Senior Awards Officer

350.org is looking for a Senior Awards Officer to lead the post-award management of our global restricted grants portfolio, ensuring complex institutional awards are effectively implemented, monitored, reported on, and closed out

About 350.org 

350’s mission is to keep carbon in our atmosphere to a safe level, below 350 parts per million. We do this by mobilizing ordinary people to campaign for universal access to clean energy and an end to fossil fuels. Our campaigns are rooted in local organizing, so that while achieving measurable reductions in fossil fuel emissions, we also build the power and potential of the climate movement for yet more impact to come. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here. 350.org is an equal opportunity employer. 350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice. 

About the Senior Award Officer

The Senior Award Officer will lead the effective management of 350.org’s global portfolio of restricted institutional grants across the full post-award lifecycle, from award set-up through implementation, reporting, amendments, and closeout.

Serving as the primary organizational focal point for restricted grants management, the Senior Award Officer will work across Program, Country, Finance and Institutional Fundraising teams to translate grant commitments into clear internal requirements, monitor performance and expenditure, identify and address risks early, and ensure high-quality reporting is delivered on time.

The Senior Award Officer will also strengthen 350.org’s grants management practices and work with teams to capture and distill program results, accomplishments and learning that can inform donor reporting, renewals and future fundraising.

Responsibilities

• Manage 350.org’s global portfolio of restricted institutional grants from award through implementation, reporting and closeout, maintaining clear oversight of grant requirements, deliverables, budgets, timelines and responsibilities.
• Translate approved proposals, budgets and grant agreements into clear internal requirements and work with Program and Country teams to monitor progress against grant commitments.
• Proactively identify implementation, financial, reporting or compliance risks, work with relevant teams to address issues, and escalate significant concerns to the Sr. Manager, Institutional Fundraising and other appropriate stakeholders.
• Lead the preparation of high-quality narrative grant reports, gathering and synthesizing inputs from relevant teams.
• Partner with the Global Finance Manager and Finance team on corresponding financial reporting.
• Work with the Finance team to monitor expenditure against restricted grant budgets, identify material variances, and ensure alignment between financial performance, program implementation and grant commitments.
• Manage post-award changes, including grant amendments, budget revisions, extensions and changes to deliverables, in collaboration with relevant Program, Finance and Institutional Fundraising colleagues.
• Support the final development and review of particularly complex restricted proposals, budgets and grant agreements to identify implementation, reporting or compliance considerations before commitments are finalized.
• Develop and continuously improve grants management processes, tools, templates and systems, and ensure grant information is accurate and up to date in Salesforce and other relevant platforms.
• Work with Program and Country teams to capture and distill significant accomplishments, results, evidence and learning from grant implementation, maintaining accessible information that can strengthen donor reporting, renewals and future fundraising.
• Ensure grants are appropriately closed out, including completion of final reporting and other donor requirements and capture of relevant learning.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications 

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in institutional grants management, awards management, program management or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex six- to eight-figure institutional awards through implementation, reporting, and closeout.
• Experience managing grants involving multiple teams, countries, partners or workstreams.
• Strong experience preparing high-quality narrative reports for institutional funders and working with grant budgets and financial information.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple grants, priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify risks, exercise sound judgment and determine when escalation is required.
• Strong relationship-management and cross-functional working skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and accountability across teams without direct supervisory authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex program information clearly and effectively.
• Experience working with CRM, grants management or related information-management systems.
• Ability to work effectively in a distributed international organization across countries, cultures, functions, and time zones.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Desired (but not required) skills and experiences 

• Experience working within an international nonprofit, advocacy or movement-building organization.
• Experience developing or improving grants management systems, processes or tools.
• Experience supporting knowledge management, organizational learning or evidence capture and applying learning to donor engagement or fundraising.
• Familiarity with climate justice, environmental justice, social justice or other progressive movements.

We are looking for someone who is comfortable working independently and collaboratively, takes ownership of complex processes, builds strong relationships across teams, and can exercise sound judgment while managing multiple priorities.

Position Type: Full-time (36 hours per week)

Application Deadline: Although we hope to begin interviews as soon as possible, this job is open until filled, or the hiring manager determines that they can no longer accept applications. 

Start Date: October-November 2026 or ASAP

Compensation: We offer set, non-negotiable salaries for each level, and this role is at 350.org's internal salary grade level 2.3. Please review this list for the annual gross salary for this level.

Benefits: In addition to a fully remote, 36-hour work week and two all-staff breaks per year, we offer a suite of comprehensive benefits - details depend on the location of the role, but we generally aim for employees to receive high-quality health insurance and retirement planning benefits in their respective location.

Location: This is a remote role within the countries where 350.org currently operates, with a preference for candidates based in time zones between UTC and UTC+3.

Current countries are: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Fiji, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Netherlands, Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom 

In the US: Remote in the following states: CO, CT, MD, MA, ME, NJ, NY, NC, PA, VT, VA, or Washington, DC

In the United States, as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, our employees are eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.

Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in their country of residence. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

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