Position

Le Chief de parti Adjoint/Conseiller(ère) principal(e) jouera un rôle de leader stratégique en garantissant la mise en œuvre technique d’interventions à fort impact et éprouvées, et en veillant à ce que le projet atteigne les objectifs fixés et respecte les exigences en matière de rapports. I/elle assumera les responsabilités du Chef de Parti en son absence. Il/elle assurera la coordination entre les donateurs, les principales parties prenantes et les autres partenaires de mise en œuvre, et interagira avec les différents ministères, départements et agences du gouvernement (MDA), ainsi qu’avec leurs représentants dans les pays couverts par l’Afrique de l’Ouest.

Le Chef de Parti Adjoint sera le chef de file d’Options et le plus haut responsable du projet. Il/elle sera chargé(e) de la mise en œuvre stratégique et réussite du champ d’application d’Options dans tous les pays de la mise en œuvre.

Le Chef de Parti Adjoint connaîtra les approches actuelles de mise en œuvre et d’exécution des activités. Il/elle veillera à ce que les approches, l’apprentissage et les outils fondés sur des données probantes soient utilisés pour informer le déploiement des programmes de santé génésique évolutifs.

Compétences Clés

• Compétences en matière de leadership et d’influence.
• Réflexion stratégique, résolution de problèmes et compétences en matière de prise de décision.
• Solides compétences en matière de gestion financière et de gestion des risques.
• Solides compétences en matière d’engagement des parties prenantes et de gestion des relations.
• Solides compétences administratives et organisationnelles, bonne gestion du temps.
• Excellentes aptitudes à la communication orale et écrite, y compris à la rédaction de rapports.

Expériences Clés

• Au moins 10 ans d’expérience professionnelle dans la conception, la gestion et la mise en œuvre de projets de PF/SR financés par des donateurs en Afrique de l’Ouest.
• Expertise avérée en matière de préparation, de planification et de mise à l’échelle d’innovations et d’approches.
• Avoir fait preuve d’excellence dans l’apprentissage et la documentation des projets, c’est-à-dire avoir rédigé des notes techniques, des publications et d’autres documents relatifs à l’amélioration de la qualité des services.
• Forte expérience en matière de collaboration externe et de négociation, favorisant les partenariats entre les gouvernements et les autres parties prenantes, y compris au niveau infranational, et renforçant les capacités nationales et infranationales.
• Expérience significative de la direction et de la gestion d’équipes basées sur plusieurs sites. Expérience préalable de la direction d’une équipe hautement qualifiée et pluridisciplinaire et de l’habilitation des membres de l’équipe à fournir un travail de grande qualité.
• Expérience de la gestion d’équipes dans des environnements à haut risqué.

Education Formelle / Qualifications

• Master en santé publique ou dans un domaine pertinent.

Benefits

Options offre un ensemble complet d’avantages sociaux, notamment une généreuse indemnité de congé annuel, une assurance médicale et un 13e mois de salaire.

Autres Informations

• Options se consacre à l’égalité des chances pour tous et reconnaît que chaque individu est unique. Bien que nous cherchions toujours à accepter les différences individuelles et à célébrer la diversité de notre personnel, nous voulons également nous assurer que chaque membre de l’équipe est adapté à son rôle et qu’il bénéficie des meilleures chances de réussir.
• Notre organisation s’engage à sauvegarder et à promouvoir le bien-être des enfants, des jeunes et des adultes vulnérables et attend de l’ensemble du personnel et des titulaires de postes qu’ils partagent cet engagement.
• Nous recherchons des personnes pro-choix, promouvant la diversité et l’inclusion, énergiques et enthousiastes à l’égard de la vision d’Options.
• Les candidats doivent avoir le droit de travailler au Togo, en Côte d’Ivoire, au Cameroun, en Mauritanie et au Sénégal.

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

This role will provide expert modeling and strategic analytical insight into Plan International’s financial economy to underpin strategic thinking to ensure the financial sustainability of the whole Plan International organisation. This role will lead the development and continuous improvement of robust, complex financial and economic models to analyse scenarios relating to the financial sustainability. It will also provide strategic analytical insight based on the modelling and wider political context and external environment to maximise the impact of modelling, supporting the CFO, Director, Strategic Finance, CEO, and other key senior stakeholders

About You

You have degree-level education in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, or equivalent related work experience. With exceptional financial modeling skills and strong financial and economic analysis experience, you are proficient in delivering strategic modeling within a Power BI environment. Your expertise includes data modeling, management, scenario planning, and financial risk assessment, enabling informed decision-making and effective business strategies.

