Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is known for its continuous efforts to pave the way for leading a brighter future for families in need. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 1,000,000 houses in nearly 100 countries, providing simple, decent and affordable shelter for more than one million people.
The Global FOI Team focuses on Professional Foundations, Bi-Lateral, and Multi-Lateral institutions – all recognized as institutional partners with significant assets of $100 million+. These institutional partners have high quality designated staff and strategic program priorities with strict guidelines and restrictions on proposal development and grant execution.
What you will build?
As a Global FOI Research Intern you will work with the newly established Global FOI team, whose goal is to raise funds (awards) for housing and development programs from institutions and governments globally (e.g. USAID, DFID, World Bank etc). The Global FOI team members are located in the US, Costa Rica, UK, Asia Pacific and Slovakia. The role of the team is to scan global funding environment, conduct research on donors, develop relationships with donor institutions, submit applications for grants and report on grant implementation.
- Working with the team to research funding information for development projects, (mostly in the housing sector) from institutions like the European Commission, British and US government, the World Bank, regional Development Banks (AfDB/ADB) and others (85% of your time)
- Support development of Institutional Partners Strategies (10%)
- Administrative tasks (5% of your time)
- A strong interest in conducting research focused on grant pre-positioning and proposal development
- Interest in topics of international development and housing, bi-lateral and multi-lateral institutions, grants and funding
- Openness to learn and ability to process large and complex data and develop research templates to share findings in user-friendly formats
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent writing and research skills
- Proficient to advance in Microsoft Office
- Attention to detail and strong analysis skills
You will be a part of an incredible learning experience that will expose you to non-profit work, culture, relevant projects and experts in the field. You will have the ability to learn from a global team, supporting in major fundraising efforts. Successful candidates will be joining at the beginning of the research phase for the Global FOI Team, helping to build systems and databases of research for many years to come. In addition to this research, you will be exposed to other aspects of Habitat’s international fundraising efforts and will acquire a firm grasp of bi-lateral and multi-lateral funding organizations.
We invite you to join us on this journey to support Habitat in our global fundraising efforts.