Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 25 Jul 2016
CARE is seeking a Program Development and Management Officer to provide support for program development, grant management and resource acquisition with high standards of appropriateness, timeliness, and effectiveness. Lead the design process of full proposals and concept papers less than $4 million. Ensure that grants are managed effectively through appropriate, timely and detailed communication and reporting to key stakeholders. Encourage and facilitate the documentation of promising practices and lessons learned in program development, grant management and resource acquisition.
Primary Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Assistant Country Director-Program (ACD-P) to operationalize the funding strategy, ensuring alignment with context humanitarian needs, response strategy as well as operational feasibility and technical quality.
- Monitor and analyze new funding opportunities that align with the overall response strategy and allow the Country Office (CO) to meet the intended strategic objectives.
- Work with Sector leads and Area managers to capture programming gaps/opportunities and lessons learned from on-going projects to inform new intervention designs.
- Support CARE South Sudan (SS) prepositioning efforts, including gathering intelligence on donor priorities and work with Sector leads to develop Concept Notes.
Primary Skills
- Degree in Social Sciences, International Development or equivalent.
- Demonstrated success in securing international development funding from sources such as United States Agency for International Development/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), European Union/Equipment for Charity Hospitals Overseas (EU/ECHO), Department for International Development (DFID), Global Affairs Canada/Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development (GAC/DFATD), and other institutional donors
- Minimum of 2 years working experiences in relief and development contexts.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in both English
- Excellent analysis and written skills for writing concept papers and design documents (including log frames and indicators).
- Demonstrated proposal development experience, including managing proposal development teams.
- Computer knowledge including Word, Excel, Lotus Notes and Power Point
How to apply:
To apply for this position, please visit our website at
https://chp.tbe.taleo.net/chp02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CAREUSA&cws=1&rid=3214
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