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Closes*> March 31, 2021
Concern Worldwide
About the role*> This is a 12 month, replacement role with unaccompanied
terms based in Lilongwe, Malawi with a salary of Grade 3 (€37,988 – €42,209
per annum).
You will report to the Programme Director, and work closely with Consortium
Director, Programme Managers and Coordinators. You will also work closely with
the Country Management Team. You will work with HQ Desk Officer and ensure
effective coordination with HQ Technical Advisors in reporting and proposal
development. You will also liaise closely with Consortium counterparts on
proposals and grant-related matters, ensuring efficient information flow.
Your purpose*> To lead efficient and quality grants and donor management
within Concern Malawi, and actively support the growing country programme
grants and contracts portfolio, ensuring compliance to internal and donor
requirements, supporting and building team capacity on the same.
Key responsibilities include management of the donor portfolio,
identification of funding opportunities, coordination and oversight of
development of quality proposals and reports and their timely submission,
information and knowledge management to promote learning, ensuring production
and appropriate use of materials for external communications to different
audiences. You will represent Concern at key donor and external coordination
meetings, and facilitate internal programme reviews and workshops.
You will be responsible for
Grants Management
· Oversee Concern Malawi grants portfolio, keeping respective managers and
colleagues informed and updated on donor policies and compliance requirements.
· Set up and facilitate timely grant opening and closure meetings, ensuring
participation of programme, finance, logistics and HR colleagues and partners
as relevant.
· Maintain the country grants matrix update and share regularly with
programme and finance focal points and HQ Desk Officer (DO), and lead on
ensuring timely, accurate, quality reporting to donors.
· With Systems Director and Finance team, assist in ensuring strict compliance
with donor and internal finance and logistics guidelines. Actively support
managers on this, incl. via training as necessary.
· Working closely with Finance team, in support of Programme Coordinators and
Managers (PC/PMs), regularly track expenditure and monitor variances, raising
issues requiring timely PD/donor attention.
· Review reports and proposals to ensure high quality of content and
formatting; liaise with HQ DO and Technical Advisors for inputs and ensure
comments taken on board.
· Provide relevant managers with correct proposal and reporting templates and
guide them on specific donor policies and compliance requirements. Support
with drafting of relevant sections.
· Be aware of contractual visibility and communications requirements of the
different donors and collaborate with programme teams to ensure these are met
(as appropriate to context).
· Support programme coordinators to track progress against outcomes and
completion of deliverables.
· Support the MEAL team in scheduling and planning surveys and evaluations,
and ensure inclusion of appropriate outcomes and indicators in programme
logframes.
· Represent Concern at donor, consortia and other meetings as
required/requested. Document and share information arising with PD, Consortium
Director and relevant colleagues.
· Coordinate and contribute to review and development of donor, partner and
consortia draft contracts.
Programme Development and Funding
· Actively identify and keep abreast of funding opportunities and key donor
priorities and approaches; liaise directly with donors and consortia partner
on the same as appropriate.
· Arrange and facilitate proposal design/programme development meetings,
ensuring participation of relevant colleagues from across the different sub-
teams, and consortia partners as necessary.
· Work with programme and finance teams to develop cohesive, quality concept
notes and proposals, ensuring internal and external deadlines met and
technical expertise/knowledge incorporated.
· Maintain updated file of key organisational information required for
proposals, and of all prior proposals submitted, for staff induction, learning
and future reference purposes (with DO support).
· Maintain a funding tracker to monitor donor pipeline opportunities and, in
support of PDPMs, proactivity identify funding gaps to be filled.
· Support PD, Consortium Director, and Programme teams to effectively
mainstream cross-cutting issues and quality standards.
· Support the use of capture and use of learning for adaptive management in
the context.
Information and Communications Management
· Take a lead on ensuring clear and complete documentation of grants and
programme documents accessible to colleagues in all Malawi offices, including
oversight of the Sharepoint site.
· Coordinate with PD, Consortium Director, PMs and M&E Unit to ensure
collection and proactive use of beneficiary case studies, photos, field
reports and other information to demonstrate effectively to different
audiences the achievements (and challenges) of programmes implemented.
· With support of relevant programme teams, review materials to ensure quality
and adherence to Dochas Code of Conduct and other guidelines, and liaise with
CD, PD, Consortium Director and DO for correct level sign off.
· Ensure production of quarterly (or as agreed) Programme Updates,
Newsletters, Briefing Papers and information Packs for distribution to donors,
clusters, working groups, supporters etc.
· Compile and edit country programme Annual Report and internal
updates/reports for PD, Consortium Director and CD.
· With relevant programme teams, produce minutes of key internal meetings and
workshops.
· Represent Concern at cluster coordination meetings and thematic working
groups as requested.
Human Resource Management and Capacity Development
· Support identification of needs for capacity building within individuals and
teams, source opportunities and, where relevant, directly lead training to
build capacities in report writing, proposal development, documentation, case
studies, and other relevant topics as agreed with PD and Consortium Director
· In liaison with PD, Consortium Director and Partnership Advisor, provide
support and training to local partner organisations for quality reporting,
proposal writing and knowledge of key donor requirements.
· As a member of the country team, actively promote compliance with Concern’s
Programme Participants’ Protection Policy, the Code of Conduct and all
associated policies.
Your skills and experience will include
Essential
· Educated to degree level in International Development, Project Management or
a related discipline.
· 3-5 years INGO experience, including at least two years working in a grants
role.
· Familiarity with key humanitarian and development donors, and their specific
reporting and compliance requirements (e.g. FCDO, OFDA, EU, Irish Aid, UN,
ECHO etc.)
· Significant experience of proposal development and familiarity with proposal
and reporting formats.
· Ability to thrive and act independently in a high-pressured, results-
focused, dynamic environment.
· Fluent spoken/written English language skills; proven excellent report and
proposal writing ability.
· High attention to detail in reviewing and inputting to reports, proposals
and other documents.
· Solid experience supporting the development of budgets and monitoring
expenditure.
· Experience identifying and documenting lessons learned, development of
quality case studies and/or other communication resources for different
audiences.
· Highly organised, with experience developing work-plans and tracking tools.
· Strong computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office, Excel and Powerpoint.
· Working knowledge of monitoring and evaluation processes and tools.
· Good networking abilities, interpersonal communication and presentation
skills, ideally in multicultural contexts and with
colleagues/partners/stakeholders at different levels.
Desirable
· Knowledge of main institutional donor priorities for programming in Malawi
and/or Southern Africa.
· Programmatic experience and/or knowledge of some of the following approaches
and sectors Emergency Response, Resilience, Nutrition, Urban/Rural
livelihoods, NRM, DRR, Education, WASH, Protection.
· Demonstrated commitment to learning and using learning to strengthen
practice.
· Professional knowledge of quality standards (e.g. CHS, Red Cross Code of
Conduct, SPHERE); able to support colleagues in their use.
· Experience working in a consortia arrangement and/or with local implementing
partners.
· Facilitation and/or training experience; keenness and ability to build
capacity of colleagues (in e.g. in donor requirements, proposal/report
writing, critical analysis, quality standards, comms materials).
· Willing to take on new responsibilities, within reason and if needed,
especially in emergency scale-up.
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