Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 15, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Responsibilities:
• To actively contribute to develop relations internally and externally, develop the pipeline in Africa, targets, and forecasts (70%):
• Support the Director in coordinating a collaborative process with Habitat colleagues on FOI activity including pre-positioning, forecasting, go/no-go processes, proposal development processes and after action reviews.
• Contribute to identifying opportunities through forecasts and market intelligence to help achieve Habitat's objectives.
• Prepare briefings and other informational materials that support the Director and organizational leadership with FOI engagement.
• Build and maintain effective FOI relations globally and regionally with guidance from the Director, as well as maintaining the CRM systems.

To contribute to developing and training staff on FOI tools for effective fundraising (20%):
• Support the Director with the design of relevant FOI tools and training and advice to the HFHI network to encourage FOI champions across Africa.
• Support the effective stewardship of awards in partnership with Grant Mangers and guidance from the Director.
• Monitor the execution of the donor strategies implemented in close collaboration with internal Habitat colleagues.

Other departmental projects and initiatives (10%).

Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree.
• 3+ years of proven partnership pre-positioning and fundraising experience, especially with foundations, organizations, and institutions such as EU, FCDO, European bi-laterals, USAID and African and other Development Banks.
• Fundraising experience in securing grants, preferably with the top funders in the housing/shelter, community development, and related sectors.
• Expertise in Internet research, specifically gathering and analyzing FOI grant programs, areas of concentration and grant guidelines/requirements, grant writing and budget development.
• Good oral and written communication skills with strong interpersonal and presentation skills in English.
• Solutions-oriented and collaborative in an evolving, dynamic, inter-cultural global team.
• Reflects the organizational principles through on-time delivery of work products in changing work terrains as the organization rapidly evolves.
• Disciplined; performs well under pressure and capable of balancing competing priorities; ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent organizational skills with good attention to detail.
• Commitment to delivering excellent internal and external customer service.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office 365, especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams for global information sharing and knowledge management, and project management software.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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