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Africa: Institutional development officer

People Development Consulting

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People Development Consulting, www.peopledev.net, is searching for a committed collaborator, for a West African NGO based in Dakar. The job mission is: Under the supervision of the Director General, the Institutional Development Officer formulates and implements a proactive funding plan as well as an institutional development strategy. He/She is the focal point of the information about and towards donors.
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

People Development Consulting, www.peopledev.net <http://www.peopledev.net/>, is searching for a committed collaborator, for a West African NGO based in Dakar.

Job Mission
Under the supervision of the Director General, the Institutional Development Officer formulates and implements a proactive funding plan as well as an institutional development strategy.
He/She is the focal point of the information about and towards donors.

Main responsabilities
Expansion and stabilisation of the organisation’s financial resources
- Update the general financing strategy and ensure its coherence with sector-based financing strategies of programmes and departments.
- Keep an updated watch on funding opportunities, develop and monitor funding proposals with programmes coordinators.
- Prepare exclusively some strategic reports and respect the quality requirements, deadlines and any other contractual obligation related to reporting to donors.

Institutional communication
- Supervise the elaboration and implementation of institutional communication tools and materials, and guarantee the quality of these communication instruments (activity reports, presentation brochures, films, website);
- Ensure the presence of the institution in the press (Senegalese, regional and international) through the coverage of important events, the organisation of press conferences, interviews of the organization’s staff in the medias, etc.
- Provide timely and quality targeted-information to financial donors as well as the promotion and dissemination of PIWA products.

Governance and strategic partnerships
- Prepare documentation and logistics for the General Assembly and Board of Directors statutory meetings and ensure regular information and relationships with these statutory bodies.
- Monitor the development of strategic partnerships within the international network of sister institutions and ensure quality relationships with these partners.

Your qualifications and profile
- Master’s Degree in marketing-communication, project management, or management with good knowledge of problematics of information and communication.
- Expertise in public and institutional fundraising and command in management of development programmes and projects (namely designing, writing and evaluation of projects).
- Command in Institutional Communication and Public Relations.
- 5 years of relevant working experience at a level of responsibility and professionalism equivalent to that of this described position.
- Languages: perfect command of either English or French with working ability in the second language.
- Strategic thinking, excellent relational capacity and relations that can be immediately mobilised within the community of donor, reactivity, autonomy and dynamism.
- Basic knowledge in Human Resources management (recruitment, selection, and training) will be an asset.
- Command of usual office software and Internet (Word, Excel, Outlook, Explorer…).
- Good knowledge of countries in the sub region and of West African socio-political environment.


Applications
· Send your resume and cover letter in which you explain why you think you are a good candidate for the position (maximum 4 pages for both documents, in word format).
· Recall : i) the position you’re applying for in the resume and the cover lettter, ii) your availability, iii) your expected salary, iv) 3 professional references with their phone number and email.

The deadline for application is April, 28th, 2008, to the following email addresses info@peopledev.n <mailto:peopledev@orange.sn>et

Due to the number of applications awaited, only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Applications that don’t fulfil the conditions and requirements will not be considered.