France Funding Specialist

Introduction

Do you have experience writing Grants and Tenders from the AFD (Agence Française de Développement - French Development Agency)? You will be responsible for the overall administration and management support of AFD-funded projects and actively contribute to preparing new AFD project proposals.

Duties and Responsibilities

Proposal Writing

• Mapping of AFD and international funding opportunities and private investors funding.
• Conducting research, analysis and documentation.
• Conceptualisation, visualisation and iterative challenging of new project ideas.
• Design AFD and international projects.
• Consortium-building, introduction to relevant consortia and partners’ recruitment for AFD funding applications.
• Writing AFD project proposals including scientific excellence, societal impact and project implementation, budget, deliverables and planning.
• Writing Logical Framework (LogFrame) to submit with the application.
• Submission of AFD project proposals.

Project Management

• Lead on the successful implementation of AFD project deliverables and develop and manage an implementation timetable to ensure delivery of project targets to a high quality and within the contracted timeframe and budget.
• Plan project activities, supporting project leads to ensure detailed project implementation plans are in place, understood by team members and effectively implemented as scheduled.
• Track progress against programme objectives, ensuring full completion as per programme work plans.
• Ensure effective systems to monitor and evaluate the quality of project delivery are in place.
• Develop and oversee implementation of comprehensive and cost-effective project visibility and communication strategies, reaching out to all project stakeholders.
• Ensure quality reporting of project achievements and documenting best practices and lessons learnt in the course of implementation.
• Work closely with support departments (Finance and ΙΤ) to ensure adequate support for project delivery.

Budget Management

• Be responsible for designated project budgets, including monitoring expenditure against budget lines and ensuring funds are appropriately utilised in meeting project objectives.

Degree

• Academic background in International or another relevant field with a Bachelor’s or/and preferably a Master’s degree. Those without a degree, but with a vast amount of experience are welcome to apply. We will discuss this with individual candidates.

Required Skills and Experience

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of AFD policy and decisions about health, education, social issues, human rights, democracy, technology, environment, territorial cooperation etc.
• Responsibility, consistency and adherence to strict deadlines.
• Proven track records in drafting and implementing AFD funded projects.
• Administrative, organisational and communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a can-do attitude.
• Intercultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Good problem solver, enjoying the variety and delivering efficient, scalable, and project focused solutions.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise and work on own initiative.
• A drive to achieve quality in all aspects of the role

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English (both written and oral).
• Knowledge of a second language such as French, Italian, or Portuguese is an asset.

Technological Awareness:

• Fluency in office software, email, web-based applications and databases.
• Command of social media.
• Actively seeks to apply technology to appropriate tasks.