Grant Manager

Clean Clothes Campaign International; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Telephone allowance

Commuting costs reimbursement

Holiday allowance (8%)

Equal pay culture

Job summary

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is seeking a skilled grant manager to oversee EU-funded grants within a diverse international consortium. The role focuses on administrative closure, reporting, and coordination across partner organisations from Europe and beyond.

You will manage budgets, monitor implementation, and ensure compliance with funders' requirements, while working across time zones. A strong command of English and experience in human rights advocacy are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven record of experience managing EU grants and monitoring methodologies.
• Experience as lead partner on seven-digit budgets.
• Ability to plan workload and manage multiple priorities with deadlines.
• Excellent written and oral communication with intercultural sensitivity.

Responsibilities

• Manage grant contracts and ensure timely financial and narrative reporting to funders.
• Collaborate with consortium partners to monitor, evaluate and report on progress.
• Coordinate with CCC IO to ensure coherent programme implementation and transparency.
• Oversee re-granting and tendering processes and provide contracting support.
• Communicate progress and outcomes to the CCC Network.
• Work with financial coordinator on budget monitoring, adjustments and reporting.

Skills

EU project management

Budget supervision

Reporting

Stakeholder management

Intercultural communication

English proficiency

Job description

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is dedicated to improving working conditions and supporting the empowerment of workers in the global garment and sportswear industry. The CCC global network consists of more than 220 trade unions and NGOs and our campaigns and advocacy work focus on themes like Freedom of Association, Just Transition, Safety and Health in the workplace and Living Wages for all workers. We are supporting trade unions and human rights and labour rights defenders in production countries and are calling for stronger legislation in Europe and elsewhere to hold brands accountable for labour rights violations in their supply chains. For more information on our recent campaigns and advocacy work, as well as our vision, mission and principles, you can visit https://cleanclothes.org/.

CCC’s International Office (IO) is currently implementing two large EU-funded grants as the leading partner in a consortium of respectively 12 and 6 organisations, as well as a range of smaller grants from different (private) funders. We are looking for a skilled and experienced grant manager with extensive experience in managing EU grants and working with diverse consortia. Both EU grants will enter their final year in 2027 and require a dedicated manager to keep the overview during the final year of implementation and to successfully steer the administrative closure of both grants.

Tasks and responsibilities include:

• Manage grant contracts , ensure timely financial and narrative reporting and maintain relationships with funders.
• Together with consortium partners, implement the processes and necessary tools to achieve the projects’ goals, and work with staff to monitor, evaluate and report on our progress towards them.
• Work with other colleagues at CCC IO to ensure that the programmes’ implementation and processes are coherent and transparent.
• Manage re-granting and tendering processes and provide logistical and administrative support, including contracting.
• Communicate with the global CCC Network on the progress and outcomes of the programme.
• Work together with the financial coordinator on the programmes’ financial administration, budget monitoring, budget adjustments and financial reporting. At least 5 years experience with impact-oriented, high-level advocacy and/or campaigning work. Experience in business and human rights, labour rights, social justice and/or global value chains is a significant advantage.

We ask:

• A proven record of experience in EU project management, including the corresponding monitoring methodologies, budget supervision and final reporting.
• Experience in managing projects as a lead partner within seven-digit budgets projects.
• Ability to plan own workload and support others to facilitate the smooth delivery of multiple priorities, with high attention to detail and deadlines.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and intercultural sensitivity.
• Experience in working collaboratively in international settings.
• Professional level of English, both written and spoken.
• Willingness and ability to work flexibly across time zones
• Willingness and ability to work in a flat organisation, where accountability runs horizontally and where task division is flexible.
• The candidate needs to have residence and work permit for the Netherlands. The position is based in Amsterdam, partial work from home is possible.

We offer:

• A dynamic job in a non-hierarchical organisation in which all staff earn the same salary and share decision-making power, within an inspiring international network.
• A 1 year contract, with the possibility of extension until of May 2028for 4 days (32 hours) a week.
• The salary level for 2026 is set at € 4246,- on the basis of 36 hours a week (full-time) plus 8% holiday allowance. For this position this means € 3774,- gross per month for 32 hours, plus the holiday allowance.
• A fully paid for pension plan, 36 Euros net telephone allowance, general net allowance 1% of gross pay contribution towards trade union membership, reimbursement of commuting costs (up to a fixed amount).
• 5 weeks holidays (for full-time work) plus the days between Christmas and New Year.

About Schone Kleren Campagne/Clean Clothes Campaign:

CCC’s goals include being a diversity-based organisation in terms of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. We would like to be a reflection of society and are looking for people with a diversity of backgrounds and experiences.CCC also aims to offer an accommodating environment and conditions to all employees (for example, adapted working hours and workplace).