Grants Acquisition and Management Team Leader

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Grants Acquisition and Management Team Leader

Position Title:	Grants Acquisition and Management Team Leader	Application Deadline Date:	25 Sep 2013
Position Location:	Kinshasa, DRC capital city	Position Start Date	01 Nov 2013
Region:	Africa\Southern Africa	Position End Date:	31 Oct 2014
Requisition Category:	International	Recruitment Priority:	Early Warning
Country Name:	Congo - Democratic Republic of	Program/Office Name:	National Office
City/Province:	Kinshasa, DRC capital city	Employee Type:	Contract
Job Grade Level:	16/164	Recruitment Status:	Advertising in Progress
Is this a family post?	Family - Spouse with Children
		Requisition Num:	2013AFSSSCD-99QEHT

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

Coordinate/Facilitate proposal development and grants acquisition by building the profile, pre-positioning the DR Congo National Office including strengthening National Office (NO) proposal grants acquisition capacity.
Lead the DR Congo National Office in developing and rolling out a Grants Acquisition and Management strategy.
To drive growth in non-sponsorship income in alignment with regional and NO strategy.
To engage and retain government, mullti-lateral and private sector donors through successful grants implementation and strong donor relations with the aim of maximising and diversifying the funding base.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership:

Provide day to day leadership in management o f the Grant Acquisition Management (GAM) function.
Provide strategic direction for grants Acquisition in the DR Congo National Office.
To set grant income projections in the NO.
Lead team planning, ensuring efficient and effective deployment of time and talent to achieve team objectives.
Lead GAM capacity development planning and implementation in the NO.
Lead in resolving Grant management issues in the NO.
Cultivate and maintain targeted donor and development partner relations.

Grants Acquisition:
Manage opportunity pipeline tracking planning ( country level donor mapping, strategic direction and areas of alignment, etc).
Work with the Regional Office (RO) to develop tools for the NO, to track and prioritise grant opportunities that are aligned with the regional and NO strategic directions.
Ensure in coordination with the RO and Support Office (SO), and cross functional team in NO support in proposal development.
Develop and maintain consortia whenever necessary in preparation for upcoming opportunities.

Donor Engagement:
Identify key relationships to strengthen the national office pre-positioning and elevate WV’s profile with government, multilateral and private sector donors.
Work with and through RO and in collaboration with SOs colleagues, to maintain strong donor relationships at country level, developing engagement strategies for each donor or a group of donors.
Develop key marketing material for NOs to preposition WV in DRC.
Build relationships and credibility with donors at country level, using previous success and documented best practices in grant management.

Grants Management & Compliance:
Mobilise cross- functional support for GAM performance ( finance, operations, People & Culture (P&C), strategy, technical, QA).
Ensure that grants implementation issues have been resolved including Grants audit issues.
Coordinate with cross functional support, to ensure on time submission of key grant documents as per the agreement (semi & annual reports, mid-term and final evaluation reports, quarterly financial report etc.) and a successful close out of large scale grants.
In conjunction with finance ensure compliance in key grant areas (e.g. eligibility, CAM, match, grant decision making powers, etc).

Capacity Building:
Lead GAM capacity development planning in the NOs (i.e. identification of capacity gaps at NO s in GAM, capacity building initiatives for NO Staff in Grants acquisition, start-up workshops for new grants according to the grants minimum standards, grants management training in various government and multilateral donors’ regulations, training in common areas leading to poor grant implementation, etc).

National Office Representation at various Fora :
To ensure appropriate representation of the NO at strategic fora that could lead to resource acquisition and enhanced programming collaboration.
Represent the National Office in the grants community fora (internal and external to WV).
Participate in WV internal grant communities - GAM Hub.

Others:
Carry out additional responsibilities as assigned by the Deputy National Director.
Attend and participate in devotional meetings.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:

Educational level required: Bachelor Degree required, MBA/equivalent preferred.
Leadership capabilities that includes coaching staff to high level of performance & engaging in effective cross cultural & cross functional working to achieve shared goals and effective indirect line management.
Experienced networker with an ability to maintain a good up to date knowledge of the grant opportunities and trends.

Preferred:
Minimum 5 years experience with government and multilateral organization’s procedures and regulations.
At least 3-5 years of team management experience.
Excellent knowledge and experience of project management with government and multilateral agencies grant funded projects and experience of grant compliance procedures for major bilateral and multilateral donors.
Strong organization and delegation abilities high performance and quality standards negotiation skills ability to motivate teams and inspire teamwork.