Grant Finance Manager

About the Role

The Grants Finance Manager provides strategic leadership for World Vision Ethiopia's grants finance portfolio across development and emergency programming. This pivotal role involves designing, leading, and continuously improving grants financial management systems, policies, and frameworks that ensure compliance, stewardship, and alignment with donor requirements and World Vision's global standards.

This position plays a key leadership function in supporting grant acquisition, fostering strategic donor engagement, enabling policy development, and building the technical capacity of the grants finance team. The role directly oversees a team of senior grants finance managers, guiding the integration of financial strategy into grant acquisition, implementation, and closeout processes, with a focus on innovation, risk management, and sustainability.

The Grants Finance Manager serves as a key liaison between World Vision Ethiopia, Support Offices, donors, the East Africa Regional Office (EARO), and implementing partners. Through proactive collaboration and strategic influence, the role ensures the financial credibility and success of the entire grants portfolio while championing World Vision's Christian ethos and values.

Major Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership on Grants Finance Management

• Design and institutionalize innovative and adaptive grants finance policies, procedures, and contextualized internal controls aligned with global and donor standards
• Ensure standard grants financial systems are established and maintained to provide appropriate levels of security and controls over the organization's resources and operations
• Ensure compliance with policies and standards in the WV Field Financial Manual
• Serve as a key advisor to the Finance Director and other leadership on grants finance strategy, compliance trends, and financial feasibility of acquisition decisions
• Drive the strategic alignment of grant budgeting and financial reporting systems with World Vision's core operations

Location

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia