Programme Development and Funding Manager

Role overview

The Programme Development and Funding Manager (PDFM) will lead efforts to secure funding for VSO Tanzania's projects in health, education and livelihoods. The PDFM will write high quality proposals in partnership with our programmes team as well as network, secure partnerships and create consortia with strong organisations, ultimately leading to increased funding for VSO Tanzania's work.

Responsibilities:

Programme Development

1. Support the collation of evidence based Country Office programme design through the creation of programme strategy documents (including signature packages)
2. Ensure programme design is informed by and aligns with donor trends and national development priorities – identify additional relevant development interventions, including advocacy, and cross cutting themes as appropriate
3. upport the local contextualisation of VSO's global flagship frameworks

Funding strategy

1. Ensuring funding strategy aligns to signature packages; work with country office and programme funding manager to ensure funding plans reflect programme strategy and appropriate national and regional donor mapping is up to date
2. Support Country Office to respond to funding opportunities from institutional donors, trusts & foundations, the corporate sector and major donors (directly and/or through coordinated support from global funding and programme teams);
3. Advise on, and support the development of, consortia with other I/NGOs to ensure VSO is well positioned for upcoming funding opportunities

Donor and partner engagement

1. Support local engagement with partners and donors – advising the country team on appropriate and prioritized engagement strategies; participate in local INGO forums, thematic groups etc,
2. Gather donor intelligence from partner and donor meetings to feed into country and regional planning
3. Where necessary, provide presentation materials (e.g. signature packages, concept notes, briefings) for country office staff to use for donor / partner meetings

Bid development

1. Evaluate bids against country / programme strategy to support their go / no go decisions
2. Participate as member of bid team including as: proposal lead, reviewer, content provider; facilitate proposal development workshops as needed

Contract management and grant monitoring

1. For secured contracts, facilitate grant start up; support programme team to design and implement appropriate monitoring & evaluation systems
2. Monitor spend rates and delivery toward agreed upon targets; write reports for donors, provide ongoing local donor / partner engagement during implementation,

Other requirements

1. Support capacity building and training of country office team and local partners on proposal development and help conduct trainings to continually build capacity and promote effective and efficient processes Share learning, knowledge and tools with larger organisation to advance good practice and innovation

HOW TO APPLY:

If you're interested in applying for this role, please download the job description on this linkhttp://vso.force.com/jobopportunities/Job_DetailsPage?jid=a0mD0000007hHhW to read more details about the position and the skills and experience we're looking for. To submit your application, click on 'Apply now' and complete all relevant fields on the online application form.