Partnership Manager
Recruitment Room
- Nairobi
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Resource Mobilization/Project Development:
- Lead our East Africa Resource Mobilization strategy development and implementation.
- Provide guidance on funding opportunities, donor priorities, and proposal requirements.
- Manage the proposal development process, ensuring compliance and donor responsiveness.
- Coordinate with key departments, delegate actions, and maintain timeliness.
- Draft winning proposals, concept notes, and presentations.
- Maintain contacts with specific donors, facilitate meetings, and support negotiations.
- Ensure timely reporting to donors and lead external report drafting.
- Drive improvements in fundraising practices and industry trend monitoring.
- Partnership Development:
- Conduct strategic partnership mapping and risk assessment.
- Facilitate negotiation and management of partnership agreements.
- Build and maintain relationships with networks, donors, and stakeholders.
- Support partnership reviews and reporting.
- Mobilize partners for various initiatives and organize events.
- Capacity Building:
- Develop capacity building plans for Resource Mobilization competencies.
- Coach and mentor staff, linking them to talent development mechanisms.
- Identify capacity building gaps and provide relevant training plans.
- A bachelor’s degree from any discipline, including Business Development, Economics or Finance (A post-graduate degree master’s or higher on development related discipline would be an advantage).
- At least 5 - 7 years’ experience working in the private sector, agricultural sector, and/or development/ NGO/ INGO sector, including field and management experience.
- Extensive experience in strategic partnership development and management.
- Demonstrated experience working with and mobilizing resources from a multiplicity of donors, including institutional, foundation, individual, bilateral and multilateral donors.
- Demonstrated experience managing donor funded projects across the agricultural, financial, climate, or other relevant sectors.
- Compelling influencer and communicator – able to inspire, build consensus and bring people together around a common agenda.
- Experience with identifying and cultivating strategic partnerships with diverse stakeholders at all levels including, government, international organizations, and private sector.
- Demonstrated expertise in project design, management and grant development.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills, collaboration experience, creativity and willingness to innovate.
- Experience in writing project reports, developing budgets, stakeholder reports, and impact reports.
- Experience of managing multi-cultural teams and ability to build, develop and motivate a high performing team, prioritizing effective across organizational working as a key element of high performance.
- Health Insurance
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