Overview
The Senior Programme Officer (SPO) plays a critical role in funding acquisition and grant management for both humanitarian and development projects. The SPO will support grant management and acquisition across the country, contributing to reaching vulnerable children with life-saving relief and development.
Key Responsibilities
- Write proposals (Bilateral, Multilateral, Corporate, and WV) in concert with technical programme managers, operations staff, and support services.
- Support grant management and acquisition across the entire country.
- Support project teams with editing and preparing reports in line with field-level donor expectations and requirements.
- Serve as primary point of contact for assigned support office and donor colleagues.
- Work with operational teams to support donor requests, engagement, and positioning for funding.
- Represent World Vision and its capacity and operations to donors, clusters, and other key stakeholders.
- Support Finance in tracking of response funding.
- Share information (including analysis) with internal and external stakeholders.
- Regularly input into the existing reporting tracking system for all donor funds.
- Provide grant management for designated projects.
- Support P&C to develop staff care and capacity building plan.
- Engage with and strengthen World Vision’s relationship with locally represented donors.
- Ensure WV DRC engagement with the 6UN is prioritized and clusters/sectors are well mapped.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience working as Senior Programme Officer or Manager or at least 5 years as Programme Officer.
- Demonstrable experience working with or submitting proposals to major donors, such as EU, Global Fund, ECHO, USAID, WFP, UNICEF, FCDO, GAC, OCHA etc.
Qualifications
- Must be at minimum a holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences, Development, Anthropology or other related Social Sciences.
- Master’s degree in Development or diploma in NGO Management preferred.
