Overview
To proactively fundraise for the Syria programme and support the country office in planning, securing, and managing restricted funds, ensuring adherence to donor procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads the design and implementation of country resource mobilization strategy.
- Identifies, qualifies, and tracks funding and partnership opportunities.
- Seeks to grow income for the country program and confederation.
- Monitors the funding pipeline and leads on income planning and forecasting.
- Ensures the development and management of relationships with institutional and other donor representatives.
- Proactively engages in influencing donors’ policy and thinking.
- Co-ordinates business development and funding activities.
- Prepares groundwork for proposal development and bid management.
- Contributes to drafting and editing proposals.
- Provides technical advice in negotiations with institutional donors or business partners.
- Coordinates and leads on Donor Contract Management (DCM) of restricted funds.
- Supports programme teams to effectively plan, secure and manage donor contracts.
- Strengthens the capacity of partner organisations in funding skills.
- Manages and ensures capacity building of the Funding Team.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of demonstrable experience and success working in fundraising and/or programme development and management in the humanitarian & development sector.
- Demonstrable experience and success in engaging with bilateral and multilateral donors for an international agency.
- Demonstrated ability to devise and implement resource mobilisation strategies.
- Proven ability to identify new business opportunities and partnerships.
- Experience with key institutional donors’ guidelines and procedures (EU, ECHO, UN, DFID, GAC, SDC, SIDA, etc).
- Solid Experience working in a confederation setting.
- Knowledge of Project Cycle Management with previous field experience.
- Solid experience, very good knowledge and understanding of the donor and funding context, environment and key players in the Middle East.
- Experience of or very good understanding of the Middle East context and of key issues of development and transition.
- Experience in staff management, capacity building; coaching and delivering training at an individual and group level.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication and relationship skills with ability to influence external organisations and individuals and ability to work effectively with others in diverse team situations to achieve fundraising targets.
- Information management and IT skills with attention to detail to develop and analyse donor budgets and financial reports; and to develop/maintain, and give guidance on electronic and manual contract management and reporting systems.
- Self-motivated, target-driven and a proactive approach to funding.
- Ability to manage his/her time effectively.
- Ability to work within a multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary environment and to work effectively with others in a team across institutional boundaries and business units.
- Proven ability to utilise talent and expertise of team members to achieve objectives.
- Solid understanding and convictions of a rights-based approach and gender sensitive, and experience in the NGO sector.
Qualifications
A university degree - or equivalent - in Social Sciences, Business Administration, Law, Economics or International Development or other relevant experience.
