Senior Fundraising Officer - French Speaker

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced fundraising professional to join International Alert’s Global Fundraising Team.

As part of the team, you will help us access the right funding to deliver impactful peacebuilding programmes around the world. You’ll work with our programme teams on strategy and planning, building donor relationships and creating compelling proposals. Alongside this, you’ll join a team helping to build the systems and tools to create a strong global platform for fundraising across the organisation.

We are looking for an excellent candidate with fluency in both French and English (written and spoken), with a proven ability to: secure grants from institutional funders for peacebuilding, development and/ or humanitarian programmes; proactively build donor relationships and identify funding opportunities; provide support to country and global teams to develop successful proposals; develop programme budgets with full cost recovery; build and manage global commercial tender and framework opportunities; and contribute to internal communications, fundraising systems and pipeline management.

In return, you will have the opportunity to support our teams in working with those affected by conflict around the world, designing and funding programmes that address the root causes of conflict and build the conditions for peaceful societies. This includes the opportunity for occasional travel and the opportunity to build your career as part of a small and ambitious global team.

Role duties and responsibilities:

Identifying funding opportunities

• Proactively seek information on potential donor opportunities, and help colleagues adapt their programming ideas to suit particular donor interests. Undertake targeted horizon scanning and networking to identify upcoming global funding opportunities.
• In coordination with Global Fundraising team colleagues, proactively build relationships with donor headquarters and potential INGO and other consortium partners.
• Keep up to date on new rules and ways of working in the grant and commercial contracting sector, and share important intel with colleagues.
• Collaborate with relevant colleagues to sharpen Alert’s offer, and ensure Alert has up-to-date capacity statements in all relevant areas.
• Support colleagues to ensure the CRM and the organisational pipeline are kept up to date with all new relevant information.

Support to country and global programme teams

• In line with resource allocation decisions led by the Head of Fundraising, provide support to country hubs and global programmes teams to design and secure high quality peacebuilding programmes, including mapping, research, identifying and engaging directly with donors, writing proposals and designing appropriate budgets, and supporting country hubs to undertake all of these tasks.
• Provide donor-specific guidance to support strategic go/no go decision making, effective targeting and tailoring of bids and ensure donor compliance.
• Support country hubs and global programme teams to ensure submission of full cost recovery budgets, including advising on adequate personnel resourcing of activities, and country and global shared cost recovery.
• Provide training and learning opportunities for colleagues on specific aspects of fundraising, including specific donor requirements for grants, commercial contracts and full cost recovery budget design.

Bid, framework and consortium coordination

• Coordinate the bid development process for global grant funding or global commercial tender opportunities including programme delivery contracts, framework bids and consultancies.
• Provide written inputs to proposals and tender documents and gather relevant information including CVs and documents to demonstrate compliance.
• Work closely with finance colleagues to ensure quality financial/commercial proposals in line with donor, organisational and legal requirements.
• Where required, act as coordinator for any framework agreements, ensuring all key stakeholders have timely access to information and facilitating quality tender submissions, and any other framework requirements, including monitoring, reporting, donor and consortium liaison, contracting, developing capacity statements.
• Monitor and share draw down opportunities, facilitating go/no-go processes and ensuring compliance with agreed timeframes.

Organisational contributions

• Contribute to internal communications and knowledge management, ensuring these are adopted by country hubs, and participate in organisation-wide events and discussions.
• Occasionally supervise volunteers and procure and monitor the work of consultants as required.
• Undertake any other tasks commensurate with the role, as required by the Head of Fundraising.

Please note that the ability to work in both French and English are an essential requirement for this role.

The above are just some of the role requirements. For the full requirements, please see the attached job description.

All applicants must have existing and permanent right to work in the United Kingdom.

International Alert prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from underrepresented people including women, people from the Global South, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, and other historically marginalised people.

While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume that your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful.