Grants Acquisition Specialist at Compassion pursuing and acquiring funding through proposal writing and collaboration. Ensuring donor requirements alignment and strategic objectives are met.
Responsibilities
Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children.
Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry.
Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct.
Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
Contributes to maintaining and improving the grant opportunity tracking system.
Conducts basic landscape analysis of funding trends, competitors, and strategic alignment, providing input to decision-making.
Investigates and summarizes potential sub-grant partnerships under guidance, including eligibility under donor rules.
Coordinates the proposal development process and collaborates with cross-functional teams (e.g., Finance, Legal, MERL) to ensure quality inputs.
Owns proposal writing and review processes to ensure completeness and compliance.
Coordinates and contributes to partner mapping and external engagement efforts for the National Office, serving as the primary point of contact for assigned components.
Reviews proposals to ensure alignment with donor requirements and internal standards.
Supports editing and final packaging of proposal submissions.
Contributes to preparing proposal components such as logic models, MERL frameworks, or budgets under guidance.
Collaborates with the Global Philanthropic Engagement team on integrating matched funding or foundation partnerships into proposals.
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in a related field
Advanced level of speaking, writing, and reading English required
2+ years of relevant experience working in this or a related field
Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above
Benefits
N/A
Job title
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