Job Ref: 143-SS
Job Title: Grants and
Communications Coordinator
Job Type: Contract
Location: South Sudan
Salary: Not disclosed
Description
Position:
Grants and Communications Coordinator
Location: Juba with travel to the field
Duration:
1 year
Start date: December
2013
Reports to:
Assistant Country Director - Programmes
GOAL South Sudan
GOAL has been working in Sudan since 1985 and first began
implementing its integrated Primary Health Care (PHC) intervention in Twic
County, South Sudan in 1998 where it now supports 11 facilities. GOAL began
work in Abyei in 2003, and now supports seven facilities from its base in Agok
(37km south of Abyei town), and expanded programmes along the Sobat Corridor
(Baliet and Ulang counties) in Upper Nile State in 2007, where it now supports
the County Health Department (CHD) to manage all health facilities in the
counties. GOAL’s holistic approach to addressing the poor health status of
these populations includes the provision of curative care, reproductive health
(RH), nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services, with
complementary livelihoods programming to tackle the root causes of poverty. In
addition, in recent years GOAL has placed a particular focus on preventative
medicine including community health promotion and behaviour change.
Job Purpose:
To manage, coordinate and collate information for
high-quality and timely proposals and reports, coordinate with the Programme
Support Officer (PSO) and Assistant Country Director –Programmes (ACD-P) the
preparation of draft proposals and reports, and supporting the GOAL South Sudan
team on grant implementation is the first and foremost priority followed
by other internal and external communications responsibilities. The Grants and
Communication Manager will further support the GOAL South Sudan country
programme with high-quality research, analysis and communication for internal
and external audiences. Communications will include, but not be limited to
newsletters, advocacy and the development of proposals and reports.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Grants
•
Assist in the strategic design and development of proposals, reports and
communications in collaboration with the Country Director, ACD-Programmes,
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Coordinator, sectoral programme
coordinators, and other GOAL South Sudan staff.
•
Ensure timely delivery of quality reporting and proposals through support to
reporting, procurement planning, tracking of Budget Monitoring Tools (BMTs).
•
Research new programme and funding opportunities in line with the GOAL South
Sudan country strategic plan, including liaising with other INGOs, government
ministries, UN Agencies, bilateral donors and private foundations and
businesses to maintain current knowledge of the donor environment and ‘map’
funding opportunities for GOAL’s programmes in South Sudan.
•
Provide support to Programme Managers, ACD-P and PSO by participating in
strategy design, grants opening and grant closing meetings, disseminating
grants documents, and responding to information requests from the field and
other partners in-country.
•
Line manage the PSO; provide guidance, support and capacity building to PSO and
other key programme staff on proposal writing, strategy and reporting
Representation and Information Management
•
Attend relevant coordination meetings, as delegated by the SMT, representing
GOAL and providing updates and flagging key issues of concern.
•
Attend Health, WASH, Nutrition, Conflict-Reduction, Food Security and
Livelihoods and other relevant cluster meetings when the technical coordinator
and/or ACDP is unavailable, providing verbal or written briefings on the
discussion as appropriate
•
Ensure a consistent flow of information about all activities in GOAL’s field
sites, keeping the SMT and field teams up to date on all developments and key
decisions (programmatic and operational)
Communications
•
Lead the design of promotional materials (newsletters, brochures, marketing
materials) in line with Head Office and donor guidelines and the needs of the
South Sudan team.
•
In collaboration with the ACDP-P and the MEL Coordinator, support GOAL South
Sudan communications to ensure effective and timely external communication with
the relevant government Ministries, key in-country donors, agencies and the
communities in GOAL’s area of operation.
•
With the full knowledge and oversight of the Country Director, be a point of
contact for GOAL’s media team in HO. Support the HO media team to encourage
staff to write blogs, take photographs and shoot video footage, as outlined in
GOAL’s Media Guidelines, and to collate all blogs, images and footage and share
with the media team in HO.
•
Help to notify the HO Media team of any potential news stories and help gather
news items on GOAL South Sudan programmes.
•
Any other duties as outlined by the line manager or Country Director.
Person specification
•
Post-graduate qualification ideally with a specialisation in public health,
development, humanitarian aid, international law, social sciences or another
relevant field;
•
At least three years’ experience in proposal development, logical framework
development and donor reporting (ECHO, DFID, UNHCR, OFDA etc);
•
Experience of working with INGOs in a similar capacity providing programme/
communication/ information management support to relief and development
programmes.
•
Excellent analytical and writing skills in English; knowledge of local
language(s) is desirable.
•
IT skills, especially in Word and Excel with ability to analyse data and
interpret statistical information
•
Ability to work under pressure, and prioritise workload according to the
changing needs of the programme
•
Good interpersonal skills and commitment to capacity building
•
Enthusiastic, flexible and with the ability to work long hours in sometimes
remote and/or insecure contexts to meet the needs of the programme
•
Understanding of mainstreaming principles, including gender, HIV, Disaster Risk
Reduction and conflict sensitivity
•
Experience/knowledge of South Sudan desirable
