Program/Institutional Funding Officer

Oxfam in Vietnam vacancy
PROGRAMME/INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING OFFICER (PIFO190401)

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on issues like land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.

We are an international confederation of 19 organizations (affiliates) working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

Oxfam in Vietnam is working to seek transformative changes in policies, practices and beliefs in ways that will fundamentally improve the lives of poor and marginalized women and men, and ensure that all citizens have the same opportunity to enjoy their rights.

All our work is led by three core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness. To read more about our values please click here

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The Role

The role is a combination of 2 roles with respective tasks and responsibilities to programme and funding, to implement the country funding plan, including resourcing for development, humanitarian and policy/advocacy work in order to increase the Oxfam income of institutional donors. To work directly with Oxfam’s beneficiaries and partners to overcome poverty and suffering; To advocate and campaign for policy, knowledge, attitude and practice change to help achieve Oxfam’s strategic
change objectives.

Contract: Fixed term, 1 year with a perspective for long term retainment depending on performance.

Reporting to: Institutional funding coordinator or senior programme manager.

Location: Vietnam office in Hanoi

Key responsibilities:

Funding role:

  • Contribute to the country income plan and the budget planning processes, according to agreed Oxfam processes, by assisting the country team in planning, development and submission of competitive, high quality concept papers, donor proposals, and budgets.
  • Coordinate the funding activities in country, checks if activities are in line with the (agreed) annual income plan and promote joint funding between the programmes.
  • Support the management of funding processes according to Oxfam fundraising standards, quality control of funding processes and communications..
  • Co-ordinate processes for Oxfam to respond to key funding opportunities in country.
  • Support senior institutional funding coordinator in the management of a portfolio of existing donor contracts to ensure compliance with donor requirements; ensure reports are of good quality and submitted on time; analyse and provide advice to staff on the funding policies and requirements of different donors, seek advice and input from Oxfam International and Oxfam affiliate offices as needed.
  • Ensure sign-off of donor proposals, reports and contracts within delegations and according to agreed Oxfam processes.

Programme role:

  • Contribute to the annual planning and budgeting of the governance programme.
  • Support partners in program/project development and implementation through technical advice on participatory community engagement, develop and maintain relationship with local partners and authorities.
  • Contribute to build capacities of partner organizations to conduct participatory analysis and planning.
  • Work with partner organizations to assess training needs, develop training curriculum in line with Oxfam and other tested training materials, facilitate training sessions and follow up with impact of the training.
  • Contribute to writing programme learning documents, case studies, blogs, video clips and take part in policy advocacy for good practices, lessons, processes of the programme.
  • Implement and review Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) framework of the programme, and work with partners for conducting baseline surveys, progress monitoring events, producing progress reports and final reports.
  • Monitor programme spending, review financial reports prepared by partners, and facilitate auditing of fund usage.
  • Ensure internal and external reporting is done as per the agreed timeline and requirements.
  • Actively network with relevant government agencies, CSO partners, and others’ to develop and implement joint initiatives and advocacy events at local or/and national level(s).
  • Ensure implementation of Oxfam’s and donor’s (where relevant) operational policies, procedures and guidelines in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.
  • Work in close collaboration with other Oxfam teams, contribute to the development and implementation of Oxfam fundraising, influencing and programme strategy Vietnam.

Skills, experience and knowledge

  • University degree/post graduate, preferably in Business Management, International Development or related field
  • Knowledge of development issues and familiarity with innovative approaches to address the related problems.
  • Knowledge of development issues, particularly of Governance issues and related themes
  • Sound experience in project management and negotiation with participatory approaches.
  • Sound experience in managing and monitoring development projects, including partnership management.
  • Good proposal writing skills (in English and Vietnamese) and familiar with processes of responding to funding opportunities, familiar with policies and requirement s of different donors.
  • Good social and intercultural skills.
  • Good written and spoken English and Vietnamese.
  • Good computer skills (writing and spreadsheet programmes).
  • Willingness to travel to remote areas of Vietnam.

Gross Annual Salary Range: VND 343,685,322 – VND 549,896,515

How to apply

Interested candidates can send your application including motivation letter and curriculum vitae and mentioning reference number PIFO190401 to [email protected] .

The closing date for application: 5th May 2019

We regret that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Oxfam is an equal opportunity employer

Job Details
Organisation Name: 
Oxfam
Application Deadline: 
Sun, 2019-05-05