Hand in Hand Sweden is a non-governmental organisation. Together with our partner organisations, our vision is to eradicate poverty. We work with entrepreneurship as an effective and sustainable way of fighting poverty. Where others see poverty, Hand in Hand sees grassroots entrepreneurs, full of energy and potential. We work primarily with women and young people, because we know that’s how we can make the most difference.
Hand is Hand Sweden is aiming at growing over the coming five years. One key component of this strategy is to expand our relationships with and funding from institutional donors. We are therefore investing in our program development and proposal writing capacity, to help us increase our resource mobilisation.
As the Program Funding Coordinator, your key duties and responsibilities are to:
We are looking for someone with the following functional competencies:
The following will be an advantage:
A general familiarity with monitoring and evaluation as it links to implementing successful development projects;
Specific knowledge within one or several of Hand in Hand’s focus areas: livelihoods, women’s economic empowerment, market development, rural development, agriculture, human rights, climate change adaptation;
Experience from working with development programs in the Global South.
This is a 60 -100% position. It is temporary, starting asap until end June, 2021. Our ambition is to either permanent the position or to prolong the temporary employment.
Hand in Hand Sweden’s office is currently located centrally in Stockholm, near Östermalmstorg. As from January 1, 2021, our office will be at Odenplan. Our 20-strong team specialises in fundraising, communications, program management, monitoring and evaluation and donor relations. This position will be based within the Program Team, which works closely with all our Hand in Hand network partners, currently based in India, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and the UK. The Project Funding Coordinator reports to the Head of Programs.
Please send your CV and personal letter outlining how you meet the job criteria and why you want to work with Hand in Hand Sweden to ansokning@handinhandsweden.se, using Program Funding Coordinator in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis.
For general inquiries, please contact: stina.gotbrink@handinhandsweden.se