Senior Director, Program Development--Global Health

Job Description

Summary

As a member of the Department of Global Health (DGH) Program Development team, the Senior Director for Program Development, Global Health will report to the Associate Vice President (AVP), Program Development & Management and lead resource mobilization efforts to expand global health programming. You will bring technical leadership in components of global health as well as demonstrated experience and success in resource mobilization for health-related proposals for submission to the United States Government (USG) and other large institutional and private donors. You will work closely with the Global Health team to identify new and transformative fundraising opportunities, leading opportunities from pre-positioning to submission, and to successful award. You will lead, supervise, coach, and develop members of the DGH Program Development team and will prioritize sustaining current partnerships and developing new relationships with peer organizations, innovative partners, and donors.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Resource Mobilization (75%)

• Work closely with new business and resource development colleagues, develop and support the implementation of a resource mobilization plan for public and private funding streams, including USG (and especially USAID), foundations, private donors, and multilateral donors, to grow our global health portfolio in development, transitional, and emergency settings;
• Coordinate with SC country offices and DGH staff to identify and pre-position for upcoming global health opportunities, which includes leading capture work and partner selection;
• Serve as the Proposal Director for global health opportunities, and in this role ensure SC is responsive to the solicitation, creates a competitive proposal, and maintains collaborative and productive relationships with team members and partners;
• Oversee and collaborate with key stakeholders to make key decisions regarding both the technical and cost components of proposals, leveraging a deep knowledge of the global health sector and competitive landscape when making decisions;
• Remain informed and up-to-date on major donor trends, policies, and procurements.

Network and Partnership Development (10%)

• Establish and maintain effective relationships with key donor counterparts (especially USAID), current and potential partners, external partnerships/consortia, and other stakeholders to advance our global health work, both within the US and priority regions for DGH;
• Work with SC country offices and others to position SC as a partner of choice in global health programming;
• Represent Save the Children to key external audiences and networks.

Staff Management and Development (10%)

• Lead, develop, and supervise Program Development staff, working with DGH and HR staff, to effectively and efficiently recruit, develop, engage, and retain talent for the team;
• Promote and demonstrate an inclusive and collaborative workplace culture, upholding Save the Children’s values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, and Integrity.

Knowledge Management for Program Development (5%)

• Collaborate closely with knowledge management and technical leadership to strengthen global health program development resources, particularly technical content, global, country and thematic capability statements, and project past performance references.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 10 years of relevant experience;
• Demonstrated track record in successfully securing awards from USG, institutional and private donors;
• Proven success in proposal-writing and critical thinking skills to craft approaches to secure new funding opportunities;
• Demonstrated technical knowledge of one or more components of global health;
• Proven networks/familiarity with technical and donor community;
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English;
• Proven ability to distill complicated concepts into clear, consistent, and direst messages to a diverse audience;
• Demonstrated familiarity with USAID policies, strategies, and program priorities, preferably at both the global and country levels;
• Demonstrated successful experience supervising or mentoring employees;
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging;
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with individuals at all levels;
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20 percent of the time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Field programming experience and perspective, including ability to work productively with a diverse range of country office program personnel, primarily in Africa and Asia;
• French language skills.

About the Organization

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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About Save the Children

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