Francis K

Senior Grants and Partnerships Specialist

Save the Children International • Teilzeit

Jan 2023 - Present • 3 yrs 9 mos

• Lead development of competitive concept notes, full proposals, logframes, outcome indicators, donor budgets, and supporting annexes for education, child protection, and livelihoods initiatives. • Coordinate proposal inputs from program technical leads, finance, operations, partnerships, and M&E teams to produce coherent donor submissions and realistic implementation plans. • Built a US$8.4 million funding pipeline and supported six awards totaling US$2.1 million, while maintaining donor opportunity trackers and compliance checklists. • Standardized proposal calendars, reusable evidence libraries, risk registers, and quality-review templates to strengthen submission consistency and deadline performance.

Grants and Resource Mobilization Officer

AMREF • Vollzeit

Jul 2020 - Dec 2022 • 2 yrs 5 mos

Researched bilateral donors, foundations, corporate grantmakers, and regional funding calls; screened eligibility, geographic priorities, award ceilings, and co-financing requirements. • Drafted grant narratives, problem statements, implementation plans, stakeholder engagement approaches, sustainability sections, and results-based budgets for community-health programs. • Prepared donor reporting inputs, milestone trackers, and indicator reference sheets supporting maternal health, WASH, and adolescent health portfolios. • Designed a donor-mapping workflow and proposal review checklist that reduced proposal-preparation turnaround by 22%.

Program Development and Grants Associate

World Vision • Vollzeit

Feb 2018 - Jun 2020 • 2 yrs 4 mos

Supported program design and grant applications through secondary research, stakeholder mapping, needs analysis, and evidence summaries for community development projects. • Contributed to project logframes, activity schedules, beneficiary definitions, indicator matrices, and draft proposal budgets aligned with funder guidelines. • Maintained prospect research records, proposal submission calendars, partnership correspondence, and documentation for internal quality checks. • Assisted with donor presentations, grant-monitoring summaries, and learning briefs for youth skills and rural livelihoods interventions.