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POSITION Donor Readiness Expert
AREA International Programmes &Advocacy (IP&A)
REFERENT Asia LAC/MEE Head of Unit
PLACE OF WORK Rome
TYPE OF CONTRACT Co.co.
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SALARY RANGE 27.000,00 - 30.000,00€
CSP I
INTRODUCTION TO SAVE THE CHILDREN
Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children.
OUR VISION is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and
participation.
OUR MISSION is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate
and lasting change in their lives
Save the Children Italia (SC IT) was created as an ONLUS in 1998 and is now a prominent member of Save
the Children International.
SAVE THE CHILDREN'S VALUES
ACCOUNTABILITY: We take personal responsibility for using our resources efficiently, achieving
measurable results, and being accountable to supporters, partners and, most of all, children.
AMBITION: We are demanding of ourselves and our colleagues, set high goals and are committed to
improving the quality of everything we do for children.
COLLABORATION: We respect and value each other, thrive on our diversity, and work with partners to
leverage our global strength in making a difference for children.
CREATIVITY: We are open to new ideas, embrace change, and take disciplined risks to develop sustainable
solutions for and with children.
INTEGRITY: We aspire to live to the highest standards of personal honesty and behavior; we never
compromise our reputation and always act in the best interests of children.
To finance our work we depend on the support of the general public, volunteers, the corporate sector,
governments and international donor agencies.
OUR SAFEGUARDING POLICIES
At Save the Children Italy we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of beneficiaries - children
and adults - in our work.
Save the Children believes that beneficiaries - children and adults -should never
experience any kind of abuse.
We have a responsibility to work in a way that promotes the welfare of
beneficiaries and protects them from any kind of harm.
Our Organization has a zero tolerance approach to
any harm or exploitation of beneficiaries by any of our staff, representatives, or partners.
Save the Children
expects the highest standards of behavior from all its staff when dealing with beneficiaries.
Those who are
representing Save the Children must adhere to the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Policy for protection
against sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment, intimidation, discrimination, and abuse of authority, both in
their private and professional lives.
JOB PURPOSE
The Donor Readiness Expert supports the Senior Regional Program Officers and other relevant colleagues
in the timely production of materials (reports, proposals and summaries, etc) up to the standards for the
given donors.
This function shall also serve as gateway for SC It communication and marketing staff and will ensure a
smooth communication and exchange of programmes and portfolio information between the IP&A and the
rest of the organization, guaranteeing that quality information and communication materials are developed
and shared timely.
As a member of the Portfolio Department within the IP&A, the role ensures the overall "donor readiness" of
any material produced and requiring a quality standard in terms of content (language, or presence/absence
of Annexes, etc).
In particular the function focuses on:
Proposal and report review for on projects or content for Institutional donors reviewing its "donor
readiness" - i.e.
relevance of content towards template, language editing etc
Proposal, reports and any other project or programmes content for Corporate, MD and FR, as the
function, in strict collaboration with the SRPO/SPO and the HoU - contributes, coordinates or
directly creates content for donor specific request.
the creation of high quality, accurate and compelling written materials about SC It programmes,
priorities and strategies.
smooth information and communication flows between SC IT IP&A and a variety of internal
stakeholders (i.e.
Marketing and fundraising, communications)
where necessary up-to-date, engaging information on strategic/innovative opportunities to help
the fundraising and international programmes teams to engage existing and prospective partners.
In particular, for instance:
Proposal, report and other content for external stakeholders and donors
Supports the narrative proposal revision for "light support" proposals, or for proposals coordinated
by the Portfolio directly (without the involvement of the NBD)
Reviews reports for institutional donors to make them donor ready (see definition above): checks
for language, consistency within numbers, coherence with last proposal and report, particularly for
those awards with higher Level of Effort from the Portfolio function.
Reviews proposals and reports for corporate/MD portfolio awards, and where needed creates ad
hoc mater