Start date: 01/10/2025
Duration: 24 months
Activity rate: 100%
Work location: Dakar, Senegal or Nairobi, Kenya / 70% of working time in the city where the position is based and 30% in the other city.
Status: Accompanied
Application deadline: Terre des hommes does not set an application deadline for this position; recruitment is open until the position is filled.
Tdh:
The Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh), headquartered in Lausanne and with an office in Zurich, is the largest Swiss children’s rights organization with more than 2,000 employees worldwide. We work alongside children to guarantee their rights, protect their lives, and improve their well-being. We achieve this through our innovative programs in the areas of health, migration, and access to justice, designed to have a positive and lasting impact.
Context :
Terre des hommes Lausanne (Tdh), founded in 1960, is Switzerland’s largest children’s rights organization. Tdh is dedicated to bringing about meaningful and lasting change in the lives of children and young people, particularly those most at risk. Tdh is active in some thirty countries, in both humanitarian and development contexts.
In sub-Saharan Africa, Tdh operates directly in 8 countries (Burkina Faso, Burundi, Guinea-Conakry, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria and Senegal) and through partnerships in 6 other countries (Benin, Cameroon, Madagascar, Niger, Togo and Uganda).
As part of the decentralization of its organizational model, Tdh is opening a regional office in Dakar, Senegal, for which a position of Regional Fundraising/Project Writing Advisor has been created.
Main responsibilities:
- Ensures the link between the Institutional Fundraising Department at headquarters, the region and country offices to develop and implement a coherent fundraising strategy adapted to the realities on the ground, while ensuring smooth communication and supporting capacity building of country teams.
- Tracks, analyzes and reports regional donor trends and regional fundraising and contract management results including key performance indicators.
- Promotes and implements global frameworks, standards, processes and tools relating to fundraising, project writing and funding management at the regional level.
- Helps influence donors at the regional level and supports teams in preparing for country-level negotiations.
- Develops relationships with existing donors and partners and engages in relationships with new donors and partners at the regional level.
- Encourages regional coordination and coherence of exchanges between countries and relations with donors and partners.
- Ensures the search for institutional funds at the regional level and supports it at the country level and contributes to the search for private funds at the regional level.
- Ensures financial planning and management of the region from a revenue perspective and supports countries in this area.
- Participates in the preparation of funding requests and donor reports, ensuring their compliance and quality, at the regional level and, depending on the issues, at the country level.
The full job description will be shared with candidates selected for technical testing.
Profile :
Education: Master’s degree in a relevant field, including international relations, political science, public administration, project management and communication.
Experience / Skills:
At least five years of experience in developing funding proposals and acquiring resources for international cooperation is required.
- Financial and budgetary management skills, supported by a good understanding of human resource management and project management principles.
- Ability to support and advise on organizational and operational transformation.
- Good ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Reliability and autonomy, with an ability to organize, make decisions and manage conflict at a basic level.
- In-depth knowledge of the specific rules and constraints of donors in terms of logistics/purchasing.
- Experience in development and humanitarian contexts.
- Developed spirit of collaboration, including remotely, and teamwork in a multicultural environment.
- Behavior aligned with values.
- Integrity, commitment and kindness
- Ability to travel to countries of intervention in the region
LANGUAGES :
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and French.
IT knowledge:
Proficiency in Microsoft Office package.
Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies:
- Commits to respecting the Global Code of Conduct and systematically reporting any violation of the Code through the Tdh reporting procedure: raising awareness within the Foundation about violence and abuse, and the rights that result from them, with regard to children, community members and our own employees
- Agrees to comply with the Risk Management Policies, including: Safeguarding policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Policy, Abusive Conduct at Work Directive), Safety/Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention of the Financing of Criminal Activities Policies
- Committed to reducing the risk of abuse by developing an open and informed management culture within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we operate
We offer you exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, within a team that wants to make a difference for children in situations of great vulnerability.
Have we piqued your interest? Are you up for this challenge?
How to apply
Procedure :
Only complete files (CV + cover letter) posted on this link will be processed.
Additional documents (diplomas, work certificates, etc.) will be requested at a later date. We will only contact selected applicants for further recruitment. Due to the large number of applications received, it is difficult for us to respond personally to each candidate. Thank you for your understanding. For any questions, please refer to the FAQ below the advertisements.