Programme Development & Funding Officer - Humanitarian Focus

Salary: £32,503 - £37,260 p.a.

Based: UK

Contract: Permanent, full time

Closing date: This is a rolling recruitment, the deadline has been extended until further notice

Job Profile

CAFOD works with partner organisations to combat poverty and injustice and to build a strong and dynamic civil society. We are looking for a highly motivated Programme Development and Funding Officer to support the work of our Humanitarian Department to help alleviate vulnerability, suffering and loss of life, and to help build partner capacities in order to reduce vulnerability and strengthen disaster preparedness.

Your role

Working as part of the Humanitarian Department you will focus on supporting our humanitarian and programme staff and partners in developing high quality programmes, ensuring that we and our partners obtain significant institutional donor funding for our humanitarian work, and maintaining and strengthening our relationship with key donors including DFID, ECHO, the DEC and the START network.

Your profile

You will be fluent in English with excellent spoken and written communication and interpersonal skills, inter-cultural sensitivity and confidence in dealing with a wide range of NGO partners. You should have experience of developing successful humanitarian funding applications for institutional donors as well as participatory project design with the use of analytical tools. We also expect you to be able to demonstrate good knowledge of developing and implementing monitoring systems to track the effectiveness of programmes and an ability to build cooperative, professional relationships with donors.

The post is based in London but will involve frequent travel overseas often travelling at short notice. Please note that you will need a current right to work in the UK.

HOW TO APPLY:

To read more and apply to please visit CAFOD’s website www.cafod.org.uk/Work-with-us/UK-Jobs/PD-FO-Humanitarian-Focus to begin completing our online application form.