Country: Bangladesh
Closing date: 21 Jan 2018
Job Purpose
To provide strategic management and leadership on project designing process, funding proposal development and funding management for Oxfam’s Rohingya response in Bangladesh.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
· Maintain overall operational overview of resource mobilization for the Cat2, Rohingya crisis response in Bangladesh through appropriate donor mapping of trends bilateral and multi-lateral commitments and partner affiliate information on opportunities through foundation and trusts and private sector funding.
· Work with country response team to develop donor proposals, ensuring appropriate advisory input and sign-off as per standard operating procedures in the region.
· Represent Oxfam to donors in country along with programme staff and circulate notes to relevant staff (as when required).
· Participate in internal coordination meetings at the region (country and regional telecons) as and when required.
· Take the lead in negotiating favourable conditions for Oxfam’s donor contracts (e.g. reporting frequency, single report for multiple donors, etc.), minimises transaction costs.
· Coordinate the OI funding grid and circulate to all relevant stakeholders
· Ensure response team staff aware of requirements of donor contracts, sharing updated funding updates or contract summary sheet regularly.
· Provide donor compliance support to the humanitarian response team – and provide leadership and guidance on overall grant management of the donor portfolio.
· Ensure appropriate contract management of donor contracts including submission of reports and compliance with donor requirements
· Ensure that complete and accurate hard copy and electronic donor files and records are maintained in country for audit purposes.
· Inform and support decisions on the allocations of appeal funding and ensure that appropriate agreements, inter affiliate MOUs and reporting requirements are in place
· Support on CRIMSON related work to ensure that individual contracts/agreements for the overall response are in place and contractual obligations are understood.
· Contribute to SitReps and other communications as relevant that provides an accurate overview of 'real time' information on the status of funding, the availability of resources and gaps.
· Support Country funding officer/coordinators in building their capacity to integrate the humanitarian funding component in the daily responsibilities and work closely with the humanitarian country lead.
Start Date: 15 February 2018
Duration: 6 months, with possible extension
Duty Station: Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
How to apply:
Please apply via Oxfam GB's website: https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/vacancy/7140/description
Vacancy number: INT4105