Location: The location of this role can be flexible. Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub, and you have the pre-existing right to work and live. You may be office, home, or hybrid-based.

Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract per employing office’s standard terms and conditions.

Reports to: Director Strategic Finance

Closing Date: Saturday 19th October at 23.59pm UK

*Applicable locations include: Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.

Organisational profile

Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a feminist, pan-African Rapid Response Fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and womn human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. Recognizing the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly, UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grantmaking mechanism to support unanticipated, time-sensitive, innovative, and unique initiatives that promote womn’s agency in peace and political participation, social and economic power building as well as natural resources governance and stewardship. The Fund works to support African Womn Human Rights Defenders (AWHRDs), particularly in the feminist and womn’s rights movements, in their actions, which enable them to support and sustain themselves, each other, and their work before, during, and after urgent situations.

UAF-Africa mobilises resources from a broad base of international and increasingly local funders committed to protecting and advancing womn’s rights and feminist agendas in Africa. Our primary purpose is to provide funding to AWHRDs and their groups, organisations and the movements to help them prepare for and navigate urgent situations with appropriate actions.

UAF-Africa is registered in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Operating as a virtual organisation, the Fund boasts of strategic physical presence in East Africa: Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda; North Africa: Cairo, Egypt; Central Africa: Bujumbura, Burundi and Yaoundé, Cameroon; Southern Africa: Harare, Zimbabwe, Antananarivo, Madagascar and West Africa: Abuja, Nigeria, Cotonou, Benin and Dakar, Senegal.

Position Overview

The position provides efficient and effective smooth functioning within the Office of the Executive Director (ED) through day-to-day strategic administration. With the guidance of the ED, the role will further provide coordination of the UAF-Africa Board engagements through developing and maintaining an up-to-date calendar of meetings, ensuring agendas are developed, board committees run efficiently and effectively, minutes are kept, deadlines are met, and follow-up is consistent. This position will report to the Executive Director.

Specific Responsibilities.

1. Office of the Executive Director Coordination

• Acting as a strategic advisor and counsel to the ED assessing issues that serve as barriers to the team or organisation operating at maximum effectiveness and safeguarding the ED’s office.

• Engaging, creating and maintaining cross-portfolio relationships to enable leadership success of the Fund.

• Supporting the ED to be more productive through efficient diary management, optimising travel schedules, preparing material in advance of meetings, and facilitating remote decision making and prioritization.

• Troubleshooting in the ED’s office, being on the lookout for issues that may require the Executive Director’s attention as well as handling difficult or unexpected situations.

• Manage the ED’s office and act as the liaison person between the ED and the Senior Management Team (SMT), staff, board members and other external stakeholders.

• Representing the ED by attending meetings in their absence as assigned.

• Acting as a liaison between the ED’s office and all parties, both internal and external.

• Routing correspondence, visitors, calls, and responding to emails on behalf of the ED.

• Assess all inquiries directed to the ED and determine the proper course of action.

• Traveling with the ED to conferences and meetings, locally and internationally, as necessary.

• Conserving the ED’s time by reading, researching, and routing correspondence, drafting letters and documents, collecting and analysing information and initiating telecommunications.

• Improve current processes and coordinate organisational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity.

• Collaborating with the senior management team members to determine and prioritize business strategies.

• As instructed and guided by the ED, providing portfolio heads with recommendations and consultation to improve teamwork.

• Maintaining comprehensive and accurate organisational records, documents, and reports, ensuring that critical documents are backed up.

• Vetting requests for time and routing requests to other departments as appropriate to balance between focus and collaboration time for the ED’s office.

• Supporting in the day-to-day general ED’s office operations.

• Maintaining confidentiality of all information and documents within their care.

• As guided by the ED assigning work to relevant offices and following up on results for reporting.

• Providing historical reference by developing and utilizing filing and retrieval systems, recording meeting discussions, and follow-up for action.

• Any other duties as assigned by the ED.

  Board Coordination

• Providing strategic support to the Board of Directors: agenda setting and approvals, preparing for Board meetings, and sending out materials in advance, following up on outstanding issues action items, and sending reminders as necessary.

• Sit in on all governance meetings and record minutes for review and finalisation by the board.

• Collect and document for records keeping all board resolutions.

• Drive board functioning – through consistent support of the board’s functioning, including assisting the Chair and ED in developing agendas for a minimum of three meetings per year, compiling, editing, and publishing the board book for each meeting, taking or editing meeting minutes, and coordinating all meeting logistics. Codify board policies and any policy changes and ensure smooth implementation and compliance.

• Working with Board Consultants on governance work, providing information, following up on materials, and facilitating meetings.

• Facilitating recruitment and onboarding of new board members, monitoring term lengths, and supporting ED and the Board in researching and recruiting new board members.

• Maintaining executives’ (Executive Director & Board of Directors) appointment schedule by planning and scheduling meetings, conferences, teleconferences, and travel plans effectively.

• Coordinating with the relevant offices all board travel logistics and operations.

• Maintain an up-to-date board list with complete personal details and ensure to update records as necessary.

  Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and or related fields.

Project management qualification an added advantage.

Skills and Experience

• At least 5 years experience in a similar position.
• Passionate about UAF-Africa’s mission, committed to teamwork and achieving results.
• Class four drivers’ license with a minimum of 3 years driving experience mandatory.
• Good command of written and verbal English (Bilingual English/French an added advantage).
• Administration and project management – high degree of organization, ability to keep groups and individuals on task, and support successful execution and follow-through of meetings by documenting and creating action plans.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to listen actively and speak clearly, to read and comprehend a variety of communications and resources, to write clearly on administrative and other matters, and to summarize and communicate information efficiently and accurately.
• Problem-solving – including thinking ahead to identify opportunities and propose solutions and knowing when to seek input and when to make independent decisions.
• Collaboration and diplomacy – ability to build rapport with others, especially in senior positions, and Relationship building – with donors, peers, and staff. Patient, discreet, and able to maintain high levels of confidentiality.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and maintain administrative systems and to create and maintain accurate and complete records.
• Bookkeeping experience helpful, or ability to understand and utilize systems for managing financial transactions, donations, and vendor records; and ability to enter information accurately and efficiently.
• Strong ability to multitask and management an effective work calendar.
• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as assigned.

Work Environment

This is a regional position that involves some national, regional and international travel. UAF-Africa is an equal-opportunity employer that does not discriminate in its hiring practices. To build the strongest possible workforce, UAF-Africa actively seeks a diverse applicant pool. The Fund is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. The position will be based in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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Consultancy description: Analysis of data related to the barometer of the localisation of humanitarian aid in Cameroon.
Area of expertise: Information and data management
Location: Yaounde, Cameroon
Contract: Consultancy
Consultation Period: October 2024 – February 2024
Number of consultation days: 20 days

About ICVA:
Founded in 1962, ICVA (International Council of Voluntary Agencies) is a global network of over 160 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in 160 countries. Its mission is to make humanitarian action more principled and effective by working collectively and independently to influence policies and practices. ICVA promotes and facilitates the effective engagement of NGOs in the humanitarian sector, focusing on forced migration, humanitarian coordination, humanitarian financing, and system-strengthening issues.

About Cameroonian Humanitarian Organizations Initiative abbreviated CHOI:
CHOI is a platform registered in 2008 under no. 00000317/RDA/J06/SAAJP/BAPP, P.O Box 1322 Yaoundé, Tel: +237 677 66 50 2 7 / 693 40 28 30. With its ten regional offices, CHOI helps to harmonize the programs and activities of national NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) and CSOs (Civil Society Organizations) so that they can act more effectively in the interests of vulnerable populations, by increasing the visibility of their actions and those involved; professionalizing organizations; putting in place a coordinated resource mobilization strategy; contributing to a more effective, rational and coordinated humanitarian response; helping to professionalize, structure and improve operational and technical capacities; empowering beneficiaries.

Context of the Consultancy:
Localisation has become a key topic in humanitarian aid over recent years. Since the Grand Bargain commitments, especially in West and Central Africa over the past two years, several initiatives have been undertaken to improve the role of national actors in humanitarian responses, including:

• Permanent seats on the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and key coordination forums.
• More partnerships and capacity-strengthening initiatives.
• Improved direct access to funding.
• Localisation forums and working groups.

However, without clearly established goals and measurable criteria, it remains difficult to assess progress in localization and identify the remaining challenges. ICVA and its partners have developed a regional methodology to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate the degree of localisation in humanitarian responses, track progress, and identify successes and challenges across countries in West and Central Africa. This aims to:

• Ensure a system of best practices and lessons learned.
• Advocate for evidence-based policies.
• Improve the localisation agenda in countries with concrete proposals.

The project is regional to ensure harmonization, comparative analysis, and constructive exchanges of best practices between countries. However, it relies heavily on national leadership (via the national project steering committee) to ensure alignment with national actors’ needs and expectations, full project ownership, and long-term sustainability.

