Recruitment Description/ Key Accountabilities

Qualifications and Skills

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelors degree in an area of social development or equivalent. 

Experience and Skills

Essential

• Minimum of 2-3 years experience in coordinating and facilitating the development of proposals to institutional donors, multilateral agencies, corporate donors, and/or foundations. 
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written – with excellent writing and editing skills.
• Demonstrated experience in proposal development and coordination 
• Familiarity with project design methods and tools (including assessments, logical frameworks, and work planning) and budgeting; strong appreciation for innovation and partnership as part of project development.
• Good interpersonal skills, effective communicator, with proven ability to positively influence cross departmental and cross sector working (eg. programme, technical, awards, compliance, finance, program operations).
• A high degree of attention to detail and the ability to lead key tasks (eg. proposal development) to on-time completion under pressure. 
• Good personal organisational skills, including time management, and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• A high degree of flexibility and adaptability in order to respond to changing needs.  Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours in the event of major emergencies including travelling at short notice and for extended periods of time. 
• Commitment to Save the Children International values and policies including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy.

Desirable

• Fluency in Portuguese or another Romance language would be an added advantage
• Solid experience in more than one of the Save the Children International priority sectors: education, child protection, child rights governance, youth employment and economic empowerment, health and nutrition, climate resilience and emergencies, in development or emergency contexts.
• Interest to learn about key Save the Children programmatic areas and approaches serving children and families 
• Experience in developing project or proposal budgets.
• Familiarity with local context of Mozambique and funding landscape.
• Proven ability to write persuasive, competitive, and compliant narrative proposals for institutional donors. 
• A detailed understanding on funding mechanisms for development work such as Save the Children’s.

Interested candidates must submit the CV, and motivation letter in English by 21st August 2023, through the following link: 

https://hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com:443/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/job/1893?utm_medium=jobboard

”As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage women and people with disabilities to apply. Save the Children is committed to ensure that all of the employees and programs are absolutely safe for children.

We apply strict procedures to ensure that only candidates, suitable for working with children are allowed to join our organization and all candidates will therefore be subject to this scrutiny.”

LEGAL NOTICE:

SAVE THE CHILDREN INTERNACIONAL DOES NOT CHARGE ANY KIND OF PAYMENT IN ANY OF THE STAGES OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS AND DOES NOT PROCEED THROUGH RECRUITMENT AGENTS.

NB: Only selected candidates will be contacted