Job Duties and Responsibilities
Research and Analysis
- To comprehensively and systematically horizon scan for donor interest, opportunities and giving trends.
- Undertake proactive research, donor intelligence & knowledge sharing and information on prospect funding.
- Perform due diligence of new partners according to policy and procedures.
- Register and analyse regional PRD KPI data, such as income, funding coverage, and win-loss record of proposals to inform management decisions on funding strategies, donor reporting and submissions.
- Develop dash-board reports and other reports as needed for the purposes of analysis.
Pledge management
- Lead on timely and accurate registration of funding contributions (pledges) in line with IFRC policies and procedures
Ensure that relevant updates in the registration system are included, and that agreed conditions are shared with donors and understood by budget holders
Disseminate key information related to compliance of agreed contributions to ensure timely administration of pledges, consistent with donor requirements and procedures.
Follow up on overdue unpaid pledges aiming to minimise overdue pledge balances.
Coordinate with Project Managers / Budget Holders to ensure that renegotiation of pledge requirements (earmarking, timeframes etc) takes place on time as and when required.
Ensure that Budget Holders and Finance team are aware and receive information on MoUs and donor requirements.
Donor engagement
- Negotiate with donors to extend and amend their existing contributions
- Organise online and offline meetings and events including partners’ updates, National Society briefings and emergency appeal fundraising calls.
- Support the development of funding proposals for specific programmes.
- Promote IFRC Africa’s key priorities including the Pan African African Initiatives and Emergency Appeals with donors and partners.
Reporting, planning and budgeting
- Work closely with PMER, finance and project managers to ensure that quality donor reports are prepared and shared in a timely manner.
- Coordinate the region’s input to global annual donor reports.
- Coordinate the department’s inputs to weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual internal reports.
- Actively engage in the department’s role in the planning and budgeting process.
Information management
- Maintain and regularly update the partners and donors contact list.
- Process contractual partnership agreements through e-Contract system.
- Manage PRD information on the Shared drive.
- Lead on the ERP (CRM) development process to ensure the system meets the needs of the PRD Africa team.
- Once established ensure accurate ERP data input accurate data and provide analysis from the system.
Other
- Provide training and guidance to colleagues including PRD, finance, PMER and others.
- Support the resource mobilisation capacity development of National Societies in coordination with the team
Travel occasionally if required to support country delegations with partnerships and resource development.
How to apply:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications via IFRC e-Recruitment system, by 22 July 2021 at the latest, referring to this advertisement.
IFRC only accepts duly completed applications submitted through the IFRC e-Recruitment system . The online tool also allows candidates to track the status of their application.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
For further information please refer to: https://www.ifrc.org/en/who-we-are/working-with-us/current-vacancies/job-description/?nPostingId=6330&nPostingTargetId=82375&id=QPFFK026203F3VBQB79LO793E&LG=UK&mask=ifrcextern