The Christian Health Association of Nigeria (CHAN) is a Faith-Based Non-Governmental Organization established in 1973 by the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN), and the Northern Christian Medical Advisory Council (NCMAC). Its vision is to deliver comprehensive and responsive healthcare to all individuals, while its mission focuses on providing efficient services through the capacity building of member institutions and collaboration with partners to enhance health outcomes across Nigeria and beyond.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Grants Development & Compliance Officer
Location: Nigeria / Hybrid
Job Category: Fixed Term Full-time
Purpose of the Role
- The GDCO will be responsible for identifying funding opportunities, preparing high-quality grant applications, tracking active grants, and ensuring organisational compliance with donor requirements.
- The role bridges resource mobilisation and programme accountability, supporting the organisation’s financial sustainability and programmatic credibility while strengthening the quality, coherence, and efficiency of grant development processes.
Key Responsibilities
Grant Identification & Acquisition:
- Conduct ongoing donor landscape mapping to identify funding opportunities aligned with organisational priorities.
- Develop and maintain a grants pipeline and funding calendar.
- Lead the preparation, writing, and submission of concept notes, Letters of Intent (LOIs), and full grant proposals.
- Coordinate with programme teams to ensure proposals reflect technical quality and operational feasibility.
- Maintain relationships with donor contacts and monitor calls for proposals from key institutional funders.
Grant Tracking & Reporting:
- Maintain a centralised grant tracking system (GDCS) capturing all active, pipeline, and closed grants.
- Track reporting deadlines, disbursement schedules, and milestone deliverables for all active grants.
- Coordinate timely submission of donor reports — narrative and financial — in line with grant agreements.
- Prepare internal grant performance summaries for review by the BDM
Compliance & Donor Relations:
- Ensure all grant activities adhere to donor rules, regulations, and contractual obligations.
- Conduct periodic compliance reviews and flag risks to the BDM and Finance team.
- Serve as the primary liaison for donor communications related to grants management.
- Maintain complete, audit-ready grant files and documentation.
- Support internal and external audits as they relate to donor-funded projects.
Proposal Quality Assurance & Compliance:
- Conduct structured reviews of grant proposals to ensure technical coherence and logical flow, alignment between narrative, budget, and results frameworks and compliance with donor guidelines and submission requirements
- Develop and apply internal quality assurance tools, checklists, and standards
- Provide clear, actionable feedback to contributors to improve proposal quality.
Knowledge Management & Content Systems:
- Develop and maintain a centralized proposal and organizational knowledge repository
- Ensure proper documentation, storage, and retrieval of grant materials
- Standardize reusable content and formats to improve efficiency and consistency
- Implement systems for version control, content tagging and retrieval.
Results Frameworks & Technical Integration:
- Support the development and refinement of logical frameworks (log-frames), indicators and results chains.
- Ensure alignment between programme design, monitoring frameworks, and proposal narratives
- Integrate inputs from technical, finance, and programme teams into cohesive outputs.
Output Integration & Team Coordination Support:
- Consolidate and harmonize inputs from technical teams, finance teams and external partners into unified, high-quality documents
- Ensure consistency in tone, technical depth, formatting and structure across all sections of deliverable documents
- Track deliverables and follow up with contributors to ensure timely submission
Workload Optimization & Operational Support to the BDM:
- Filter, structure, and prioritize incoming information and tasks for the BDM
- Provide structured summaries, briefs, and organized documentation to support decision-making
- Anticipate workflow challenges/bottlenecks in proposal development and implement solutions proactively
- Act as a central coordination and quality control point for all business development outputs
- Reduce the need for direct BDM intervention by ensuring high-quality first drafts and well-coordinated team inputs
- Reduce the BDM’s operational workload by ensuring well-coordinated, high-quality outputs
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies, Public Health, Public Administration, Social Sciences, or a related field. A Master’s degree is an added advantage.
- 3–5 years of experience in grants management, resource mobilisation, or proposal development within the NGO/development sector.
- Demonstrated experience writing successful grant proposals to institutional donors (USAID, FCDO, EU, UN agencies, etc.).
- Strong understanding of donor compliance frameworks, reporting requirements, and grant lifecycle management.
- Proficiency in grants management tools and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Excellent written communication skills with high attention to detail.
Competencies and Skills:
- Strategic thinking and donor intelligence.
- Strong proposal writing and persuasive communication.
- Analytical and data management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines with precision.
- Integrity, accountability, and donor stewardship.
- Collaborative and cross-functional working style
- Advanced analytical and critical thinking skills
- Exceptional technical writing and editing ability
- Strong understanding of programme design and MEL frameworks
- Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable outputs.
Core Behavioural Expectations:
- High level of ownership and accountability for outputs
- Proactive problem-solving and anticipation of needs
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Ability to manage multiple complex workflows simultaneously
- Professionalism in coordinating across diverse teams and stakeholders
Deliverables and Performance Indicators:
- Consistent production of high-quality, donor-compliant proposals
- Monthly grants pipeline report and proposal submission (concept note/full proposal) as required
- Active monthly grant tracking report
- Efficient and well-coordinated proposal development processes with reduced proposal development timeline
- Increased efficiency in team coordination and workflow management
- Improved consistency and reuse of organizational content
- Enhanced alignment between technical, financial, and M&E components in proposals
- Measurable reduction in BDM’s operational workload.
Reporting and Supervision:
- The Grants Development & Compliance Officer will report directly to the Business Development Manager and indirectly to the Secretary General/Country Director, and work closely with programme, finance, and technical teams across the organization.