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Francis K
@francis_kamauu
Senior Grants and Partnerships Specialist
Kenya
English, Swahili
About me
I am a grant writing and nonprofit resource-mobilization specialist with extensive experience designing donor proposals and strengthening M&E frameworks. I specialize in translating complex social-impact programs into funder-ready applications across health, education, and community resilience sectors.
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Francis K
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I will research active grants and funding opportunities for your nonprofit
Work experience
Senior Grants and Partnerships Specialist
Save the Children International • Part-time
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 • Full-time
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 • Full-time
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.
