Partnerships & Development Officer

Specific Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of the portfolios’ Partnership & Development Strategy. 
• Support the programme design and proposal development processes by developing grant applications not limited to expression of interest, concept notes and proposals 
• Work with team members in ensuring that budget for proposals are fully developed and in line with the proposed interventions. 
• Plan and prepare for the submission of narrative reports to funding partners as per agreement conditions. 
• Understand, maintain, and manage the agreed upon donor and partner agreements. 
• Manage on-going partnerships including continuous collation of M&E data required for report generation and communication.
• Liaise with Solidarity and Support and MEAL portfolios to ensure that results achievements are adequately captured in funding partner reports using donor perfect.
• Support the development of funding partner financial, narrative and audit reports as per agreement outlines.
• Maintain donor database for donor and partner reporting purposes.
• Maintain and track Partnership and Development donor, funding and contact lists. 
• Facilitate meetings and workshops with various UAF-Africa team members to support proposal, report writing processes and start up meetings.
• Work with team members in organizing donor field visits and programme engagement meetings. 
• Any other duties as assigned by Direct supervisor

Qualifications

• Master’s degree qualification in the following desciplines is required, Social Sciences, Women/Gender Studies, Human Rights.

Skills and Experience 

• Minimum of 4-6 years relevant experience and 0 -1 years supervisory experience an added advantage.
• Sound knowledge and understanding of womn’s human rights issues in Africa.
• Passionate about UAF-Africa’s mission, committed to teamwork, and achieving results. including a commitment to trust-based transformative grantmaking, community-led development, and grassroots movement building.
• Experience working in a virtual set up with seamless task coordination, managing multiple deadlines.
• Strong analytical, presentation, planning and organisational skills.
• Self-starter and proactive, with an ability to make sound decisions.
• Proven experience working effectively in a cross-cultural team.
• Demonstrated high levels of confidentiality and integrity.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, presentation and communication skills
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrate high levels of integrity and confidentiality 
• Strong Organizational, planning and administrative skills. 
• Good attention to detail and ability to work with minimal supervision 
• Teamwork and ability to work in diverse teams. 
• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as assigned, in a fast-paced, teamoriented work environment.
• UAF-Africa is a part of a global UAF-Sisterhood network and staff are expected to occasionally work collaboratively with UAF-Sister Funds.