Head of Business Development

International Alert

That is an thrilling alternative for an skilled institutional funding skilled to hitch our enterprise growth perform to drive donor engagement and new funding at Worldwide Alert.

You’ll lead Alert’s world enterprise growth, figuring out and tapping into new markets and entry factors for Alert, and constructing strategic relationships to maximise earnings. Working in shut collaboration with senior management, you’ll coordinate and handle global-level outreach and engagement to foster sturdy relationships with funding and supply companions, with a selected give attention to bilateral and multilateral peacebuilding funders. Additionally, you will work intently with Regional groups, Nation Leads, the International Peacebuilding Unit (GPU), and the Advocacy & Communications workforce to make sure joined up approaches to donor engagement and alternative identification between HQ and nation programmes.

You will need to have demonstrable expertise of donor engagement and securing peacebuilding (or growth and/or humanitarian funding) funding from institutional donors. Moreover, you’ll have confirmed means to construct relationships internally and externally with a monitor file in institutional partnerships. Lastly, you’ll have a confirmed monitor file of working with business contractors on tender-based tasks for institutional donors. You should have a very good understanding of the institutional context for peacebuilding funding, and a community of contacts in some donor establishments and potential companion organisations.

Position duties and obligations:

Lead on outreach, enterprise growth and alternative identification for world funding alternatives, working intently with regional and thematic groups

  • Work with colleagues in Useful resource Improvement, Programmes and GPU to construct a strong pipeline of potential funding alternatives at a worldwide stage
  • Establish, domesticate and share early-stage enterprise growth alternatives for world and nation stage funding alternatives
  • Proactively pitch potential programme concepts to potential funders at HQ stage
  • Handle key framework agreements (e.g. IMDP)

Develop and ship technique to enhance administration of current and potential funding partnerships

  • Collaborate with the Director of Useful resource Improvement on a complete donor engagement technique to leverage current institutional funding relationships to extend funding alternatives at HQ and nation stage
  • Lead on figuring out and cultivating new funding partnerships, with a main give attention to institutional peacebuilding funders
  • Coordinate donor engagement actions at HQ stage throughout Useful resource Improvement, Advocacy & Comms, Programmes and Alert Europe together with occasions, conferences, donor-targeted advertising and different networking alternatives
  • Collaborate with colleagues throughout the organisation to assist make sure that donor relationships are managed successfully

Develop partnership technique and lead on engagement with potential supply companions

  • Lead on HQ-level engagement with current and potential business contracting companions in collaboration with the DRD and Senior Programme & Funding Officer – Industrial
  • Lead on growth of partnerships, potential strategic alliances and HQ-level consortium constructing with different INGOs together with different peacebuilding organisations and humanitarian/growth/multi-mandate organisations in collaboration with the Programmes and Advocacy groups
  • Contribute to wider organisational initiatives round bettering partnership approaches and consortium constructing

Lead on enhancements to sharing of donor info and intel between HQ and nation programmes

  • Lead on donor funding info gathering and sharing on key institutional funders together with offering an advisory position for colleagues participating with particular donors at totally different ranges and proposals to bid growth
  • Handle the organisational stage funding pipeline and chair common cross-team pipeline conferences
  • Establish and assist growth of recent CRM system

Characterize Alert externally, and play a management position inside the organisation

  • Be a key advocate, representing Alert’s peacebuilding programming experience and impression externally in an effort to cumulatively construct relationships with institutional funding companions
  • Present management and administration to develop and develop the brand new enterprise growth perform
  • Contribute to Alert’s organisational processes and techniques

Please notice that the above are simply a number of the job necessities. For the complete job necessities, please click on here to learn the job description.

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All candidates will need to have current proper to work in the UK.

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