NGO Jobs in Kenya – ActionAid

ActionAid is a global movement of people working together to further human rights and defeat poverty for all.

Job Title:
 Voluntary Fundraising Manager 
 
Location:Headquarter
 
Reporting To: Head, Fundraising 
 

Department: Fundraising
 
Grade: E    

Job Purpose
: The holder of the position shall be responsible for the implementation of local voluntary / supporter marketing fundraising strategies (including events, appeals, challenge runs through DRTV and face to face marketing to recruit supporters) and design market let supporter marketing products (such as child sponsorship, community sponsorship and cash appeals) aimed at generation of adequate resources (at least £960,000 annually) for AAIK programmes.
 
Duties and Responsibilities
  • Develop and operationalize effective voluntary fundraising strategies and actions for AAIK targeting the local market;
  • Conduct periodic Voluntary Fundraising market research and intelligence both in the local market arena to inform the plan, audience, channel, offer and related benchmarking of new product proposition;
  • Set up local supporter acquisition and retention (supporter journey) programme for AAIK;
  • Set up and manage voluntary fundraising and funding infrastructure aimed at ensuring effective supporter recruitment, retention and communication;
  • Coordinate and oversee, in collaboration with LRPs teams effective and efficient local support communications including project updates through newsletters and other innovative tools
  • Oversee documentation of project case studies and sharing of lessons learnt for the purpose of visibility creation;
  • Organize and coordinate local supporter/sponsor visits to AAIK programme sites for purposes of showcasing AAIK’s work;
  • Promote AAIK brand and visibility through intensive internal and external communications and public relations;
  • In collaboration with communications unit, design and develop voluntary fundraising promotional materials for brand awareness and visibility creation
  • Conduct staff capacity needs assessments to guide staff capacity building plans in voluntary fundraising
  • Training and awareness creation of AAIK staff, partners, and communities on voluntary funding;
  • Perform any other lawful duties that you may be assigned from time to time;
Qualifications
 
Appointment to the position will be made from persons who have:
  • A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Development Studies, Social Sciences or its equivalent from a recognized University, a Master’s Degree is desirable;
  • Satisfactorily served as fundraising/ resource mobilization officer  or a comparable position with similar responsibilities in like organizations for a minimum period of five (5) years; and
  • Demonstrated in-depth understanding of programming issues, resource mobilization including supporter marketing product development, marketing channels, supporter acquisition and retention
  • Is member of the Association of Fundraisers in Kenya;
  • Demonstrable experience of raising funds from local sponsors and supporters; and
  • Strong understanding of project management.
Key Competencies
  • Good conceptual, analytical, presentation and writing skills;
  • Ability to influence and negotiate at different levels;
  • Experience of managing donor relationships;
  • Understanding of different donor requirements and management of donor relationships;
  • Excellent Public relations and marketing skills;
  • High level of IT proficiency in use of MS Word, Excel, Access, Power-point, and e-mail;
  • Good line management skills
  • Excellent team player.
To apply, CLICK HERE to submit your application; for any queries, kindly direct the same to hresources.kenya@actionaid.org

Closing date for applications: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 23:59

Position: Grants and Donor Compliance Coordinator
 
Functional Unit:Programme
 
Administratively
 
Reporting to: Head of Programmes
 
Supervising: None
 
Duty Station: Nairobi
 
Key relationships:
  • Internally: Head of Programmes, Head of Policy & Campaigns, Head of Finance, Head of Fundraising, Programme accountants, Programme quality Coordinator, LRP Managers and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers.
  • Externally: Local NGOs, donors, partners.

Main Purpose and Scope: The holder of the position will be responsible for ensuring compliance with donor contract agreements and work closely with program staff and senior leadership team to ensure accurate financial reporting and procedural compliance on all grants.

Responsibilities


  • To ensure that partnership and sub-grant related administrative processes and procedures are standardized and consistently implemented throughout the program, including pre-award compliance checks, agreements, and disbursements and reporting
  • To act as focal point with donor's in-country offices on grants management issues for ongoing projects
  • To maintain grant management systems and procedures, and program wide strategies for implementation
  • To review donor reports to ensure donor compliance and to provide project managers and management with relevant information for decision making
  • To maintain an effective Internal Control System around grants management to ensure compliance with donor requirements and AAI policies and procedures
  • To work with finance to build and monitor partners’ financial management capacities to ensure compliance with grants requirements and enhanced reporting
  • To support fundraising in proposal budget preparation and revision and to support annual plans and budgets
  • To support the implementation of audit recommendations for the partners and donor funded projects.
  • To analyze project implementation schedules and support plans by Project teams to adhere to donor reporting timelines.
General
  • As part of the Programme team participate in pursuing the implementation of the CSP
  • Work towards increased levels of transparency and Accountability to donors.
Critical Competencies
  • Analytical skills, 
  • Project management knowledge, 
  • Grants management, 
  • Budgeting & budgetary control, 
  • Report writing skills, 
  • information management Stakeholder management, 
  • planning and organizing; 
  • oral and written communication;
Qualifications
  • A minimum of a Bachelors degree in a related field with a minimum of five (5) years’ relevant work experience.
  • Professional accounting qualifications (CPA (K) or ACCA) is an added advantage.
Skills Required
  • Experience in programme and projects financial management
  • Communication, report writing and analytical skills.
  • Experience in donor contract management

To apply, CLICK HERE to submit your application; for any queries, kindly direct the same to hresources.kenya@actionaid.org 

Closing date for applications:
 Friday, December 19, 2014 - 23:59