Job Description:

Sightsavers is looking for an Institutional Funding Advisor to support and maintain institutional donor relationships

Salary: Local terms and conditions apply

Location: Any Sightsavers Country Office

Contract: Two-year fixed-term contract – renewable

Hours: This is a full-time role

Working across more than 30 countries globally, Sightsavers is dedicated to eliminating avoidable blindness and empowering people with disabilities to participate fully in society. Our mission is to bring effective and innovative solutions that enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion in health, education, and employment programmes and we lead on the elimination of debilitating neglected tropical diseases.

• We design inclusive policies and deliver innovative programmes, to ensure no-one is left behind.
• We address the double barriers faced by women and girls with disabilities, ensuring their voices are heard.
• We empower our partners – particularly Organisations of People with Disabilities – through effective capacity building, to engage in policy making and decision making
• Our campaigns and advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities catalyses transformative change for marginalised groups and drives societal change.
• Our approach is to strengthen national systems, to deliver sustainable health, education and livelihood services.
• Our programmes are based on a thorough body of evidence on what works, and our research informs global debates.

Sightsavers has an organisational income of approximately £120 million per year, with half of that coming from Institutional Funding sources. We receive support from a diverse range of donors.

We are looking for an Institutional Funding Advisor to support and maintain institutional donor relationships in the UK, both directly and in support of other members of the Institutional Funding team. This includes working with the Institutional Funding Senior Advisor in directly managing existing funding agreements and in leading on the development of new funding relationships for the team. The role will involve contract management, bid development, learning and continuous improvement.

Please read the job description for more details.

This is an ideal opportunity to build on your existing institutional funding experience. To succeed in this role you will need:

• Demonstrable experience of working with institutional donors, preferably including bilaterals, multilaterals or large scale foundations
• Strong knowledge of current international development issues
• Experience of producing applications and reports
• Experience of producing management information
• Good research skills
• Good proposal development and writing skills
• Good understanding of budgets and financial data
• Good IT skills including digital media
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel up to 4 weeks internationally per year
• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for disabled people

Benefits

Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive package includes generous annual leave allowance and other benefits.

To apply for this exciting opportunity, please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying. We anticipate that remote interviews will take place in late August/ early September.

Closing date: 18 August 2024

In line with its commitment to safe programming and recruitment, Sightsavers participates in the inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) administered by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response. Through collaboration with other MDS members, Sightsavers aims to ensure that there are no sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment issues relating to potential new hires and that we can respond systematically to checks from fellow MDS members. This ensures our work is accountable, delivered to a high standard and supports safeguarding across the development and humanitarian fields.