ActionAid Director, Resource Mobilisation & Innovations Jobs in Nigeria
Overall Job Purpose
The Director will set and lead the organisations fundraising strategy, creating new businesses with public and private sector donors including bilateral, multi-lateral agencies and foundations in line with ActionAid Nigeria country strategy, programmatic vision, goals and mission.
The post holder will be a member of the Senior Management & Country Management team and will oversee the operations of the resource mobilisation unit by raising funds through child sponsorship, community sponsorship, institutional donors and other platforms applicable to ActionAid Nigeria as well as coordinate positive relationship with these donors/development partners by leading the process of ActionAid seeking and responding to new and existing fundraising opportunities. S/he will also be responsible for supervising and developing the Resource Mobilization team.
Key Responsibilities:
Institutional fundraising:
Coordinate the process of developing and updating ActionAid Nigeria Donor mapping and coordinating the process of mapping institutional funding opportunities with other units
Work with the Country Director to lead the process of negotiation with donors, peers and consortium members on fundraising opportunities.
Lead the process of developing fundraising strategy, and implementation
Link and interact with ActionAid Federation on issues around resource mobilisation and donor management
Coordinate the development of concept notes and proposals on existing opportunities
Coordinate the process of interacting with existing donors and maintaining a cordial relationship with them
Identify and organise opportunities and fora for learning and innovation around programing and fundraising
Maintain relationship with peer organisation and lead private sector development organisation for joint proposal development and implementation
Create a partnership plan for identifying, cultivating and managing relationships and negotiations with donors and external partners for development of multi-year programmatic initiatives.
Direct intelligence gathering, competitive analysis and decision-making, capture, partnering and proposal development for funding opportunities.
Ensure quality assurance of new and renewed proposals submitted to donors, including full compliance to donor requirements and criteria.
Ensure compliance with multi donor guidelines and implementation timeline
Administration and Management
Lead the development, and maintenance of internal systems to support effective resource mobilization
Develop and implement three years planning document and strategy for the Resource Mobilisation Unit
Develop and implement a plan for building capacity of country staff to identify, capture, develop business opportunities, and regularly report on business progress.
Supervise, deploy and develop a team of skilled and effective professionals who successfully support and implement resource mobilization functions.
Create an environment of accountability, motivation, professional growth and high productivity.
Foster effective working relationships, engagement and responsiveness of operational support functions essential for successful resource mobilization including communications and marketing, recruitment, budgeting, and other internal operations functions.
Fundraising/Child Focused Programming
Develop Individual Giving/Corporate Social Responsibility approaches for ActionAid Nigeria.
Facilitates development of quality High Value project proposals and subsequent program reporting, in a timely fashion
Provide support and technical advice to the relevant programme, finance and partner staff in project planning, design, budgeting, implementation and reporting for projects.
Provide field support and technical advice on funding activities within the framework of Child sponsorship policies
Facilitate Child sponsorship training for ActionAid staff, partners and Community Resource Persons (CRPs)
Facilitate capacity building workshops for stakeholders on Child’s Right
Collate and report ActionAid Nigeria’s activities on Child Focused programming to sponsors and International colleagues
Coordinate ActionAid Nigeria’s NK (or alternate) database management
Reporting & Accountability
Lead in the development of unit work plans
Ensure the maintenance of project implementation and report tracking system
Ensure production of reports to sponsors
Ensure the provision of periodic reports and special reports on activities carried out (such as appraisals, child message collection exercises reports) by Child Sponsorship Unit
Lead in the development of strategic documents such as country and programme strategy papers, which chart out the way forward for child sponsorship related work in ActionAid Nigeria
How to Apply
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