Funding Manager – Lebanon

This role would be suitable to someone new to the humanitarian context who has proven writing experience and excellent communication.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Donor Relations Management

• Support the PFM in developing and maintaining efficient donor relations with the representatives of relevant funding partners to secure funding for the country programme.
• Keep up to date with trends and analyse institutional donor funding opportunities for Lebanon in order to provide advice for the rest of the Lebanon team.
• Represent Medair in meetings with donors online, in-person, and at specific project visits.

Grant Management

• Coordinate and track institutional and private donor proposals and reports, managed by the PFM and in consultation with senior management.
• Ensure that applications and reports are produced to a high standard, comply with donor guidelines, deadlines, contracts, and other donor needs and requests
• Coordinate with programme teams to ensure proposals and reports are completed in a timely way, including both writing and reviewing.
• Maintain an overview of the assigned programme’s relationships with, and funding from, Medair’s key institutional donors, providing analysis and information to senior management where necessary.
• In collaboration with Project Managers and the MEAL Managers; assess adherence to targets (financial and beneficiary) and report any areas of concern to the PFM.
• Maintain appropriate information systems including contract tracking, reporting schedules, portfolio project and grant cards and other donor-specific data.

Team Coordination

• Coordinate with the PFM, project teams and senior management about the funding needs of the Lebanon programme.
• Communicate clearly and promptly with all relevant staff when a new call for proposals is published or when reports are due.
• Lead meetings to discuss proposal activities, develop logframes and organise responsibilities for new proposals.

Person Specification:

Degree in a field that incorporated critical analysis.

Knowledge of models used by the humanitarian sector (e.g. Logframes, theory of change).

Experience in collaborating with multiple teams across an organisation.

Experience in written presentation of information.

Fluent English – both spoken and written.

Computer literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.

Moderate typing speed

Experience using institutional donor online system (e.g. OCHA GMS).

Passion for and understanding of humanitarian issues.

Keen to share information internally and contribute.

Self-starter while being a team player.

Diplomatic.

Experience in cross-cultural communication.

Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels.

Able to work to tight deadlines.

Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner.

Ability to relate and establish good rapport well with many kinds of people.

Highly organised with a good attention to detail.

Excellent writing skills.

Experience of maintaining grant management systems.