Earn over 31,000 Pounds (UGX 152m) as Funding Officer at Saferworld

Job Title:  Funding Officer

Organisation: Saferworld

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Salary: £31,337 per annum

 

About the Company:

Saferworld is an independent international organisation working to prevent violent conflict and build safer lives. We work with people affected by conflict to improve their safety and sense of security, and conduct wider research and analysis. We use this evidence and learning to improve local, national and international policies and practices that can help build lasting peace. Our priority is people – we believe in a world where everyone can lead peaceful, fulfilling lives, free from fear and insecurity. We are a not-for-profit organization operational in 12 countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

 

Job Summary:   Saferworld’s funding base has grown significantly over the last few years, with the majority of funds coming from institutional donors, including the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the US Government/USAID, the European Union (EU), and other European Governments, such as the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) and grants coming from few foundations/philanthropic institutions. This role will support the organisation’s work towards growing, sustaining and diversifying its funding base across different income streams (trusts and foundations, commercial income, individual and major gifts donors) through researching and identifying new funding opportunities, supporting with drafting proposals, alongside maintaining and improving systems to capture critical funding information that supports our planning and budgeting processes.



Key Duties and Responsibilities:   The Funding Officer plays a critical role in supporting global fundraising efforts at Saferworld through:

Ensuring that relevant colleagues across the organisation are aware of new and upcoming funding opportunities;

Managing, keeping information up to date, and refining effective systems to record, track and analyse organisational funding activity and performance;

Providing support to fundraising efforts by contributing to drafting proposals including filing and collecting relevant documents, fulfilling due diligence requirements, drafting donor mappings, and supporting co-design processes, and recruitment and retaining of new individual and major gifts donors.

For more information about the roles and responsibilities, person specification and any other requirements, please refer to the attached document below.

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

The applicant should have relevant qualifications

 

How to Apply:







All candidates should apply online at the link below.

 

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Deadline: 20th October 2024

 

NB: We regret that only short listed candidates will be contacted.

 

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Date Posted 2024-10-01T14:14
Valid Through 2024-10-21T00:00
Employment Type FULL_TIME
Hiring Organization Saferworld
Job Location Kampala, Kampala, Kampala , 0256, Uganda

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