Description

Position Title: Grants Management Intern

Reports to: Grants Manager

Department: Finance

Location: Kigali, Rwanda.

Position Overview

The Grants Management Intern will assist the Grants Management Team in managing grants throughout their entire lifecycle, including application, reporting, and close-out processes. This role provides an excellent opportunity for an individual to gain hands-on experience in grants management, donor relations, and administrative tasks.

The Grants Management Intern will report to the Grants Manager and work closely with the Grants Management Team members.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the grants tracking system.
• Prepare regular updates and reports for internal stakeholders on grant progress.
• Provide logistical support for grant-related meetings and events.
• Participate in compliance and audit activities, ensuring adherence to grant terms and conditions.
• Contribute to the development and renewal of grants proposals.
• Organize meetings, facilitate conference calls, and share minutes promptly.
• Help coordinate communication with grantors and partners to ensure alignment with the program goals and reporting requirements.
• Participate in the Due Diligence process.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of grant-related documents.
• Assist in the preparation of the financial reports.
• Support the Grant Management Team in reviewing funding proposals and documentation for completeness and accuracy.

Learning Opportunity

• Acquire hands-on experience in grant writing, compliance, and reporting.
• Gain insight into the academic and research sector’s funding environment and donor relations.
• Collaborate closely with researchers and professionals in grants management.
• Enhance skills in project management, budget monitoring, and organizational communication.

Qualifications

• Recently completed a bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.

Technical competencies

• Demonstrated strength in relevant computer software including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. 
• Fluency in English is required, proficiency in Kinyarwanda is preferred.
• Superior attention to detail and adaptability to rapidly changing work environments.
• Commitment to Global Health Equity and social justice.

Behavioral competencies

• Demonstrated competence in assessing priorities and managing a variety of activities in a time-sensitive environment.
• Ability to make decisions based on data findings.
• Exemplary interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment leading to new initiatives.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with culturally diverse staff across departments and countries.
• Exemplary written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated tactical thinking and analytical skills.
• Good judgment and creative problem-solving.
• Possess diplomatic instincts, the ability to gracefully and humbly work within challenging professional contexts requiring tact and judgment.

Duration: 6 months.

How to Apply

Applicants should provide: (1) curriculum vitae, (2) Degree, (3) A cover letter describing your interest in UGHE and relevant experience. Please upload these under the ‘Additional Files’ tab on the application page before February 19th, 2025.

University of Global Health Equity is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Organizational Profile

UGHE is a new kind of university focused on training the next generation of global leaders in health care delivery. The university launched in Rwanda in September 2015. Through an academic experience uniquely rooted in the values of equity, students are empowered to both ease suffering at the bedside and drive transformational, systemic changes to the health system.

UGHE is an initiative of Partners In Health (PIH), an internationally recognized non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. In over nearly three decades of operating alongside public sectors in countries around the world, PIH has developed a model to deliver high quality healthcare to some of the world’s most marginalized communities. Nowhere has this impact been more profound than in Rwanda, where Inshuti Mu Buzima—PIH’s sister organization—and our government partners have driven innovation for a decade.

Members of the UGHE community are tenacious and resolute in our drive to attain social justice, make common cause with those in need, listen to and learn from others, and operate with honesty and humility as we uphold academic integrity and intellectual curiosity. The University of Global Health Equity seeks individuals committed to these values to join the team.

Commitment to Safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment:

At UGHE, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including community members – as well as our students, contractors, staff, and visitors to our campus are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment and any form of systemic abuse, whilst reducing risk and vulnerabilities. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with UGHE’s policy.

UGHE will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of fraud, harassment, sexual harassment and any form of systemic abuse or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By applying, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.