Donor Officer Job in Nairobi, Kenya

Position: Regional Institutional Donor Officer
 
Location: Nairobi, Kenya, with regional and international travel to Uganda and Ireland in particular.
 
Contract Duration: 2 years
 
Trócaire works in partnership with local organisations to overcome poverty and promote justice in developing countries. 

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.