About US:

DanChurchAid is a faith-based, non-missionary relief and development organization based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and founded in 1922. Our key competencies are food security and food crisis response, humanitarian cash transfer programming, civil society development and humanitarian mine action. DCA is a member of the ACT Alliance, which is a faith-based, non-missionary humanitarian alliance, and one of the five largest NGO Alliances in the world with a combined turnover of over 1.5 billion USD annually.

Job Summary:

The Resource Mobilization and Grants Advisor (RMGA) will spearhead DCAs resource mobilization efforts and secure timely and efficient grant management for our programme in Uganda. The RMGA works closely with DCA colleagues and partners and refers to the Country Director. The position is a 2-year Junior Professional Officer (JPO) position with possibility of extension. Duty station is Kampala (80-90%) with travels within Uganda.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• The main function of the RMGA is to increase the fundraising capacity and donor income of DCA’s Country Office in Uganda.
• The RMGA is the focal point and key person responsible for timely proposal development – together with partner organisations, other INGO staff and DCA colleagues – ensuring that proposals are of high quality and meet donor requirements
• Ensuring appropriate grants management of international funded projects
• Assisting in building relations and increase visibility of DCA among both donors, private sector, partners, INGOs and other key stakeholders,
• Ensuring that all funded projects meet the visibility and communication requirements of the funding agency and
• Securing constructive and close collaboration with relevant units and colleagues in DCA, both in Uganda and in DCA in Copenhagen.
• Finally, the RMGO builds the competence of DCA staff and partners to do fundraising from international as well as country based donors.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant must hold a university degree in international development or other related sciences as well as minimum 2-3 years working experience, preferably internationally.
• Documented successful experience in proposal development and writing, incl. excellent English writing skills
• Knowledge of grant management of international donors including EU, ECHO, UNHCR and other UN agencies, Danida and other institutional donors.
• Knowledge of and experience in working with the partners and the private sector.
• Enjoys and is good at liaison, building relations and networking.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with experience in engaging with people of different cultures and backgrounds
• Flexible, pro-active, self-motivated and good at coordinating and organizing own work as well as that of the team, while managing several processes at a time. This should be combined with a strong attention to detail.
• Knowledge of DCA’s programmatic areas is an advantage.
• Please note, that according to the DCA JPO Handbook, applicants cannot be more than 35-years-old at the time of application and should not have more than 4 years of resource mobilization and grant management experience.

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Closing Date : 19th June 2020