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Job Title:   Grants Officer   

Organisation: Finn Church AID (FCA)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Grants Manager

About US:

Finn Church AID (FCA) is Finland’s largest development cooperation organization. Our action is guided by international human rights standards and principles. We realize our mission and vision through development cooperation, humanitarian assistance and advocacy work. We contribute to positive change by supporting people in the most vulnerable situations within fragile and disaster-affected areas. We consider three thematic areas as central to sustainable change: the right to peace (R2P), livelihood (R2L) and quality education (R2QE). We operate in 13 countries, where the needs are most dire. We work with the poorest people, regardless of their religious beliefs, ethnic background or political convictions. Finn Church Aid is a member of the ACT Alliance (ACT), an alliance of faith-based development and humanitarian aid organizations forming one of the world’s largest aid organizations. FCA Uganda is active in 13 districts and 7 refugee settlements.

Job Summary:  We are looking for a competent Grants Officer to be based in Kampala, Uganda. The position requires a candidate with extensive programmatic experience and skill.

The Grants Officer will be responsible for supporting the project design, proposal and report writing and grant management procedures of the FCA Uganda Programme, jointly with the relevant country office staff, local partners and other stakeholders to ensure a timely, compliant and competitive proposals and compliance with donor rules and regulations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• In coordination with the senior management team and Grants Manager, monitor and map new funding opportunities at the local level based on FCA Uganda Country Strategy and fundraising strategy; provide information for Country Programme management on relevant funding opportunities; ensure flow of information on donor rules and regulations.
• Support annual planning with preparation and update of annual Income Plan and other relevant grants related tasks.
• Together with Grants Manager, support programme team in competitive project design processes and development of concept notes and proposals, including budgets in collaboration with finance colleagues. Ensure compliance with donor strategies and requirements and timely submission of quality proposals.
• Coordinate and follow up locally negotiated grants processes, manage donor relations and participate in donor negotiations, consortium meetings and other grants related coordination meetings.
• Together with the Grants Manager, ensure donor compliance and quality grant management of received grants; support the programme team in preparing and delivering high quality donor reports in a timely manner, prepare material for and organize internal project kick-off meetings, follow up project launches, baselines and evaluations, audits and project closure meetings.
• Provide continuous back-up support in donor compliance, rules and regulations and grants management to programme team and field teams.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant for the Finn Church AID Grants Officer job placement should hold a Master’s Degree in Project management, International development, Business Administration or related field
• Five or more years of experience with proposal writing and grants management in humanitarian and development operations and through direct implementation of humanitarian and development programming.
• Proven track record in raising and managing funds from institutional donors (like ECHO, EU, PRM, USAID, and UN agencies) and strong knowledge of donor’s interests, priorities and compliance mechanisms.
• Experience in budget preparation, financial management, M&E, technical programming, and strong programmatic background in the humanitarian sector, preferably in Education in Emergencies and livelihoods.
• Experience in facilitating trainings and workshops.
• Excellent partnership building skills
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills and demonstrated organizational, management and fundraising skills
• Knowledge and experience of cooperation with governmental and non-governmental agencies in the field of development cooperation and humanitarian assistance
• Conversant in project cycle management, project planning, fundraising and knowledge management
• Excellent writing and budgeting skills, good attention to detail and highly numerate.
• Ability to work independently
• Pro-active and able to react rapidly to donor requests and urgent deadlines.
• Ability to identify donor intelligence for appropriate timely action
• Commitment to continuous learning and feedback gathering
• Result oriented, problem solving and team player

How to Apply:

All interested applications should send a cover letter and a CV (not more than 5 pages) with at least three referees and a daytime telephone contact with copies of academic papers addressed to: The Human Resource and Administration Manager, Finn Church AID, Uganda Country Office. P.O. Box 21826 Kampala, Tank Hill Rd, Roche Close, Plot 1495 Muyenga, Uganda. Email applications should be in one file attachment (Ms Word or PDF) mentioning the position title in the subject to Ugaco.hr@kua.fi

Deadline: 10th March 2022.

Note:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Finn Church Aid is committed to keeping children safe at all times & all levels of its program operations, so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from all forms of abuses.
• Employment is subject to our Child protection standards, adherence to Child Safeguarding Policy including background checks”

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