Philanthropy And Corporate Partnership Manager

Overview

The Philanthropy and Corporate Partnership Manager will focus on designing effective programs that leverage private sector resources to achieve sustainable development goals, identifying and developing partnership opportunities with businesses and philanthropists in Egypt.

Tasks Summary

• Support on early engagement, scoping, and ideation for partnerships with business, philanthropy, and multi-stakeholder coalitions.
• Conduct preliminary research and analysis to inform engagement approaches.
• Help strengthen Save the Children’s brand in Egypt and develop a strategy for partnerships development.
• Lead on external meetings with potential business and philanthropic partners.
• Contribute to the engagement of institutional stakeholders interested in multi-stakeholder partnerships.
• Provide strategic and technical support for the identification of innovative partnership models.
• Proactively identify and develop opportunities within new and existing partners.
• Stay abreast of the latest trends and best practices in NGO-business partnerships.
• Support programme development, working closely with country office staff.
• Involve business partners in the process where appropriate.
• Produce high quality, compelling, and accurate materials to engage businesses and secure partnerships.
• Ensure that country office and member offices collaborate effectively.
• Proactively address challenges that may hinder the proposal development process.
• Collaborate with relevant Country Office team to develop high quality proposals and budgets.
• Produce proposal development schedules and track timelines.
• Ensure that Programme Quality Framework and Theory of Change is addressed in all new proposals.
• Ensure internal SCI compliance documents are completed for each opportunity.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum six years’ experience of soliciting six figure gifts from high-net-worth individuals or private sectors (or other transferable experience of securing new business in a commercial environment).
• Proven experience in finding and cultivating new business opportunities with private sector, CSR, Foundations, commercial and developments banks.
• Proven experience in working with development program beyond grants-based programs.
• Good knowledge of trends in Egypt philanthropy.
• Understanding of Corporate, Social Responsibility (CSR) and Foundation priorities and ways of working in Egypt.
• Solid Understanding of Result based financing and its funding mechanisms.
• Ability to build and managing relationships with high-level stakeholders, in the charity or private sector.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and manage a varied and demanding workload to meet deadlines.
• Experience of working with emerging markets, preferably in Africa.
• Solid experience in more than one of the Save the Children priority sectors: Education, Livelihoods, Child Protection, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Child Rights Governance, in development and emergency settings.

Qualification Requirements

• Master’s degree in in development studies, international relations, business administration or related field required.
• Computer literacy: ability to undertake word processing and to access and update databases. Proficient in Microsoft Office

Other Details

Languages Required: • Fluent spoken and written in English • Fluent spoken and written in Arabic

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Contract Duration: 1 year, subject to renewal

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