Senegal: Regional Grants Acquisition and Management Advisor

World Vision (WV) is a humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our 45,000+ staff members working in more than 90 countries are united through our ethos, mission and shared desire for all individuals, especially children, to overcome poverty, inequality and injustice.

Here’s where you come in:

As Regional Grants Acquisition and Management Advisor you will be working with the National Offices (NO) to engage EuropeAid and ECHO at a strategic level. To generate grant income by working with the National Offices in West Africa to monitor the donor funding environment, engage donors at operational and strategic level, lead the proposal development processes, build operational and strategic capacity in grant acquisition and management, liaise with European Support Offices (SO) and the Representation Office in Brussels. Under the direction of the Resources Acquisition and Management (RAM) Director and in collaboration with the WARO RAM Hub, you will seek to mobilize and manage successfully external funding from private and public sources principally EuropeAid and ECHO to support the implementation of the Regional Strategy as well as National Office Strategies. The responsibilities include donor engagement on a constant basis, proposal writing, quality assurance of project implementation, strategy and tool development and capacity building at the regional and NO levels.

Requirements include:

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in developing countries preferably Africa.
• Experience in grant and private fund raising.
• Experience in proposal and report writing skills; EuropeAid and ECHO program Acquisitions and/or Implementation experiences a must.
• Masters level degree international development, social science, business administration, policy, resource generation and management, or equivalent.
• Excellent English and French written and spoken communication skills are essential; German highly desirable.
• Work environment: Office-based with frequent travel to the field (40% field work).

Is this the job for you?

World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position online and apply by the closing date 30 Jan 2017. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org. Due to the number of applications received, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.