Specialist - Fundraising and Proposal Development
Job Description
Title: Specialist - Fundraising and Proposal Development
Company Name: Practical Action - Bangladesh.
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Explore and analysis of Donor calls, project feasibility and scoping and quality proposal writing - 50% of total time
∎ • Facilitate funding proposal (on development issues) writing process to donors mainly in Urban WASH, Waste Management and Renewable energy areas. Also work for agricultural and resilience related protect proposal development.
∎ • Use organisational online proposal development and management system to facilitate an integrated proposal development process.
∎ • Researching priority calls (narrative, financial compliance, funding size, co-funding, eligibility for us etc.) sharing donor fit and our strategic fit of a call,
∎ • Writing donor call opportunity summary and ensuring coordinated and integrated engagement of M & E L, Finance, UK relevant team, HR, Gender, Partnership, Communication team, Thematic Leadership team in proposal development work.
∎ • Contribute in different areas of a call starting from identification of problem/opportunity, defining theory of change to primary indicative budget and different such section.
∎ • Undertake field visits with other teams for as and when required on evidence collection to be used for fundraising
∎ • Report to Business Development and Quality Assurance Head and work closely with Finance team, Strategic Lead, Programme Mangers/Specialists to analyze funding growth and gap by theme in each quarter and share that information for planning and income forecast.
∎ • Regularly track the pipeline projects to calculate accurate pipeline amount of income by quarter and by year.
∎ • Prepare capability statement in each thematic areas in partnership with Strategic and Delivery team
∎ Organisational profile building through donor relation and consortium building - 10%
∎ • Represent Practical Action’s strategic priority areas and working approach internally and externally (particularly to donors, new consortium partners, academia, government) on strategic
∎ • Assess risk of consortium building, check eligibility for different calls, check reputational issues Invite donors to see our works, attend donor meetings and facilitate field visits by potential donors
∎ • Invite donors to see our works, attend donor meetings
∎ Managing people: coordinate/Team up with Thematic specialists and programme/Project Mangers for funding proposals - 10%
∎ • Collaborate with different thematic groups, M& E team and Communication & Marketing team, Gender Specialists as required under the supervision of Business Development and Quality Assurance Head
∎ • Work with Finance Head, Thematic/Strategic Leads, Operation Head. HR, Gender, Advocacy and Partnership Focal points in an integrated way on updating, analyzing funding growth and quarterly gap analysis
∎ • Encouraging joined up ways of working with other units of Country office- especially thematic leadership unit, programme delivery unit, and services teams
∎ • Build team capacities related to marketing, strategic relationship and proposal development
∎ • Promote team learning & development including approaches such as coaching, mentoring, peer learning and reflection activities
∎ Delivering performance reaching impact - 30%
∎ • Measure success rate of our submissions, analyze and share door feedback, failure causes
∎ • Collect donor and partner feedback on our works for future improvement in new calls
∎ • Explore data from Project and Award Management System(PAMs) and generate quarterly updates, secured and unsecured and pipeline figures, update pipeline figures.
∎ • Work for Practical Action Consulting Ltd. arm for funding sources and conducting studies
∎ • Contribute to strategic business planning, quarterly and annual reporting on income and donor market analysis
Additional Requirements:
∎ Master degree in Social Sciences/ Natural Science /Business Administration/Development studies/Environment/Energy /Engineering or any related field. Bachelor degree from reputed international/overseas university is eligible to apply.
∎ At least 5 years of experience in business development, fund raising, resource mobilization, dealing with donor partner grants, proposal and paper writing (skills of editing articles, publishable papers), fund mobilization for a national or international development organization. Understanding/Coordination of development projects in Urban Governance, Urban Sanitation and Waste management, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy will be considered as an advantage.
∎ Track record of understanding development work around urban sanitation and waste management. Renewable energy, Agriculture and Disaster Risk Reduction Having research skills, overseas education will be an added advantage.
∎ A person well organized, attentive to details, and use concise, persuasive writing
∎ Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and to set priorities
∎ Excellent English writing, analytical and communication skills
∎ Excellent ability to work with a virtual cross-functional team
Salary: Tk. 90000 - 105000 (Monthly)
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Provident fund, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance, Gratuity
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 13 May 2021
Company Information:
∎ 3 May 2021
∎ Practical Action - Bangladesh.
∎ Address : House # 28/A, Road # 5, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1205
∎ Web : www.practicalaction.org
∎ Business : Practical Action is an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.
We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.
We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.
Category: HR/Org. Development
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 13th May 2021
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