Given recent advances in localisation, CHOI will lead the project in Cameroon in collaboration with ICVA.

Scope of Work:

The consultant IM will have to implement the methodology and tools developed at regional level within the country. He will be supported by an analyst consultant in country. A regional consultant (Regional Information Management Advisor) will provide support and guidance on the technical aspects of the project (tools, methodology, etc.).

Each country will have to take ownership of the methodology and tools developed to adapt them and ensure the best possible ownership of the project. Under the lead of CHOI, the IM consultant will therefore have to liaise with the regional consultant and the national GI consultant to ensure (i) that the project fits into the regional framework and (ii) that as many people as possible take ownership of the project at country level.

Methodology and Deliverables:
The steps below follow the full methodology, but only some of them will be carried out by the consultant IM.

Step 1: Indicator Library and Scoring Methodology (0 days):
This step will be carried out by the regional consultant. There is no day planned for the consultant in country. However, it is important to be aware of it for the overall progress of the project.

Drawing on the indicators developed by NEAR and HAG and included in the IASC’s localisation policies, the regional consultant, with the help of ICVA and CHOI, will develop a library of indicators based on the 6 components of localisation: 1) Partnerships, 2) Financing, 3) Capacities, 4) Coordination and complementarity, 5) Policy, influence and visibility and 6) Participation.

To this end, it will develop framework tools to facilitate country ownership. This will take the form of an exhaustive matrix of existing and available indicators, together with their collection methods and questionnaires. These elements will serve as essential supports during the methodological definition workshops in the countries.

A scoring methodology will be developed to ensure that spatial and/or temporal comparisons can be made within each component.

Step 2 – Overview: choice of indicators and methodological definition at national level (4 days)
The national IM consultant will support CHOI to organise a 2-day workshop based on the library of indicators developed in stage 1 to:

• Determine the components to be evaluated and the ambitions (‘what success looks like’)
• Select and contextualise the most relevant indicators
• For each indicator, define the target audience and the evaluation measure.

During this stage, the national IM consultant will be responsible for adapting the collection method and tools, while maintaining a closer link with the regional consultant to ensure methodological consistency at regional level. This will be achieved in particular through closer engagement with the various stakeholders at national level.

Step 3 – Primary and secondary data collection (10 days)
Primary data collection: The model forms will be revised and adapted by the regional consultant, with the help of the national IM consultant, for online surveys. These online surveys will be aimed at a wide audience, potentially including national and international NGOs, the United Nations, donors, etc. In order to maximise the number of respondents, they will be sent by e-mail to CHOI, INGO Forum, OCHA and other NGO forums mailing lists and presented and carried out in real time at a plenary meeting of each forum.

The collection of secondary data (recovery of minutes, attendance lists, financial data, etc.) will be carried out by the country IM consultant.

The country IM consultant will be responsible for monitoring and supervising the process of collecting primary and secondary data at country level (email dispatches / reminders / response rates, direct data collection, etc.) in direct liaison with CHOI and with the technical support of the regional consultant.
The country IM consultant will be trained in primary and secondary data collection by the regional consultant.

Step 4 – Processing and making data available (6 days)
The national IM consultant is responsible for supporting the national analyst consultant through :

• Processing and making data available.
• Supporting the manipulation of data to facilitate analysis.
• Drawing up graphs of interest to the national consultant analyst.

Commitment to CHOI and ICVA
Under the leadership of the CHOI the IM consultant will report to CHOI and to the ICVA regional team in West and Central Africa and will work closely with the regional consultant, the analyst consultant in country, the NGO forums and the project steering committee. He/she may be required to present the progress of the analysis to the Project Steering Committee at its request.

The IM consultant will meet with the team and provide regular updates on progress at each stage of the project.

Expected deliverables :

• Matrix of indicators, key questions, collection methods and weighting adapted following the initial country workshop
• Databases
• Graphic visuals

Consultant requirements, skills and abilities:
Compulsory skills

• Experience in information management, data collection, KII
• Experience in document analysis and documentation of results
• Proven ability to work independently and/or in a virtual working environment and to meet agreed deadlines with limited direct supervision
• Availability and flexibility to work a minimum of 2 days per week on this assignment throughout the project timeline: [October 2024 – Mid February 2025], with possible busy and slow periods
• Perfect command of English and French

Preferably

• Experience in the humanitarian sector
• Expertise in humanitarian coordination
• Proven understanding of the challenges of localisation

Note: Throughout the work, the consultant must be registered in accordance with legal requirements and must be able to submit documentation proving that he/she meets all legal obligations for consultancy, including full compliance with ICVA regulations, including the safeguarding policy.

