Serbia: Senior Programme Developer

General SPARK information

SPARK is a growing, young, dynamic development NGO with 80 staff members in offices and Business Start-up Centres in Southeast Europe, the MENA region, North, East & West Africa. SPARK develops higher education and entrepreneurship, so that young ambitious people are empowered to lead their post-conflict society into prosperity.

SPARK is achieving its mission by organizing business plan competitions, business skills training, SME coaching & mentoring, business incubation, SME financing, value chain improvements, intensive higher vocational education summer courses, curriculum development and quality assurance at universities and higher vocational education institutions. SPARK is currently expanding its activities in its existing locations as well as in the MENA region

Find more information at www.spark-online.org

The Senior Programme Developer is part of an international team working closely together towards the development and implementation of (new) programmes. The Project Programme Developer is stationed at our Belgrade Office or one of our offices in the MENA region.

Main tasks and responsibilities

· Support efforts by SPARK field offices to develop and write new programmes, including applications in SME development and higher (vocational) education, primarily in our target localities, primarily unsolicited applications;

· Provide services in proposal writing and budgeting for bids for (non)government contracts and grants.

· Prepare work plans for proposals (the production schedules), and review these with the proposal team.

Requirements and competencies

· At least 8 years experience with Programme Development for bi-lateral donors as well as multilaterals such as the European Commission, World Bank as well as bi lateral funding opportunities;

· Good knowledge of project development, particularly project proposal writing (LFA methodology);

· Combination of development skills with actual programme implementation experience is an asset;

· Excellent oral and written language skills in English; other languages (such as French and Arabic) are an asset;

· Good (inter-cultural) communication and social skills;

· Good presentation and networking skills and the ability to work independently. The position particularly requires a strong entrepreneurial and results-oriented approach;

· Strong proven track record in successful programme development and writing is a must;

· Availability to work in fragile state environments.

SPARK offers:

· International and dynamic working experience;

· Training opportunities;

· Competitive remuneration range depending on skills and experience, partly success fee based.

If you are interested, please email your letter of motivation and your CV in English to v.koracevic@spark-online.org before 10 August 2016 (Reference: Programme Developer). For more information about the vacancy, contact Verica Koracevic at Tel. +381 (0)11 3286053.