Grants and Communications Coordinator
Description Location: Turkey, Antakya Duration: 1 year Reports to: Assistant Country Director - Programmes
GOAL Syria GOAL has been working in Syria since 2012, responding to the acute needs of conflict affected communities. GOAL is working directly in Northern Idlib and through local partners in Hama and Southern Idlib, implementing food, non-food, voucher and WASH programming to IPDs and host communities.
Job Purpose:
To manage, coordinate and collate information for high-quality and timely proposals and reports, coordinate with the Programme Support Officer (PSO) and Assistant Country Director –Programmes (ACD-P) on the preparation of draft proposals and reports, and supporting the GOAL Syria team on grant implementation. The Grants and Communication Manager will further support the GOAL Syria country programme with high-quality research, analysis and communication for internal and external audiences. Communications will include, but not be limited to newsletters, success stories and the development of proposals and reports.
Main duties and responsibilities: Grants
• Assist in the strategic design and development of proposals, reports and communications in collaboration with the Country Director, ACD-Programmes, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Coordinator, sectoral programme coordinators, and other GOAL Syria staff.
• Ensure timely delivery of quality reporting and proposals through support to reporting, procurement planning, and tracking of Budget Monitoring Tools (BMTs).
• Research new programme and funding opportunities in line with the GOAL Syria country strategic plan, including liaising with other INGOs, UN Agencies, bilateral donors and others to maintain current knowledge of the donor environment and ‘map’ funding opportunities for GOAL’s programmes in Syria.
• Provide support to Programme Managers, ACD-P and PSO by participating in strategy design, grant management meetings, disseminating grants documents, and responding to information requests from the field and other partners in-country.
• Line manage the PSO; provide guidance, support and capacity building to PSO and other key programme staff on proposal writing, strategy and reporting
• Work with Programme and Compliance staff to build the capacity of Partner Organisations in reporting, grant management and donor compliance.
Representation and Information Management
• Attend relevant coordination meetings, as delegated by the SMT, representing GOAL and providing updates and flagging key issues of concern.
• Ensure a consistent flow of information about all programme activities, keeping the SMT and field teams up to date on all developments and key decisions (programmatic and operational)
Communications
• Lead the design of promotional materials (newsletters, brochures, marketing materials) in line with Head Office and donor guidelines and the needs of the Syria team.
• In collaboration with the ACDP-P and the M&E Coordinator, support GOAL Syria communications to ensure effective and timely external communication with the relevant government Ministries, key in-country donors, agencies and the communities in GOAL’s area of operation.
• With the full knowledge and oversight of the Country Director, be a point of contact for GOAL’s media team in HO. Support the HO media team to encourage staff to write blogs, take photographs and shoot video footage, as outlined in GOAL’s Media Guidelines, and to collate all blogs, images and footage and share with the media team in HO.
• Help to notify the HO Media team of any potential news stories and help gather news items on GOAL Syria programmes.
• Any other duties as outlined by the line manager or Country Director.
Person specification
• Post-graduate qualification ideally with a specialisation in public health, development, humanitarian aid, international law, social sciences or another relevant field;
• At least three years’ experience in proposal development, logical framework development and donor reporting (ECHO, DFID, FFP, OFDA, etc.);
• Experience of working with INGOs in a similar capacity providing programme/ communication/ information management support to humanitarian programmes.
• Excellent analytical and writing skills in English; knowledge of Arabic desirable.
• IT skills, especially in Word and Excel with ability to analyse data and interpret statistical information.
• Ability to work under pressure, and prioritise workload according to the changing needs of the programme.
• Good interpersonal skills and commitment to capacity building.
• Enthusiastic, flexible and with the ability to work long hours to meet the needs of the programme
• Understanding of mainstreaming principles, including gender and child protection
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