Deadline: Ongoing
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Programme Officer (Donor Relations). The position will be based in Rome, Italy.
FAO promotes good practice in addressing governance challenges across its Strategic Objectives by strengthening its contribution to global governance, identifying mission-critical governance issues at national, regional and multilateral levels, strengthening staff capacity to support improved governance and monitoring and evaluating its interventions assessing its experiences for lessons learnt with a view to build our governance-support capacities.
Key Job Responsibilities
The Programme Officer (Donor Relations) will perform the following functions-
- Plans and develops annual work plans to achieve divisional targets in assigned areas;
- Collaborates in strategic thinking and related plans to further develops and facilitates implementation of the Corporate;
- Resource Mobilization and Management Strategy (RMMS) as well as SSC partnership strategy;
- Ensures support to FAO’s Strategic Objectives teams, headquarters departments and Decentralized Offices to mobilize resources and SSC partnerships in line with defined corporate priorities;
- Initiates contact with potential partners to explore funding opportunities, leads negotiations of funding agreements and project proposals with governments, international organizations, private sector and civil society partners; maintains effective
- working relationships with key stakeholders throughout the project cycle, including to support implementation, facilitates monitoring and compliance issues and ensures submission of reports, as required;
- Facilitates capacity development efforts in support of staff in all locations with regard to Resource Mobilization and SSC partnerships through policy development, the production of training material and delivery of training;
- Organizes and facilitates marketing and outreach activities related to FAO’s Strategic Objectives and defined priority areas; facilitates resource partner meetings, events and outreach campaigns;
- Facilitates the global Resource Mobilization and SSC functional networks and ensures support is provided to Regional
- Initiatives teams; monitors and reports on key results.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Advanced university degree in international development, development economics, international law, business administration, agriculture, agricultural economics, or another field relevant to the work of the Organization
- Seven years of relevant experience in international development, resource partner aid programmes, fundraising, grant negotiations and management, or SSC
- Working knowledge of English, French or Spanish and limited knowledge of one of the other two or Arabic, Chinese, Russian
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions is desirable
- Demonstrated experience in negotiating complex funding agreements with bilateral and multilateral institutions
- Demonstrated skills and experience in managing relations and outreach with partners
- Demonstrated skills and experience in Resource Mobilization and/or SSC
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, please visit FAO.
