Closing on: 2023-01-21

About The Organization:

Bright Future & Welfare Organization (BFWO) is a Kabul based non-government (NGO), not-for-profit (NPO), independent, civil society organization (CSO) founded by a group of dedicated public health, curative medicine, education, and management experts. It is registered with the Ministry of Economy of Afghanistan under license number 5379, which follows the NGO and other applicable laws of the country, the approved Article of Association (AoA), and donors guidelines. BFWO is an Afghan NGO that operates in the health and education sectors to serve community health promotion, managing and responding to the emerging health crises, public health safety, literacy, and education across Afghanistan. The NGO also works for the development and relief of marginalized communities to achieve social and economic prosperity and improve humanitarian and social capital through delivering health & social, educational & livelihood services, especially to the vulnerable and marginalized societies and communities of Afghanistan.

Job Summary:

The Organizational Development Manager (ODM) will be reporting to the Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director – Operations with a special focus on developing significant external relationships with local as well as regional and international key stakeholders to profile BFWO’s efforts. He/she will lead in undertaking to register the NGO in the national and international platforms and the required clusters, portfolio analysis, donor landscape scanning, development of donor engagement and funding strategies, tracking of donor funding opportunities, and lead proposal development processes. 

In addition, the ODM plans, develops, implements, and administers development and training programs for the organization and its employees. The manager also acts as a liaison and advisor to the organization s leadership and facilitates initiatives across the organization. Accordingly, develop and arrange the required documents for the organizational assessment and auditors and remain as the focal point of the organization. 

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Register the NGO in the national and international platforms, the required clusters, donors, and funding agencies.
• Analyze the current portfolio and identify trends and approaches that inform a better funding strategy.
• Identify and track relevant upcoming funding opportunities through desk-based research, advanced intelligence gathering, donor websites, and strategy papers for NGOs, the private sector, government institutional donors, trusts and foundations, and major donors that have a national or regional presence.
• Implement the funding strategy and ensure coordination and synergy among the main office teams in undertaking approaches and actions that deliver agreed restricted funding targets.
• Undertake donor landscape mapping and prepare an effective plan for donor engagement.
• Together with thematic leads, develop thematic funding plans and track the implementation of the plans while considering the goals of concept, strategy, and practice (CSP).
• Prepares materials needed to facilitate donor engagement and bolster the reputation and credibility of BFWO with potential and current funders and consortia partners.
• Monitors news media and donor/government sources for potential changes in strategy, regulations, and legislation to ensure the country office reacts effectively and advises its members of the resulting impact on their operations.
• Accordingly, develop and arrange the required documents for the organization’s assessment and for auditors, and remain as the focal point.

Proposal Development:

• Drive interdepartmental coordination for project design and proposal development and participate in project design and proposal development as the lead.
• Together with the awards team and thematic advisors lead in the development and monitoring of the proposal development calendar.
• Together with other teams, identify lessons that inform planning and the design of new programs and ensure these are considered and/or input into new proposals.
• Serves as a steward of business development processes and provides training in business development protocols. Lead teams in quarterly lessons learned reviews based on proposals developed, to strengthen future proposals; and create a mechanism of sharing lessons learned among the thematic advisors for quality proposal writing.
• Write sections of the proposals with TAs and review inputs for quality control before submission to the donor.

Strategic Information Management

• Ensures accurate and timely overview of funding priorities.
• Contribute to institutional learning by thoroughly documenting and sharing practices and sharing fitting practices on bid management, including leading on learnings from bids won and/or lost.

Job Requirements:
Background in organizational development, business development, donor and relationship management, strategic portfolio analysis, and planning in non-profit management or related discipline.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential

• Recommended minimum of 5 years of experience working in both emergency and development contexts, with solid experience in more than one of the priority sectors: health, nutrition, education, child poverty, child protection, and child rights governance.
• 3+ years of proven experience in leading the development of large-scale proposals, including the development of project budgets.
• 3+ years of proven experience in engaging and building relationships with donors and government entities.
• Knowledge of the requirements of major institutional donors including budgeting, eligibility issues, compliance management, and reporting; experience in engaging with donors at a strategic level.
• Skills in leading donor landscape mapping, development of donor engagement, and funding strategies.
• Excellent planning, management, and coordination skills, with the ability to organize a demanding workload comprised of diverse and challenging tasks and responsibilities
• Strong communication (written and spoken) in English, with the ability to summarise and present information.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels, taking into account cultural and language difficulties.
• Computer literate (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, & Financial Systems)

Desirable

• Experience with donor requirements and regulations, policies, procedures, and systems in fundraising.
• Experience in donor mapping and knowledge of the Afghanistan context of donor landscape.

Submission Guidelines:

Interested and qualified candidates should send the following documents before the closing date (2023-01-21, 12:00 am):

1. Cover letter as body text.
2. CV and Education documents (only school, university, and/or institutes “diploma” graduation document) in one file (pdf or doc) that should not exceed more than 3MB as an attachment.
3. Please do not send/attach your courses certificates and other documents, except the requested ones mentioned above in point 2.