Friday, April 15, 2011

Vacancy For Programme Development and Grants Coordinator (CFI/PDGC)

Child Fund is an international child focused development agency working in 33 countries to create lasting and meaningful change in the lives of more than 11 million vulnerable, deprived and excluded children, families and communities, regardless of race, creed, gender or national origin. In Indonesia ChildFund has been operating for 34 years since 1973, in areas where the need is the greatest and currently reaches out directly to 900,000 children and family members in partnership with 50 local NGOs spread across 8 provinces. For more information please visit www.childfund.org

Child Fund Indonesia is currently seeking:

PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT and GRANTS COORDINATOR (CFI/PDGC)

Based in Jakarta

Key and Responsibility:
· Funding strategy/planning. Lead on developing and implementing the country programme funding strategy and country funding plan.
· Proposal Development. Assist Zonal and country teams in planning, coordination and developing high quality concept papers, programme proposals and budgets which are successful in getting funded by a variety donor agencies (e.g. logframe training/facilitation, writing programme plans in donor formats, advising on donor interests and guidelines);
· Grants Management. Responsible for managing and coordinating a complex grants portfolio agreement and highly technical specials projects, serves as experts for the planning, implementation and evaluating of grants proposals and provide guidance on cooperative agreements, cost-share agreements, participating agreements, collection agreements, interagency and intra-agency agreements and memoranda of understanding. Negotiated, award, and review all reimbursement requests for appropriateness, and ensure that awardees are in compliance with established administrative and financial policies and procedures. Monitor all phases of award and closing, including assessment of technical progress and performance.
· Donor Relations. Plan and implement donor relationship strategies; Proactively network with donors to pre-position Organization for accessing funds; coordinate and support others to engage in donor relationship building.
· Contract Management. Effectively manage a portfolio of existing contracts to ensure compliance with donor requirements; ensure reports are good quality and submitted on time; analyse and provide advice to programme staff on the funding policies and requirements of different donors
· Capacity Building. Provide training and induction to programme staff on project cycle management, donor requirements, Organization’s internal procedures in relation to donors and other related issues.
· Research, mapping and analysis. Research and map existing and new donor prospects; Research and analyse changing donor strategies and advise on effective advocacy to donors
· Administration. Keep the Organization funding database and shared files accurate and up-to-date at all times; understand and be able to advise programme staff on how to use the programme management database effectively when a programme has external donor funding.

Required Working Experience:

5+ years experience managing development programs in an NGO, preferably in a technical area, community development and/or child-focused programming.
Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English.
Demonstrated high-level interpersonal and cross-cultural skills including the ability to build collaborative relationships internally and externally with sensitivity to cultural, ethnic, social and political issues.
Conflict management and ability to pragmatically solve problems, plan a course of action using analytical, conceptual, strategic and forward thinking abilities to achieve an effective resolution
Demonstrated technical expertise in such areas as: project, budget and resource management
Demonstration of knowledge of program design; grant acquisition and management; resource stewardship, and cross functional coordination
Highly developed analytical skills and the ability to assimilate and process information on a wide range of issues
Experience in resource mobilization, coordination and negotiation and social policy
A minimum of 5 years experience in providing a whole range of financial services to an organization, ideally with at least five years in the INGO or public sector

Required Minimum Formal Education Level:

Master Degree in a relevant discipline (preferably economics, politics, sociology, humanities) or substantial experience

Please send by email your resume or CV & include Job Title & Position Code in the email subject field. Please send your email to : recruitment@indonesia.childfund.org
Deadline for applications: Monday, 25th April, 2011

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