Programme Funding Manager
Starting Date / Initial Contract Details
Starting Date: 23/06/2024 for 24 months
Role Summary
The Programme Funding Manager (PFM) provides strategic support and coordination for grant management of all Medair funding from donors. They lead and coordinate the team in drafting and submission of donor reports and funding proposals, ensuring that deadlines are clearly communicated and review timeframes clearly planned. The PFM also supports the Country Director in maintaining and building donor relations and researching new funding sources.
Project Overview
Medair provides multi-sector humanitarian support (health, nutrition, WASH and food assistance) in Daykundi, Kandahar and Uruzgan Provinces. Projects include primary health care level health and nutrition services in remote, hard to reach or underserved areas or occasional short-term health system strengthening of existing facilities. Medair maintains capacity to respond to emergencies such as disease outbreak or displacement.
Workplace & Conditions
Kabul, Afghanistan. Based in capital city with periodic visits to provincial bases &/remote field sites.
Responsibilities:
• Grant Management: Lead and coordinate the preparation and submission of donor proposals and reports, ensuring donor compliance requirements and deadlines are met.
• External Relations Management: Support the Country Director in representation to external stakeholders, including providing the latest data and project figures, reports, briefings to share with stakeholders.
• Programme Development: Plan and pursue new funding opportunities and strategic partnerships for the programme. Be a focal point for managing and maintaining relationships with partners.
• Financial Management: Lead the quarterly grant review meetings. Support senior management in monitoring spending on grants, and ensuring that the forecasting is being regularly updated.
• Staff Management: Line-manage the communications officer, ensuring that appropriate communications material is available for donor reporting and fundraising purposes, and is approved before use.
Qualifications, Experience & Technical Competencies:
• Higher level qualification/ University degree in relevant subject (e.g. Development Studies/ Administration)
• Language skills: Excellent English (spoken and written)
• 2 years post-qualification professional experience in a relevant field (e.g. grant management, proposal writing)
• Desirable: Overseas work experience, experience of humanitarian work
Behavioural Skills
• Team-player with good communication, inter-personal skills, and diplomacy
• Highly organised and good at working to tight deadlines; pays attention to detail
• Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels
• Able to oversee multiple tasks, prioritising and delegating as required
• Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner, with good understanding of cross-cultural issues
Team Spiritual Life
Reflect the values of Medair with team members, local staff, people we serve, and external contacts. Work, live, and pray together in our Christian faith-based teams. Fully contribute to a rich spiritual team life, including team devotion, prayer, and words of encouragement.
Before you apply
Please ensure you are fully aware of the:
- Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with, Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.
- Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).
Application Process
To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed.