VSO: Programme Development and Funding Advisor
VSO’s Regional AIDS Initiative for Southern Africa (RAISA) seeks to appoint a Programme Development and Funding Advisor, based in Pretoria, to play a key role in supporting all aspects of project development and funding.
S/he will provide advisory support to the RAISA country programmes to plan projects and develop high quality proposals to attract significant amounts of funding, and ensure that programme staff can manage these projects in line with each donor’s terms and conditions. At a regional level s/he will lead and provide direct support for proposal development and contract management issues.
Requirements:
- Target-driven, with proven success of identifying and securing funds for development work from major institutional and corporate donors, as well as trusts and foundations
- Excellent understanding of overseas development issues and excellent interpersonal, donor networking and communication skills
- Experience of HIV and AIDS programming, developing programme staff capacity through on the job support and training, and knowledge of the southern Africa donor environment would be a distinct advantage.
Salary: R346 366 per annum with additional benefits of comprehensive medical cover and a provident fund contribution of 8.5%.
A detailed job description, person specification and application form are available from zandile [dot] moyo [at] vsoint [dot] org.
Interviews will be held on Friday, 17 September 2010.
Please note that this post is only open to people who are legally entitled to work in South Africa.
For more about VSO, refer to www.vsointernational.org.
