Institutional Partnership Development Specialist (Re-advertised)

RE-ADVERTISED VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

PositionInstitutional Partnership Development Specialist

Vacant positionsOne (01)

Type of contractFixed term

Working locationNational Office

SupervisorHead of Fund Development and Partnership

Deadline30th October 2026

Context of the position:

SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda is an independent member association affiliated to the SOS Federation. SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda leverages existing community resources to strengthen quality childcare and protection through a holistic continuum of care tailored to orphans, vulnerable children, and their families. SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda actively advocates for the promotion of childcare and child protection. In Rwanda, SOS Children’s Villages operates in four Program Areas based in Gasabo, Gicumbi, Kayonza and Nyamagabe. To further fulfil the above-mentioned responsibilities, SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda is seeking for a competent Institutional Partnership Development Specialist, to base at its National Office Kigali, Kinyinya.

JOB PURPOSE

The Institutional Partnership Development Specialist mobilizes institutional funding for SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda and is a key contributor to the growth of the IPD funding portfolio and day to day donor relationship management with bilateral donors, international donors, embassies, diplomatic missions, foundations to significantly increase the financial resources for national programs. This role involves developing and implementing institutional partnership plans, developing funding proposals to expand the organization’s programs and contributing to donor compliance.

Main clients:

• Internal – National Director, Deputy National Director – Operations, Director of Program Quality, Safeguarding and Partnership Development, Head of Fund Development and Partnerships, Program Managers, Project teams, finance team, and PSA staff

• External – Institutional Donors, Implementing partners, Government, NGOs, Embassies, Diplomatic Missions, Foundations

Key Performance Areas and Main Responsibilities:

Fundraising and Donor Liaison

• Develop and implement annual IPD plans in line with the national organizational strategy annual set targets.

• Ensure IPD annual targets are met according to the national organizational strategy.

• Identify monthly IPD funding opportunities from in-country, bilateral, multilateral, international donors, embassies, diplomatic missions and foundations to meet annual targets.

• Develop and write program ideas, concept notes, expression of interests, grant applications, technical project proposals for IPD projects while ensuring they are provisioned with available information prior to involving additional teams.

• Conduct comprehensive background research on relevant policies, political, economic, environmental factors, and existing strategies at national, sub-national, regional, and global levels to contextualize project proposal descriptions.

• Develop different project proposal sections, including risk factors, mitigation measures, sustainable development impacts, paradigm shifts, result frameworks, impact matrices, problem and objective trees, stakeholder analyses and others.

• Ensure the timely collection of content needed from program teams for high quality and competitive proposal development.

• Facilitate the development of project proposals and organize proposal development workshops with program team, partners and/or stakeholders, serving as the focal point for coordination and logistics.

• Together with the Head of Fund Development and Partnership and program team identify suitable lead applications, co-applicants and implementing partners to increase competitiveness in bid applications.

• Donor Compliance Monitoring

• Regularly update the master partner landscape and partner mapping to reflect current information.

• Update IPD project grant compliance matrices to ensure adherence to donor requirements.

• Ensure that project one-pagers and program summaries are always current and accurate.

• Maintain an up-to-date master list of IPD grants, including grant descriptions.

• Facilitate project start following funding approvals.

• Monitor changes in IPD projects, advise the Program Team on documenting amendments, and communicate risks effectively.

• Monitor donor grant requirements to ensure compliance, providing advice on cost extensions, non-cost extensions, agreement addendums, and other contractual issues.

• Monitor project spending to prevent overspending or underspending and advise project teams accordingly.

• Oversee project implementation from compliance perspective, advising teams on contractual clauses, amendments, risk management, and supporting timely project delivery.

• Support Donor Monitoring Field visits: Coordinate with relevant team members and stakeholders, prepare one pager, arrange logistics, accompany monitoring field visits.