● Assist target organization/communities and community groups to identify target interventions in the light of program objectives.
● Develop and maintain a strong professional network of local counterparts, beneficiaries, international organizations as well as local and national authorities.
● Represent the program to communities and stakeholders. Travel regularly to grantee sites and develop ideas for future grants in collaboration with local communities/ organizations.
● Manage a portfolio of grant activities. Serve as point of contact for grantees, monitor their progress against timelines, provide technical facilitation and oversight on implementation and ensure adherence to grant agreements and donor protocols.
● Coordinate with Internal Auditor/Trainer to facilitate capacity building of CBOs/NGOs as required.
● Project Planning, coordination and collaboration with different partners, development workers.
● Work closely with Grant Officers to draft grant proposals and budgets utilizing appropriate contracting mechanisms (such as in-kind grants, Fixed Obligation Grants, etc.). Contribute to the planning and conceptualization of monitoring and evaluation and media plans of projects. Ensure preparation of all related documents for approval by Senior Management Team and the donor.
● Monitor and ensure grantee compliance with donor and organization policies, procedures and regulations.
● Provide regular updates and reports regarding grant status. Maintain regular accurate and timely program and activity documentation; draft, maintain and update reports, and meeting notes.
● Actively contribute to information sharing within program. Engage in overall political analysis, impact assessment, and strategy development to advance program goals.
● Write up grant ideas, success stories and weekly grant updates.
● Coordinate closely with Grant, Finance, Procurement, Engineering, Monitoring and Evaluation staff regularly to ensure smooth grantee start-up,

● Assist target organization/communities and community groups to identify target interventions in the light of program objectives. .
● Develop and maintain a strong professional network of local counterparts, beneficiaries, international organizations as well as local and national authorities.
● Represent the program to communities and stakeholders. Travel regularly to grantee sites and develop ideas for future grants in collaboration with local communities/ organizations.
● Manage a portfolio of grant activities. Serve as point of contact for grantees, monitor their progress against timelines, provide technical facilitation and oversight on implementation and ensure adherence to grant agreements and donor protocols.
● Coordinate with Internal Auditor/Trainer to facilitate capacity building of CBOs/NGOs as required.
● Project Planning, coordination and collaboration with different partners, development workers.
● Work closely with Grant Officers to draft grant proposals and budgets utilizing appropriate contracting mechanisms (such as in-kind grants, Fixed Obligation Grants, etc.). Contribute to the planning and conceptualization of monitoring and evaluation and media plans of projects. Ensure preparation of all related documents for approval by Senior Management Team and the donor.
● Monitor and ensure grantee compliance with donor and organization policies, procedures and regulations.
● Provide regular updates and reports regarding grant status. Maintain regular accurate and timely program and activity documentation; draft, maintain and update reports, and meeting notes.
● Actively contribute to information sharing within program. Engage in overall political analysis, impact assessment, and strategy development to advance program goals.
● Write up grant ideas, success stories and weekly grant updates.
● Coordinate closely with Grant, Finance, Procurement, Engineering, Monitoring and Evaluation staff regularly to ensure smooth grantee start-up

Job Description
● Work closely with the Team Leader and other field staff to support the integration of a gender approach in the program, procedures, and knowledge products, building on existing gender activities, procedures and practices.
● Write up grant ideas, success stories and weekly grant updates.
● Provide technical support on gender to colleagues based in the field offices.
● Develop a simple database of gender specialized or similar NGO’s that would be available, as required and in case the Program needs to engage them in development and implementation of gender based grants in the region.
● Project planning and Coordination with the implementing partners, including but not limited to local groups, organizations, community leaders and activities to track physical progress of the ongoing grants.
● Monitor and ensure grantee compliance with donor and organization policies, procedures and regulations.
● Share with other program staff successful methodologies for consultative approaches to grant development and implementation
● Elaborate a basic checklist of elements to be addressed to ensure a gender-sensitive grant.
● Develop, for approval by the senior management, a region based gender action plan.
● Identity and set priorities for the gender related activities in the region.
● Assist the Team Leader in liaising with local government counterparts and provide support in the area of gender and related fields as required.
● Track gender mainstreaming within the region, building upon existing mechanisms and good practices.
● Develop a menu of gender indicators that the region can draw from, building upon indicators previously designed by concerned local government authorities and other organizations.
● Report on progress and lessons learned on gender issues for inclusion in the regular donor reports.

● Support team leader in undertaking the successful implementation of all project activities in the AoR, including grant development, planning, approval, the transparent procurement of grant-related goods and services, and consistent, continuous follow up and reporting. Successful implementation should include on-going consultative processes and community and/or partner organization involvement in all phases.
● Advise the team leader on programmatic strategy, including where to focus program resources, how to develop operational relationships with local organizations, programs, activities and DCO’s office, and how to address programmatic challenges as they arise. Identify potential communities in consultation with relevant stakeholders.
● Work in close coordination with community leaders, local organizations, and communities’ at large and local government, if required, to identify programming ideas and develop these ideas into proposals suitable for funding. Establish and oversee consultative processes within target communities or with appropriate groups to implement the selected program, project or activity.
● Manage relationships with relevant stakeholders, including but not limited to community leaders, local organizations and activities, and communities at large as well as Government officials and line departments at the District and local levels, if required.
● Ensure that the groups so identified understand their roles, responsibilities and deliverables under the project agreements.
● Monitor and report on the rapidly changing environment and actively contribute to the PTI overall strategy, design and implementation.
● In conjunction with other PTI staff, evaluate completed projects. Technical section quality of work.
● Share with other program staff successful methodologies for consultative approaches to grant development and implementation.
● Coordinate with the implementing partners, including but not limited to local groups, organizations, commu