Jobs
Funding Partnerships and Grants Manager at Northern Rangelands Trust
The Northern Rangelands Trust is a non-profit umbrella organization supporting 33 community conservancies across northern Kenya. Its mission is to develop resilient community conservancies, which transform lives, secure peace and conserve natural resources.
The Role
The Partnerships and Grants Manager will manage a portfolio of significant multi-lateral and bi-lateral funders. This involves identifying and evaluating potential funding opportunity, cultivating relationships with targeted funders (formal and informal reporting), leading and writing proposals and bids, coordinating internally across NRT’s cross-functional departments (finance, programmes, communications, M&E) to develop compelling proposals that help fill funding gaps, report on status of the grants. The Account Manager is also responsible for monitoring and tracking opportunities throughout the funding cycle, helping mitigate any risks or challenges that arise and working as a high performing team member.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of bilateral, multi-lateral donors – ensuring both compliance and engagement plans to build strong, long-term partnerships.
- Develop grant proposals and bids – especially for large funders such as European Commission, USAID, DANIDA, Sida, AfD, FCDO, UN, World Bank
- Develop and implement engagement strategies to deepen relationships with funders and donors, creating long term relationships of trust mutual accountability.
- Manage ad hoc teams and coordinate grant project planning and reporting – with ability to initiate internal teams of peers around an agreed timeline and set of deliverables.
- Support basic proposal budgeting and reporting, helping review and explain financial reports and monitor burn rates.
- Demonstrate sensitivity in handling confidential information.
- Ensure compliance with NRT policies and procedures and external (donor/legal/IRS) requirements.
- Manage or participate in complex or sensitive negotiations with implementing partners, conservancy members and boards, and funders
- Convey the mission of NRT to diverse groups who are important stakeholders.
- Travel frequently and on short notice, work long and flexible hours as needed.
- Coordinate reporting and providing information needed by partners/donors/stakeholders; ensuring financial, MERL and Program reports align.
- Any other duties that may be assigned, including dedicated special initiatives
Qualifications
- At least 5-8 years relevant experience in managing large grants for bilateral and multilateral agencies; including convening proposal development workshops and leading process of developing grant proposals.
- Strong interest and passion for environment, climate, community based natural resource management, marine and terrestrial conservation, peace-building and development issues, deep familiarity with Kenyan or Ugandan conservation and development issues.
- Experience in building and maintaining long-term relationships with external stakeholders.
- Experience in managing and tracking multiple prospects of donors in a donor tracking or CRM system.
- Conversant in monitoring, evaluation, adaptation and learning frameworks
- Strategic, problem-solving mindset with a sense of humour and ability to manage stress and deadlines
- Appreciation for working in diverse teams on complex issues – ability to mentor and be mentored.
- Bachelor’s degree in commerce, Business Management, Business Administration, Project Management or other relevant field such as ecology, biology, sociology, anthropology – a Master’s degree will be an added advantage.
Closing Date:16 April. 2024
HOW TO APPLY
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Jobs
Condition Monitoring Analyst at Mantrac Kenya Ltd
Mantrac Kenya Ltd. is the sole authorized dealer for Caterpillar Products in Kenya. Mantrac Kenya Ltd. distributes and supports the full range of CAT construction equipment including Wheel Loaders, Skid Steer oaders, Dump Articulated Trucks, Backhoe Loaders, Excavators, Motor Graders, Track-TypeTractors, BCP products.
JOB OUTLINE:
The candidate will work with the customer and sales team to provide Condition Monitoring opportunities and quotes with the goal of generating, through the PSSR, Incremental Business for Mantrac and informative and actionable insights for the customer to improve the utilization and efficiency of their Cat fleet. They will be supported at the Group level by the Cat Connected Support team for technical issues and as a resource for generating opportunities.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Monitor, interpret and correlate data from the following sources within ManCMS; Equipment’s electronic data from Product Link, ET and VIMS
- Oil & Coolant fluid analysis (SOS) reports
- Customer Track Service (CTS) reports
- Service history and Work in Progress (WIP)
- Product Improvement Programs (PIP) and Product Service Programs (PSP) •Liaise with others in the Service team to ensure valuable sources of data feed into system e.g. Product Links, Cat Inspect inspections; especially as it relates to key customers
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
- Electronic/Mechanical Engineering background preferred. Experience from field service would be beneficial.
- Strong computer skills; experience of equipment diagnostic and troubleshooting.
- Strong knowledge of a wide range of equipment; ability to read complex schematics and understand different equipment arrangements
HOW TO APPLY
Submit your CV, copies of relevant documents and Application to:
careers@mantrackenya.com
Use the title of the position as the subject of the email
Closing Date : 15 May. 2024
Jobs
Content Manager – Specialist Consultant at British Council
The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.
Role Purpose
To support with regional social media and website scheduling and management needs, working closely with the Regional Content Managers and Regional marketing and communication teams. The Part-Time content manager will be responsible for updating SOLAS pages, creating and scheduling posts on our social channels, working on reports under the guidance of the Marketing Hub and the regional communication team. The content manager will ensure that all posts are aligned with our brand guidelines, properly tagged and scheduled in a timely fashion.
Main Accountabilities
Project Support
This role will be regional, or cluster based depending on the requirements of the business. The main role of the content manager will be to create and manage our social media and website updates. They will:
- Work closely with regional content managers and marketing & communication teams
- Manage website and social media updates for specific projects.
- Write, edit and update imagery, captions and tags under the guidance of the regional marketing team and the Hub for social media channels and our SOLAS website pages.
- Monitor the social media accounts and offer constructive interaction with users.
- Will participate in SEO activities and updates.
Managing self and others
- Maintains brand standards/creative quality in region, supported by the Regional Content managers and regional marketing teams.
- Keeps abreast of new social trends in the markets.
- Supports the implementation of the equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) framework for social media and website by demonstrating inclusion of diversity in creatives across both print and digital and implementing EDI recommendations.
Relationship and Stakeholder Management
- Proactively builds and maintains collaborative relationships with internal peers and stakeholders to ensure integrated, joined up and future-proofed working.
- Acts as a Brand Ambassador, helping deliver a strong British Council brand.
Requirements
Minimum/Essential Qualifications:
Relevant degree or demonstrable equivalent level of experience
Role specific knowledge and experience:
- Proven experience in social media management and tools
- SOLAS certified.
- Creative with some knowledge of design/editing tools
- Content writing and proofreading skills
- Able to follow instructions clearly to achieve desired results.
Desirable
- Stakeholder management and influencing
- Ability to assess creative projects and assets.
Closing Date: 21 May 2024
HOW TO APPLY
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