Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, February 03, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
LWALA Community Alliance – Development Officer
Location: based in Migori County, Kenya, with occasional travel within Kenya.
*Please read carefully the qualifications and experience we are seeking for this role as well as the application instructions at the end of this document. Any application that doesn’t meet the requirements listed will not be viewed. Thank you.*

Background
Founded by a group of committed Kenyans, Lwala builds the capacity of rural communities to advance their own comprehensive well-being. We support communities to design, implement, and evaluate solutions to their most pressing health challenges. Then, we build coalitions of communities, health workers, government, and universities to generate evidence of impact and infuse these insights into the formal health system in Kenya and beyond. This bottom-up change promises holistic solutions that are custom-built for the systems they are meant to reform.

The Role
Lwala is growing our strategic partnership and grants management capacities to meet organizational needs and fundraising goals. In the last five years, we have grown from $1.3 million to over $8 million in annual revenue, with support from private foundations, technical health funders, and individual donors. In order to implement our ambitious 2025 Strategy, we expect to raise $50m over this 5-year period.
Lwala’s reporting, development, and communications processes have been growing over recent years to better drive feedback loops within the organization and to external stakeholders. The Development Officer will support Lwala’s Development and Program teams to make strides in improving its datasystems, driving feedback loops, reporting, proposals and communicating externally. These organizational elements are intertwined and require communication and coordination between them in order to drive impact, learning and growth.

Further, the Development Officer will support team members in growing their skills in writing and telling stories. Helping to build the capacity of team members in their ability to fully understand, talk about and share program results that directly benefit the overall mission of Lwala Community Alliance. The Development Officer sits within the Development team, with significant collaboration with program teams, research and learning, and finance.

Key Responsibilities
Position Description: The responsibilities of Development Officer include, but are not limited to, the following:
Grants Management and Reporting
• Own a portfolio of grants and lead reporting to those funders
• Support stewardship and engagement strategy for institutional donors
• Support Research and Learning team to maintain donor metrics and KPIs, produce impact dashboard and manage workflow of reporting data
• Contribute to the comprehensive database of current grant funders and track reporting requirements and deadlines
• Support production and content development for donor reports, quarterly Insider Reports and Annual Reports
Lwala Community Alliance PO Box 60688, Nashville, TN 37206 http://www.lwala.org
• Assist program teams with creation of conference abstracts, research presentations, and donor presentations
• Support business development and new partner scoping
Proposal Development
• Lead in outlining and drafting letters of inquiry, concept papers, and proposal submissions for new grants and grant renewals, with special attention to program narratives, work plans, milestones, and budgets
• Support program team in the development of program strategies, theories of change, work plans,
and key performance indicators
Grants Finance
• Work with Grants Manager to ensure high-quality grants finance management and accurate allocation of grant funding
• Coordinate with finance team to ensure accurate financing reporting for donors
Other
• Support communications on an ad hoc basis, including releasing e-blasts, posting to social media, and making website updates
**Other duties as assigned

Qualifications and Experience Required
• A degree or relevant experience in international development, public health, public administration, communications, statistics or related field, master degree preferred
• Experience working in a field-based position in East Africa
• Strong writing abilities, both creative and analytical, with strong editing skills required
• Experience with nonprofit grants, donor reporting and budget adherence
• A background in grant compliance and reporting for USAID and other bilateral funders is desirable
• Keen attention to detail
• Ability to learn quickly and take initiative
• Process-oriented with capacity to develop and drive workplans and meet deadlines
• Maturity to tolerate nuance, handle competing priorities, and communicate with executive-level leadership
• Flexibility to work across time zones
• Patience and resilience
• Self-motivation and resourcefulness
• A proven ability to work with teams
• Successful experience working with people from different cultural backgrounds
• Curiosity and a sense of humor

What we offer
• Competitive salary with opportunity to grow
• Full benefits package including medical, vision, dental and group life plan
• Contributory pension scheme
• Annual leave of up to 22 days
• Exposure to global collaborators
• Room to innovate and challenge systems
Lwala Community Alliance PO Box 60688, Nashville, TN 37206 http://www.lwala.org
• ● A fun, collaborative and fast-paced working environment

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To Apply
Please send the following to recruitment@lwalacommunityalliance.org  with the subject line “Development Officer Kenya:”
• Current CV/resume.
• Letter of Interest detailing related skills and experience.
• 3 professional references with name, title, email, phone contact, and relationship to the applicant.
Position is open until filled. We recommend submitting an application within 2 weeks of the posting date.

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