Position: Regional Institutional Donor Officer
Location: Nairobi, Kenya, with regional and international
travel to Uganda and Ireland in particular.
Contract Duration: 2 years
Within the Horn & East Africa
Region, Trócaire implements and manages development and humanitarian programme
work in Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, and Uganda.
The Role Purpose: The Regional Institutional Donor Officer (RIDO) has overall responsibility for ensuring that the East Africa region works towards meeting regional institutional funding targets and IFU deliverables in an increasingly competitive funding environment.
The Institutional Donor Officer
provides a key support function to programmes, staff and partners, to ensure
that institutional funds are secured, managed and reported on in compliance
with Trócaire and institutional funders’ policies and regulations.
The IDO plays a crucial role in
supporting country teams to strengthen their capacity to attract, manage and
grow institutional funding.
The IDO in this role will be working with and supporting Trócaire’s programmes in Kenya, Somalia and Uganda.
The Person Specification
- Graduate level education in development
studies and relevant subject matter at master level or equivalent
professional qualifications in an appropriate technical subject and
experience in Institutional Funding within a development context.
Experience, knowledge and skills
- Significant experience in working in
institutional Funding (Planning, proposal and report writing, securing
institutional funding through successful grant application, grants and
contract management.
For detailed Job Description,
requirements and full details of the position, interested applicants should
visithttp://www.trocaire.org/jobs and
submit applications by 1st September 2015.