Porgramme Development and Partnership Officer

Key Result Areas

▪ The Programme Development and Partnership Officer will be responsible for pursuing sustainable financing for FAWE.  

▪ Work to develop donor appeals and engage with donors to ensure adequate and timely financing for core functions and in response to needs, working closely with the planning and donor reporting focal points.

▪ Promptly identify Funding opportunities for FAWE and explore avenues for increasing FAWE’s Financial portfolio.  

▪ Guide and coordinate FAWE’s response to programme calls and ensure communication and follow-up.

▪ Responsible for Grant Management.  ▪ Manage donor relations.  

▪ Provide recommendations on new funding opportunities and approaches to best exploit them.

 Key Duties and Responsibilities

▪ Facilitate the development of a FAWE Resource Mobilization Strategy that includes securing new, diverse, and additional resources for FAWE.  

▪ Conduct and develop a 5-year funding needs assessment for FAWE.  

▪ Develop a Resource Mobilization Manual that includes standard operating procedures and processes; and define the direction of resource acquisition and utilization, approvals and follow up.

 ▪ Conducting research on potential donors/partners such as trusts, foundations, companies, and high net worth individuals. This includes proactively identifying and constantly scanning the horizon, network, and solicit donor intelligence and sharing information on donor profiles (policies, preferences, geographical focus).  

▪ Draft appealing proposals and concepts to diverse sources, including development partners, corporate, academia, policymakers, philanthropists, and foundations.

▪ Produce Resource Mobilization Plans and Reports as per stipulated periods and requirements. Includes close working relation with the Finance team in development of appropriate budgets.

▪  Developing, managing, and updating Friends of FAWE databases to record their contacts and preference information, maintaining a network of corporate contacts and effectively managing and maximizing these relationships.

▪ Develop and Strengthen Partnerships for Joint Proposal Writing especially with credible organizations in the country. Includes registering with relevant fund-raising associations.

▪ Organize resource mobilization events, for example, donor round tables.

▪ Build staff (Both Regional Secretariat and National Chapters) capacity on resource mobilization at all levels, including development of tools and skills to aid staff in resource mobilization. This will also include internally building a case for resource mobilization by sensitizing staff on the proposition for mobilizing resources.

▪ Maintain relations with donors and ensure they are consistently and timely informed on important operational Issues. This includes effective communication with donors’ focal points and being FAWE’s focal point for resource mobilization and sustainability activities.