Avis de recrutement d’un responsable de financement du programme, H/F, London or remote working, Afrique
Description
Self Help Africa is recruiting a Programme Funding Manager who will play a vital role in the organisation’s institutional fundraising activities and work with country programmes to diversify the scope and scale of new donors and grants.
Working closely with assigned country teams, this post will play a key role in pipeline development, donor engagement, positioning for contract and grant opportunities and lead the development of high-quality, large-scale bids. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and French will be critical to this role.
About SHA
Self Help Africa is an international NGO dedicated to the vision of an economically thriving and resilient rural Africa. Headquartered in Ireland, with offices in the UK (London and Shrewsbury), the US and six African countries, SHA creates scalable and sustainable solutions to eradicating long-term poverty through knowledge transfer, investment, and market linkages.
In August 2021 United Purpose joined the Gorta Group of organisations (which also includes SHA, Partner Africa and TruTrade). This is an interesting time to join SHA as the merger of two like-minded and entrepreneurial organisations will be catalytic in nature as we look to tackle the global challenges of today and tomorrow as one unified organisation.
Key responsibilities
Proposal Development
- Identify, research and advise on new funding opportunities;
- Lead proposal development for assigned countries/donors and coordinate cross-organisational teams to respond to funding opportunities;
- Contribute to meeting ambitious departmental financial and non-financial (volume and quality of proposals) targets;
- Develop and oversee timetables; coordinate inputs; write and edit content; provide quality assurance on fit with donor priorities; ensure compliance with internal review and approval procedures; ensure timely submission; and follow up with donors for feedback;
- Work closely with colleagues in the Programmes Department, who lead project design, to contribute to the assessment, research and design of projects for specific donor funding opportunities;
- Liaise with donor staff and colleagues on progress of applications or potential funding opportunities;
- Work closely with Programmes Department colleagues to support and/or lead contract negotiation with institutional donors.
Donor Strategy Alignment and Relationship Management
- Actively manage relationships with assigned funders;
- Maintain up-to-date information on donor priorities, strategies, regulations and activities pertaining to Self Help Africa’s strategic plan;
- Ensure relevant staff including senior management and Country Directors are briefed on donor activities, through the preparation of briefing notes and maintaining up-to-date information on our management information system;
- Coordinate donor strategy to maximise relationships and funding from donors through: meeting donors and cultivating contacts; liaising with colleagues across the organisation to coordinate donor meetings and briefings; and writing capacity statements/quality statements for specific donors;
- Provide advice to Programme Department colleagues on donor policies and priorities and managing funding contracts, to support overall donor strategies;
- Maintain and report on donor relationship and income pipelines on a periodic basis.
Commercial Contracting
- Support the growth and development of SHA’s commercial contracting portfolio;
- Track commercial contract opportunities and maintain knowledge of contract holders and potential prime partners;
- Prepare high-quality capacity statements and tender documents in response to commercial contracting opportunities.
Programme Funding Team and Miscellaneous
- Work with colleagues within the Programme Funding Team, and across SHA, to improve the standard of proposal and report writing and donor relationships and ensure funding opportunities and contracts are managed according to donor requirements;
- Contribute to Programme Funding Team reporting through ensuring donor information is up to date in Self Help Africa’s management information system;
- Represent SHA in donor funding-related groups and networks.
Expériences / Formation
Essential experience knowledge and experience requirements include:
- English and French language skills and ability to write proposals and communicate effectively in both languages;
- Minimum of five years’ experience of securing institutional funding;
- Minimum of five years’ experience working with large and diverse multi-nationality virtual teams;
- Evidence of success in winning large (multi-million) donor funding grants/contracts, ideally including experience of FCDO, USAID, UN donors and/or EU;
- Excellent written skills including proposals and reports;
- Strong numeracy and analytical ability, with ability to understand complex budgets and expenditure reports.
Please download the full Job Description for more information.
Salaire
The salary for the role is GBP43,000 – 45,000 per annum.
The Programme Funding team is based from SHA’s office in London, however remote working is also possible for the right candidate.
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the UK at the time of application.
All candidates offered a job with Self Help Africa will be expected to sign Self Help Africa’s Safeguarding Policies and Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. Specific roles may require Police/DBS/ vetting.
Self Help Africa strives to be an Equal Opportunities Employer
Comment postuler
The deadline for applications is 5pm (UK) on Friday 17 September 2021.
Please upload a completed Application Form, CV and cover letter outlining your suitability for the role on SHA’s website.
All documents and information relating to applying can be found online at: https://selfhelpafrica.org/uk/programme-funding-manager-3/