Job Title: Senior Fundraising and Partnerships Officer
Hiring Organization: Northern
Rangelands Trust
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Non
profit
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 04/17/2024
The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) is an indigenous non-profit
community conservancy membership organisation. Its mission is to develop
resilient community conservancies that transform lives, secure peace, and
conserve natural resources. NRT currently supports 45 community conservancies
across Kenya in 10 counties (Marsabit, Laikipia, Isiolo, Meru, Baringo,
Samburu, Garissa, Tana River, Lamu and West Pokot counties) and Uganda.
Senior Fundraising and Partnerships Officer- NRT Coast Region
The Senior Fundraising and Partnerships Officer will participate
in the Coastal senior regional team to ensure smooth management of a portfolio
of significant public and private grants. This involves identifying and
evaluating potential funding opportunities, cultivating relationships with
targeted funders (formal and informal reporting), leading and writing proposals
and bids that address funding gaps, coordinating internally across NRT’s
cross-functional departments (finance, programmes, communications, M&E) to
develop reports on status of the grants. The Coordinator is also responsible
for monitoring and tracking opportunities throughout the funding cycle, helping
mitigate any risks or challenges that arise and working as a high performing
team member.
Key roles/responsibilities:
- Manage a
portfolio of bilateral, multi-lateral donors and/or foundation donors –
ensuring both compliance and engagement plans to build strong, long-term partnerships.
- Lead on the
development of grant proposals and bids – getting inputs and content from
the regional implementers.
- Support
relationships with funders and donors to help deepen relationships by
explaining the context and promoting mutual accountability.
- Manage ad hoc
teams and coordinate grant project planning and reporting – with ability
to initiate internal teams of peers around an agreed timeline and set of
deliverables.
- Support basic
proposal budgeting and reporting, helping review and explain financial
reports and monitor burn rates.
- Demonstrate
sensitivity in handling confidential information.
- Ensure
compliance with NRT policies and procedures and external (donor/legal/IRS)
requirements.
- Manage or
participate in complex or sensitive negotiations with implementing
partners, conservancy members and boards, and funders
- Convey the
mission of NRT to diverse groups who are important stakeholders.
- Travel
frequently and on short notice, work long and flexible hours as needed.
Experience
Required
- At least 5-8
years relevant experience in managing large grants for Bilateral and
Multilateral
- agencies.
- Experience in
convening proposal development workshops and leading process of developing
- grant proposals.
- Interest in
environment, climate, community based natural resource management, marine
and
- terrestrial
conservation, peace-building and development.
- Deep familiarity
with Kenyan or Ugandan conservation and development issues.
- Experience in
building and maintaining long-term relationships with external
stakeholders.
- Experience in
managing and tracking multiple prospects of donors in a donor tracking or
CRM
- system.
- Conversant in
monitoring, evaluation, adaptation and learning frameworks – comfortable
- creating and
reporting against logframes or result-based management indicators.
- Experience in
working with diverse, fast paced cross functional teams.
- Experience,
coursework, or other training in fundraising principles and practices.
How to
Apply
Interested and qualified
candidates are required to submit their application including a cover letter,
detailed Curriculum Vitae highlighting relevant experience by close of business
on Monday, 22nd April 2024 to: recruit@nrt-kenya.org
