Overview
Acquire new public grants from bilateral and multilateral donors and commercial contracts. Cultivate new and potential donor relationships.
Key Responsibilities
- Acquire new public grants from bilateral and multilateral donors and commercial contracts.
- Conduct Go/No-Go analysis.
- Facilitate grant proposal development in collaboration with key internal stakeholders and relevant partners.
- Work closely with Support Offices, partners, and relevant teams from the design process to project start-up for assigned proposals.
- Assist in the updating of capacity statements for key sectors in collaboration with technical and communications teams.
- Proactively search for and follow-up on new grant opportunities.
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting on GAM through managing funding acquisition information including grant profiles on the iMPAQ system, manual grant tracker, and project profiles.
- Work with Communications and technical teams to develop communication products for grant acquisition.
- Cultivate new and potential donor relationships.
- Maintain proactive regular engagement and follow-up with Support Offices and key donors.
- Keep an up-to-date donor/partner mapping with input from Technical Programme and Zonal Managers to inform partnering decisions and prepositioning for grant opportunities that require a consortium.
- Update the donor engagement plan on a monthly basis.
- Coordinate to collect inputs for grant agreement and signing.
- Conduct grant handover and coordinate compliance training.
- Work closely with relevant teams and external partners to ensure compliance with donor requirements including regular meetings, monitoring and reporting.
- Ensure that grant technical models and outcomes are properly handed over to the GAM team to support future pitching and grant acquisition.
- Support to build plan of GAM capacity development for cross-functional staff, including conducting need assessment and identifying staff for relevant trainings.
- Assist in facilitating quarterly grants cafés to review progress, challenges, and lessons learned.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the manager to contribute to the team performance.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience
- Demonstrated experience and successes in project design, competitive proposal coordination and proposal writing
- Demonstrated knowledge about and experience with major donors (FCDO, Australian DFAT, New Zealand MFAT, USG, the EU, ECHO, Nordics, and other bilateral and multilateral donors)
- Experience with commercial contract bidding
Qualifications
A university degree in management, marketing, communications, social sciences, development, or a related field.
