Starting Salary: £ 37,488 - 39,071 (including London Weighting)
Contract: Fixed Term (24 months)
Work Pattern: Full Time (Hybrid working with a minimum of 40% of your time in the London Office)
This role will be recruited on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to close it prior to the closing date. Previous applicants need not apply
Job Profile
The Humanitarian Funding Officer (HFO) Global has a remit to contribute to the delivery of effective and high quality humanitarian assistance to new and ongoing humanitarian crises. The role has a global remit although the primary focus is expected to be in response to large scale emergencies, specifically the Syria-Turkey earthquake. As part of CAFOD’s Integrated Funding and Business Innovation group (IFBI) - Humanitarian Funding Team - the HFO provides technical advice and programme support to humanitarian and programme staff and partners in developing high quality proposals and programmes, whilst ensuring CAFOD and its partners obtain significant institutional donor funding for its humanitarian work. The HFO will develop, maintain and strengthen our relationship with key donors.
A key component of this role is to be a part of CAFOD’s Humanitarian Funding Team providing support (often remotely) to country teams carrying out our humanitarian responses as well carrying out contract management and liaising with institutional donors, specifically the DEC. This role will work closely with the Humanitarian Funding Team Leader, two other Humanitarian Funding Officers, the Syria Crisis and Ukraine programme teams as well as programme managers & officers across Africa, Asia and Latin America to provide recommendations for humanitarian funding decisions. The role will also work closely with the wider Institutional Funding Community of Practice.
Accountability: The Humanitarian Funding Officer (HFO) Global is line-managed by the Humanitarian Funding Team Leader, based in London. The HFO Global will be a member of the wider Integrated Funding and Business Innovation group and work closely with other team members, often providing surge support where necessary.
Key Responsibilities
Humanitarian Institutional Funding
- To support the implementation of and deliver against CAFOD’s Integrated Funding and Business Innovation strategy, specifically on targets for humanitarian institutional funding.
- To identify and manage programme funding applications to institutional donors, especially the DEC, but also the FCDO, ECHO and the START network.
- To provide contract management for programmes and projects, primarily large-scale emergency responses (Syria Earthquake, Ukraine Crisis, Afghanistan Crisis) as well as other emergencies when necessary. This will include management of humanitarian contracts on CAFOD’s internal Institutional Contracts Database (ICD).
- To ensure that staff and partner organisations included in funding applications are aware of donor requirements and compliance and advise on appropriate systems that may be required to ensure these are met. This also includes adherence to international standards such as the CHS.
- To provide technical support and guidance to programme staff and where necessary build the capacity of local partners on programme development, proposal writing and monitoring and evaluation.
- To work with CAFOD partners and programme teams to ensure narrative and financial reports submitted centrally are prepared in a timely manner and are compliant with donor requirements.
- To work with Programme Managers and/or Programme Officers across the international programme to ensure effective monitoring and evaluation of institutionally funded humanitarian programmes, complete and review donor reports, check they are of a high quality and produced in a timely manner.
- To work with Programme Managers and/or Programme Officers across the international programme in institutional funding budget development, management, monitoring and reporting, as well as ensuring contracts are audit ready.
- To take responsibility for establishing, maintaining and strengthening relationships with donors, including the DEC and create opportunities to share CAFOD’s programme expertise with donors, as well as Caritas partners.
- To take responsibility as a donor lead and / or a thematic lead within the Humanitarian Funding team, including driving forward donor engagement strategies.
Programme quality, systems and standards
- Support the implementation and maintenance of systems and processes to ensure and promote compliance with sectoral standards on accountability and programme quality, including the Red Cross Code of Conduct, SPHERE standards and compliance with CHS on accountability.
- Engage with the External Communications team to ensure CAFOD’s communications for relevant institutionally funded humanitarian programmes is accurate, relevant, coherent, effective and efficient, and in line with any confidentiality agreements and with donor requirements.
- To collaborate with other staff in promoting systems and standards of Programme Cycle Management.
Representation and communication
- To keep abreast of donor policy developments and represent CAFOD in relevant funding groups / networks (both internal and external).
- To liaise with relevant programme development and funding officers and programme officers and managers regarding possible regional or joint programme funding opportunities.
- To collaborate with other staff in sharing and promoting effective communication channels for information and learning across the International Programme.
- As prioritised by HFTL and the Head of Integrated Funding and Business Innovation, represent CAFOD at interagency fora and build, strengthen relationships with donors, Caritas Internationalis sister agencies, as well as with non-Caritas partners organisations, to promote and support coordinated humanitarian response across CAFOD’s international programme.
Safeguarding
All CAFOD staff share responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities.
Your role is responsible for ensuring that the programming work you are accountable for is safe, accessible, dignified and inclusive, providing ongoing support and follow-up to our partners in this area.
This list of duties and responsibilities is by no means exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.
Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults
CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. This post involves contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, or has responsibility for people who will do, and applicants will be subject to specific checks related to safeguarding issues. If based in the UK the post holder is required to present or obtain a Disclosure from the DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service). If the post is based outside the UK the post holder will be subject to a different checking process.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures.
Person Specification /Essential Criteria
Understanding our context
- Understanding Catholic identity; knowledge and understanding of the role, life and culture of the Catholic Church in relief and Development work
- Understanding CAFOD; Understanding CAFOD’s vision, mission and values and how they work
- Understanding international development and humanitarian aid; substantial experiences working in overseas development and the humanitarian sector; Experience of working with and/or commitment to humanitarian standards
Working together
- Managing ourselves; able to work proactively on own initiative and supportively within a team
- Working with others, supports a culture of mutual respect and able to work comfortably with national and international partners; Experience of supporting and building the capacity of partners and other staff
- Communicating; fluent written and spoken English
- Looking outwards; builds cooperative, professional relationships with donors
Making change happen
- Managing resources; ability to prepare and monitor budgets, assess the appropriateness of financial systems and ensure compliance, knowledge and understanding of financial management tools.
- Achieving results; experience of developing successful funding applications for institutional donors; particularly humanitarian donors; Experience of participatory project design and use of analytical tools
- Managing our performance; experience of developing and implementing monitoring systems to track the effectiveness of programmes
Job-specific competencies
- Have a sound understanding of humanitarian funding trends and best practice in the sector
- Experience of working with the DEC and contract managing large emergency responses
- Experience of writing proposals and reporting for other institutional donors (especially humanitarian institutional donors) including budget development and analysis
- Experience of compliance and contract management for institutionally funded humanitarian projects
- Experience of reviewing and analysing financial reports
- Understanding of the principles of Project Cycle Management and logframes
- Understanding of sector standards including the CHS
- Flexibility and ability and willingness to travel (up to 20-30% of the time) sometimes at short notice.
Desirable
- Knowledge of a second language, ideally French and/or Spanish and/or Arabic
- Understanding and experience in at least one of these sectors; WASH, Cash, Protection
- Experience of supporting and building the capacity of partners and other staff
CAFOD is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and ensuring opportunity for all. We welcome candidates of all faiths and none. In particular, we would welcome applications from those with lived experience of ethnic and cultural diversity, physical disability, age diversity, neurodiversity, and/or underprivileged socio-economic backgrounds across different parts of the UK.
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CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer. Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.