Deadline: 12 January 2016
Save the Children is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Business Development Manager in Juba, South Sudan. The duration for the post is of 12 months.
The Business Development Manager is a senior position within the Programme Development and Quality Team.
Save the Children works to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Business Development Manager will perform the following functions-
- Identify and track donor opportunities, facilitate donor engagement, assist in the development of fundraising strategies, and coordinate proposal development for large and strategic funding opportunities.
- Innovative thinking and creativity to package our programme strategies in ways that attract the right donor support and grow out portfolio effectively.
- Write sections of proposals that speak to our overall capabilities, while coordinating the input of technical advisors, Operations, Finance, HR and Security into proposals and budgets.
- Recognizing that many conversations with donors involve a review or update around current grants as well as discussions about new opportunities.
- Expected to keep closely informed about the progress of all major institutional grants and able to speak to results in key reporting documents.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Development professionalism with a relevant Masters’ Degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Recommended 5 years experience in a both emergency and development contexts, preferably with solid experience in more than one of the Save the Children priority sectors: education, protection, child rights governance, and health and nutrition; experience in both development and complex emergencies preferred.
- Excellent coordination and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels, and pull together input from a diverse team.
- Excellent writing/editing, budget development and presentation/communication skills.
- Experience in presenting project information to donors and partners.
- Experience in coordinating development of large-scale or strategic proposals, including the development of multi-million dollar project budgets.
- Significant professional experience of working in a senior Monitoring and Evaluation capacity with international NGOs, UN or donor agency or the private sector in South Sudan.
- Proven representation skills.
- Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets.
- Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner.
- Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies.
- Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their CV and covering letter including their salary expectations for this role in English, as a single document, through online process.
For more information, please visit Save the Children.
