Skills

  • Management
  • English
  • Microsoft Office
  • Proposal Writing
  • Project Management
  • Project manager
  • Capacity Building
  • Team management
  • Teamwork
  • good communication skills
  • EMPATHY & COMPASSION

Recommendations

Julius Kamoni

 5/19/2023
10

"team player"

Experience

Kayamba Arinda

Work experience
  • Identification and planning
  • Assess and analyse solicitation, identify new funding opportunities, outline the solicitation, and facilitate to organize decision-making process (Go-no-Go) for funding and partnership.
  • Engage with Save the Children (SC) Funding offices and respectively managed donors, and donors in-country with the fundraising strategy and feed the outcomes into the programme management strategy.
  • Form the Proposal Development Team (PDT) and conduct technical design consultations meetings and kick-off the proposal development process with a plan, timeline, tools, and required document.
  • Work collaboratively with SC Funding, regional and country office management on the identification of new funding opportunities, donor meetings with the necessary required information and documents.
  • Ensure proposals are designed and developed in line with SC’s Project Management Methodology (PMM) with required tools, process and procedures.
  • Proposal development and writing
  • Serve as lead in the proposal development process, act as a co-lead writer in the proposal writing, in accordance to the donor and SC standard procedures and requirements.
  • Act as an editor, proof-reader and perform a principal role for the consolidation of all technical and managerial inputs/plan, annexures etc. required for the proposal.
  • Develop technical narratives by collecting and integrating contributions of technical sections from the organization’s technical specialists, partners and stakeholders.
  • Ensure responsiveness of technical documents and materials, in alignment with the requirements, procedures, and technical proposal quality in line with the cost proposal, guidance, requirement and singed-off.
  • Ensure high-quality concept notes, proposals etc. with the collaboration of the PDT, SC funding office, Regional Office and relevant stakeholders has been produced.
  • Ensure cross cutting issues are addressed and thematic areas are integrated according to SC’s quality standards
  • Participate in the technical reviews and revise narrative sections according to the plan and based on the feedback during review meetings.
  • Coordination and communication
  • Maintain internal tracking of progress, deliverables and timeline, maintain regular communications with relevant people/departments and provide regular updates to the management (SMT)
  • Provide inputs and other needed support on the continuous improvement of the proposal development process and quality of proposal writing.
  • Coordinate with Advocacy, Media and Technical team to develop success stories, needs analysis, and other relevant collateral to aid the fundraising process
  • Support Country office to develop new funding strategies, donor landscape, organize the donor meetings and cultivate new donor relationships.
  • Knowledge management and documentation
  • Provide input and technical support on the continuous improvement of the new business and proposal development cycle and process.
  • Contribute to setting best practices in the proposal writing processes, standards, and templates.
  • Document the lesson learn of high value and strategic programme proposal, donors, thematic sectors, and proposal prepared on different occasions.
  • Share the lesson learn and continuously feeding the learnings in the new proposal development and writing process.
  • Cultivate and maintain a portfolio of donors (active, lapsed and prospects) to facilitate the solicitation of additional asks and modifications.
  • Organize capacity building initiatives on the proposal writing and needed design/consultations tools and procedures to develop proposals at both field and country office levels.
  • System Strengthen and management
  • Provide technical assistance to ongoing projects as needed, support country office to write small proposals,
  • Monitor the process and approval all opportunities, proposals and donor agreements through Save the Children Award Management System (AMS).
  • Keep the system up to date with donor budgets and timeframes, so it reflects an accurate picture of Save the Children Yemen portfolio at all times.
  • Support to standardised and maintain country office’s proposal content library and related documentation to include capability statements, research papers, past performances, management plans, donor briefing, capacity statement and other related proposal content.
  • Contribute to standardized proposal development tools and strengthening of the development process based on the context, operating environment and capacity.

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Julius Kamoni

 5/19/2023
10

"team player"