Proposal Writer

Fecha límite: 30 de Enero de 2023

About us
RET International is an independent, impartial, non-partisan, non-for-profit organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 2000 by Mrs Sadako Ogata (former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees).

RET is committed to working in emergencies, in protracted crises, and in fragile contexts to alleviate the deepest sufferings, build people's resilience and enhance their self-reliance.

We believe we are amongst the leading NGOs to provide tailor-made solutions and relevant programs to bridge the gaps and respond to the real needs and challenges of the communities.

We aim to provoke significant positive change, enabling particularly vulnerable youth and young women to take control of their lives and fulfill their social and economic rights.

We stand with people, with refugees, returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's), alongside the host communities adopting the fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence.

Impact

Since our founding in 2000, we have worked in more than 32 countries, implementing more than 405 projects to help our program participants overcome multi-dimensional adversities.

We have helped refugee adolescents and youth in refugee camps; we have assisted communities from Asia, Afri-ca, and the Americas made vulnerable by displacement, violence, armed conflict, and disasters.

We have provided a broad diversity of programs aimed at protecting and building the resilience of youth and women affected by crises.

Providing multi-dimensional solutions and building the capacity of, particularly, youth and women has always been our core commitment.

RET's extensive presence in the field has positively impacted the lives of just over 2 million participants, 55% of whom are women.

12,500 youth leaders have trained and managed nearly 430 tertiary education scholarships, paving the way to more peaceful and stable communities by empowering a generation of young people to become actors of positive social change.

Our actions have also led to constructing, renovating, and equipping over 1,600 schools and women's centres, training more than 30,000 educators, and improving the proficiency of numerous local and, even, national education administrations.

In all, RET has indirectly reached over 20 million beneficiaries.

Scope of Work

Under the framework of the RET's efforts in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Region, the Proposal Writer role is to support the LAC Bureau - Strategic Planning & Technical Direction in the development of proposals and concept notes for development programming.

The proposal writer will be responsible for provide co-leadership in the proposal development and process and directly write the proposal together with the relevant cross-functional RET team, including: Technical, M&E, Programmes, Operations, and others.

The Proposal Writer is also expected to work closely with the Country Office Proposals Management Team to ensure that proposals and concept notes are developed in compliance with donor requirements.

Location

The Proposal Writer could be based in RET's LAC Bureau located in Panama City or work under the home office modality.

Specific tasks may include:

The Proposal Writer will join a formulation team and will support the following tasks:

• Review the call for proposals identify and disseminate key proposal requirements and instructions to members of the proposal development team
• Develop and comonitor proposal schedules and outlines together with respective RET proposals development team members.
• Write proposal contents (executive summary, management and staffing, strategic approaches, past performance, annexes, etc.) including weaving text from different writers.
• Synthesize raw content from multiple sources into a coherent and complete narrative.
• Edit the proposals content, focusing on improving readability through sentence shortening, redundancy removal, rearranging sentences to improve transitions, and clarifying evidence and references.
• Coordinate, edit and incorporate the input of other team members (including feedback from Subgrantees and Partners) into the proposals.
• Edit and proofread proposals for grammar, style, and formatting.
• Participate in proposal design and review sessions with other proposals development team members.
• Ensure the logic of the intervention throughout the proposal.
• Review and guarantee the consistency of proposals narratives, log frames, workplans, narrative budgets and other relevant annexes
• Deliver quality full proposals packages against a tight schedule
• Ensure final submission is compliant with donor regulations and instructions delivered in the call for proposals and guidelines.
• Perform other related duties as required

REQUERIMIENTOS
Experience and skills required

• Strong academic credentials, including a university degree in Humanities, International, Social/Political Sciences and Master degree in

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