1. Background of the meeting

Brot für die Welt together with local partner organizations currently implements nine Civil Peace Service (CPS) country and regional programs. Each of these programs counts with a coordinator or coordinator team. Brot für die Welt wants to organize an international meeting of the CPS coordinators to facilitate learning and teamwork. We expect 11 coordinators to participate in the meeting from 2 to 5 December at Brot für die Welt offices in Berlin. The meeting will be held in English, with interpretation into French, as some of the coordinators are English or French speaking. The main responsibility for preparing the meeting rests with the CPS coordination team working at the Brot für die Welt in Berlin.

2. Mandate of the Consultancy

The consultant is responsible for the design and the facilitation of a 4-day meeting. The task includes the methodical conception, drafting of the workshop agenda, and chairing and facilitating a participatory workshop for around 15-20 participants from six countries (Germany, Switzerland, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, DR Congo). The working languages are French and English.

The consultant accepts the following duties and responsibilities:

1. Participate in preparatory meetings with the coordination team.
2. Responsibility for the design, preparation and facilitation of the meeting.

3. Timeframe

The consultancy begins on November 1st and ends on 6 December 26th, 2024

Preparatory meetings (in person or online) with the coordination team = 1 day

– Content-wise and methodical design and preparation of the workshop,

– Preparation of the agenda in consultation with the coordination team

Workshop agenda = 1 day

Finalizing workshop preparations together with coordination team = ½ Day

2 – 5 December Chairing and facilitating the meeting in Berlin = 4 days

Total: 6,5 Days

The intention of this call for Expression of Interest (EOI) is to establish a dedicated roster of highly skilled and experienced proposal development technical writers, for AIRD based on the needs and opportunities.

Background:

The African Initiatives for Relief and Development (AIRD) is a non-political, non-religious and non-profit making NGO with Country Programme Offices in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Niger, Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. AIRD’s objective is to offer operational technical support, including but not limited to supply chain, logistics and infrastructure in partnership with relief and development organisations that focus on disaster-affected, poverty-infested and development-oriented areas. AIRD delivers for and through partners including but not limited to UN Agencies, international and national donor organisations and governments.

To support its growth ambition AIRD now seeks to set up a roster of Business Development and Proposal Writer (Consultant)

Purpose and Objectives

The role of Business Development and Proposal Grant Writer (Consultant) is a specialised consultancy position responsible to guide the proposal development process, ensuring that the project design, strategic approach and interventions are well aligned to the specific donors’ objectives, coordination with AIRD proposal development team lead- Business Development and Strategic Partnership, Program, Finance to lead the writing of winning proposals through gathering insight and inputs from AIRD country teams, partners and relevant stakeholders to create a comprehensive, cohesive and complaint technical narrative. The Proposal Writer will contribute to the design of the Management and Staffing Plan to ensure proper implementation of the project design.

Location of Assignment

Assignments may be undertaken remotely, and no travel is expected, unless expressly invited. Support for donor engagement, scoping or bid identification is not required within the scope of this EOI. The position is solely responsible for delivery of efficient and high-quality proposal writing.

Specific Task:

1. Project Design Leadership

• Develop a realistic proposal development plan and end to end process road map with clear responsibilities and timeline
• Lead the development of the technical approach to ensure it aligns with specific donors’ objectives, priorities and requirements.
• Conduct background research and identify necessary information to strengthen the project design, integrating lessons learned from past similar projects both with in and outside AIRD projects.
• Facilitate design and kick start workshops, theory of change discussions, and stakeholder consultations, engaging Head Office and country technical teams, partners, NGOs, and government actors as needed.
• Lead the design process, ensuring all stakeholders contribute to a cohesive and strategic approach that reflects the opportunity details
• Ensure you understand the donor requirements, program design planning, thematic areas and deadlines.
• Lead for the proposal response, including end-to-end planning, timeline development, soliciting inputs from program, country teams, Business development, finance, and other relevant support colleagues, specific to the proposal and annex requirements. This includes acting as (internal) proposal focal point for all queries, facilitating senior management reviews and consolidating inputs for final submission.
• Lead the proposal, writing, edit and formatting to ensure the whole proposal is consistent and high quality.
• Coordinate the review and feedback integration and provide regular updates, including timely escalating issues as required.
• Participating in a lesson learned call following bid submission as required.

