Grant Writer (Consultant When-Actually-Employed) Location: Rome, Italy
Time Type: Full time
Posted On: Posted Yesterday
Job Requisition ID: JR109228
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 26 January 2025 - 23:59 GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)
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ABOUT WFP The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
JOB TITLE: Grant Writer
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Consultant When-Actually-Employed
UNIT/DIVISION: School Meals and Social Protection Service (PPGS)
DUTY STATION: Rome (Remote working)
DURATION: 100 days
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT: WFP's leadership in school feeding, including its role as the secretariat of the School Meals Coalition, has revitalized global commitments to expanding the coverage of school feeding programmes worldwide.
The grant writer will be responsible for leading and crafting high quality and compelling proposals, specifically for countries submitting for competitive and complex USDA McGovern-Dole submissions.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES: Manage the development of a USDA McGovern-Dole proposal for funding of a multi-disciplinary school feeding programme.
Participate in and contribute to School-based Programmes programme design workshop.
Write a strategic analysis that distils relevant information from national policy and strategy documents.
Coordinate information received from country office and integrate into a proposal that meets USDA notice of funding opportunity requirements.
Provide clear argumentation that outlines how the USDA McGovern-Dole project will support the Government's goals.
Establish a final set of proposal documents to be approved by country office management.
Participate in and contribute to annual workshop and quarterly team meetings on corporate portfolio strategy.
Provide strategic and programme formulation support, write proposals or support resource mobilization efforts.
DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT: A full McGovern-Dole proposal, following USDA's guidelines noted in the notice of funding opportunity.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Education: Advanced degree in Education, Policy Studies, Agriculture, Political Science, International Development, Development Economics, Nutrition, Economics, or a field relevant to international development assistance.
Experience: At least 5 years relevant experience in Strategy Development, education-related programming, combined with experience in either agriculture and food security, nutrition, health or equivalent disciplines.
Languages: Excellent command of spoken and written English.
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