The Counrty Office in Somalia is currently recruiting a
Country Funding Coordinator
Fulltime 40 hours a week
1 year contract
Based in Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travel to Somaliland
Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty.
Team Purpose
To mobilize resources for the implementation of Oxfam’s country strategy in Somalia and increase the impact on Oxfam on the lives of men and women facing poverty and injustice. To develop and maintain excellent relations with institutional and non-institutional donors and ensure the quality of Oxfam’s project in Somalia.
Job Purpose – Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
This position is aimed at significantly increasing Oxfam Somalia’s fundraising capacity with traditional donors as well as attracting new sources of funding from non-traditional donors, investors and individuals.
We are seeking an outstanding institutional fundraising professional who has the ability to deploy her/his experience in institutional fundraising, in developing good relations with (potential) donors, ensure good management of donor grants, complying with the requirements of donors as well as Oxfam internal compliance procedures.
Main tasks
Identification of funding opportunities
- Responsible for designing, updating and implementing the Somalia donor mapping and funding strategy,
- Responsible for new business development including with philanthropies, income streams and innovative funding models with non-traditional donors, private sector, and other philanthropies such as foundations, lotteries and trusts
- Provide ongoing research, strategic donor intelligence gathering, and trends analysis and generate information to enable engagement with global, regional and country level donors.
- Support the appraisal of new funding opportunities using the bid and no bid decision making tool and processes.
- Work with other affiliates in identifying and sharing new opportunities with home donors.
- Prepare and share with the CD regular updates on top-line income status of the country in terms of (a) secure income for current year, (b) secure income for future years, and (c) proposals in the pipeline (which covers likely and possible)
New programme and business development
- To ensure a proactive development of propositions and proposal, allowing the County team to respond quickly to emerging opportunities (pipeline)
- Support the country program team in the development of attractive and high quality project proposals, concept notes and business development propositions
- Identify and foster potential partnerships, coalitions, consortia and affiliate engagement that may result in joint programmes. This also includes the collaboration with thematic specialists in Oxfam partner affiliates.
- To develop materials that illustrate Oxfam’s activities in Somalia and provide evidences for the country office’s track record and capacity.
Partner Capacity Building and Relationship Management
- To work closely with finance and programme departments to promote institutional learning and strategic growth of the organization.
- Lead knowledge management of fundraising procedures in the organization, in particular, documenting internal and external funding processes in order to foster institutional memory, learning and compliance.
- Work closely with the Program team to ensure capacity building in the field of programme and project development, use of logframes and theories of change and other relevant tools and approaches.
- Develop and implement a detailed plan for building the funding and donor compliance capacity of partner organisations, especially in proposal writing and donor mapping. This will include needs assessment, capacity building approach and delivery plan including tools and methodologies, performance standards, and evaluation approach
- Advise the CD and the program team on ways to ensure effective management of donors contracts and related risk management procedures.
Job requirements
Skills
- Experience and knowledge of raising and managing institutional funds for humanitarian response, development projects and influencing work from traditional and non-traditional donors.
- Ability to conduct a market analysis, to identify key funding opportunities for the Somalia programme.
- Ability to lead and facilitate proposal development processes involving technical program, MEAL, and finance staff.
- Proven analytical skills and the ability to think strategically in relation to fundraising and donor engagement.
- Ability to work effectively with others persuading, influencing, negotiating and supporting, following as required in order to achieve fundraising targets. Ability to forecast and plan income
- Ability to produce clear and timely written proposals and reports for donors.
- Demonstrable organizational and project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects to deadlines, and to get things done
- Ability to represent Oxfam and to develop excellent working relations with donors and external institutions
- Research and analytical skills and ability to evaluate proposals and write quality reports and make recommendations for improvements
- Experience with gender programming and working in multi-cultural environment
- Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting women’s rights and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work
Knowledge
- Sufficient knowledge of Oxfam’s priorities and development and humanitarian programme work an advantage
- Knowledge of donor environment and key donor opportunities for the Somalia programme.
- Understanding of funding issues in relation in emergencies and development work
- Understanding of institutional funding strategies and ways to measure the effectiveness in resourcing strategic and programmatic priorities
- Experience in acquiring and managing new funding mechanisms (like tenders, impact investment etc)
- Experience in building the capacity of Institutional Funding teams to deliver on financial targets
**What we offer
**Oxfam Novib is committed to providing you with a competitive, fair, and comprehensive pay and benefits package that is justifiable to our donors. The salary range for this position is set in scale 10 with a salary range between €3302,– to €5081,– gross based on 40 hours a week.
More Information
- Job City Nairobi
