Resource Acquisition and Management Lead, VisionFund Ukraine

VisionFund – World Vision International

*Preference is for someone from European countries who will work from home and will travel to Ukraine (30%).

VisionFund is World Vision’s microfinance provider serving vulnerable clients through loans, savings, and insurance. We enable families to grow their livelihoods in hard to reach, rural locations in 28 countries so that caregivers can create secure futures for their children.

We believe in brighter futures for children; empowering families to create incomes and jobs; unlocking economic potential for communities to thrive.

Join VisionFund as we seek to end intergenerational poverty through microfinance.

Here’s where you come in:

As the Resource Acquisition & Management Lead, for Ukraine you will be part of VisionFunds’ Fundraising Department and will lead all Fund Raising and Funds Management activities as VisionFund establishes a new Microfinance Institution in Ukraine. You will develop and manage funding opportunities through grants from a variety of institutions and through the World Vision Ukraine Crisis Response (WV UCR) team, that will support and grow VisionFund’s new microfinance institutions (MFI) in Ukraine in keeping with VFI global strategy and funding priorities. As the Resource Acquisition & Management Lead, you will manage third party regional grant and major donor acquisition and compliance and ensure we meet all obligations to donors on technical and financial reporting. You will have an exciting role to work closely with the Chief Executive Officer of VF Ukraine and the WV UCR team on fundraising activities and report on ongoing management of projects and will ensure that all activities are aligned to organisation’s needs in the region. This exciting opportunity will allow you to write proposals, review contracts, monitor donor funded projects and maintaining close relationships with MFI project staff to ensure we report on progress, finances and impact.

Fixed term contract

Requirements include:

• University degree in international development, economics, or related field.
• This role requires at least 10 years’ experience in grant acquisition, fundraising, or corporate management setting dealing with senior management.
• Able to work in complex corporate culture and financial systems and ensure procedures internally and with third parties are well documented, monitored and executed.
• Ability to work well with granting agencies, Support Offices, MFI’s, and other VFI departments.
• Excellent research skills and experience in developing funding opportunities.
• Strong grant-writing skills, persuasive writing, and complex document creation.
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time, including travel to Ukraine.