Innovation and New Partnerships Lead

The Role:

• This is an exciting opportunity for an Innovation and New Partnerships Lead who wants to help expand AA’s growing institutional funding partnership portfolio, joining an organisation that works to help people harness their own power to achieve a feminist, just, green transition in the 45 countries where ActionAid works.
• You will develop and lead institutional, foundations and corporate funding planning for ActionAid International’s (AAI’s) 2022-25 thematic priorities (climate justice and economic justice), including an overall global restricted funding programme strategy and plan. You will also lead on restricted funding innovation, exploring new or untested restricted funding approaches, playing a change management role in helping the organisation adapt to these new approaches.

Who we're looking for: 

• You should hold a master’s degree in Social Sciences, Humanities, Development Studies, Human Rights, Political / Social Science or other relevant discipline or have equivalent experience. You should have experience of restricted INGO funding intelligence analysis, identifying trends and using this information to make recommendations for approaches; experience in developing programme funding strategies and plans. Substantial experience in the development and humanitarian business development, proposal development, developing strategic fundraising innovation ideas with an entrepreneurial spirit and working with a wide range of restricted and designated funding donors. You should have experience of working in an INGO programmes teams or alongside them to ensure programme-led funding and experience of building skills and capabilities of other staff.
• In addition to this, knowledge of global aid and institutional, trusts & foundations and corporate funding sectors as well as a good understanding of and keen interest in recent innovations in NGO programmes, advocacy, campaigning, and movement- building. We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment, often remotely.
• It is critical that you have experience of managing conflicting and tight deadlines, prioritising own workload and with minimal supervision.
• You should also have strong commitment to ActionAid’s values and ethos, including ActionAid’s feminist leadership principles.

 What we offer:

ActionAid is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive workplace where we recognise a job well done, encourage close collaboration and sharing power, and where safeguarding standards and feminist leadership are exemplified everywhere. At ActionAid, you can look forward to a fair compensation package and a flexible working environment, including

• A workplace that embraces intersectional feminist principles 
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay