With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

International Assignment - Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Purpose of the position:

WV Mozambique (WVM) has a large grant portfolio and there is significant potential for further growth. RM Team Leader provides overall technical leadership in the development and implementation of WVM Resource Development Strategy and in the acquisition of new government, multilateral and foundation grants to enable World Vision Mozambique to increase its contributions to child well-being and NO strategic objectives through increased revenue in the key priority sectors of Health/Nutrition, Education, Economic Development and Child Protection. RM Team Leader ensures resource diversification, strengthened donor networking and improved resource acquisition capabilities working closely with Integrated Programs Director, RM team members and technical specialists in each sector.

Major Responsibilities:

Grant Acquisition

• Increase grants resources to support the implementation of the WV Mozambique National Strategy, advance child wellbeing and maintain a balanced and diversified portfolio for WV Mozambique.
• In coordination of Integrated Programs Director develop/maintain effective relations and ensure high-quality working relationships with partners and external stakeholders including INGOs, local organizations, UN agencies to ensure strong partnering and consortia options, pre-positioning and raise the WVM profile.
• Manage opportunity pipeline tracking planning (country level donor mapping, strategic direction and areas of alignment, etc)
• Track and prioritize grant opportunities that are aligned with NO strategic priorities.
• Lead and ensure the completion of processes for risk assessment and go/no-go decision for potential opportunities.
• Lead the process of preparing funding proposals, including Grants, PNS projects and corporate donors.
• Ensure proposals are prepared to a high quality and in alignment with required donor formats and standards.
• Working with the WV Mozambique Finance team, ensure budgets are prepared in the correct format including all necessary costs.
• In coordination with Integrated Programs Director, mobilize support needed from RO, SOs, GC and within WV Mozambique to ensure strong proposal development teams to respond to opportunities.

Donor and Support Office Relations

• Identify key relationships to strengthen the national office pre-positioning and elevate WVM’s profile with government, multilateral and private sector donors.
• Maintain and strengthen donor relationships at country level, developing engagement strategies for each donor or a group of donors, using previous success and documented best practices in grant management
• Ensure the development of high-quality marketing material to showcase and preposition WV Mozambique.
• Provide programme updates to Support Offices and the SARO and support grant managers to ensure adequate care and quality for the development of success stories for donors, Support Offices and Government that demonstrate results and value for money.

Representation

• In coordination with Integrated Programs Director ensure appropriate representation of WV Mozambique at strategic forums leading to resource acquisition and enhanced programming collaboration.
• Represent the National Office in the grants community forum (internal and external to WV).
• Serve as the primary WV Mozambique focal point for collaboration with the SARO Program Development Unit and GAM Hub.

Capacity Building and Staff Development

• Lead, organize, motivate and develop RM team members to high standards of performance and build a high functioning, cared and developed GAM team within WV.
• Build successors and develop a talent pool. This involves building consensus and conflict resolution, staff recruitment, orientation, on-going management support, quarterly coaching, annual performance.
• Support the professional and personal development of staff through on the job coaching, identification of learning and training needs and opportunities.

• Lead RM capacity development planning in the NOs (i.e. identification of capacity gaps at NO in RM, capacity building initiatives for Grants acquisition, start-up workshops for new grants according to the grants minimum standards, grants management training in various government and multilateral donors’ regulations, training in common areas leading to poor grant implementation, etc).
• Build the capacity of other staff in resource acquisition, and provide backstopping support to projects as needed.
• Create tools and resources to reach World Vision Mozambique targets with high standards and accountability for maximum impact on Child Well-being.

Compliance, Tracking and Reporting

• Lead the mobilization and availability of cross- functional support for RM performance (finance, operations, P&C, strategy, technical, QA)
• Ensure that contributions from grants are adequately incorporated into the annual WV Mozambique Child Wellbeing Report.

Organizational Strengthening and Christian witness

• Lead in building trust and valuing people according to WV Mozambique guiding principles and Leadership Behaviors, contributing to strengthened organizational culture.
• Model WV Christian ethos and participate in staff devotions and Bible study on a weekly basis. Actively demonstrate and model WV Mozambique guiding principles and leadership behaviors.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and/or professional qualification in International Development studies, Community Development or any Social Science related degree.
• Demonstrated track record of successful grant acquisition from government and multilateral donors including proposal writing, project implementation and a demonstrated ability to prepare and edit high quality reports for major donors.
• At least 7 years of experience in international development, M&E or a technical sector
• At least 5 years of strong people management and capacity building experience.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of grant management or backstopping and experience of grant compliance procedures and regulations for major bilateral and multilateral donors.
• High level critical thinking, decision making and problem solving skills.
• Must be able to negotiate effectively within and outside the World Vision partnership, particularly with donor communities and government representatives.
• Excellent computer skills, including data capture and advanced data analysis. In depth knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Excel, and at least one statistical analysis package, such as SPSS for Windows.
• Leadership capabilities that includes coaching staff to high level of performance & engaging in effective cross cultural & cross functional working to achieve shared goals and effective indirect line management
• Experienced networker with an ability to maintain a good up to date knowledge of the grant opportunities and trends.
• Ability to engage at a strategic level with bilateral and multilateral donors, international organizations, host government ministries and partner NGOs
• Proactive approach, good organization and time management skills, and ability to prioritize, multi-task and manage heavy workloads and competing priorities.
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively in Portuguese. (Preferred)

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local and International Applicants (IA's) Accepted