b Title: Grants Coordinator

Direct Reporting to: Country Director

Technical Reporting to: IF Manager HQ

Location: Mogadishu, Somalia

Closing date: Nov 30, 2023 

Job Link: https://humanappeal.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=d88a787c-45fe-4d5b-8afb-0831c833cc09

About Human Appeal

Here at Human Appeal we have an exciting opportunity for an Institutional Funding (I.F) Coordinator to be based at our Somalia office in Mogadishu. This is 12 month fixed term contract, renewable depend on performance and availability of funding

Human Appeal is a faith-based charity that aims to abolish poverty by providing humanitarian aid, sustainable development programs and championing advocacy for our beneficiaries worldwide. Human Appeal has 7 International Field Offices across the globe. Human Appeal Somalia Field office programme operations are based in Mogadishu, Gedo region, with programmatic focus in the sectors of; WASH, Shelter, FSL, Education/Child Sponsorship, Protection and Health & Nutrition.

CONDITION:

Please note this is a local contract, for this role you must have the right to work in Somalia. Main Job Purpose

To support Somalia Office in the organistion’s growth through proactive management and coordination of institutional funding and strategic partnerships. The Role holder will focus on securing funds and developing relationships with high profile Institutional Donors, Trusts and Foundations and CSRs in the Somalia office.

Accountabilities

Funding landscape/ IF portfolio Planning (20%):

To provide periodic analysis for funding landscape in the country, new funding trends and donors’

funding priorities.

To support in donor mapping through gathering related donors’ intelligence and identifying new

potential donors for HA humanitarian and development projects.

To develop donors detailed profiles related to institutional donors(i.e: UN agencies, ECHO, EU, USAid, etc) mainly based on their thematic and geographical preferences as well as their

regulations and eligibility criteria.

To develop donors detailed profiles related to Trusts and Foundations as well as private sector.

This includes Coca Cola, IKEA, OPEC, Bill and Melinda gates foundation, Ford foundation etc. To identify new funding opportunities, in line with HA capacity and priorities, on regular basis.

To ensure maintaining up to date donors’ due diligence and compliance.

To support IF regional team in developing monthly funding landscape reports.

To report to IF regional team on the progress made against IF planned KPIs on monthly basis.

Networking and donors’ relationships (40%):

To support in identifying, approaching, and meeting new donors, INGOs, NGOs, Universities, Corporates, Research centres, Trusts and Foundations and private sector reps in the country

office.

To support Country Director in establishing new partnerships with IF donors.

To support Country Director in identifying and building consortiums at the country level as well

as globally.

To support Country Directors in conducting regular meeting with donors, local authorities and

other aid actors.

To ensure enhancing HA’s visibility within IF donors’ and aid sectors actors through developing

quarterly impact reports, to be shared with donors locally and globally.

To strengthen the competitive position of the organisation through ensuring that we remain up

to date with donors, funding and compliance regularities globally.

To identify list of annual global funding conferences and networking events.

To participate in relevant internal and external working groups, conferences and workshops. To activate HA participation and membership in funding and coordination platforms.

To travel nationally and overseas for networking in addition to establishing an understanding for better, up-to-date programme design and proposal development.

Proposal Development and Project Designing (30%):

To lead on country proposals development; coordinating with other related departments, including Programmes, Finance, M&E and HR for gathering information required for CN, detailed

proposal, LF and budget.

Submit proposals and budgets to IF regional team for review and feedback before the final submission is made to donors.

To gather all the relevant documents for submission to institutional donors, trusts, foundations,

strategic partners etc.

To ensure all submissions are in line with donor guidelines, internal criteria and international

standards.

To lead on gathering all needed documentation and information for capacity assessment and due diligence requested by IF donors.

Grant Management and Reporting (10%):

To support Country team and IF regional team in submitting timely and quality narrative and

financial reports.

To support project managers in reporting and regularly updating project monitoring tool.