Grants Officer

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Description

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• Contribute to the mapping of donors active in the region/countries, of their initiatives (calls, partners) and of their strategies and priorities, in coordination with the HOP and in collaboration with the head office Institutional Funding Direction and HI National Associations;
• Liaise with HI Institute for the Institute’s recommendations on ethical positioning towards donors and funding opportunities and for the analysis of each donor;
• Liaise with HI Institute, HOP and Security Advisor to assess ethical risks towards each funding opportunities against the humanitarian imperative;
• Get regular updates from head office Institutional Funding Direction and HI National Associations on donors’ positioning towards key trends such as NEXUS, gender equality and disability inclusion, protection mainstreaming and inform proposal development, in coordination with the HOP
• In collaboration with the HOP, facilitate regular brainstorming with technical and operations teams to generate ideas for new programs in response to identified donors strategies and priorities;
• In collaboration with technical specialists and operations teams, guarantee the connection between thematic clusters (humanitarian network’s priorities) and the Programme fundraising strategy;
• Liaise with HI National Associations for all issues related to donors relations and communication (general communication, keys visits or networking);
• Actively participate in the participatory work to review and design the 3-years Operational Strategy of the program – with responsibility on the fundraising component.

• Advise and support the HOP in the identification and selection of the fundraising opportunities.
• Plan, prepare, coordinate and lead the proposal development process
• Support compliance to international best practices and donors’ specificities in the development of the proposals’ logical frameworks and logical models (ToCs, etc.).
• Ensure coherence between operational aspects, MEAL, technical approaches, logistics and budgeting.
• Participate directly to writing and development of all proposals and take the lead for the development of major grants and/or complex donors.
• Provide guidance/support to the writing of projects’ proposal narratives, ensuring compliance to donors’ instructions, priorities and specificities.
• Guarantee the completeness and final compliance of all proposal package submissions to the call for proposals’ guidelines and donors’ requirements.

• Facilitate production and sharing of good practices over proposal development, in particular in relation to certain key donors’ specificities (value for money, etc.) and cross-cutting issues (gender, environment, protection, safeguarding, etc.).
• Strengthen mission teams’ capacity for proposal development, including HI internal guidelines/processes, international good practices and donors specificities.
• Produce and share a monthly follow-up of the grants development and reporting actions and deadlines;
• Manage and update the Programme fundraising table (submissions, categories of donors, annual stats) and insure the sharing and access to these information for all missions, HQ and NAs

• You have a bachelor in cooperation, political sciences, fundraising or similar field
• You have at least 5 years of experience in humanitarian/emergency contexts with a significant part in proposal development and grant management
• You have knowledge of donors guidelines and compliance, including DG ECHO and Government Donor Agencies
• You have strong interpersonal and intercultural skills, as well as communication skills and a commitment to team work;
• You are able to work under high pressure and without constant supervision, and are motivated by constant program adaptation to an evolving context
• You have excellent organisational skills, co-ordination and transfer of knowledge;
• English mandatory (oral and written)

• English  Fluent

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