Funding Strategy and NBD Change Management
- Leads the design and delivery of a high quality CO funding strategy which aligns program demand (Country Strategic Plans) with funding supply (donor landscape), with a focus on priority thematic areas. This strategy will include both public and private funding sources.
- Drives and accelerates sustainable portfolio growth for Save the Children working in alignment with the regional and global funding strategy. This position is expected to increase 10-15% of the CO portfolio during the strategic period of 2022-24.
- With guidance and support from the regional resource mobilisation team, supports country TE, Finance, AM, PDQ staff with capacity building around business development.
- Ensures best practice ways of working by attending regional BD Communities of Practice and embedding best practice into country ways of working.
- Establishes continuous learning efforts in order to implement best practices and learn from processes so future BD efforts are improved.
Relationship Management
- Supports the Country Director, PDQ Director, and Technical teams to build strong relationships and funding partnerships.
- Proactively engages on a strategic basis with donors (institutional, corporate, foundation and other donors) in order to facilitate technical programme exchanges, influence policy and thinking, and identify key areas of potential cooperation, including programme funding.
- Ensure teams follow a best practice approach and system to planning, and undertaking stakeholder engagement with identified prospects and ongoing key partnerships.
Strategic Portfolio Planning
- Supports strategic planning and operational processes and tools that achieve high quality award portfolios.
- Conducts donor landscape mapping, identifies and researches suitable donors for the CO
- Develops donor engagement plans, coordinates and tracks donor engagement
- Understands and effectively communicates the country's pipeline and priority funding gaps, as agreed with CD and country leadership. These may include thematic/program gaps, co-financing gaps, and operational sustainability gaps.
- Proactively works with the regional resource mobilisation teams to drive improvement in strategic portfolio planning across the movement.
Capture Planning and Opportunity Preparation
Proposal Development
Human Resource Management and Development
Humanitarian Response
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