Posted:Nov 7
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Security and Investigations
Description:
Saferworld is an independent non-governmental organisation that works to prevent and reduce violent conflict and promote cooperative approaches to security. We work with civil society, governments and international organisations to encourage and support effective policies and practices through advocacy, research, and policy development, and through supporting the actions of others. Saferworld has worked in Africa since 1997. We have well-established programmes in Kenya, Uganda, Somalia/land, South Sudan, and Sudan. Overall our engagement in Africa combines programme implementation at the community level, dialogue, capacity-building, policy research, networking and advocacy, and working with institutions and civil society at national, regional, and international levels.
Job Description
The Funding Officer plays a critical role in supporting global fundraising efforts at Saferworld through:
- Ensuring that relevant colleagues across the organisation are aware of new and upcoming funding opportunities;
- Managing, keeping information up to date, and refining effective systems to record, track and analyse organisational funding activity and performance;
- Providing support to fundraising efforts by contributing to drafting proposals including filing and collecting relevant documents, fulfilling due diligence requirements, drafting donor mappings, and supporting co-design processes, and recruitment and retaining of new individual and major gifts donors.
Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
