The Awards and Partnerships Manager helps ensure compliance with donor requirements at all stages of the project lifecycle and facilitates effective management of RI OPT’s grants in coordination with other departments (e.g., Programs, Technical Units, Finance, Operations). This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring timely and quality reporting to donors, facilitating grant opening and closeout processes, advising on donor rules and regulations, coordinating proposal development processes, supporting/ leading on vetting and due diligence processes, and capacity building of staff and RI’s partners.