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SOS Children's Villages Syria

Damascus

Finished or Exempted (For male)

1.Fundraising and Donor Liaison
- Build up and nurture a network with co-workers, organizations and institutions towards establishing long term partnerships for public funding projects
- Identify institutional partnership opportunities at the national local level (from bilateral, multilateral, international organizations and embassies and foundations)
- Coordinate with the program team to conduct assessments and feasibility studies that inform program design. Conduct background research relevant for designing projects
- Coordinate the writing of program proposals and be the link between program, finance and submit this to potential institutional donors.
- Develop and maintain good relationships with donors by ensuring regular communication, knowledge exchange and effective reporting.
- Work with the Head of FDC, be the link between SOS Children's Villages and donors especially in management of institutional funding contracts. Ensure regular communication with the SOS international and regional offices.
- Coordinate, monitor and assess the quality of donor reporting making sure that donor requirements are met during the project implementation phase.
- Prepare and submit IPD monthly updates to management and quarterly reports to the regional office.
- Set up an IPD team to develop institutional partnership applications
- Involve in all stages of public funding project management (preparation, monitoring and evaluation) including the application process.
- Follow up current grant-implementations in terms of monitoring and evaluation
- Set up a national public funding database
- Work closely with the National Director, National programme development director and program managers in the preparation and monitoring of the projects.
- Foster and insure ensure capacity building measures for national key-co-workers in the field of Project-Cycle-management and Public Funding in general

2.Donor Contract Management:
- Responsible for Donor Contract Management (DCM) of all institutional (restricted) grants (National or International), including contract preparation, development of consortium agreements, compliance with donor requirements, submission of reports.
- Develop and maintain a mechanism for management of institutional contracts.
- Ensure all funding files, (electronic, system and paper) are complete and kept up to date.
- Undertake routine donor contract administration for country programmes including maintenance of records on donor contracts in the NA
- Establish a close working relationship with the Finance Department and provide advice to ensure synergy in donor budgeting, contract management and reporting

3.Strategy, Capacity Building
- Develop and implement an institutional fundraising and partnership strategy in line with the needs of the NA and ensure this is infused within the national plans
- Review and implement the recommendations of the donor market survey
- Train and support relevant staff in Project Cycle Management and Logical Framework Approach
- Build fundraising capacity within the programme team, by training staff on funding policies donor relations, reporting, contract management, etc.

4.Partnership Development and Networking
- Participate in all important events and activities in the country that are of great importance for creating networks in the public funding sphere
- Establish and maintain regular contact with donors by organizing donor roundtables, face to face meetings, attending donor forums etc.
- Negotiate collaboration with partner institutions and government departments in support of NA subject to approval from the National Director
- Assess and where possible develop partnerships and consortiums with other like-minded organizations for purposes of bidding for large donor projects.
- Supervise the representation of the NA in sector level meetings (development and humanitarian/emergency) and other networking forums and use this to aggressively develop funding partnerships
- Participate in regional IPD networking and training forums and contribute to development of new IPD strategies to improve practice

5.Child Safeguarding CS):
• Child protection is everyone's responsibility
• Responsible within own area of work to prevent and protect children of all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination based on SOS Child Protection Policy principles
• Responsible for reporting any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the national CS focal person or any other member of the national CS team and/or to the respective line manager.

- Specific experience and knowledge of grant requirements (USAID, EU, UN…) and training experience
- Good at relationship building with different levels of the organization.
- Able to work with or within a virtual team.
- Conveys written information in well-organized, accurate and concise manner that can be easily understood by others (e.g. target group).
- Experience with negotiations and management of partners and service providers.

SOS Children's Villages Syria, a nonprofit, nongovernmental association that is committed to responding to the social development needs of society's most vulnerable children and young people. We establish facilities and programs that aim to strengthen families and prevent the abandonment of children. We join hands with community members to provide education, protection, and alternative care services.

SOS Children's Villages Syria is a branch of the International Federation of Children's Villages, based in Austria and spread out in 136 countries worldwide. It was founded in Syria in 1975, and since then, we have been working to ensure that children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it grow up with the needed support and care to become their strongest selves.

May 20, 2023

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