The contributing donors to the Fund are the UK Foreign and Development Office (FCDO); Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad ); the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR); the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The donors and civil society organizations designed the Fund in partnership, which is embodied in the Fund’s governance structures i.e. International Steering Committee(externe link, opent in nieuw venster) (ISC)consisting of both members of civil society and representatives of funders. The membership of the Fund’s Program Advisory Panel(externe link, opent in nieuw venster) (PAP)consists of experts from civil society.
The Robert Carr Fund is housed within the International Department of its Fund Management Agent (FMA) Aidsfonds. The Aidsfonds’ international department consists of an advocacy team, the secretariat of the Robert Carr Fund(externe link, opent in nieuw venster), and two programmatic teams: Key Populations and Children, Youth & Women. The international work is organized in projects with project leaders responsible for the implementation and budgetary management of their projects.
Project Officer: grant and request for proposals management (32 hours)
The Project Officer reports to the Fund Director and focuses on participatory management of a portfolio of grants, building and maintaining productive working relations with the RCF grantees and funders, supports the relevant committees of the International Steering Committee (ISC) and acts as project lead for the request for proposals process.
Tasks & responsibilities
Grants management
- Manage a respective portfolio of 10 RCF grants both programmatically and financially, including grant management, planning and reporting, due diligence and monitoring visits.
- Support the implementation of the Fund’s monitoring, evaluation for learning (MEL) system and timely development of high quality reports to donors and the ISC;
- Monitor for risks of corruption, fraud and mismanagement (CFM) in collaboration with Finance Officers and engage with the ISC accountability committee, Aidsfonds finance department and the Fund Director, to prevent and manage CFM cases;
- Liaise with RCF donors to ensure timely compliance with donor reporting requirements throughout the grant cycle;
- Act as focal point for the Norad and UK FCDO in relation to compliance and resource mobilisation as well as ad hoc queries
Capacity building and learning
- Assess grantees’ needs and capacities, propose and implement strategies for the Fund and/or grantees themselves to address them;
- Support the facilitation of linking and learning among grantees in both organizational development (e.g. financial management, monitoring and evaluation for learning (MEL), governance etc.) and programmatic areas (human rights, access to health services, resource accountability) including contributing to the execution of the RCF annual impact reflection workshop;
Request for proposals
- Acts as project lead for the RFP process including oversight of planning, execution and budget management
Requirements and competences
- Minimum 3 – 5 years of relevant work experience at either national or international level;
- Experience within the not-for-profit sector and/or with a grant-maker/funder/funding mechanism;
- Knowledge of and practical experience with monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) of advocacy projects;
- Organizational skills, good at negotiating, independently acting with authority at various levels;
- English speaking and writing skills
- Knowledge of and work experience in Africa and Asia would be an advantage
- Knowledge of and work experience with people living with HIV would be an advantage
Can be based in the Netherlands or remotely. Benefits package below is for Netherlands based employees, a comparative package is offered for remote working.
What we offer
First of all, we offer you an ambitious and diverse organization in which we work together in an accessible, open and inspiring atmosphere and deliver quality based on appealing goals and clear roles. In this way we contribute to a world without AIDS and a drastic decrease in the number of STDs. You are welcome as you are, who you love or what you believe. We are curious about your talents and your social drive to work with us on our mission.
In addition we offer:
- An exciting position in a dynamically changing organization
- An employment contract for one year first and after a positive final assessment a permanent employment contract
- A salary between € 3.054 and € 4.884 gross per month for 36 hours per week, scaling takes place depending on your experience
- 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% year-end bonus that is also calculated on your holiday pay. These combined in the IKB budget
- Working from home options, flexible working hours and you can set your own agenda
- 100% reimbursement of your commuting by public transport
Apply
You can apply until the 26th of January by uploading your motivation letter and cv on our application: