Overview
The Grant Acquisition Specialist is responsible for acquiring grants from various donors and exploring service contracts and innovative financing. This role leads proposal development and contributes to grant acquisition strategy, partnership development, donor relations, and knowledge sharing.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development, review, revision, and update of grant acquisition management strategies.
- Gather intelligence on market trends and develop donor and partner mapping.
- Coordinate the development of strategic engagement plans for donors, WV SOs, and partner organizations.
- Support market studies and organizational readiness assessments.
- Proactively explore and monitor funding opportunities and analyze their alignment with WVIDN’s Country Strategy.
- Analyze alignment of existing project concepts with available funding opportunities.
- Facilitate blocked-party screening and request due diligence for new donors and partners.
- Prepare funding opportunity synopsis and Go / No-Go analysis.
- Coordinate waiver or exemption requests.
- Facilitate consortium-building efforts and coordinate pre-teaming and teaming agreements.
- Facilitate procurement of external technical consultants and/or grant writers.
- Identify potential match-fund sources.
- Facilitate the development of quality concept notes or full proposals by setting up taskforces, developing schedules, compliance matrixes, application templates, facilitating design workshops, reviewing completeness and quality of application documents, ensuring timely submission, and coordinating revisions.
- Review award implementation agreement drafts, negotiate adjustments, and seek approval.
- Review partnership agreement drafts, negotiate adjustments, and seek approval.
- Facilitate project start-up workshops.
- Share key takeaways from field visits, capacity building activities, and strategic events.
- Share lessons learned from unsuccessful applications.
- Ensure proper documentation of pre-award and award stages.
- Ensure a smooth handover of awards to the Program Department.
- Document key takeaways from field visits and strategic events.
- Regularly update internal knowledge management platforms.
- Complete all mandatory organizational compliance trainings and requirements.
- Coordinate and monitor the implementation of strategic engagement plans.
- Represent WVIDN in strategic events.
- Be the primary point of contact for communication with donors, WV SOs, and partner organizations.
- Develop and manage annual performance agreements.
- Submit periodical/monthly accomplishment reports.
- Build and maintain a positive spirit of working in a team.
- Provide Christian value and support.
- Be a role model and inspiration.
- Manage all implementations and risks related to Grant Acquisition Specialist.
Required Experience
2-3 years of working experience in grant acquisition management or business development.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree from International Relations, Social Sciences, Business Administration, or any other relevant fields.
