Programme Development and Funding Officer – Sierra Leone

Starting Salary: £32,019 – £33,526 per annum

Other benefits include 10% Mobility Allowance + 10% pension allowance

Contract: 2 years fixed term

Job Profile

To contribute to CAFOD’s involvement in Sierra Leone & Liberia in line with the agreed strategy, by engaging in programme development; securing institutional funding for CAFOD supported programmes and partnerships; and contract management.

The post-holder will be responsible for building effective working relationships with peers across the International Programmes Group, and Advocacy Teams. This is in order to develop and maintain horizontal links between programmes, learning, innovation, good practice, and fundraising within and between regions or areas of work. The role has also several cross-divisional and cross-organisational functions linked to work with CAFOD’s Education, Communities & Supporters, Fundraising, Finance and Media teams. The post-holder will be expected to work closely with CAFOD’s Integrated Funding and Business Innovation Unit in London and the work is expected to be aligned with corporated institutional fundraising strategies and the commitments of our Integral Ecology Programme Model. This is the Model by which all CAFOD’s programme work is underpinned, where Programme Strategies are developed with partners to focus on addressing the causes and symptoms of poverty, inequality and environmental degradation.

The post-holder will be expected to undertake travel for approximately 3 months a year.

Accountability

The post-holder reports to the Country Representative. They are not a budget holder but may carry out some supervision tasks for staff members.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Understanding our context

C Understanding international development: Understanding and experience of international development and programme management and quality standards within this context

Working together

F Communicating: Able to communicate with colleagues and partners at a distance

G Looking outwards: Understanding of effective and values-based partnership work between northern and southern organisations and communities.

Making change happen

H Managing resources: the ability to prepare and monitor budgets, contribute to assessing the appropriateness of partner financial systems, and ensure compliance with, knowledge and understanding of financial

I Achieving results: experience of developing successful funding applications for institutional donors; experience of participatory project design, and use of analytical tools.

J Managing our performance: experience of developing and implementing monitoring systems to track the effectiveness of programmes.

Job-specific competencies

1. Understanding and first-hand experience of institutional funding work/projects, priorities, trends and donor conditions within the international development sector; ideally with first-hand experience of working with the EC;
2. Experience of using programme cycle management tools effectively to deliver work within an agreed programme framework;
3. Able and committed to working with and strengthen or complementing the capacity of partner organisations and colleagues
4. Finance management and budgeting understanding and experience.
5. Ability and willingness to travel within Sierra Leone and Liberia and/or to the UK (approximately for 3months per year), sometimes at short notice
6. Thematic experience in one or more of CAFOD AREAS (Resilience Livelihoods; Peacebuilding and Governance, Women Social & Economic Empowerment, and Humanitarian Response)

Desirable Criteria

1. First-hand work experience with a values-based partnership approach (between northern and southern organisations and communities).
2. Previous work experience in Sierra Leone and/or Liberia