Global Project Lead, Business Development, Programme Models

nairobi cityKE

full-time

bachelor

5 months ago11/11/202312/11/2023

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The Opportunity

The purpose of this role is to provide strategic leadership in developing, scaling up and maintaining global programme models essential for diverse business development activities, in line with the Global Strategy and the strategic priority area of growing quality income.

This work will lay the foundation for growing quality income in different income streams such as institutional and corporate grants, foundations, major donors and for humanitarian crises appeals. It also entails acquiring income to invest in further development of these global programme models.

This involves establishing and collaborating on joint goals with different stakeholders such as Business Development, Programmes, Disaster Risk Management, the Global Girls Foundation and National Organisation’s.

Key Accountabilities

  • Lead operationalisation of the Global Fundraising Strategy’s Strategic Choice Global Programme Solutions and Components by defining targets, milestones and KPIs in alignment with the priority areas of the Global Strategy.
  • Regular tracking of strategic ambition and funding targets to create clarity on medium to long-term funding requirements 
  • Package various fundraising supports around the global programme models (flagship programmes) and their constituent components so that business developers and fundraisers across Plan International can make use of these.
  • Support the establishment of a programme marketplace and establish a consolidated digital platform solution, accessible to key stakeholders, for reporting on the packaged fundraising initiatives
  • Engage business developers working on grants, foundations and corporates across the organisation to understand and clearly articulate our global programmatic offering to potential donors, with a focus on areas of global distinctiveness (AoGD) core components.
  • Support the development of a stronger service relationship between business developers and AoGD collaboration hubs, anchoring resource mobilisation more firmly to their agendas
  • Connect business development colleagues as an informal professional community of practice and provide a platform for focused peer-to-peer learning & development.
  • Promote and support business developers to make use of the existing global monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
  • Where possible, leverage and facilitate additional funding for developing, testing, replicating and upscaling the flagship programme models, particularly relating to research or other knowledge management investments
  • Regularly track strategic ambition and funding targets to create clarity on medium to long-term funding requirements 
  • Actively promote models to National Organisations Business Development together with country offices for resource mobilization
  • Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

The Requirements

  • Suitable university degree with Social Sciences background or equivalent experience
  • Proven experience in Programmes and/or Business Development
  • Significant demonstrable experience in INGO environment
  • Experience of working in a matrixed and networked team

Interested and qualified? Go to Plan International on jobs.plan-international.org to apply

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