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!Key Responsibilities:World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our 42,000+ staff members working in more than 90 countries are united through our ethos, mission and shared desire for all individuals, especially children, to overcome poverty, inequality and injustice.Here’s where you come in:As Grant Acquisition Management (GAM) Manager, you are a key member of the Team and will provide leadership in development and implementation of the World Vision Doominican Republic Resource Development Strategy. This strategy will help in the acquisition of new government, multilateral and foundation grants to enable World Vision DR to increase its contributions to child well-being and National Office strategic objectives through increased revenue in the key priority sectors of Health and Nutrition, Education, Economic Development and Child Protection. You will ensure resource diversification, strengthened donor networking and improved resource acquisition capabilities for World Vision DR.You will work closely with senior Leadership team members and with technical specialists in each sector, you will be responsible for the implementation and coordination of grant acquisition processes, leading in pre-positioning, proposal development and donor liaison and will track grants acquisition performance metrics. You will build the capacity of other staff in resource acquisition and provide backstopping support to Grant projects as needed.Requirements include:
Master’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 5 years of experience in international development, M&E or a technical sector.
Team management experience.
Work environment: Based in the National Office at Santo Domingo, with regular travel to the field. Up to 20% Domestic/international travel is required.
