ForAfrika

Highly Engaged Employees

About ForAfrika: Founded in 1984, ForAfrika (formerly Joint Aid Management, JAM) is an Africa-based international relief and development organization working to save lives, overcome poverty and create sustainable living within the continent of Africa. Today, it operates across seven countries running programmes in Food Security, Nutrition, Health,... WASH, and Economic Recovery. In South Sudan, ForAfrika began operations in 2002 with programming spanning across five states in Jonglei, Unity, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap, and Central Equatoria. ForAfrika's integrated programming focuses on three pillars: 1) Saving Lives; 2) Promoting Early Recovery and 3) Promoting Community Resilience. Job Purpose: ForAfrika South Sudan recognizes that financial sustainability is key to ensuring the successful implementation of its Strategic Plan. This will be done through diversifying its donor base as well as developing mechanisms for long-term financial sustainability. To help achieve this, ForAfrika South Sudan will require the expert services of a programme development and partnerships professional who will provide leadership to increase its grant portfolio in order to reach the country office strategy, meet the required funding mix as defined in the annual targets. The Programme Development & Partnerships Manager is responsible for growing ForAfrika's funding portfolio in line with the country strategic plans. S/he will lead donor engagement, intelligent research on donor strategies, sectoral focus and forecasts, prepositioning for solicited and unsolicited opportunities and meet annual grant income target for ForAfrika South Sudan. The incumbent shall contribute strategically to the development of Grant Acquisition and Donor Retention Strategies for the country office. The PDPM must have diverse professional depth to network externally, engage with donors and design winning funding proposals. The PDPM will also need to link learnings from the field to the emerging programming approaches in order to create innovations ...Read More