With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

International Assignment – Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Strategy and Leadership:

• Actively participate in bi-monthly WV CAR Operations Team meetings and brainstorm/problem-solve as necessary.
• Provide day-to-day management to the Response Office Resource Development to ensure timely and efficient support for prepositioning, proposal development and effective resolution in grant performance across NO/SO as needed.

Donor Identification, Engagement and Prepositioning:

• Track the donor competitive landscape (research, analyse, develop, track relationships with new and current donors) to organize prepositioning meetings with donors and key partners.
• Actively engage and participate in strategic country donor meetings with foundations, bilateral and multilateral institutions, etc.
• Collaborate with Operations Team to identify key relationships to strengthen Response Office positioning and elevate WV’s profile with government, multilateral and private sector donors.
• Ensure that the Response Office works in collaboration with SO grant teams and regional RDU, to actively maintain strong donor relationships at global, regional and country level, developing engagement strategies for each donor or a group of donors.
• In coordination with Response Office Communications and Advocacy Manager, ensure the implementation of the global impact framework, and support the development of capacity statements, project one pagers, marketing and communication materials using the technical branding approach for donor engagement and prepositioning.
• Facilitate relationships and build credibility with donors, using previous success and documented best practices in grant management.
• Maintain an up-to-date record of the requirements of current potential donors and be proactive in the lookout for local, regional, and global opportunities.
• Support the Operations Director to ensure strong participation/representation in Cluster meetings at national level.

Resource Development:

• Keep the regional grant opportunity tracking system up to date and current at all times maintaining an overview of country level grant funding opportunities and donor trends.
• Cultivate SO relationships, to ensure effective coordination as opportunities emerge for both public and private.
• In coordination with SOs and cross functional teams, develop high quality concept notes and proposals leading to successful funding opportunities
• Support the Response Office in the development of consortia whenever necessary in preparation for upcoming opportunities.
• Ensure the appropriate use of the Grants Risk Assessment Form to facilitate Go/No Go Decisions.
• Provide strategic direction to the Response Office to pursue non-traditional funding sources, identifying emerging or untapped high potential donors and new emerging models.

Grant Management and Compliance:

• In coordination with Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Administration teams, ensure all aspects of grant compliance and management (e.g. reporting, procurement, visibility, transfer of assets, audit, etc.) are understood and applied including sub-grantees.
• Ensure high quality, timely reporting (grants and PNS) conducted in coordination with the SO and with input and revision from all relevant stakeholders.
• Support the implementation of the Grant Health Tracker for grant projects program quality.
• Upon request, liaise with SOs and Finance Director and Risk & Compliance Manager to ensure that grant implementation issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Ensure significant grant audit / implementation issues are brought to the attention of the Project Managers and when necessary, the Country SLT.
• In conjunction with finance ensure compliance in key grant areas (e.g. eligibility, CAL, match, grant decision making powers, etc.).
• Flag critical policy or systems issues needing resolution by relevant owners.

Grant Management and Compliance:

• In coordination with Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Administration teams, ensure all aspects of grant compliance and management (e.g. reporting, procurement, visibility, transfer of assets, audit, etc.) are understood and applied including sub-grantees.
• Ensure high quality, timely reporting (grants and PNS) conducted in coordination with the SO and with input and revision from all relevant stakeholders.
• Support the implementation of the Grant Health Tracker for grant projects program quality.
• Upon request, liaise with SOs and Finance Director and Risk & Compliance Manager to ensure that grant implementation issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Ensure significant grant audit / implementation issues are brought to the attention of the Project Managers and when necessary, the Country SLT.
• In conjunction with finance ensure compliance in key grant areas (e.g. eligibility, CAL, match, grant decision making powers, etc.).
• Flag critical policy or systems issues needing resolution by relevant owners.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly grants performance reports for leadership using GAM standardized metrics and protocols

Capacity Building:

• Ensure all Response Office staff involved in grants, including the position holder have completed and are Proposal Pro certified.
• Lead, manage and provide capacity building support to employees in the Response Office team & seconded staff by ensuring clear goals and accountabilities are established and achieved.
• Ensure performance and development needs are met, and employees are high performing and engaged.
• Identify capacity gaps within GAM and other factors leading to poor win rates and grants implementation and work with SOs and the RDU to address them.
• Conduct annual workshop between GAM team and technical specialists to strengthen prepositioning and team capacity.
• Conduct annual workshops with M&E team to ensure that key indicators being captured across all national projects (grants, PNS, WFP etc).
• Develop a strong successor to be able to take up increasing grant management responsibility.

Representation at various fora:

• To ensure appropriate representation of the Response Office at strategic fora that could lead to resource acquisition and enhanced programming collaboration.

• Represent the Response Office in the grant’s community fora (internal and external to WV).
• Participate in WV internal grant communities – GAM Hubs and Global Grants Compliance Unit.

Knowledge, Qualifications for the role

Required Professional Experience

Strong influencing and networking skills; consortia/network development experience. Experience in acquiring funding from public and private donors (bilaterals, multilaterals, foundations and corporations, etc.). Ability to provide support and training to staff and partners and to “translate” donor language related to guidelines and different requirements to ensure that both concept notes/proposals and project implementation are compliant with donor requirements. Experience with public-private partnerships . Experience in working in fragile context countries and humanitarian assistance.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

Bachelor and/or Master’s Degree in International Development, International Relations, Rural Development, Social Science or any related field. Minimum of 5 years of experience in grant acquisition and/or grant management, especially in fragile countries. Experienced networker with strong skills in donor relations, negotiations and partnering with up to date knowledge of the donor landscape and trends in the humanitarian sector. Excellent knowledge and experience of project management with government and multilateral agencies grant funded projects and experience of grant compliance procedures for major bilateral and multilateral donors. Demonstrated track record in proposal development, funding acquisitions and grant management for major institutional donors (bilateral and/or multilateral). Proven experience and skills in proposal writing. Strong inter-personal skills, and proven team-player. Able to solve complex problems and to exercise independent judgment. Able to work in a cross-cultural environment with a multi-national staff. Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities

Language Requirements

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local and International Applicants (IA’s) Accepted