RAPID Grants and Compliance Manager

CRS JOB DESCRIPTION

Position duration: ASAP – January 30, 2028

Project Overview 

Catholic Relief Services is implementing a global emergency response initiative designed to deliver timely, life‑saving humanitarian assistance in rapidly evolving crises worldwide. Over 18 months, the program enables fast, flexible action to address urgent needs arising from sudden shocks and protracted emergencies. It supports critical humanitarian sectors through context‑appropriate assistance while emphasizing operational readiness, rapid response activation, locally led implementation, accountability to affected communities, and safe, dignified programming. The initiative strengthens the organization’s ability to respond at speed and scale in complex and resource‑constrained environments, ensuring help reaches people most in need when it matters most. 

Job Summary 

The Global Grants and Compliance Manager directly and indirectly supports a defined portfolio of global projects, leading communications on financial issues, including compliance with related donor and CRS policies. 

Roles and Key Responsibilities 

Grant Financial Management

• Serve as principal point of contact on global grant financial management and compliance issues with program staff, sub-grantees, CRS HQ Finance, and country program finance and compliance staff. Ensure that relevant staff are aware of donor requirements. 
• Support agreement development, review, and approval at both the CRS and sub-recipient levels, ensuring adherence to CRS and donor requirements.
• Provide support for the timely assessment of partner financial capacity and ability to adhere to specific donor requirements. Develop related action plans with program and finance staff to address any capacity or system gaps.
• Contribute to project start-up, mid-term and close-out meetings to ensure broad understanding of finance related requirements.
• Develop and maintain a reporting tracking and communications system to ensure that sub-recipients adhere to reporting deadlines, milestones, expiration dates, and donor approved changes in grant procedures.
• Support global grant management teams, country programs, HQ finance and compliance colleagues. Address issues/questions on grand conditions and the need for modifications or clarifications.

Reporting

• Prepare financial reports in CRS financial systems to support easy reconciliation and budget monitoring of projects.
• Review subrecipient and country level monthly financial reports.
• Lead the preparation of donor financial reports and HQ review prior to donor submission.
• Support finance requests for CRS and sub-grantee questions about budgets, spending and reporting. Provide guidance on requirements and practices of donor/CRS finance policy.

Compliance

• Assist with financial audit preparation. Ensure timely closure of audit recommendations. Oversee oversight of the preparation, implementation and monitoring of related action plans.
• Develop tools, operations manuals, and communication to ensure global grant staff and subrecipients are aware of and implement donor policies on compliance issues e.g., time keeping, travel, and procurement.
• Oversee and lead the financial close-out of global projects.

Cost Application Development

• Provide oversight in the development of cost applications, ensuring budgets are reasonable, accurate, and adequately reflect the costs of activities required to successfully carry out the program.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 

• Strong knowledge of donor, especially USG, funding mechanisms and requirements.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience with grant financial reporting
• Knowledge of JDE and/or Oracle enterprise systems preferred; understanding of SUN Systems helpful. Strong knowledge of MS Office programs required. 
• Knowledge of fund accounting and US Government funding regulations for non-profit organizations.
• Solid knowledge of humanitarian best practices, operational standards, and evolving guidance for emergency field operations. 
• Strong communication and presentation skills. Demonstrated ability to train financial and non-financial staff of all levels.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-guided, strong organizational and planning skills.
• Desire to work in a collaborative, proactive, and multicultural team environment, but able to work independently.
• Ability to maintain strong customer service.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree.
• Professional qualification in accounting (ACCA, CPA or equivalent).
• Experience implementing or supporting humanitarian programming. 

Required Languages: Fluency in English and Spanish required.

Travel: Must be willing and able to travel up to 30 %. 

Supervisory Responsibilities: No

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field. 
• Minimum three years of progressive grants management experience.
• Strong demonstrated experience in the areas of finance and program management.
• Experience in setting and monitoring complex budgets.

Agency Competencies (for all CRS Staff):

• Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions. 
• Acts with Integrity - Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission.  Is considered honest.
• Builds and Maintains Trust - Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
• Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

Agency Leadership Competencies:

• Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
• Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.
• Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and team priorities.

What we offer

CRS offers U.S. based staff a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, life insurance, vision, and a generous retirement savings plan.  Salary and Benefits packages for successful candidates employed outside the U.S. are based on the country of employment/in-country office where the candidate will perform the role.  CRS´ work culture is a collaborative, mission-driven culture committed to improving the lives of the poor throughout the world.

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Catholic Relief Services works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality.  Catholic Relief Services’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding.  We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need. CRS’ processes and policies reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.

CRS welcomes candidates from the countries and regions in which we work. In the event the successful candidate is an expatriate, the anticipated duration of the assignment is informed by a term limit, based on the type and level of the job and the needs of the agency.

CRS is committed to safeguarding program participants, community members, staff and volunteers from all forms of exploitation and abuse.  The successful candidate is expected to sign and adhere to CRS´ Code of Conduct.

CRS talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding the rights and dignity of all people - especially children and vulnerable adults - to live free from abuse and harm.

Disclaimer:  This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position. 

CRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

General Requirements

CRS offers are contingent on the selected candidate’s ability to legally work where the position is to be performed. Every government has a unique set of work permit eligibility requirements.  All positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country must undergo and clear a pre-employment medical clearance; some work permit processes require clearing a separate government administered medical examination.

CRS prioritizes candidates who are citizens/ permanent residents of the countries where we have CRS offices.