Overview
This position provides strategic leadership in donor relations, partnership development, resource acquisition, and grant compliance to strengthen WVIV’s funding portfolio and long-term sustainability. The role drives high-quality donor engagement, supports organizational leadership of the Grants Acquisition and Management function, builds institutional capacity, and ensures that 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 (including grant profiles) 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 to inform partnering decisions and prepositioning for grant opportunities that require a consortium.
- Assist in creating and delivering a clear and structured communication strategy to engage with donors and partners aligned with WVIV’s GAM business plan.
- Support the Grants Acquisition and Compliance Manager in providing strategic leadership for the Grants Acquisition and Management function of WVIV.
- Coordinate to build plan of GAM capacity development for cross-functional staff, including conducting need assessment and identifying staff for relevant trainings (e.g: Proposal Pro 3,…).
- Provide coaching and support to WVIV 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 (print, audio, or video).
- 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.
