Head of Grant Making Operations
2025-09-09T04:07:27+00:00
ADD international
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FULL_TIME
Uganda
Kampala
00256
Uganda
Professional Services
Management
2025-09-22T17:00:00+00:00
Uganda
8
Contract: Full time and permanent contract (though we are open to considering
applications from those who want to work on a part-time or job-share basis). During 2025 we are trialing a 4-day working week for the same pay and you will have the choice to opt-in to the trial on the understanding it could end.
Location: This role is open to applicants based anywhere ADD currently has staff (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda or UK). You must have an existing right to work in the country you wish to be based.
Salary: Please see our Global Salary Scales for more information on salaries payable in different locations. This role will be paid at the rate for Grade F in these scales. We do not negotiate on salary.
Closing date: 24 September 2025, 9am UK time
The Opportunity.
This is a new role that will take on management of a newly formed team that will support all the operational aspects of grant-making from partnership set up, to grant payments and monitoring, organising learning and convening events and managing the IT and systems we will use for grant-making. The role will take overall leadership cross-organisationally for adopting a new project management approach and system across ADD to support grant-making and event management.
This role is mainly about people management and project management so as to provide excellent customer service to ADD’s partners and to its participatory grant-making staff and panels.
This will be pulling together a new team which combines finance support with IT and events support so as to provide a comprehensive and holistic support to ADD’s grantees as they access grants and learning and other events. It also supports ADD’s staff and external panels that are managing these grant-making and events programmes.
This new position will develop a more structured and managed approach to project management across ADD, so that people can more efficiently and effectively work together across teams, geographies and time zones. This is a culture change as well as a change in practical ways of working, which will require leadership skills as well as specialist knowledge of best practice in project management.
This new position will also lead on encouraging a culture of customer service with a focus on delivering for ADD’s primary stakeholders: disability activists and their organisations. It will use appropriate customer feedback mechanisms to continuously improve the customer experience of working with ADD.
You will have a passion for project management, customer service and disability justice. You will be an inspirational leader and source of expertise in these areas for the whole ADD team.
Ideal Characteristics.
- An experienced people manager able to build an operations team that can work remotely across multiple geographies
- An experienced project manager with deep theoretical knowledge of good practice in project management and agile ways of working.
- Strong knowledge and experience of using project management tools and software to manage projects.
- Comfortable managing finance staff and financial information, although no formal financial qualification is required.
- A proven leader with the skills to train and inspire others to adopt your approaches and ways of working
- An understanding of Disability Justice and a willingness to apply its principles in your work
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with colleagues across cultural difference
- A commitment to shifting and sharing power in international development and a willingness to work out how this should impact our approach
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Vacancy title:
Head of Grant Making Operations
Jobs at:
ADD international
Deadline of this Job:
Monday, September 22 2025
Duty Station:
Uganda | Kampala | Uganda
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 9 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Contract: Full time and permanent contract (though we are open to considering
applications from those who want to work on a part-time or job-share basis). During 2025 we are trialing a 4-day working week for the same pay and you will have the choice to opt-in to the trial on the understanding it could end.
Location: This role is open to applicants based anywhere ADD currently has staff (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda or UK). You must have an existing right to work in the country you wish to be based.
Salary: Please see our Global Salary Scales for more information on salaries payable in different locations. This role will be paid at the rate for Grade F in these scales. We do not negotiate on salary.
Closing date: 24 September 2025, 9am UK time
The Opportunity.
This is a new role that will take on management of a newly formed team that will support all the operational aspects of grant-making from partnership set up, to grant payments and monitoring, organising learning and convening events and managing the IT and systems we will use for grant-making. The role will take overall leadership cross-organisationally for adopting a new project management approach and system across ADD to support grant-making and event management.
This role is mainly about people management and project management so as to provide excellent customer service to ADD’s partners and to its participatory grant-making staff and panels.
This will be pulling together a new team which combines finance support with IT and events support so as to provide a comprehensive and holistic support to ADD’s grantees as they access grants and learning and other events. It also supports ADD’s staff and external panels that are managing these grant-making and events programmes.
This new position will develop a more structured and managed approach to project management across ADD, so that people can more efficiently and effectively work together across teams, geographies and time zones. This is a culture change as well as a change in practical ways of working, which will require leadership skills as well as specialist knowledge of best practice in project management.
This new position will also lead on encouraging a culture of customer service with a focus on delivering for ADD’s primary stakeholders: disability activists and their organisations. It will use appropriate customer feedback mechanisms to continuously improve the customer experience of working with ADD.
You will have a passion for project management, customer service and disability justice. You will be an inspirational leader and source of expertise in these areas for the whole ADD team.
Ideal Characteristics.
- An experienced people manager able to build an operations team that can work remotely across multiple geographies
- An experienced project manager with deep theoretical knowledge of good practice in project management and agile ways of working.
- Strong knowledge and experience of using project management tools and software to manage projects.
- Comfortable managing finance staff and financial information, although no formal financial qualification is required.
- A proven leader with the skills to train and inspire others to adopt your approaches and ways of working
- An understanding of Disability Justice and a willingness to apply its principles in your work
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with colleagues across cultural difference
- A commitment to shifting and sharing power in international development and a willingness to work out how this should impact our approach
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 12
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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