Purpose:

To provide leadership, support, and management for the entire organisations funding from corporate donors and contribute to the development of the overall resource mobilization strategy of the organisation.

Responsibilities:

- Development of new corporate fundraising relationships, in line with organisational and functional strategy

- Coordinate the development and implementation of the organisations resource mobilization strategy

- Work with all the relevant units within the Country Office (Programme & Policy, Finance), and consult with the South Asia Region and other international members to identify suitable and strategic programmes or groups of projects for funding potential

- Research and prioritise corporate donors to proactively approach, in line with the organisations ethical guidelines; and anchor proposals and presentations to potential and committed donors, leading on these as appropriate

- Provide technical solutions to corporates, acting as an advisor to support their initiatives and build consulting partnerships

- Ensure that organisation and the donor objectives are met to maximise income and opportunities from each relationship

- Arrange regular meetings to review funding processes and progress within the Country Office and with the South Asia Region, providing update on funding progress and new opportunities

- Management of existing fundraising relationships, in line with best standard practices

- Manage all aspects of donor contracts including advice and guidance on donor policies and procedures, compliance of reporting requirement and timeframes, and submission of payment requests

- Support capacity building of internal functions and partners in understanding donor and contractual requirements, and coordinating between them for fulfilling relevant compliances

- Work with the Programme Funding Team and international members to ensure internal processes and systems for fundraising and grant management are adequately followed

- Develop income cash flows for statutory funding and monitoring (with Finance team) and monitor receipt of statutory income and expenditure against contracts

- Ensure that all information added to or amended on the fundraising database is accurate and that the database is kept fully up to date under Donor Management System

- Develop and maintain good relationships with corporate donors to ensure appropriate networking and presence at relevant events; ensure the exchange of good practices, ideas, and initiatives internally

- Keep up to date with fundraising and other appropriate industry journals, as well as other information affecting fundraising from corporates

- Representation at relevant networking platforms to create brand name

Other specifications:

- High level skills in capacity building and team development, around corporate fund raising and management of accountabilities and compliance in relation to donor funding

- Ability to work as a team with staff at all levels without holding any direct line management authority

- High level skills in written standard English and ability to edit and possibly rewrite proposals, documents and reports developed by programme staff into high dissemination standard documents

- Excellent numeracy, attention to detail, ability to use spreadsheets and analyse complex budgets

- Ability to develop and maintain effective project files for implementation, evaluation and audit purposes

- Strong negotiating and persuasive skills, and experience of competing for and securing new business

- Ability to respond to challenging working hours and timelines for completion of assignments.

- Strong relationship and networking skills in order to maintain robust relationships with key external stakeholders

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