Lead Business Development and Grants Management Processes Effectively Vacancy-Job Ref: WJMWPLAN/2307/2025829

Lead Business Development and Grants Management Processes Effectively Vacancy-Job Ref: WJMWPLAN/2307/2025829

Lilongwe (Malawi)

Job Description

Overview

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Program Development & Grants Specialist will be an integral member of the Business Development Unit. The Business Development unit serves as the facilitator for business development and grants management processes for the Country Office and ensures compliance with donor requirements at all stages of the project life cycle.

The Business Development Unit’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, prepositioning, facilitating proposal development, ensuring timely and quality reporting, compliance to donor guidelines, facilitating grant opening and closeout processes, maintaining grants related information and files, leading and supporting on proposal development processes, managing reporting deadlines, producing high-quality program reports and donor updates. He/she will also help support monthly grant review and budget review meetings in close collaboration with the Head of Business Development, Thematic Leads, relevant Project Managers, and the Head of Finance & Risk.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

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