Grants Acquisition and Management Director, World Vision Sudan

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Grants Acquisition and Management Director, you will be responsible to provide overall leadership to the Program Development Department with a mandate to raise World Vision Sudan’s grants portfolio, enhance World Vision Sudan’s visibility and engagement with strategic stakeholders and strengthen grant compliance within the organisation.

Your major responsibilities will include:

• Raise and Diversify Grant Portfolio
• Visibility and Engagement with Strategic Stakeholders
• Grant Management Compliance on Donor and Partnership Standards
• Team Performance Management
• Strategic Partnering
• Financial and non-Financial Resource Management

Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s and/or professional qualification in International Development studies, Community Development or any Social Science related degree from a recognized University.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in programming (designing, implementing, evaluating and monitoring) of integrated development, relief and/or advocacy of donor funded projects
• Experience on influencing policy formulation, implementation, evaluation, mobilization for stakeholder’s engagement in the decision making process.
• Have at least 7 years’ experience at managerial level in an international NGO
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English.
• Travel required: 35% domestic travel and occasional international travel (approximately 2 to 4 trips a year)