Overview
The Business Development Manager is a senior resource within the Chad mission to support emergency response activities and develop a funding strategy in line with the Emergency Response Plan. The role coordinates all proposal development and liaises with various stakeholders to identify funding opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of an emergency-specific fundraising strategy.
- Develop strategic and equitable partnerships with peer organisations.
- Produce and regularly update a comprehensive mapping of all donor opportunities.
- Develop funding towards cross border funding in collaboration with Plan International Sudan.
- Track funding opportunities, submission deadlines and financing available.
- Ensure a strong pipeline of funding opportunities.
- Monitor the proposal pipeline and ensure that updated trackers are available.
- Ensure all appropriate donor and Plan internal proposal formats are available and being used.
- Maintain a reporting calendar and work closely with country teams to ensure deadlines are met.
- Ensure that donor reporting data is aligned with the data in the country’s ERP system.
- Lead the development of proposals and concept notes for the emergency response.
- Ensure concept notes and proposals align closely with the Emergency Response Fund.
- Ensure Plan’s cost recovery policy is adhered to in the proposal development process.
- Formally capture and disseminate learnings from successful and unsuccessful proposal submissions.
- Leads on the integration of key humanitarian standards in all funding submissions.
- Ensure compliance with Plan’s Emergency Response Manual and its localisation position paper.
- Ensure Funding Approval Document procedures are complied with.
- Train project, support teams and any implementing partner organisations on donor requirements.
- Retain a reporting calendar with internal and external reporting deadlines.
- Ensure all concept notes, proposals, Funding Approval Documents, and other relevant contract documents are referenced, filed and where applicable archived.
- Ensure full adherence to all system requirements in Plan’s ERP when creating and setting up new grants and projects.
- Participate in project start-up workshops and ensure a full and comprehensive handover and documentation trail to the project team for implementation.
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded.
Required Experience
- Extensive and proven experience in writing successful donor proposals.
- Extensive humanitarian fundraising and networking experience.
- Experience in coordinating successful proposals with meaningful participation and inputs from implementing partner organisations.
- Experience in establishing and managing consortium bids, with both national and international NGOs.
- Demonstrable knowledge of donor funding requirements and policies and their practical application.
- Knowledge of key humanitarian principles and programme areas including, child protection in emergencies, education in emergencies, and cash and voucher assistance.
- Knowledge of and experience in project cycle management.
- Experience of on-the-job knowledge and skills transfer to team members.
