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ABOUT THE JOB

General objectives

As part of the coordination team, reporting to the Country Director, and working closely with the program and support departments at coordination level, as well as the base teams, the Grants Coordinator is the mission’s focal point on ensuring proposals development, partners coordination and accountability to donors. Specifically, he/she is in charge of:

• Leading the planning, development and consolidation of timely and high quality proposals for submission to donors
• Coordination the proposal development phase with implementing partners

Monitoring compliance with donor procedures throughout the proposal development phase

Coordination and strategic orientation, relevance and operational quality / operations monitoring, security management, HR management, representation, internal/external communication.

The mission is searching for an experienced Grants & Partnerships Coordinator to become a part of the coordination team under the supervision of the CD and working closely with the DCD Programs and the support departments at coordination level, as well as the base teams. The ideal candidate is a good task manager, knows how to set the priorities, is pragmatic, solution-oriented and a pro-active communicator due to the specific transversality of the position. The candidate should have excellent English-writing and analytical skills.

He/she will be line managing one reporting officer (expat).

Priorities for the 2/3 first months

• Strengthening the Grants and Partnership Department (Grants & Partnership Coordinator and Reporting & Communication officer) with the support of the Deputy Country Director for Programs and Country Director; clarifying its role and positioning within the coordination team
• Ease the communication among the coordination and bases teams related to his / her scope of responsibilities
• Taking a significant leadership in the next round of project proposal writing as well as in donor reporting.
• Consolidating donor and partner mapping and designing the first draft of funding strategy (with both DCD-P and CD)
• Assist the CD in donor engagement planning and follow-up