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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & CORE COMPETENCIES

Grant Writing, Reporting, and Project Management

• With oversight from the Senior Director, Investor Relations and in coordination with the Senior Associate Director, Investor Relations, support the stewardship of a portfolio of private philanthropic foundations to deliver on grant requirements
• Support donor reporting for restricted and unrestricted foundation investments, including developing internal timelines and processes for reporting using Asana (no previous experience required with this software), preparing reporting templates, coordinating and communicating cross-departmentally for necessary data inputs, and assembling narratives in a manner consistent with the END Fund’s expected level of quality, accuracy, and professionalism
• With guidance and direction from the Senior Director, Investor Relations, and Senior Associate Director, Investor Relations, respond to new foundation funding opportunities that align with the END Fund’s mission and funding priorities:
• Support the proposal preparation process by collecting information, determining and enforcing timelines, and fostering cross-team collaboration; support process for letters of inquiry/expressions of interest, concept note development, and proposals
• Proactively identify grant proposal process inefficiencies and recommend and implement procedural improvements
• Conduct copy-editing, grammar checks, and formatting on written donor communications prior to submission
• Provide follow-up support on prospecting research produced by the Lead Prospector as needed in support of new revenue generation opportunities.

Cross-departmental Collaboration

• In concert with varying actors across the organization – Board Development Committee, Investor Relations team, and other colleagues – support the execution of a fundraising plan to secure funding towards the END Fund’s multi-year revenue goals
• Liaise with the Programs team and other END Fund staff to gather information, materials, and updates and translate them into proposals and donor reports
• Coordinate with the Finance team on fundraising-related initiatives, including grant spending, revenue recognition, financial reporting, and reconciliation
• Work closely with the END Fund’s Communications team to secure marketing materials and other external communications as needed.

Knowledge and Data Management

• Manage the maintenance of donor records in Salesforce across the foundation investor portfolio, including tracking funding opportunities and logging key information in Salesforce
• Help to ensure relevant colleagues are informed of funding opportunities and changes to funding projections, grant timelines, and/or payment schedules
• Maintain a consistent and well-organized Google Drive folder
• Support the team with note taking, drafting email correspondences for donors, meeting preparation, and other administrative support needed for knowledge and data management.

Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 1-2 years of relevant professional experience directly related to or transferable to the essential functions and core competencies of this position
• Ability to convey complex ideas in a clear, direct, and lively style (in English, both written and verbal)
• Confidence and poise to interact regularly with internal colleagues at all levels, using all forms of communications (e-mail, phone, Slack, videoconference and face-to-face interaction)
• A self-starter with initiative and a desire to continuously learn, who is energized to work as part of a team, and is comfortable navigating shifting change and deadline-oriented environments
• Familiarity with global health issues, and NTDs specifically, or appetite and interest to learn
• Experience with project management tools, such as Asana, G Suite, Slack, and Salesforce a plus
• Ability and authorization to work in either Kenya, the United Kingdom, or the United States.

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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & CORE COMPETENCIES

Conceptualization and development of MEL tools and activities

• Assist in the design of comprehensive M&E strategies, policies, frameworks, and toolkits (including performance indicators and benchmarks) through research of best practices and tools and thorough examination of literature, and disseminate amongst the Programs team
• Manage and/or assist in the implementation of specific activities designed to evaluate our programmatic investments, either conducted internally or by external evaluators
• Aid the development and maintenance of ad-hoc MEL tools to compile, analyze and report the fund’s data and progress, including epidemiological, coverage and impact survey data
• Contribute to enhancement of systems and procedures for continuous functional improvement

Data management and analysis

• Oversee specific aspects of MEL within END Fund projects, ensuring END Fund, partner, and donor requirements are being met
• Liaise regularly with Programs colleagues to ensure M&E requirements are understood, completed, and submitted in a timely manner, and provide support to staff members to ensure high quality data collection and reporting
• Propose and implement new analyses depending on project needs; identify methods to strengthen M&E processes
• Conduct regular quantitative and qualitative data analyses on baselines, targets and performance to assess program impact, inform ongoing program implementation and contribute to organizational targets
• Support data management processes in Salesforce and other systems, including database updates and data visualisations, and monitor the development of defined indicators within the Salesforce database
• Travel on behalf of the END Fund up to 25% domestically and/or internationally (when travel safely resumes)
• Any other activities as requested by the Director, MEL

Technical support in survey design and implementation

• Support the supervision of planning, design and implementation of data collection surveys administered by the END Fund’s implementing partners (including NGOs, INGOs and government ministries); support Director in conducting and commissioning evaluations of END Fund programs
• Review findings from data analysis and final reports developed by implementing partners to verify coherence and provide programmatic recommendations, and conduct additional dataset analysis as required

Board and donor reporting

• Liaise with members of the Program team, the Strategy & Operations team and the Investor Relations team to update relevant tracking and reporting tools on a regular basis using Salesforce
• Support development of presentations and other materials to support communication of performance

Learning, knowledge sharing and dissemination

• Support the Director, MEL to develop and implement a learning agenda that assesses, documents and shares lessons with internal and external audiences as appropriate (e.g. annual learning events, communities of practice, conferences)
• Keep up-to-date with research and guidelines related to M&E for neglected tropical diseases
• Support the design and delivery of MEL training and capacity-building activities to implementing partners and/or within the END Fund

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Master’s Degree required in a quantitative field related to M&E, such as data management and analysis, epidemiology, biostatistics or another relevant discipline
• Minimum of five years of directly relevant experience in M&E, research, survey implementation and/or epidemiological work (essential), with at least two years in the global health sector working in NTDs, infectious disease, disease elimination or similar practice (preferred but not required)
• Experience developing and implementing M&E metrics and tools, including indicator development, data collection, and quantitative and qualitative analysis. Epidemiological survey design, analysis, and management in low-resource countries is preferred
• Proven experience in statistical analysis in an epidemiological context, with strong attention to detail
• Experience in using R or STATA statistical coding packages
• Proficiency in data cleaning, merging and analysis of programmatic datasets, ideally with Salesforce and Tableau
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational, time management, and analytical capabilities
• Proven ability to work independently using own initiative
• Passion for and commitment to the END Fund's humanitarian mission
• Ability and willingness to travel, once travel safely resumes
• Authorization to work in Kenya, United Kingdom, or United States, without visa sponsorship, required