Regional Grants Acquisition and Management Specialist – World Vision East Africa

**Position location to be determined by home country of successful candidate within the East Africa region where WVI is registered.*

This is your opportunity to use your grants experience to help improve the lives and futures of some of the world's most vulnerable children.

The Regional Grants Acquisition and Management Specialist Will be responsible for successful pre-positioning with donors and support National Offices in strong and effective donor engagement activities. The position will pursue grant funded opportunities with a variety of donors and support National Offices in proposal development to fund development, emergency and rehabilitative programmes. The position will also support start up workshops and ensure adherence to donor rules and regulations are adhered to. The incumbent will also represent World Vision East Africa Regional Office and National Offices in various donor meetings and coordination forums

SOME RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Pursue resource mobilization opportunities aligned to WV EAR strategy and capacities in development, humanitarian and rehabilitative programming sectors.
• Working closely with National Offices and build cross functional team in developing grant proposals for a variety of donors on development, emergency and rehabilitative programmes
• Identify capacity gaps at National Office level in grants acquisition and management and provide technical support on how to address them.
• Support National Offices to develop capacity statements to be utilized during prepositioning meetings with donors.
• Monitor the donor competitive landscape, and circulate funding forecasts to National Offices to enable them to organize prepositioning meetings with donors and apply for grant funding.
• Represent World Vision in in various donor and coordination forums at regional and national level and by providing programmatic information as required.
• Share with donors, UN agencies and other important external stakeholders’ innovative programmes as part of the resource acquisition process.
• Assist National Offices with the development and implementation of grants acquisition and management business plans
• Practice servant leadership and be a role model for WV staff and peers are partner agencies

REQUIRED SKILLS INCLUDE:

• Must have a university degree in relevant field (such as international development, rural development, community development, business/administration etc.) Master degree preferred.
• Must have a minimum of 5 years’ professional experience of which at least 3 years are experience working in relief, development, NGO, UN agency, international organization, or multilateral organization.
• Strong and significant track record in designing and writing winning proposals for major institutional donors (e.g., USAID, USDA, EU, ECHO, DFATD (CIDA), AUSAID, UN agencies, World Bank, Global Fund, Gates Foundation).
• Experienced networker with a proven ability to maintain strong and up to date knowledge of grant opportunities and trends in international relief and development.
• Excellent and strong interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to coordinate with multiple donors, World Vision support offices and funding mixes (preferred).
• Minimum of 35% International travel is required

HOW TO APPLY:

If you believe you have the skills and experience to fulfil this vital and challenging role that will enhance the lives of vulnerable children in the East Africa region, we'd love to hear from you.

Find the full description and apply online by the closing date 3 May 2015. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website:www.wvi.org.