Senior Program Officer Full Time

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Senior Program Officer, you will provide expertise and leadership in acquiring grant and private funding, build relationships with external donors (including UNOCHA, UNICEF, GFFO, BMZ, etc.); key stakeholders, Support Offices and other partner organizations; and build the capacity of technical staff in the areas of grant acquisition and proposal writing. The SPO will work with a team of professionals pursuing the acquisition of high-quality grants and private funding to increase the resources for required by the response to meet its strategic objectives.

The day-to-day work of the SPO will include proactive donor engagement activities to ensure the identification of funding sources and the development of strong relationships that will enable new donor support and repeat awards from existing donors. The SPO will be coordinating and developing high-quality funding proposals and other documents and will be involved in sharing information with the technical team and other relevant departments within the office. The SPO will also help build the capacity of other members in the Grant Acquisition and Management Team in both proposal writing/coordination and grant management. The SPO will report directly to the Grant Acquisition and Management Manager and will be expected to mentor and develop capacity of other members of the team.

Requirements include:

• Must have a degree or equivalent in relevant fields of study such as International Development, Political Relations, Economics, Sociology, or other related field.
• Must have 5 years’ experience working in the humanitarian sector.
• Knowledge of proposal and budget requirements and regulations of major donors including the USAID, ECHO, EU, FCDO, UN agencies and other government relief and development institutions.
• Must have experience in successful grant writing (6UN, FCDO, OCHA, ECHO etc).
• Familiarity with humanitarian codes, minimum standards, principles and practice.
• Experience leading a team of professionals.
• Ability to work with a reasonably level of comfort in high tension and high security risk situations.

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