Senior Program Officer drives grant acquisition and donor engagement, requires a relevant Degree and 7+ years program experience. Full-time role in Nairobi.
About the Role
World Vision International – Somalia is seeking an
experienced Business Development & Grants Specialist to support resource
mobilisation and grants management for our food systems, livelihoods, and
resilience programmes. The incumbent will identify funding opportunities,
develop winning proposals, and manage grants from award through close-out,
while shaping practical programmes that help farming and pastoral communities
recover from and withstand shocks.
Main
Roles and Responsibilities
Find,
prioritise and win funding opportunities with donors, UN agencies, climate
funds and the private sector.
Lead
proposal development: concept notes, budgets, logframes and donor applications.
Manage
grants end-to-end: start-up, compliance, reporting, budgets and close-out.
Design
food security, livelihoods and agricultural enterprise programmes grounded in
market realities.
Provide
technical advisory and quality assurance support to ensure effective programme
implementation and sustainable results
Build
climate-resilient and adaptation approaches into programme and funding
proposals.
Develop
partnerships with government, UN agencies, private sector and research
institutions.
Update
the grant management database, creating opportunities and project profiles.
Qualifications and competencies.
Advanced
degree in agriculture, agricultural economics, economics, business
administration or development finance.
7–10
years’ experience in business development, grants management or private-sector
partnerships.
A track
record of winning funding and managing institutional or UN/WFP grants.
Proven
experience working with the private sector (agriculture, finance, etc).
Technical
knowledge of livelihoods, food systems, agriculture or livestock programming.
Experience
with resilience or climate-adaptation programme design.
Strong
financial literacy, and excellent writing, analysis and negotiation skills.
Prior
experience in Somalia or a similar fragile, climate-vulnerable context is an
advantage.
