Somalia: Fund Raising and Advocacy Officer

Background

Center for Education and Development (CED), Somalia is a non-governmental humanitarian and development organization working in Somalia. CED’s programs are both in emergency and development and are geared towards assisting partner community transition to self-reliance. Programs are designed to overcome ignorance, hunger, injustice and inequality.

CED seeks to recruit qualified and committed Individual to join CED team and fill the position ofFund Raising and Advocacy Officer.

Responsibilities

Under the overall and supervision of CED Executive Director, the Fund Raising and Advocacy Officer will assist the Executive Director in accomplishing the Vision, Mission, and Strategic Objectives of CED.Primary responsibilities include fundraising and resource development; external communications; advocacy; cultivating and maintaining relationships with partner agencies, donors and other stakeholders; participating in the representation of the organization in various arenas; and serving as member of the Senior Management Team of CED.

a.Fund raising:

• Manage and provide guidance to ensure clear and achievable fundraising objectives; and positive and effective relationships with the internal and external donors
• Develop a sound, achievable, comprehensive fundraising strategy to meet the objectives set above. Lead and coordinate the senior management staff team to implement the plan efficiently and effectively.
• Ensure that the fundraising strategy of CED is adequately diversified and includes tactics in specific areas such as major donors; web based giving, foundations, corporate support, etc.
• Collaborate with Communication and Reporting Officer and other staff across the organization in order to ensure consistency in representing CED to potential donors and other audiences.

b.Advocacy:

· Manage, provide guidance to, and ensure CED advocacy team members have clear and achievable objectives; the resources and institutional support needed to carry out responsibilities; and positive and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders and with counterparts in Somalia

· Collaborate with appropriate CED staff and seek input from the ED to develop the policy agenda for CED

· Work with advocacy staff to ensure a strong, consistent advocacy voice in a variety of strategic settings (Inter agencies, NGOs, Clusters, etc.) to advance CED’s issue areas and to develop business opportunities

• Represent CED in meetings of the UN Clusters, International Agencies, donors and other technical and coordination meetings on behalf of CED.
• Assist CED in advocacy, lobbying, and campaigns, project funding and fund-raising.
• Prepare and design high quality concept papers and identify sources of funding for new programs.
• Ensure collection of information, synthesis and production of good advocacy materials aiming at promoting CED’s work to the donors
• Work with the Communications and Reporting office to ensure production of wide range of information such as publications, leaflets, DVDs, videos reports etc in order to help CED to carry out effective fund raising and advocacy activities.

c.External Relationships:

· Support the advancement of CED mission through the nurturing of existing relationships associated with current Programs and through the establishment and strengthening of new partnerships to enhance the role of CED in humanitarian relief and development work

· Participate as appropriate in the representation of CED in varied forms such as national and international conferences, partner and donor agency meetings, etc.

d.International Collaboration and other;

· Serve effectively as a member of the Senior Management Team, communicating and consulting on personnel, programmatic, financial and other issues related to Program development and management

· Establish a comprehensive and timely reporting schedule across the organization to anchor communications, fund-raising, and advocacy strategies.

· Undertake appropriate domestic or international travel to accomplish the responsibilities of the position.

Qualifications: required training and experience

• Advanced University degree in communications, media studies, international development, humanitarian affairs, international relations, social science or other relevant area.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant working experience with NGOs and Donors particularly in the area of fundraising, advocacy, communication and information management.
• Strong experience in fund-raising and partnerships strategies.
• Good information management and analyses of information.

Languages

Fluency in written and spoken English is essential.

General Skills

• Exceptional communication skills
• Excellent negotiation and problem solving skills
• Good planning and analytical capacities
• Good Research skills
• Ability to work effectively under extreme conditions and under pressure.
• Flexibility and patience required

Female candidates are encouraged to apply

If your profile matches with above, kindly submit your application and detailed CV. Each applicant package will include the following:

• Cover letter explaining why consider yourself qualified for this position with the applicants current contact information
• CV including work experience and education
• Copies of Certificates
• Three professional referees with their complete contact information

All applications should be sent to Abdullahi Ali Hassan, Abdullahi.ali@cedafrica.org and copied to ced.somalia@gmail.com with the subject of the e-mail marked “Fund Raising and Advocacy Officer”

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted and invited for interviews.