Overview
The role holder leads effective innovative, transformational and high-impact project and program design, partnership and business development from both a quality (results for children) and a business perspective.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversees the process of strategic portfolio analysis, identifying donor, partner and corporate engagement opportunities, and program and proposal development.
- Oversees and facilitates the process of new project design, based on learning from implementation and working closely with the Director of PDQ, Technical Specialists, NBD, MEAL, Advocacy, Campaigns, project implementation teams and support staff.
- Fosters new business models, and developing non-traditional partnerships (both financial and non-financial) to help achieve results for children at scale.
- Drives the development of ambitious, evidence-based and scalable programmes across development and humanitarian contexts.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 8 years experience in a both emergency and development contexts, preferably with solid experience in more than one of the Save the Children International priority sectors: education, child protection, child rights governance, youth employment and economic empowerment, health and nutrition, climate resilience and emergencies.
- Proven track record in producing large-scale or complex winning bids, proposals, and reports for institutional donors, corporations and others.
- Experience in presenting project information to donors and partners.
- Experience in developing large proposals for donors such as EC, USAID, BHA, FCDO, ECHO, NORAD, GAC, AICS, etc.
- Demonstrated experience engaging and negotiating with institutional donors, private sector partners, foundations and strategic stakeholders to secure funding and build partnerships.
- Experience developing resource mobilisation, fundraising or business development strategies.
- Experience leading consortium development and partnership negotiations for complex funding opportunities.
- Ability to coach or mentor senior staff in proposal development, funding strategies and MEAL.
- Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.
Qualifications
Minimum of a Master degree in an area of social development or equivalent.
