The Opportunity:
Working in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas, we strive for a just world that advances children’s right and equality for girls. Over the coming years we will take action together so that 100 million girls learn, lead, decide and thrive. South Sudan Country Office seek to increase its annual budget to not less than Euros 30 Million to enable us reach more than 400,000 vulnerable and excluded children, particularly girls every year; with high quality gender transformative programs and influencing work that deliver long lasting benefits around the four outcome areas of Learn, Lead, Decide and Thrive. In order to realize our ambition, we will focus our intervention in areas of global distinctiveness, work through partners and enhance capabilities for resource mobilization and management, execution of program and influencing, as well as capability to adequate monitor, report and communicate on result we seek to achieve.
The Business Development Manager is responsible for identifying funding opportunities aligned to program and influencing strategic priorities, coordination of writing and submission of winning funding proposal, formation of strategic partnership for fund raising and submission of competitive bid and strengthening systems and processes for effective grant management, management of relationship with National Offices (N.Os) and donors (DIFID, USAID, ECHO) and coordination of donors’ report writing to ensure timely submission of highly quality report. You will support the achievement of country fundraising targets and learning regarding the funding portfolio, while assisting the Country Office in South Sudan to develop a strong professional image among donors so that additional grant funding is acquired to grow and support Plan’s program in South Sudan. This will be achieved through:
Key Deliverables will include:
The Individual:
With significant experience in the areas of proposal development, grants management, resource mobilisation, and/or donor contract management you will have excellent knowledge and understanding of international donor interests, priorities and requirements and proven successes in business development and proposal writing.
A strong leader you will have experience of capacity building and prior experience in the design, delivery, or management of programmes – preferably gender transformative in nature – in ECCD, education, child and youth agency, youth economic empowerment, child protection, inclusion, humanitarian response, water and sanitation, hygiene, disaster risk management and resilience; in Nepal or in a country with similar context
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and the ability to analyse and synthesise complex issues will be essential as will strong networking, influencing and negotiation skills.
Please follow the below link for a full job description and person specification: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tnud1mrw5zw05g6/Business%20Development%20Manager%20S.%20Sudan%20job%20profile.docx?dl=0
Location: Juba, South Sudan
Type of Role: 13 month contract
Reports to: Country Director
Salary: circa $50,000, plus benefits
Closing Date: 26th April 2019 First round of interviews: 3rd May 2019 via Skype
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy.
As an international child centred community development organisation, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realisation of children’s rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.
Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for. Our organisation is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.
We will provide equality of opportunity and will not tolerate discrimination on any grounds. We foster an organisational culture that embraces and exemplifies our commitment to gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion while supporting staff to adopt good practice, positive attitudes and principles of gender equality and inclusion.
The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
