About the Organisation
The Environmental Justice Fund (EJF) is a fund by activists, for activists, working to advance climate justice and realise environmental rights by strengthening the environmental justice movement in South Africa. We do this by providing financial, capacity-strengthening and networking support to community-based organisations (CBOs). We are currently a 9-person team based across South Africa. The CBOs we support are working on some of the most critical environmental justice challenges facing the planet today, including energy security and the Just Transition, environmentally harmful and exclusionary mining practices, food sovereignty and agro-ecology, water justice, threats to human rights defenders, and waste management in informal settlements.

About the Job
As the Grants Administrator, you will report to the Executive Director and work as part of both the operations and finance team and the activist support team. Your role will be to: a) support EJF’s team of Activist Support Coordinators to ensure the smooth running of grants administration processes and provision of accompaniment support to community-based organisations across South Africa; and b) steward EJF’s knowledge management systems.

Key Responsibilities
Ensuring all necessary paperwork is in place to facilitate grantee payments and reporting processes

Maintaining EJF’s grants management databases and managing EJF’s knowledge management systems

Supporting the Executive Director and Communications Lead with data for monitoring and reporting purposes

Managing EJF’s information technology support

Participating in the process of screening proposals as part of EJF’s due diligence processes

Providing administrative support to EJF’s Grants Committee.

Requirements
A relevant postgraduate qualification

At least 3 years’ work experience in a similar role

A desire to contribute to advancing environmental justice in South Africa and some understanding of the circumstances of grassroots communities in South Africa

Is well-organised, methodical and has exceptional attention to detail

Enjoys working on the design and improvement of system and processes

Has strong Microsoft Excel skills, familiarity with grants management software will be an advantage

Shows initiative and can cope with a flexible, fast-paced, changing work environment

Is comfortable working remotely

Fluency in South African languages other than English is an advantage.

Please send your resume/CV