2. Collaboration and Coordination

• Work closely with the AIRD Proposal Development Team Lead to define partner roles, budget allocations, and project timelines.
• Contribute to negotiations of partner roles and ensure feedback on missing partners is provided, fostering a collaborative teamwork approach.
• Ensure strategic alignment with AIRD strategic priorities and thematic program interventions, while coordinating with Business Development and Strategic Partnership, Program, Finnane and Administration, and to ensure that the project design is fully captured in the MEAL Plan and budget.
• Provide feedback on the proposal development calendar and validate budget marks for different sections.
• Participate in preparatory calls, workshops, meetings, and technical discussions as needed.

3. Technical Narrative Development

• Lead the development of the technical narrative in collaboration with technical team members ensuring clarity, cohesion, and alignment with project/program objectives.
• Coordinate inputs from team members, partners, and other stakeholders, delegating writing assignments where appropriate.
• Ensure the technical design is fully captured in the logical framework and MEAL plan and work closely with the Cost and Budget Lead to align the detailed budget with the technical narrative.
• Complete writing assignments as needed. Delegate writing assignments to Technical Team members, including partners.
• Support drafts to the Proposal Team Lead to coordinate the review and support the Proposal Team Lead in assigning technical team members for draft reviews.
• Review and incorporate inputs and subsequent revisions with the Proposal Writer and Technical Team members.

4. Final Review and Submission

• Together with the Proposal Team Lead, review the full draft proposal and make final revisions to ensure alignment across all sections and with donor requirements.
• Make final approvals on technical content in coordination with Head Office and country technical leads, ensuring compliance with donor requirements before submission.
• Assist with post-submission revisions, negotiations, and best and final offer responses, and any additional revisions requested by various donors as needed.
• Coordinate real time review, including lessons learnt and implications for future AIRD proposal development

5. Duration

This EOI serves as an opportunity for candidates to be added to a roster of proposal writers for AIRD but does not serve as a guarantee of contracting. Proposal development assignments are expected to last between two to three weeks on average; however, the level of effort required will depend on the scope of the opportunity.

If selected to become part of the roster, a framework agreement will be provided for 24-month period. Signing a framework agreement does not commit AIRD to providing work during this period for the assigned consultant/s. In case the consultant would be matched with an opportunity,

6. Applicant Profile

Education

• Master’s degree in international development or other relevant discipline.
• Proposal writing training certification, or attendance record.

Experience

• Extensive experience designing winning project proposals for various donors including bi-laterals, private corporates, foundations, multilaterals and UN Agencies ; going beyond the generic proposal writing templates
• At least six years’ experience of working in program delivery and with institutional donor audiences or similar in business development and/or management roles.
• At least three years’ experience working specifically in proposal writing positions in lead writer positions in a humanitarian context. Experience writing large proposals (preferably over 10 million USD multi years and multi countries) for institutional donors is essential. A past successful proposal might be requested
• Strength in telling AIRD story (targeted messaging) in a skilful way that resonates with funding award agencies
• Demonstrable experience of working with affiliated offices within complex organisation structures.
• Experience working cross culturally with demonstrated effectiveness as a Team Leader
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with the operational context of various AIRD countries of operations
• Experience in establishing consortia, or negotiating implementing partnerships will be considered an advantage
• Keen familiarity with donor regulations, standards and compliance matters.
• Excellent written and spoken English and French and attention to detail.
• Able to demonstrate strong facilitation skills, work efficiently to deliver key tasks and adapt quickly to changing deadlines and requirements.
• Recognition, certificate/s and award in proposal development, will be an added advantage
• Strong understanding of Sectoral Programs:
• • Water, Sanitation and Hygiene – Food Security – Livelihoods – Youth Employment and skilling – Emergency Response (all sectors) – Shelter/NFI – Social Enterprise income generation – Logistics value chain – Renewable energy

Cross-Cutting:

• • Climate – Anticipatory Action/Preparedness – Cash/Vouchers – Displacement Responses – Durable Solutions

Donor Experience:

• • European UniSanitation, Hygiene (WASH) – United States (BHA, BPRM, other) – Germany (GFFO, BMZ, GIZ, KFW) – United Kingdom (FCDO, CSSF, other) – Canada (GAC, other) – Swiss Development Agency – SIDA – DANIDA – Ministries of Foreign Affairs (NMFA, Czech MoFA, French MoFA, Dutch MoFA, Italian MoFA, other) – World Bank

Target Groups of Focus

• • Refugees – IDPs – Youth – Women – PWD – Communities