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Job Description and Requirements
Job Title:
Proposal & Report Writer
Directorate/Cluster:
Fundraising
Unit/Team:
Fundraising & Resilience
Grade and Salary:
C
Contract Type:
Fixed term – 18 months
Location:
Remote
Budget Holder:
Yes o No x
Reports to: (incl matrix reporting)
Humanitarian and Resilience Fundraising Specialist
Direct Reports :
n/a
Matrix Reports:
n/a
DBS (CRB) / Police Check:
Yes o No x
Background
ActionAid is responding to the humanitarian crises in Turkiye and Syria which has been classified as a Red Alert in the ActionAid Federation due to the escalating death toll of more than 50,000, with over 100,000 people injured and thousands still buried in the rubble in Türkiye and Syria. The earthquake has further exacerbated the situation for the 4.2M people in northwest Syria that were already relying on humanitarian assistance and suffering the consequences of the 12-year war.
Building on ActionAid’s existing partnerships and alliances in Turkiye and Syria, we are supporting a local partner-led humanitarian response focusing on providing immediate humanitarian relief, shelter, food and NFIs, emergency medical care, psychosocial first aid and creating safe spaces for women and girls to prevent and protect against gender-based violence.
ActionAid Arab Region (AAAR) is leading this response on behalf of the Federation with ActionAid International Humanitarian and Resilience Team (IHART) in line with ActionAid’s internal emergency classification policy.
In line with ActionAid’s humanitarian signature, target groups include the most vulnerable people, women, girls and young people.
Role Overview:
Develop proposals for prospects and donors, deliver effective report writing, and embed knowledge management processes on donor funded projects, helping to secure income and retain donors that fund ActionAid’s response to the Turkiye-Syria earthquake.
Areas of Responsibilities
Key Activites
Proposal development
Collaborate with program staff, partners, and stakeholders to ensure proposals align with their priorities and strategies.
Develop and write funding proposals, concept notes and information pieces in line with funding priorities identified through the response plan.
Work with partners and ActionAid affiliates and associates on bespoke proposals, identify gaps in information, review project logic, and assist in developing comprehensive project budgets aligned to donor compliance requirements.
Coordinate with relevant departments, such as finance and monitoring and evaluation, to ensure proposals meet organizational standards and requirements.
Ensure that programme activities, staffing costs and operational support is clearly budgeted and cost recovered in line with the global emergency response and resilience budget for the purposes of fundraising and cost recovery.
Develop strong and productive working relationships with partners and staff across the ActionAid Federation, to assist in developing coherent and compelling proposals, budgets and reports.
Share proposal and report writing best practice with the partners and ActionAid Arab Region team.
Stay current on best practices, policies, and guidelines related to humanitarian response and incorporate them into proposals and reports as appropriate.
Source and write compelling case studies and human interest stories as part of project reporting, and ensure these are shared for wider use across the ActionAid Federation in a timely and appropriate manner.
Ensure ActionAid fundraisers can effectively communicate funding needs to their donor markets through regular information pieces and written updates.
Ensure all communications are produced in line with ActionAid Arab Region’s brand.
Support the development of concept notes and proposals which support the generation of wider strategic income to ActionAid Arab Region, dependent on capacity.
Reporting
Establish reporting schedules for new projects, applying appropriate donor compliance processes and tools to ensure these are set up and managed to the highest standards.
Carry out regular monitoring of projects and feedback to ActionAid affiliates/donor leads at quarterly grant management meetings.
Fulfil reporting commitments of these grants – producing narrative, detailed log frames, and accurate financial reports on time and to a high standard.
Draft timely and accurate situation reports that document program progress, challenges, and results.
Collect and analyze data and feedback from program staff, beneficiaries, and partners to inform report content and recommendations.
Develop and produce high-quality reports and infographics that effectively communicate the organization’s activities and impact to stakeholders
Work closely with involved staff to gather data, create visualizations, and develop infographics and reporting strategies that support the organization’s goals and objectives
Co-deliver capacity building and inception workshops, where required, in order to ensure delivery partners and ActionAid can deliver on donor grant commitments.
Develop information and knowledge systems
Improve the partners and ActionAid Arab Region team practices around saving and sharing project information.
Support the partners and ActionAid Arab Region in the design and roll out of templates and training around proposal development, reporting, budgets and programme management.
Embed and improve programme management systems within partners and ActionAid Arab Region.
Ensure donor communications systems and processes are up to date, (e.g. ActionAid’s contract management system), identify areas for improvement and proactively lead on their development.
PERSON SPECIFICATIONS
Education and Qualifications
Any Relevant Degree
Essential Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential:
A proven track record in writing successful fundraising proposals and securing significant donations from major institutional donors (e.g. ECHO, UFCDO, AECID, UN agencies, DANIDA and other humanitarian donors) and other major philanthropies.
Ability to translate technical programme information into compelling reports for different audiences.
Experience of developing proposals (including log frames) using complex project information, specifically ensuring there is a good project logic, objectives are SMART and outcomes realistic.
A good understanding of humanitarian, recovery and resilience programmes, including terminology and language.
Ability to review existing team systems and processes and innovate to improve team efficiency.
Proven ability to prioritise and manage a varied workload, taking initiative and meeting deadlines.
Proven experience in supporting the management of large, restricted grants including working with multiple teams in their implementation, tracking progress and producing compelling reports.
Ability to manage financial information relating to project budgets, query inaccuracies and present this information in an understandable and appropriate way.
Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills – ability to communicate well across a range of people regionally and internationally.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
Desirable:
A track record in writing successful fundraising proposals and securing donations from Gulf-based donors.
Language requirements
Excellent command of the English language both verbal and written.
Fluent Arabic speaker.
People Management Responsibity
Approximate number of people managed in total
0
1- Team members
Individual contributor, no direct responsibility
for leading others.
No
1.5
Act as mentor in a team and /or coordinating a team
No
2- Team Leader
Coaches team members (at least three) in skills; leads, schedules, allocates and monitors work
No
2.5
Responsible for one team with its own and has another team reporting directly
No
3- Team managers:
Directs more than one team;
No
The positions direct multiple teams, each of which has a team leader in charge; determines team structure and roles of members
No
This Job Description covers the main tasks and conveys the spirit of the sort of tasks that are anticipated proactively from staff. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary according to organizational needs.
It is part of every staff member’s responsibility to contribute to ActionAid International culture and comply with organisation’s values and practice, which are:
Leading Innovation and Change Establish a culture of excellence in respective team that values experimentation and continuous improvement
Feminist Leadership: Championing feminist leadership principles and values including commitment to diversity and inclusion (race, gender, power). Must apply a decolonial, feminist lens to all humanitarian engagements operationally with countries and at regional and global levels to ensure that the work we do is deeply contextualized, is led by women, young people and communities with whom we work and harnesses contextual wisdom and knowledge.
AAI Values Practice: Ensure personal and team culture that demonstrates all of AAI values including: Mutual Respect, Equity and Justice, Integrity, Solidarity with People Living in Poverty and Exclusion, Courage of Conviction, Independence and Humility
With your CV, the motivation cover letter should be sent to: [email protected] (only received CVs on this email will be considered) please clearly indicate which position you are applying for, you will not be considered without putting this title in the subject bar. We respect all candidates, but we can only respond to shortlisted candidates.
