Proposal Development Expert Lazio

Proposal Development Expert
Roma
Lazio, Lazio

TERMS OF REFERENCE

POSITION Proposal Development Expert

AREA/DEPARTMENT Institutional Partnership and Business Development

Department

PLACE OF WORK Save the Children Italia Onlus (Roma)

REFERS TO Proposal development Team Coordinator

TYPE OF CONTRACT Co. co. co.

SALARY 28. 000 - 31. 000 € Gross Salary

CSP LEVEL 1

**INTRODUCTION TO SAVE THE CHILDREN

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organization 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.

**CHILD SAFEGUARDING POLICY

At Save the Children Italy we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our

work.

Save the Children believes that a child or young person should never experience abuse of any

kind.

We have a responsibility to work in a way that promotes the welfare of children and protects

them from harm.

Our Organization has a zero tolerance approach to any harm to or exploitation of a

child by any of our staff, representatives or partners.

Save the Children expects the highest standards

of behavior from all its staff when dealing with children.

Those who are representing Save the Children

must adhere to the Child Safeguarding Policy, both in their private and professional lives

Save the Children Italy will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work

with children are recruited to work for us.

**JOB PURPOSE

This role will contribute to SC Italy Institutional Partnerships & Business development strategy by

ensuring that high quality proposals are submitted to key institutional donors and that Save the

Children project development practices, donor compliance and international standards are met.

This

position will also contribute to keeping track and monitoring of SC Italy institutional funding KPIs and

to SC Country Offices capacity building in proposal development and donors' compliance, in line with

SC Italy role within the SCA system.

**RESPONSIBILITIES

**Proposal Development**:

- Collects, analyses and ensures an in depth knowledge of the guidelines, templates, rules and

procedures of SC Italy main institutional donors (INTPA/NEAR, ECHO, AICS, UN agencies

etc.

);

- Leads on proposal development process from the go-no-go to the signature of the contract

with the donor.

To this end, ensures coordination of different actors involved (internal and

external to SC Italy) in relevant key stages of the process;

- Collects and analyses key data and info on SC Italy main countries of intervention (situation

analysis, needs assessments, country strategies, etc. )

to be used for the development of

quality project proposals;

- Ensures that the relevant Country Office staff involved in the process have a clear

understanding of the donor/call for proposal priorities and are appropriately guided in the

project design to meet them;

- Responsible for the development of the main proposal development outputs (concept note,

full proposal, logical framework, work plan etc.

)

- Supports and contributes to the proposal budget development in cooperation with

Grant/finance staff;

- Responsible for final proofreading and consolidation of mandatory supporting and

administrative documents;

- Ensures that high quality proposals are timely submitted to donors in line with their

guidelines and templates;

- Guides the evaluation of full proposal development process and ensures that key learning are

captured to improve future processes

**KPIs tracking and analysis

- Support the tracking and monitoring of identified KPIs related to proposal development and

analysis of strengths and weaknesses of submitted proposals