Overview
This position provides strategic leadership in donor relations, partnership development, resource acquisition, and grant compliance to strengthen the organization's funding portfolio and long-term sustainability. The role drives high-quality donor engagement and ensures funding is secured and managed in full compliance with donor requirements.
Tasks Summary
- 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 until project start-up for assigned proposals.
- Assist in updating 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 on the iMPAQ system, manual grant tracker, and project profiles.
- Work with Communications and technical teams to develop communication products for grant acquisition.
- Develop and deliver an annual donor engagement plan, updated on a monthly basis.
- Ensure donor meetings are scheduled and post-donor-visit action plans are followed-up and implemented in a timely manner.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with principal donors and understand donor’s emerging priorities.
- Keep an up-to-date donor/partner mapping with input from Technical Programme and Zonal Managers.
- Assist in creating and delivering a clear and structured communication strategy to engage with donors and partners aligned with the GAM business plan.
- Support the Grants Acquisition and Compliance Manager in providing strategic leadership for the Grants Acquisition and Management function.
- Coordinate to build plan of GAM capacity development for cross-functional staff, including conducting need assessment and identifying staff for relevant trainings.
- Provide coaching and support to staff on Proposal Pro 3 and other GAM-related courses.
- Facilitate quarterly grants cafés to review progress, challenges, and lessons learned.
- 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.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the manager to contribute to the team performance.
- Act as an ambassador of World Vision’s brand by following WV’s brand and communications guidelines when working with external partners and developing communications products.
- Take responsibility for personal security, accurately identify and assess risks, and respond appropriately; make good faith efforts to safeguard other WVIV staff and property, in line with WVIV’s security training and guidance.
- Be responsible for self-learning and professional development to enhance performance and career growth.
- Uphold and demonstrate commitment to World Vision’s mission, vision, core values, and policies.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of five 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
- Understanding of monitoring and evaluation.
- Research, data and information-gathering, and analysis.
Qualification Requirements
• A university degree in management, marketing, communications, social sciences, development, or a related field.
