Career Opportunity At World Vision

There is a new Career Opportunity At World Vision International. They are seeking to hire a Specialist – Local Resource Moblisation.

Major Responsibilities:

Strategic Management of local Fundraising and partnerships

Initiate and coordinate the development and regular update of WV Ghana’s policy, plans, and guidelines on local resource moblisation and partnerships.
Initiate and coordinate under the supervision of the Resource Acquisition Manager and in concert with the Technical Leads and the Head of Programmes and other relevant functional units, a framework for effective local fundraising and partnerships to achieve strategic and programmatic objectives per country strategy.
Initiate and coordinate under the supervision of the Resource Acquisition Manager the development and monitoring of the implementation of guidelines for local fundraising as well as the operationalization of the partnerships cycle.
Ensure the partnerships cycle is aligned to WVG business processes and approach

Resource Acquisition & Operational management of the Local Fundraising and partnerships

Pursue resource mobilization opportunities aligned to WV Ghana’s strategy and capacities from a variety of corporate and other donors
Mobilize and lead cross-functional proposal development teams with clear expectations and timelines
Anticipate, plan for, and write proposals with high win rate
Regularly review project evaluations, lessons learnt, project and other internal reports and from other NGOs and donors and apply innovations and best practices in future proposals
Ensure readily available data per country programmes priorities for easy reference for proposal and concept note development.
Support the preparation and review of local grants proposal budget
Monitors local Grants Implementation in the field.

Develop a schedule for local resource mobilization within WV Ghana
Maintains a database of all potential donors for purpose of local fund raising
Regularly meet with, brief, and provide updates to current and prospective corporate partners formally and informally
Make presentations to corporate partners, donors and others to share learning, promote best practices, coordinate programming, and foster alliances and funding opportunities
Represent WV Ghana in various forums as assigned by Management
Research and monitor corporate partner and donor strategies, funding, and regulatory trends and advise Management

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