Regional Fundraising Advisor MENA region

Terre des hommes

Terre des hommes Lausanne (Tdh), Switzerland s largest children s rights organisation, is reorganising its organisational model in order to get closer to children and young people in vulnerable situations in the thirty or so countries in which it is active.

In Tdh s new organisational model, the head office takes on the role of a centre of expertise in order to act effectively in favour of the respect, protection and promotion of children s rights and to ensure overall steering, strategy, policies, monitoring and compliance and informed leadership.

In MENA, Tdh works directly in 7 countries (Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria). As part of the decentralization of its organizational model, Tdh opened a regional office in Amman, Jordan.

The position aims to ensure coordination between the Institutional Fundraising Department at head office, the region and the country offices to develop and implement a coherent fundraising strategy adapted to the field realities, while ensuring smooth communication and supporting capacity-building of country teams.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, analyze and report on donor trends at the regional level, as weel as regional fundraising and grants management, including key performance indicators.
• Promote and applie global frameworks, standards, processes and tools realted to fundraising, project writing and grants management at the regional level.
• Contribute to influencing donors at regional level and supports teams in preparing for negotiations at country level.
• Develop relations with existing donors and partners, and engages with new donors and partners at regional level.
• Encourage regional coordination and consistency in exchanges between countries and in relations with donors and partners.
• Ensure institutional fundraising at the regional level and supports it at country level, and contribute to private fundraising efforts at the regional level.
• Oversee financial planning and steering for the region from a revenue perspective and provide support to countries in this area.
• Participate in the preparation of funding proposals and donor reports, ensuring their compliance and quality at the regional level and, depending on priorities, at the country level.