Grants & Project Support Officer UK Charity Jobs – Lively Minds
Job Title: Grants & Project Support Officer
Organization: Lively Minds
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
About US:
Lively Minds is a UK-registered Charity organization that is working to get pre-school children in rural Ghana and Uganda school-ready. Working through government we build the skills and confidence of marginalised mothers to run educational Play Schemes & provide nurturing care at home. This improves the quality of life and life-chances for children, parents and the wider communities.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with our Head of Monitoring & Evaluation, Country Directors, project teams and finance teams, to generate high quality and timely donor reports to keep donors aware of and engage them in our progress, successes and challenges.
- Help share learnings and best practices across the organisation and contribute to regular “quality assurance” activities and audits.
- Support the development of a fundraising strategy and deliver fundraising activities through researching fundraising opportunities, contributing towards grant applications, and preparing pitches.
- Work with our Marketing Communications Manager to support the development of promotional activities and materials for grassroots, regional, national & international funders and stakeholders including videos, field visits, in-country conferences, impact and progress reports, presentations, speeches, blogs, and website content.
- Support general operations and project activities through writing lesson plans/training materials, conducting focus groups and research, and setting-up and coordinating multi-person conference calls and meetings across multiple time-zones.
- Ensure legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable donor requirements, and maintaining records.
- Assist with administrative and general office functions (e.g. responding to general email and phone enquires, donor and supporter queries, sourcing in-kind donations).
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- We are looking for someone with the confidence and experience to work with all our teams, and with the communication skills to produce high quality written reports. You will be working in a multi-national, multi-disciplinary team that is spread across three countries.
- Be an excellent writer and communicator. You must be confident in producing donor proposals and reports, which are accurate, concise and compelling.
- Be analytical. You will need to develop high quality reports and insights based on a sound understanding of donor requirements, and challenges/learnings/achievements/impact in the field.
- Be hands-on. You will need to be out in the field to understand the programme and our impact.
- Be able to deliver quality at pace. We have a very busy workload and strict deadlines. You need to be organised, proactive and outcomes-focused.
- Be innovative. We operate in resource-poor settings, with challenging stakeholders and with limited resources. You will need to adopt an excellent analytical approach and be prepared to test and learn in order to find creative and sustainable solutions and sustain high quality grant management and reporting.
- Be a team-player. You will need to maintain regular contact with our global partners and work effectively with our Monitoring & Evaluation Team and project teams to source the information you need to develop reports and proposals.
- Be a self-starter. You must be comfortable working with limited supervision and managing a complex and varied workload.
How to Apply:
All candidates should send an updated CV and covering letter explaining how you fit the person specification. Please send to jobs@livelyminds.org. Please note that generic cover letters will not be considered. Lively Minds operates a strict Child & Vulnerable Adult Protection Policy and the post-holder will be required to demonstrate their suitability for this role. Due to resource constraints we will only be able to reply to shortlisted candidates. The successful candidate will be required to complete a DBS check, and complete a 6-month probationary period.
Deadline: Monday 6th April 2020 by 5:00pm