Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 18 Oct 2015
The Role
The purpose of this role is to contribute to the long term effectiveness and sustainability of RedR’s programme activities. You will grow and strengthen RedR’s contribution to the Humanitarian Sector and its financial sustainability. You will develop excellent relationships with all RedR regional operations, partner organisations and donors to identify and effectively respond to opportunities, connecting the skills RedR has with the needs of disaster affected people.
Person Specification
Essential
- At least 5 years experience working in the humanitarian sector, either in field or HQ positions
- Track record of securing, successfully managing and reporting on significant grants from institutional donors
- Bring a network of contacts from across the Humanitarian Sector
- Able and comfortable in working at both strategic and operational level
- Proven experience of preparing and managing budgets
- Good attention to detail and a methodical approach to your work.
- Understanding of the donor compliance needs for a variety of humanitarian donors
- Proven experience of preparing and managing narrative proposals and reports for a variety of humanitarian donors
- Excellent IT skills, specifically in MS Office and database management
- Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to influence across the organisation and externally
- Confidence and ability to represent RedR externally including public speaking as necessary
- An enterprising, creative, goal-orientated and can-do-attitude
- Ability and willingness to travel internationally, sometimes to difficult/insecure locations for up to 25% of the time
- Fluency in spoken and written English and preferably in another UN official language
Further Details
Location: 250a Kennington Lane, London SE11 5RD
Contract: Permanent - Full time
Salary: £35,200 gross p/a
Closing date: 18 October 2015
Interview date: To be confirmed
Start date: To be confirmed
How to apply:
To apply please send your CV and covering letter highlighting your suitability for the role to hr@redr.org.uk by the closing date stated.