Job Description

Position: Thematic Funding Adviser

Location:  Global Secretariat hubs in Johannesburg, Nairobi, or any hosting ActionAid country office

Contract duration:  Permanent

Entry Salary:  Grade D, starting from £40,273.00 Gross salary per annum

Closing date:  24 February 2025

 

The Role:

This role is focused on raising large scale strategic programme funding that is managed by the Global Secretariat and very closely aligned to our SIF3 system change agenda. The role will work closely with the P&P Fundraising Lead, the thematic leads on economic justice, climate justice and women’s rights, and the Program and Impact Lead, identifying major strategic funding opportunities that resonate with our niche and credibility on priority themes.

 

The role will help to convert AAI’s external profile on key policy issues into big funding opportunities, helping to cultivate strategic donors and develop strategic funding proposals. The role will focus on opportunities where AAI can raise large scale funding and develop proposals that are consistent with our policies and funding targets, including on cost recovery.

The role will bring expertise, knowledge and focus on strategic funding proposals that build synergies between our thematic priorities on climate justice, economic justice, and women's rights.

Who we're looking for:

 

You should also have a strong commitment to ActionAid’s values and ethos, including ActionAid’s feminist leadership principles.

 

Please see further information in the job description.

 

What we offer:

ActionAid is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive workplace where we recognise a job well done, encourage close collaboration and sharing power, and where safeguarding standards and feminist leadership are exemplified everywhere. At ActionAid, you can look forward to a fair compensation package and a flexible working environment, including

A workplace that embraces feminist principles  Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay 

How to apply: 

Please click on the "apply” button to start the application process: 

Applications close at 23.59 GMT on Monday, 24 February 2025. Please upload an up-to-date curriculum vitae, a covering letter clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile .

 

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification. In addition, your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please do not apply as we only consider candidates if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description. We will only consider candidates who have the right to work in the specified locations.

 

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

About us: 

ActionAid is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. We want to see a just, fair and sustainable world, in which everybody enjoys the right to a life of dignity, and freedom from poverty and oppression.  We work to achieve social justice and gender equality, and to eradicate poverty. 

All our work is underpinned by a set of feminist leadership principles:  Self-awareness, Self-care and caring for others, Dismantling bias, Inclusion, Sharing power, Responsible & transparent use of power, Accountable collaboration, Respectful feedback, Courage and Zero tolerance against discrimination and abuse of power.  

ActionAid International welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity. 

 

Our commitment to Safeguarding

ActionAid is committed to recruiting candidates who promote ActionAid’s SHEA and Safeguarding policies and values.

ActionAid will only recruit candidates who are committed to SHEA and Safeguarding and ActionAid’s values, thereby helping to create safer working cultures. As a deterrence measure ActionAid is also committed to deterring candidates who are intending to cause harm from joining ActionAid.

 

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