Institutional Funding Manager At African Parks

Job Overview

African Parks is a non-profit conservation organization founded in 2000 that manages 19 national

parks and protected areas in 11 countries covering 14 million hectares. This is achieved through

long-term agreements with national governments, putting in place funding solutions and

establishing good governance and management to achieve ecological, social and financial

sustainability. The funding strategy is developed in line with the organization growth and includes

public institutional donors as a significant segment. The associated grants management complexity

poses a number of financial, legal and reputational risks. African Parks is looking for a dynamic

Francophone Institutional Funding Manager to provide strategic funder engagement, ensure

compliance with grant rules and regulation, build capacity of park team members to effectively

manage and report on grants. The position (a) ensures there is an engagement strategy for funders

under his/her responsibility including but not limited to the European Union, AFD, German funders,

GCF, etc. (b) provides support to ensure compliance with funder rules and regulations (c) takes

overall responsibility for ensuring relationship is well managed and cultivated over time.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

· Developing and managing relationship engagement strategies for key institutional funders under his/her responsibility; facilitating internal coordination and coherence of messages delivered to donors

· Identifying new opportunities and coordinating the proposal development process and submission to donors.

· Coordinating due diligence processes, contract negotiation, signing, planning and start-up meetings of new grants.

· Ensuring quality, compliance and submission of all proposals, reports, and formal communications to donors.

· Developing appropriate tools for and providing training and other capacity building support for implementing teams to effectively manage grants, including bringing in external expertise when needed.

· Maintaining oversight of grants’ reporting calendar to remind Park Grants coordinators and Grant managers.

· Maintaining a grant risk register.

· Ensuring good internal communications and record keeping (in Salesforce donor database) around grant requirements.

· Participating in internal IF meetings as needed.

· Promoting global donor visits, events, meetings, recognition and visibility

· Completing other duties, as assigned by the supervisor.

Capabilities, competencies and experience needed for the job

· Relevant university degree (Masters or Postgraduate), in Social Sciences, International Development, conservation, international Relations or other relevant field.

· Required minimum experience: 8-10 years of progressively responsible experience managing programs of a similar nature in a leadership and management role.

· 5-8 years’ experience in public funding pursuit and/or grants management, donor account management, familiarity with funding mechanisms and compliance rules and regulations especially EU, AFD, German cooperation and GCF preferred.

· Excellent project management skills with experience in managing and supervising administrative projects.

· Bilingual; Strong writer and communicator in French and English, Portuguese a plus.

· Extensive work experience in Africa and strong interest in wildlife and conservation.

· Ability to self-manage and take initiative, work well in fast paced, multicultural, cross-functional global team environment.

· Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines and produce quality results on time with attention to detail.