Grants Application Executive at Janta Kenya

Roles and Responsibilities

• Preparation of funding proposals and concept notes
• periodically evaluate progress towards the completion of project deliverables to verify alignment with strategic directions and defined targets. ensure excellence within-budget and on-time delivery of activity and financial results and reports
• Engage/Collaborate/Meet with corporates and organizations supporting startups and innovation in Africa
• Manage and coordinate the relationships with key partners on various projects
• Timely attention and response to company’s partners and donors
• Provide technical support to senior management’s efforts to develop new and innovative partnerships
• Preparing investment memos, financial models, financial projections and valuations
• Monitoring existing investments
• Team coordination
• Fund accounting
• Build systems to promote compliance with the terms of grants and agreements
• Special projects: participate in project teams as relevant

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent required
• At least 5 years of proven experience working in the fields of resource mobilization and partnership building
• Strong financial modeling ability with proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• The ability to confidently interact with and influence internal and external relationships, including senior business executives
• Exceptional written and oral communications skills
• An eagerness to take initiative; the ability to work independently and multi task