role in Nairobi
  • BA/BSc/HND qualification required
  • Manage the full grants lifecycle and reporting deadlines
  • Coordinate compliance, risks, milestones, and grant close-out
  • Advise colleagues and improve grant management processes
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We are World Animal Protection

We end the needless suffering of animals

We influence decision makers to put animals on the global agenda

We help the world see how important animals are to all of us

We inspire people to change animals’ lives for the better

We move the world to protect animals.

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Grants Advisor

Job Type: Full Time

Qualifications

BA/BSc/HND

Experience

Location: Nairobi

Job Field: Finance / Accounting / Audit

What you will be doing

Coordinate assigned grants throughout their lifecycle, ensuring obligations, milestones, conditions and reporting deadlines are effectively managed.

Interpret grant agreements and requirements, helping ensure grant-funded activity aligns with organisational policies and donor expectations.

Coordinate grant set-up, implementation, monitoring, reporting and close-out, maintaining accurate and accessible grant information.

Work with colleagues, funders, grant recipients and other external stakeholders to coordinate grant delivery, reporting and compliance requirements.

Monitor risks, dependencies and compliance obligations, identifying issues early and recommending appropriate action.

Support grant governance and integrate grant management with planning, finance, performance reporting and wider delivery processes.

Provide specialist advice to colleagues and help improve grant management processes, guidance, templates and ways of working.

What we are looking for

We would love to hear from you if you bring:

Experience managing or supporting grants across one or more grant types within a complex organisational environment.

A strong understanding of the grant lifecycle, including establishment, implementation, monitoring, reporting and close-out.

The ability to interpret and manage grant agreements, reporting requirements, milestones, risks, compliance obligations and financial conditions.

Experience coordinating grant activities collaboratively across multiple internal teams and external stakeholders, including experience with incoming, outgoing, pass-through or other complex grant arrangements.

Sound judgement when identifying grant risks, compliance issues and opportunities to improve how grants are managed.

The ability to provide specialist grant-management advice and work independently within established policies and procedures.

A solutions focused mindset while working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders with the ability to navigate conversations diplomatically where there may be varying priorities and perspectives across teams.

Experience using grant management, planning or reporting systems to maintain accurate information, track budget, enable visibility of any project requirements and monitor progress.

Strong attention to detail, critical thinking and organisation skills to be able to work across a wide range of projects with different needs, timelines and dependencies.

Desirable, but not essential

Experience working within a global or multi-stakeholder organisation managing complex funding arrangements.

Relationship management experience and the ability to build strong relationships with external stakeholders

Familiarity with Microsoft 365-based planning, reporting or workflow tools that support grant management.

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