Grants Advisor

World Animal Protection; Brasil; Ibrido; BRL 130.000 - 142.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health and dental care

Life insurance

Parental leave

Meal voucher

Home office support BRL 710/month

Wellness program

Sesc partnership

Descrizione del lavoro

World Animal Protection is seeking a Grants Advisor to coordinate grants across their lifecycle, ensuring governance, compliance and timely reporting for a global portfolio. You will advise teams, interpret grant agreements and manage risks with funders, recipients and partners.

The role emphasises strong collaboration, process improvement and guidance development to strengthen grant management across the organisation.

Competenze

• Experience managing or supporting grants across one or more grant types within a complex organisational environment.
• Strong understanding of the grant lifecycle, including establishment, implementation, monitoring, reporting and close-out.
• Ability to interpret and manage grant agreements, reporting requirements, milestones, risks, compliance obligations and financial conditions.
• Experience coordinating grant activities collaboratively across multiple internal teams and external stakeholders, including experience with incoming, outgoing, pass-through or other complex grant arrangements.
• Sound judgement when identifying grant risks, compliance issues and opportunities to improve how grants are managed.
• Ability to provide specialist grant-management advice and work independently within established policies and procedures.
• A solutions focused mindset while working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders with the ability to navigate conversations diplomatically where there may be varying priorities and perspectives across teams.
• Experience using grant management, planning or reporting systems to maintain accurate information, track budget, enable visibility of any project requirements and monitor progress.
• Strong attention to detail, critical thinking and organisation skills to be able to work across a wide range of projects with different needs, timelines and dependencies.

Mansioni

• Coordinate assigned grants throughout their lifecycle, ensuring obligations, milestones, conditions and reporting deadlines are effectively managed.
• Interpret grant agreements and requirements, helping ensure grant-funded activity aligns with organisational policies and donor expectations.
• Coordinate grant set-up, implementation, monitoring, reporting and close-out, maintaining accurate and accessible grant information.
• Work with colleagues, funders, grant recipients and other external stakeholders to coordinate grant delivery, reporting and compliance requirements.
• Monitor risks, dependencies and compliance obligations, identifying issues early and recommending appropriate action.
• Support grant governance and integrate grant management with planning, finance, performance reporting and wider delivery processes.
• Provide specialist advice to colleagues and help improve grant management processes, guidance, templates and ways of working.

Conoscenze

Grant lifecycle management

Stakeholder coordination

Grant reporting

Risk management

Policy compliance

Independent work

Communication across teams

Budget tracking

Strumenti

Grant management software

Descrizione del lavoro

Grants Advisor

Application Deadline: 12 November 2026

Department: Strategy and Impact

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: International - Brazil

Reporting To: Grants Portfolio Manager

Compensation: R$130,335 - R$141,507 / year

Description

JOIN US IN CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR ANIMALS

We are looking for a Grants Advisor to help ensure World Animal Protection's grants are effectively coordinated, governed and administered throughout their lifecycle.

You will bring specialist grants knowledge to support a global portfolio of incoming, outgoing, pass-through and affiliate-funded grants, helping colleagues navigate grant requirements, compliance, reporting, monitoring and close-out. Working across internal teams and with funders, grant recipients and delivery partners, you will help ensure obligations, risks and reporting requirements across a wide range of grants are understood and effectively managed.

This is an opportunity to combine your grants expertise, attention to detail and collaborative approach to strengthen consistent and effective grant management across a global organisation. You will also contribute to improving our grant processes, guidance and ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate assigned grants throughout their lifecycle, ensuring obligations, milestones, conditions and reporting deadlines are effectively managed.
• Interpret grant agreements and requirements, helping ensure grant-funded activity aligns with organisational policies and donor expectations.
• Coordinate grant set-up, implementation, monitoring, reporting and close-out, maintaining accurate and accessible grant information.
• Work with colleagues, funders, grant recipients and other external stakeholders to coordinate grant delivery, reporting and compliance requirements.
• Monitor risks, dependencies and compliance obligations, identifying issues early and recommending appropriate action.
• Support grant governance and integrate grant management with planning, finance, performance reporting and wider delivery processes.
• Provide specialist advice to colleagues and help improve grant management processes, guidance, templates and ways of working.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

We would love to hear from you if you bring:

• Experience managing or supporting grants across one or more grant types within a complex organisational environment.
• A strong understanding of the grant lifecycle, including establishment, implementation, monitoring, reporting and close-out.
• The ability to interpret and manage grant agreements, reporting requirements, milestones, risks, compliance obligations and financial conditions.
• Experience coordinating grant activities collaboratively across multiple internal teams and external stakeholders, including experience with incoming, outgoing, pass-through or other complex grant arrangements.
• Sound judgement when identifying grant risks, compliance issues and opportunities to improve how grants are managed.
• The ability to provide specialist grant-management advice and work independently within established policies and procedures.
• A solutions focused mindset while working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders with the ability to navigate conversations diplomatically where there may be varying priorities and perspectives across teams.
• Experience using grant management, planning or reporting systems to maintain accurate information, track budget, enable visibility of any project requirements and monitor progress.
• Strong attention to detail, critical thinking and organisation skills to be able to work across a wide range of projects with different needs, timelines and dependencies.

Desirable, but not essential

• Experience working within a global or multi-stakeholder organisation managing complex funding arrangements.
• Relationship management experience and the ability to build strong relationships with external stakeholders
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365-based planning, reporting or workflow tools that support grant management.

WHY JOIN WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION?

At World Animal Protection, you will be part of a global organisation working together to create lasting change for animals. We value collaboration, inclusion, accountability, agility, learning and a global mindset. We welcome varied backgrounds, identities and perspectives and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone is valued, respected and empowered to contribute their strengths.

Benefits

Health and dental care – through SulAmérica Executivo, without co-payment and extended to dependents.

These benefits were updated with SulAmérica on March 1st, 2026. They do not require co-payment and include all dependents.

Life insurance – through Prudential, without co-payment.

Parental leave – 6 months for both maternity and paternity.

Benefits Hub – Main available benefits:

Maternity kit, childcare reimbursement (enrollment fees), and school supplies reimbursement

Nutritional, psychological, and legal assistance

Income supplementation during leave and medication reimbursement

In-person medical consultations and telemedicine (Einstein Conecta)

Employee discount club with exclusive offers

Support for permanent home office work – BRL 710.00 per month

Monthly meal voucher – BRL 1,510.00 per month, via flexible Caju card

Wellhub – employee-funded global corporate wellness platform providing access to a wide network of gyms, studios, online classes, and physical & mental health apps

Sesc partnership – access to discounts and a wide range of cultural, sports, leisure, health, and education services, including theaters, swimming pools, hotels, courses, and dental consultations, often at reduced or free costs

English course – via FluencyPass platform

Generous Holiday entitlement plus Mid year Wellbeing Closure days and End of Year Closure days

2 days Volunteer Leave

Opportunity to flex public holidays to an alternate day that better suits an employee and their beliefs.

A range of 'Inclusivity Benefits': to aid belonging and inclusion at work, and to give our employees support in the moments they most need it:

• Bereavement/Compassionate Leave (10days)
• Carers/Dependent Leave (3 days)
• Disability Leave (10 days)
• Menstrual and Menopause Leave (12 days)
• Pregnancy Loss Leave (10 days)
• Fertility Treatment Leave (5 days per cycle, up to max 3 cycles)
• Gender Affi…?
• Companion animal bereavement Leave (2 days)
• Pawternity’ leave (2 days)