Bangladesh: FUNDING COORDINATOR

FUNDING COORDINATOR

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Our Team

The Funding Team is a dynamic team working on Oxfam’s Rohingya Refugee Crisis Response in Bangladesh. The team works in coordination with other Programme and Support teams to raise and effectively and efficiently manage restricted and unrestricted funding, enabling implementation of defined areas of work in country programme; ensuring quality and consistency in relationships with donors and management of partners; and supporting programme teams in managing and reporting their funds.

The Role:

To provide strategic management and leadership on project designing process, funding proposal development and grant management for Oxfam’s Rohingya response in Bangladesh. To coordinate fundraising and grant management for Cox’s Bazar programme. To support and capacity build the programme teams and country office in planning securing and managing restricted funds. To develop and maintain good working relationships with donor organizations and thereby maximise income from these sources

What we are looking for:

Essential

· Experience with identifying fundraising opportunities preferably for NGO’s and a good trackrecord of successfully acquired funding and donor-compliant implementation of programs.

· Experience in managing donor contracts, in particular from institutional donors, such as UN donors (UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and UN Women), ECHO, EU, GAC, DFID, AusAID, etc.

· Knowledge of NGO programming in emergencies and/or development environments.

· Strong technical knowledge of donor funding proposals and logframes in thematic area.

· Sound knowledge of institutional and government donors and funding policies

· Good research skills with ability to identify and propose successful strategies for identifying and establishing donor opportunities.

· Good relationship management skills, with ability to represent Oxfam with external organisations and individuals.

· Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, with experience in external organisational representation.

· Good written skills with proven ability to develop and present proposals and plans, for both

· internal and external audiences.

· Excellent operational, planning and budgeting skills.

· Self-motivated, target driven and an entrepreneurial approach to exploiting fundraising

· opportunities.

· Good administrative skills and ability to effectively use IT packages eg Word, Excel, LotusNotes, Databases

· Strong numeracy and general financial skills

· Ability to work effectively with others in a team situation to achieve fundraising targets.

Desirable

· Relevant academic qualifications

· Knowledge and experience of Oxfam’s program work and systems

· Willingness to travel

Key Attributes

· Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities

· Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work

Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible

We offer:

This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference in Oxfam GB, to act as key contributor to Rohingya refugee response programme, to work with a group of passionate people that are specialists in their Humanitarian fields, offers fair pay and competitive benefits package.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding:

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Note: All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and may be subject to appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.

Go to: for external applicants:

https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk

·For internal applicants:

https://jobs.oxfam.org.uk/internal

·Search for the vacancy using the reference numberINT6336 complete the online application process

·Ensure you submit your application before midnight (GMT) on the closing date. Unless a different time is specified in the advert.

Application deadline: 18 February 2020

About Us

Oxfam is a global movement of people who won’t live with the injustice of poverty. Together we save and rebuild lives in disasters. We help people build better lives for themselves. We speak out on the big issues that keep people poor, like inequality, discrimination against women and climate change. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can live without poverty.

Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation Oxfam.