Grants officer

Location: Aden with frequent visit to the field within NMO operation areas.
Type of contract: Fixed staff
Responsible from: Head of programs

Nahda Makers organization (NMO) Summary:

NMO is a humanitarian organization implementing several program in WASH, Food Security and livelihood, Shelter, Education and child protection Program in Yemen since 2012, with funding from different donors.
Nahda Makers Organization is looking for an efficient and qualified person to fill the post of Grants officer to carry out the following tasks:
Job purpose:
Prepares proposals by determining opportunities, gathering and formatting information; managing assessment and writing process; monitoring donors' feedback, review the quality of projects reports.

#Job_Duties:
1. Determine the available donors; identify opportunities and partnership requirements compared with NMO capacity.
2. Gathers proposal information by identifying sources of information and studying the templates and all grant supported documents.
3. Maintain and update the donor database to identify new donors and funding opportunities in line with the strategic priorities.
4. Organize "go or no" meeting with all related staff to decide and evaluate the value and capacity for each new grant opportunity.
5. Promote and share ideas for improvement of the Grants.
6. Ensure effective channels of internal and external communications relating to grants are established and respected.
7. Meets proposal deadline by establishing proposal preparing plan, which include priorities, coordinating requirements, target dates for information gathering, writing, review, approval and submitting.
8. Maintains a good quality proposals by using templates; following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone; maintaining proposal support databases.
9. Obtains approvals by reviewing proposal with key providers and project managers before summiting.
10. Monitor the donors after submitting the proposal to get their feedback.
11. Organize startup/ inception internally meeting to lunch the new approved projects after sign the agreement.
12. Attending and presenting NMO in internal and external related meetings.
13. Improves proposal-writing results by evaluating and re-designing processes, approach, coordination, and implementing changes.
14. Review donor narrative reports to ensure that they are of high quality and are compliant with donor regulations/requirements.
15. Monitor the project tracker and project reporting grid on regular basis and communicate project reports/proposals deadlines.
16. Participate in accomplishing organization strategy goals by mobilizing the funds and resource to meet the targeted numbers who NMO aims to benefit.
17. Assist in preparing and facilitating grants related meetings.
18. Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; maintaining personal networks.
19. Organize training sessions to provide the programs key actors staff with required skills in writing proposals.
20. Any other related tasks as it requested by line manager.

#Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
 Bachelors in English, Development, Project Management or any other related major.
 3 years' experience in humanitarian projects.
 Experience with INGO is preferable.
 Professional written and oral English skills.
 Problem Solving, Deadline-Oriented.
 Wide understating of humanitarian actors and interventions standers.
 High ability to negotiate and communicate with internal and external actors.
 Ability to understand the context and analysis the data and information.
 Strategic and operational planning ability.
 Team management skills.
 Creativity and multi task skills.