Duma works is recruiting a Proposal Writer-Consultant for one of our
clients, TechnoServe.
Company Background:TechnoServe
is an international, non-profit economic development organization founded in
1968 out of a conviction that a vibrant private sector is an essential
foundation for economic growth and poverty reduction.
TechnoServe is currently
implementing the Bill and Melinda Gates funded Innovations for Outcome
Measurement project whose objective is to promote the scale-up of breakthrough
innovations by testing and evaluating a discrete set of high potential,
innovative technologies for increasing agricultural productivity, identifying
barriers for their adoption, and developing business cases for their
replication and adoption at scale through private and public sector mechanisms.
TechnoServe seeks to engage a consultant/consulting firm to provide support in documenting project reports and leanings, together with proposal writing to attract donor and stakeholders’ attention.
TechnoServe seeks to engage a consultant/consulting firm to provide support in documenting project reports and leanings, together with proposal writing to attract donor and stakeholders’ attention.
The documentation is to
showcase key innovations from IOM’s work with potential for scale as well as to
increase agricultural productivity and measurement. Technoserve will use the
documents for interaction with public and private sector partners.
General Objective: The main objective of
the consultancy is to demonstrate in a reader-friendly format the work of IOM
to external audiences about who we are, what we do and how we do it.
The consultant is expected to
identify information from project documents and interview beneficiaries (if
relevant) as well as identify appropriate photos from the project to illustrate
the stories.
The consultant will be supervised by the Regional Project Manager.
The consultant will be supervised by the Regional Project Manager.
Tasks of the Consultant
- Collect
information from the various project documents with the support of project
staff
- Record human
interest stories in appropriate medium such as articles, photos, videos,
for publication in the Technoserve website, brochures and other marketing
materials.
- Collate content
and appropriate images/photography from the IOM Team
- Produce the
text and info-graphics as well as photographs in appropriate layout to
highlight success stories, including voices of beneficiaries and other
stakeholders
- Write and edit
the agreed content with a professional writing style
- Revise and
finalize the documentation following feedback from the IOM Team
- Support
selected IOM innovator partner(s) to develop proposal(s) drawn upon
innovations and/or lessons learnt from ongoing work for funding as will be
advised by the project Team, December 1st 2016 through March 31st 2017
Expected Results
- 2016 IOM Annual
Report, draft due January 16th 2017
- One to two-
page brochure on each IOM innovation and their status, due January 31st
2017
- At least four
(4) human interest stories from IOM innovations, drafts due March 15th
2017
An innovator supported to
develop a high quality, timely and credible final proposals and budgets that
meet funding quality and cost recovery requirements.
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s
degree in communications and/or journalism or English
- At least ten
years of professional experience in journalism, or related communication
field
- Demonstrated
experience writing successful proposals
- Demonstrable
experience of publishing technical, policy, or programmatic outputs
- Excellent
English language writing and editing
- Knowledge of
photography, graphics and video is considered as an added advantage
- Proven
experience working with regional/international organizations
- Ability to
analyze and synthesize relevant information to the benefit of Technoserve
- Ability to meet
deadlines
- Initiative,
resourcefulness, timeliness
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Cover Letter describing your interest and detailed CV are to be sent by email to apply@dumaworks.com marking the subject as “2571”, Your Full name & Phone number e.g. 2571 Barack Obama, +2547xxxxxxxx.
Cover Letter describing your interest and detailed CV are to be sent by email to apply@dumaworks.com marking the subject as “2571”, Your Full name & Phone number e.g. 2571 Barack Obama, +2547xxxxxxxx.
If you don’t follow these
instructions, your application will not go through.
Deadline for receiving applications: 15th December 2016
N.B.* You will receive a confirmation email and an alert to take a basic screening test over SMS or online. The email with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The email/SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test. If you have any issues with the process, please reach out to +254702093793.
If you apply and don’t meet these minimum qualifications, we won’t be able to forward your application to the employer.
Deadline for receiving applications: 15th December 2016
N.B.* You will receive a confirmation email and an alert to take a basic screening test over SMS or online. The email with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The email/SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test. If you have any issues with the process, please reach out to +254702093793.
If you apply and don’t meet these minimum qualifications, we won’t be able to forward your application to the employer.