JOB SUMMARY

Do you have experience with grant management and/or donor relations? Do you have great communication skills, a structured mindset and an eye for details? Are you curious to develop your skills further and want to be responsible for our most important donors? Then you might be the candidate that we are looking for!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Acting as Department’s primary source of information on assigned donors (such as Germany, EU, ECHO, France, Switzerland, and Sweden) including maintaining oversight and providing advice and support on donor requirements and key timelines, upcoming opportunities, and ensuring quality of deliveries to donors.
• Having a continuous dialogue with institutional donors on programmes/projects.
• Reviewing and quality controlling DMAD’s agreements.
• Maintaining an overview and detailed knowledge of rules, regulations and requirements from assigned donors and authorities, and communicating any changes to programmes and DMAD Head Office staff.
• Managing and ensuring high-quality reporting and/or proposals to donors in close coordination with country programmes, programme advisors, financial controllers, and other department staff.
• Alerting and advising DMAD management of opportunities, risks and challenges associated with donors/grant management for assigned donors/grants.
• Participating in the Strategic Resource Management (SRM) section’s work on wider donor-related processes, such as fundraising, grant management, compliance and the development, implementation and improvement of systems to support donor-related work and processes.
• Participating in and representing NPA at relevant internal and external meetings, when required.

REQUIREMENTS

• Relevant higher education (e.g. economics, political science, business management, development management, finance,) or equivalent qualifications (mine action, overseas relief and development programmes or civil service).
• Relevant training and certification (e.g. project management, grant management);
• Minimum 5 years of relevant and documented experience on grant management and/or donor relations (focal point for donors, work experience in an NGO, and of liaising and networking with the UN, national authorities, other NGOs), fundraising experience.
• Compliance experience (quality assurance of contracts). It is an advantage but not a requirement that you have experience and knowledge in compliance work in development countries, with humanitarian aid and/or humanitarian disarmament/in the mine action sector.
• Written and verbal proficiency in English. Other language skills (specifically German or French) are an advantage but not a requirement.
• Legal background is an advantage but not a requirement.

You have excellent written and verbal communication skills; and you are great at collaborating with others, both internally and externally. Since this is a role with a broad spectre of responsibilities it is important that you are great at structuring your work. You are passionate about what you do and strive to deliver high quality results in the projects that you lead.