Place: Yemen, Sanaa (with posting in Aden and travel to bases in Mokha, Hajjah and Hudaydah and other bases)
Starting date: 1st November 2024
Duration of contract: 6-12 months
Closing date for applications: 9th October 2024
ABOUT US :
Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. The organisation works alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.
Since its creation in 1982, HI has run development programmes in more than 60 countries and responded to numerous emergencies. Today, we have a budget of approximately 255 million euros, with 4794 employees worldwide.
At Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion, we truly believe in the importance of inclusion and diversity within our organisation. This is why we are engaged to a disability policy to encourage the inclusion and integration of people with disabilities.
Please indicate if you require any special accommodation, even at the first interview. For more information about the organisation: www.hi.org
JOB CONTEXT:
Since 2015, HI interventions have been adapted to the current context of conflict in Yemen. With the support of different donors, HI has been supporting two hospitals and one physical and functional rehabilitation centre in Sana'a City, building the capacities of their key staff in early rehabilitation care and psychological first aid (including specifically for children), supplying rehabilitation equipment, and directly providing functional rehabilitation care and psychosocial support to war affected people (including through the donation of assistive devices and provision of Prosthesis).
Since 2022, HI is implementing these activities in 6 governorates (Amanat Al Asimah, Hajjah, Al Hodeidah, Taizz, Aden and Lahj governorates) from 14 health facilities and rehabilitation centres.
In parallel, HI is implementing inclusive humanitarian action, by increasingly piloting inclusive interventions and promoting disability inclusive coordination and programming through coordination system and the Inclusion Task Force in Yemen, and through technical support and capacity development to UN agencies, NGO’s and increasingly to networks and focal points of persons with disabilities, and awareness raising activity with communities.
In addition, HI has started to implement humanitarian mine action activities in the south of Yemen from 2022.
YOUR MISSION:
Under the responsibility of the Technical Head of Program (THOP), the Grant Officer supports the Head of Program (HOP) in the development and implementation of the Programme’s fundraising strategy.
He/she ensures the quality and time-effective development of proposal for fundraising in close collaboration with the HOP, the Technical Unit Manager and the Area Managers.
He/she enhances the Programme’s team capacities for qualitative proposal development.
He/she leads and ensures the quality grants management and reporting and compliance with donors’ guidelines and requirements.
Mission 1 - Supports the HOP in the development of the Programme’s fundraising strategy :
· Contribute to the mapping of donors active in the region/countries, of their initiatives (calls, partners) and of their strategies and priorities, in coordination with the HOP and in collaboration with the Head office Institutional Funding Direction and HI National Associations;
· Liaise with HI Institute for the Institute’s recommendations on ethical positioning towards donors and funding opportunities and for the analysis of each donor;
· Liaise with HI Institute, HOP and Security Advisor to assess ethical risks towards each funding opportunities against the humanitarian imperative;
· Get regular updates from head office Institutional Funding Direction and HI National Associations on donors’ positioning towards key trends such as NEXUS, gender equality and disability inclusion, protection mainstreaming and inform proposal development, in coordination with the HOP;
· In collaboration with the HOP, facilitate regular brainstorming with technical and operations teams to generate ideas for new programs in response to identified donors strategies and priorities;
· In collaboration with Technical Specialists and Operations Teams, guarantee the connection between thematic clusters (humanitarian network’s priorities) and the Programme fundraising strategy;
· Support the HOP on the annual plan program for fundraising and 3-months updates;
· Advise for meeting and communication, meet or co-meet donors with the HOP and/or CD when necessary;
· Liaise with HI National Associations for all issues related to donors relations and communication (general communication, keys visits or networking);
· Actively participate in the participatory work to review and design the 3-years Operational Strategy of the program – with responsibility on the fundraising component.
Mission 2 - Ensures high quality and time-effective proposals development for fundraising:
· Advise and support the HOP in the identification and selection of the fundraising opportunities;
· For each opportunity identified, coordinate with Head Office and National Associations for NOFO guidance and donors pre-requisites;
· Plan, prepare, coordinate and lead the proposal development process: manage the retro-planning for submission including ARCI and coordination with external stakeholders (HQ and National Associations), clarify and support compliance to donors’ requirements, facilitate kick-off meetings, ensure time-effectiveness and respect of submission deadline;
· Support compliance to international best practices and donors’ specificities in the development of the proposals’ logical frameworks and logical models (ToCs, etc.);
· Ensure coherence between operational aspects, MEAL, technical approaches, logistics and budgeting;
· Participate directly to writing and development of all proposals and take the lead for the development of major grants and/or complex donors;
· Provide guidance/support to the writing of projects’ proposal narratives, ensuring compliance to donors’ instructions, priorities and specificities. Guarantee the final quality of all projects’ proposal narratives, both in terms of content and formalization;
· Guarantee the completeness and final compliance of all proposal package submissions to the call for proposals’ guidelines and donors’ requirements;
Mission 3 - Enhance the missions’ capacity for qualitative proposal development:
· Facilitate production and sharing of good practices over proposal development, in particular in relation to certain key donors’ specificities (value for money, etc.) and cross-cutting issues (gender, environment, protection, safeguarding, etc.);
· Strengthen mission teams’ capacity for proposal development, including HI internal guidelines/processes, international good practices and donors specificities;
· Ensures the quality grants management and reporting and compliance with donors’ guidelines and requirements;
· If proposals are approved, follow up the contractual issues with related HI actors and establish the donors’ sheet;
· Produce and share a monthly follow-up of the grants development and reporting actions and dealdines;
· Manage and update the Programme fundraising table (submissions, categories of donors, annual stats) and insure the sharing and access to these informations for all missions, HQ and Nas
Others: Any other service / task in connection with the programme that may prove necessary
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POSITION:
The position is based in Sana’a – Yemen.
The expatriate is expected to travel between HI bases (Aden, Mokha, Hudaydah and Hajjah). In the five locations, shared guesthouses well equipped with a safe room, most of the work is done at the office but there are some possibilities to go out for work purposes.
Outside movements are possible for some extra professional activities in Sanaa and Aden. All movements are done by car. HI has set-up a curfew.
The situation is relatively calm in Sana’a and Hajjah nowadays. However, the security is volatile in southern areas.
The mission has put in place adequate security rules and process to allow team to work in safe environment. Despite the country situation, risk for expatriate remain limited and no critical incident happened over the past period.
Local medical capacity remains a concern for person with fragile heath, ongoing treatment and that need close medical follow up.
Dress code:
· Men will be required to wear long pants and at least a short-sleeved shirt.
· Women are required to wear the abaya and hijab (head scarf) outside of the compound. For female staff in the office, appropriate attire includes long pants, and long sleeve shirts.