Location:
Remote (home-based), and regular self-funded travel to internal meetings is expected – on average, this is likely to be at least 1-2 days a month, including to travel to Habitat GB’s office in Slough or London.
Role:
The Programme Development Manager will be a key fundraising from institutional donors for Habitat for Humanity global programmes around the world as well as the domestic programmes. The post-holder will be also responsible to design and co-create high impacts and creative partnership propositions that transform the lives of people living in poverty.
Salary:
£31,000 – £35,000
Contract:
This is a full time, permanent role
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Partnership Development: Develop and deliver creative large-scale partnerships and collaboration, built upon existing donor-base
- Scope funding and partnership opportunities and engage with existing, new and potential institutional donors and programme partners through 1) desk research; 2) preparing donor/partner profiles; 3) updating an active pipeline of proposals and opportunities; 4) engage, build and maintain new and existing partnerships.
- Lead the process of proposal development and ensure proposal submissions to donors, including narrative and budget preparation, on behalf of foundations, trusts, institutions, philanthropy and corporate fundraising teams. This will require working directly and closely with our network of National Offices (NOs), and our global parent organisation Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), ensuring that Habitat GB aligns with the tools and processes that have been developed to support this work.
- Coordinate and lead proposal development meetings with NOs and HFHI, including taking the meeting minutes.
- Ensure that feedback and learning from project bids – both successful and unsuccessful – is shared across the organisation and is used to inform future thematic priorities and programme design.
Impact Delivery: Manage and deliver impactful projects to increase more beneficiaries
- Support National Offices to prepare and establish effective project management tools and mechanisms for grant set-up and project launches in close collaboration with HFHI.
- Coordinate all aspects of programme monitoring and reporting, and ensuring data captured is of high quality and produced in line with grant agreements.
- Coordinate monthly project management meetings for key projects with National Offices.
- Review and edit/format draft project reports for timely submissions to donors in close collaboration with Habitat GB colleagues, National Offices/Branches and HFHI colleagues, ensuring donor compliance.
- Support preparation of Habitat GB’s annual reports, including case studies from projects, statistics of beneficiaries, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) linkage.
Collaboration: Collaborate across wider Habitat network
- Conduct support and monitoring visits (if allowed) to projects coupled with the provision of distance and in-country monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) and safeguarding support to National Offices and their partners.
- Collate Habitat GB proposals, income and pipeline figures on a monthly basis, and share with HFHI.
- Support ReStore team and UK programme team to set up MEAL framework.
- Mainstream safeguarding in both global and UK programmes.
Learning and Personal Development: Foster a culture of learning and development, delivering on continuous learning opportunities externally and internally
- Supervise and mentor Programmes Assistants and volunteers (if any).
- Actively participate in several Communities of Practice (CoPs) hosted by major donors and development networks for external knowledge sharing and learning.
- Present key thematic topics within Habitat GB quarterly for internal sharing.
- Post case studies and project highlights on Habitat GB website.
Experience
- Proven experience of partnership building with UK institutional donors, including trusts and foundations and/or corporate donors. (Essential)
- Experience in project proposal writing and familiarity with programming documents e.g. logical framework and Theory of Change models. (Essential)
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective document management and information management processes. (Essential)
- Experience and good understanding of best practice, knowledge management and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and safeguarding in a programme context. (Desirable)
- International programme management experience preferably in a development context. (Desirable)
Skills / Knowledge
- Excellent report writing and content development skills. (Essential)
- Understanding of financial management processes, including excellent numeracy skills and proven ability to analyse budgets, project pipelines and financial reports. (Essential)
- Ability to undertake international travel to field locations in different parts of the world when the situation allows. (Essential)
- Clear and straightforward verbal and written communication skills. (Essential)
- Excellent attention to detail. (Essential)
Working Style
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse global teams, across different time zones. (Essential)
- Self-motivated and organised, able to work under pressure to deadlines and use own initiative to solve problems with minimal supervision and adapt to challenges. (Essential)
- Enthusiastic and positive, with a can-do attitude. (Essential)
Commitment
- Support for Habitat’s values and mission
- Demonstrable interest in our work, and commitment to continued learning and development.
- Committed to contributing to the inclusive, people-positive culture we are fostering at Habitat.
- This is not intended to be an exhaustive list. Job descriptions may be subject to change.
Flexible Approach
HFHGB is seeking to rapidly expand its activities and impact to fight poverty across the world. This means that the organisation must be adaptable and flexible and have an ambitious, dynamic team. While this is a home-based role, there is an expectation that the post holder will be flexible, and able to travel to Slough or London and elsewhere on a regular basis. Travel for internal meetings is self-funded.
This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
How to apply
Start your Habitat Journey
We want the recruitment process to give you the opportunity to share your skills and experience, and to find out more about Habitat. You are welcome to get in touch and arrange an informal chat with a member of the team before submitting an application. To apply for the role, please send us your CV and a cover letter telling us about yourself and your motivation for applying – we don’t expect this to be more than two sides of A4. Email it to svijaywargiya@habitatforhumanity.org.uk.
The deadline for applications is 16 February 2024 (at 11:59 pm).
Interviews will take place online on an ongoing basis during the recruitment window and up to 29 February 2024.