Senior programme funding officer, Africa

The Senior programme funding officer is required to work with country programme teams and other colleagues in Christian Aid in developing programmes, leading on raising and managing restricted institutional income and promoting positive engagement with donors to achieve transformational growth by increased impact, scale and leverage. This position additionally has management responsibility for at least two Programme funding officers that are based in London.

Whilst working from our London office, you will be required to support Christian Aid’s work across the African division. This entails leading fundraising (including proposal development), supporting contract management for ongoing grants and effectively coordinating with other teams within Christian Aid in addition to maintaining good relationships with external actors, including donors and other NGOs.

It is essential that you are fluent in written and spoken English and can demonstrate success at securing funds from donors. Fluency in French will be an added advantage. We also expect you to be skilled in preparing narrative and financial reports. You should have some management experience in addition to representation skills. On top of your excellent communication and presentation skills, you will be highly numerate and have a real analytical ability.

Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions: Using the guidance notes may help you formulate your answers.

Writing skills

Please describe a time when you had to adapt your writing style to communicate ideas and ensure that information and messages were understood by a particular audience.

Initiative

Please describe a time when you had to deal with a situation or issue proactively and persistently, and how you dealt with that situation.

Decision making

Please describe the last time you had to make an important decision when delivering a project or assignment, and how you made that decision.

Planning and organizing

Describe a specific project or activity in which you had to identify tasks and set priorities for others. Tell us how you went about planning and organizing so that the group would reach the goal.

We value the contribution each person makes to the success of our organisation. That’s why you can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

As this post is UK based, non-EC nationals will require current and valid permission to work in the UK.

Download the role profile (30 KB pdf)

To apply for this post, please download an application pack and email your completed UK & Ireland application form to: recruitment@christian-aid.org (quoting the reference number). Alternatively, your completed application form can be printed out and posted to us at:

Christian Aid
35 Lower Marsh
Waterloo
London SE1 7RT

Please note that CVs will not be accepted.

Job reference: 199/LJ

Closing date: 12 noon, Friday 11 November 2011

Interview date: Thursday 17 November 2011

Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.