Senior Programme Development Specialist - Fixed Term (until December 2025)

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Why work for us?

The Programme Funding Team is at the very centre of CIUK's new strategy for the development of high quality and impactful programming within CARE. The team shapes and builds our institutional programme portfolio in line with the CARE International 2030 vision and ensures that our programmes save lives and bring lasting change through consistent and high standards of programme design, partnerships building and learning.

At CARE International UK we affirm the dignity, potential and contribution of participants, donors, partners and staff. Our actions are consistent with our mission. We are honest and transparent in what we do and say and accept responsibility for our collective and individual actions. We work together effectively to serve the larger community. We constantly challenge ourselves to the highest levels of learning and performance to achieve greater impact.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will be a passionate and experienced funding specialist, with experience in institutional funding and a very good knowledge of our key donors' requirements (FCDO).

Using your drive and expertise to work on various complex bids (including multi-million pound grants and commercial contracts), securing new funding for programmes at CIUK. Confidently lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams during proposal preparation, working with partners and colleagues in multiple locations.

Your extensive experience and high level of understanding of programme design is key to this role, as is excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Capable of building strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders; you are a positive collaborator and a strong team player.

About the role

The Senior Programme Development Specialist will work on complex and major bids, often on multimillion pound consortia, commercial contracts and multi-country partnerships. Taking a high degree of responsibility for programme funding processes from scoping and positioning CIUK for new funding opportunities, to facilitating the programme design and developing successful bids. This includes independently negotiating the scope of work and budget with internal and external partners (potential primes and subs).

This position will drive a high-quality bidding process with institutional donors and large foundations to build a healthy and sustainable funding pipeline so that CIUK can achieve our programme goals. You will work closely with technical advisory teams, country offices, finance colleagues, and other partners in order to deliver winning bids, which showcase CARE's programme innovation and deliver impact as well as ensuring adequate cost recovery for CIUK.

About CARE

CARE International is one of the world's leading humanitarian and development charities. We fight poverty and injustice in the world's most vulnerable places. We save lives in disasters and conflicts. We stand with women, girls and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.

Safeguarding

CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any abuse to, sexual harassment of or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. CARE International UK expects all staff to share this commitment through our Safeguarding Policy (link here) and our Code of Conduct (link here). They are responsible for ensuring they understand and work within the remit of these policies throughout their time at CARE International UK.

Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do, including recruitment. All offers of employment at CARE International UK are subject to:

- satisfactory references. CARE International UK participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (link here). In line with this Scheme, we will request information from successful applicants' previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

- appropriate criminal record checks (including a Bridger check, link here).

By submitting an application, the applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Equality and Diversity

We are committed to Equality and value Diversity.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and particularly welcome applications from disabled people. We guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role (see person specification). If you require the candidate brief or need to submit your application in an alternative format, because of a disability, please do get in touch by sending an email to, info@careinternational.org

We also encourage people from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds or LGBT+ to apply for roles at CARE International UK.

Please note that in compliance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, all job offers at Care International UK are conditional on eligibility to work in the UK.

Please note that applications will be reviewed as we receive them, and interviews will be arranged as soon as possible. Therefore, the advert may close sooner that the closing date stated below if a suitable candidate has been appointed.

Closing date:Sunday 5 January at 11pm

In order to maintain anonymised recruitment and to shortlist all applicants against the same criteria, we ask that you do not submit your CV.

Please complete and upload the attached application form.

Only completed application forms will be put forward for shortlisting.