FUNDING COORDINATOR : JERUSALEM, Israel

Starting date: asap for 1 year with possibility for extension / FULLTIME

TEAM PURPOSE: To raise funds for Oxfam's program in OPTI; To develop and maintain good quality and consistent relationships with donors; To support affiliate teams on donor contract management: To effectively support program teams to develop and plan concept papers and proposals in accordance with country strategy and donor requirements.

JOB PURPOSE: To lead on the planning, coordination and securing income to enable Oxfam in OPTI to enable Oxfam in OPTI to deliver on the joint country program strategy.

REPORTING LINES:
Post holder reports to: Country Director (Oxfam Novib)
Staff reporting to this post: N/A (but depends on country context)

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: There is no budget responsibility.

DIMENSIONS:

• Strategic vision: establish and implement a funding strategy for the country program (including resourcing for development, humanitarian and policy/advocacy work).
• Contribute to the development of country income and budget planning processes according to agreed Oxfam processes.
• Co-ordinate and work closely with the funding staff across the managing and implementing affiliates,
• Manage funding processes according to Oxfam Funding Guidelines, responsible for quality control of funding processes and communications, recommending changes to processes and advising the Country Leadership Team (CLT) on brand risk management.
• Provide professional support, advice and training to managers/budget holders/support services in their area of responsibilities as it relates to funding.
• Resolve diverse and sometimes complex problems related to funding and donor relationship management.
• Gather and collate information from a wide range of well-defined sources/analyse and communicate complex information to a wide audience with regards to funding opportunities and grant management (knowledge management).
• Apply specific technical/professional knowledge of their area from formal training and/or work experience to role and responsibilities.
• Frequent negotiation and liaison with internal and external stakeholders, influencing significant external donor relations in country and/or globally where appropriate.
• Representation in donor meetings and some external relationships as delegated by the CD in coordination with the CLT.
• May involve supervision of staff, interns and/or volunteers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• External fundraising

• Lead on developing and implementing the country funding strategy and country funding plan.
• Identify, assess and approach new donors or funding sources and represent Oxfam as requested together with relevant affiliate/program staff.
• Coordinates the fundraising activities of different Oxfam affiliates in OPTI, ensuring that activities are in line with the (agreed) annual income plan and promoting joint funding between Oxfam affiliates where strategic.
• Assist country teams in planning, coordinating development and submission of competitive, high quality concept papers, donor proposals, and budgets which are successfully funded by a variety of donor agencies, seeking multi-year funding from potential donors whenever possible.
• Work closely with relevant Program Staff in the field and support services staff to ensure optimal use of restricted funds through strategic recharging to donor contracts where possible.
• Develop annual income plan and budget jointly with Managing Affiliate and Implementing Affiliates for submission to Program Governance Groups and affiliate headquarters.
• Act as the primary contact with funding staff of affiliates not present in OPTI and to fundraise with their back donors.

• Strategy

• Establish and maintain an up-to-date country funding strategy and plan and help to prioritize approaches to donors.
• Manage funding processes according to Oxfam fundraising standards, ensure quality control of funding processes and communications, recommend changes to CLT on processes and advise on brand risk management as related to fundraising processes.
• Ensure good quality and timely information is fed back to Program Governance Groups, affiliate headquarters and other stakeholders for budget and income planning purposes according to agreed Oxfam processes.
• Oversee overall coherence and quality of donor relationships in country in line with affiliates (in country and in headquarters) (donor lead) strategy for their sovereign donors.
• Research and analyse changing donor environment and strategies and advise on effective influencing of donors, linking in with affiliate headquarters (donor leads) as appropriate.

• Capacity building

• Ensure sufficient capacity and skills of staff to manage funding portfolio to recognised Oxfam and donor standards.
• Assess and strengthen the capacity of staff across the country in the planning, securing and managing of unrestricted and restricted funds through formal training delivery, coaching and accompaniment.

• Coordination and information sharing

• Ensure, in close collaboration with the Country Information Coordinator, effective co-ordination between affiliates in country in relation to institutional funding and information flows with Global Program Funding team, Affiliate HQs, Governing Bodies, Managing Affiliates and Implementing Affiliates.
• Ensure overall co-ordination of humanitarian funding in emergencies.
• On the request of the CLT, support affiliates with any key funding opportunities for single affiliates and co-ordinate and manage processes for key funding opportunities when it involves multiple affiliates.
• Ensure Oxfam Funding Guidelines are followed by the affiliates programme and funding teams in negotiating donor contracts.
• Support affiliates with any donor visits and facilitate any reasonable requests from funding affiliates and governing bodies.
• Broker and help to ensure that core content is gathered and shared about country programs as per agreed Oxfam guidelines with affiliate headquarters to support marketing staff in unrestricted fundraising.
• Engage in peer networks of other country fundraising staff within region, between regions and globally as appropriate.
• Help develop information for induction, funding manuals and other resources for use by the country program and finance staff.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCE:

Essential

• Experience with identifying fundraising opportunities preferably for NGO’s and a proven track record of successful fundraising and donor-compliant implementation of programs.
• Significant experience in managing donor contracts and fundraising activities, in particular from institutional donors, such as ECHO, DFID, AusAID, OFDA, CIDA, UN agencies as well as non-traditional donors.
• Significant experience in working within or managing consortia applications.
• Information management and IT skills with good attention to detail in order to develop and analyse donor budgets and financial reports; and to develop/maintain, and give guidance on electronic and manual contract management and reporting systems.
• Sound understanding of Program Cycle Management in emergencies and/or development environments.
• Strong numeracy and financial skills, particularly in developing budgets, financial management/monitoring and reporting.
• Excellent written skills with proven ability to develop and present proposals and donor reports, for both internal and external audiences.
• High level of analytical skills and critical thinking.
• Ability to research, analyse, and report (e.g. researching donor priorities, evaluating proposals and reports, determining match between external funding opportunities and Oxfam objectives)
• Experience in capacity building; coaching and delivering training at an individual and group level.
• Ability to network and represent Oxfam to donors and external institutions.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication and relationship skills with ability to influence external organizations and individuals.
• Ability to manage his/her time effectively. Willing and able to adapt priorities in order to respond to changing demands.
• Self motivated, target driven and an entrepreneurial approach to fundraising.
• Ability to speak and write professional English.
• Willingness and ability to travel throughout OPTI.

Desirable

• Marketing qualifications or relevant experience;
• A broad understanding of INGO programming and donor relations;
• Knowledge and experience of Oxfam’s program work and systems;
• Arabic and/or Hebrew language skills;
• Knowledge of OPTI context.

As managing affiliate and on behalf of Oxfam International, Oxfam Novib offers

A fair and comprehensive pay and benefits package that is justifiable to our donors. We will offer a gross salary in the range of € 3.229,- to € 4.969,- on the basis of a fulltime position. This is excl. 8% holiday fee, additional expat allowances will be offered.

More information and application procedure

Are you interested? Send your application in writing, including a motivation letter and CV and mentioning reference number (5-141) to jobs@oxfamnovib.nl to the attention of Ewa van den Berg, no later then the 17^th of September, 2012. For more information on this position, please contact Oxfam Novib Country Director OPT/I Nishant Pandeynishant.pandey@oxfamnovib.nl

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.