Grants Development & Donor Engagement Manager at World Vision International Tanzania

• Work
  with resource development director, Senior Management Team and
  Technical Program Leads to identify funding opportunities from Support
  Offices, government donors, multilateral agencies and other donors.
• Draft
  synopsis of funding opportunities to facilitate decision making on
  whether to pursue new grant and other external funding opportunities.
• Coordinate
  the development of concept papers and prepare proposals (including
  logical frameworks, draft budgets, budget narratives, and monitoring and
  evaluation plans) for Support Office (SO), government, private and
  multilateral donors.
• Maintain the grant tracking tool including
  status updates of active funding opportunities, submitted proposals, and
  proposal approvals and next steps.
• Ensure adherence to Business Development Partnership Policies and Procedures

End Results

• Resource Development from different donors including Multilateral, Bilateral, Donor and UN agencies.
• Identify funding opportunities from Support Offices, government donors, multilateral agencies and other donors.
• Increase
  funding opportunity to the organization from the different sources of
  donors. Fund acquisition will increase WVT portfolio and ability to
  address the needs of MVC and implementing activities based on the
  operational plan and strategic mandate.
• Organizing the meeting with priority of fund-raising context.

Activity
External Engagement (20%)

• Develop
  and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders including Support
  Offices, donors (multilateral, government, foundations and private) and
  other international agencies.
• Act as focal point for assigned SOs and donor relationships and portfolio.
• Work with SOs to coordinate donor and SO program visits.
• Ensure WVT programs provide opportunities for supporting the development of new alliances and collaboration.
• Develop and maintain effective external and internal relationships with various stakeholders.
• Ensure program updates as needed by key SOs, the Regional Office, donors and partners.
• Develop key engagement material (e.g. capacity statements, talking points, stakeholder strategy analysis etc.).
• Liaise
  regularly and build relationships with key internal (EARO, GC and SOs)
  and external (bi-, multi-lateral donors and government entities)
  stakeholders.

End Results

• Identify funding opportunities from local and international organization and prepare the business plan for fund acquisition.
• To
  conduct assessment for the local fundraising to identify local and
  international opportunities. This is including preparation of
  fund-raising business plan process.
• Increase WVT visibility and relationship with donors and stakeholders.

Activity
Supporting the development of new alliances and collaboration. (20%)

• Work
  with WVT program team to identify the opportunities of new alliances
  and collaboration addition to that BDO will be required to maintain
  internal and external relationship with various stakeholders.
• Ensure all internal and donor accountability requirements are met for grant acquisition and management.
• Working
  closely with the Resource Development Director, continue to
  update/revise supporter engagement strategy and practices to adapt to
  changing context.

End Results

• To determine the capacity of the partner to manage funds properly and the capability to implement efficiently and effectively.
• To establish the gaps in both the financial and program systems of the partner.
• To identify ways of supporting the partner to address the gaps identified.
• Implementing partners well understand donor rules and regulations and compliance with WVT policies.

Activity
Coordinate development of concept papers and proposals for funding diversity. (20%)

• Review calls for proposals and recommend whether WVT should pursue funding opportunities using the Go/No Go Process.
• Develop and implement the Grants Acquisition Business plan for the WVT, ensuring alignment with all relevant strategies.

End Results

• Development
  of concept papers and prepare proposals (including logical frameworks,
  draft budgets, budget narratives, and monitoring and evaluation plans)
  for Support Office (SO), government, private and multilateral donors,
  local institutions, high net worth individuals and FBOs.

Activity
Support Resource Development Director and team to take increase responsibility for funding application. (10%)

• Ensure
  full and timely the Resource Development division is increases funding
  by receive and review various funding opportunity which come to our end.
• Ensure effective and timely formal and informal reporting to SOs, donors and partners on Resource Development issues.

End Results

• To support WVT to Develop and diversify resource of funding including local and international resources mobilization.
• Coordinate grants process making from start-up and new projects/program with relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare the report and reporting timely to donors and partners on Resource Development activities.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE
Required Professional Experience

• At least a Master’s degree in a relevant field from a recognized university.
• A Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (Agriculture, Health, Nutrition, Development Studies etc) from a recognized university.
• Minimum
  of 5 years’ experience in programming (designing, implementing,
  evaluating and monitoring) of integrated development, relief and/or
  advocacy of donor funded projects).

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification.

• Be
  a result orientated leader with the ability to handle a heavy work
  load, manage and satisfy multiple conflicting organizational, donor and
  other stakeholder demands.
• Ability to provide spiritual leadership to the team.
• Ability to think strategically and innovatively, constantly pursuing new and better ways of working.
• Be committed to empowering others for transformation – both inside and outside of the organization.
• Be committed to pursuing tangible and lasting impact in the lives of the poor through an empowerment approach.
• Ability to inspire across a wide range of audiences and to communicate effectively.
• Highly effective people management skills.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Coordinate
  the implementation of Horizon 3.0 that will support the organization’s
  efforts to track information on project implementation, to store vital
  program documentation, and to gather and store information vital to
  communicating project impact and promote pro-active learning.
• Participate in reviews and lesson learned exercises for grants as guided by WV policies and principles.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement
On
call 20%. Office based environment with frequent travel to the field
and National Office in Arusha. Furthermore, the position requires
ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to
35% (approximately 2 to 4 trips a year).

Language Requirements
Fluency in English and Swahili

CORE COMPETENCIES