Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, October 27, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Associate Director - Resource Mobilization
Major Responsibilities
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30%
Leadership & Strategic Management
• Advises the RAM director, SLT and SMT in identifying representational events with the potential for meaningful donor interaction. Provide proactive and timely advice to senior management on strategic interaction with individual donors
• Advises and responds to internal and prepare response to external queries regarding donor issues.
• Advises Technical teams and operations teams on donor compliance and WVKs requirements, including ensuring timely and quality reporting
• Represents WVK at external forums and meetings on occasion to position the institution with donors and partners critical to achieving WVKs strategy.
• Assesses and contributes to WVK’s strategy documents and knowledge management products to help best position the institution for resource mobilization
• Ensures that the successful implementation of the resource acquisition management system enhances WVK programmatic impact in accordance with established strategic priorities while increasing donor satisfaction and retention
• Ensures that business processes, standards and policies – developed in coordination with other WVK entities
• Ensure that the local resource acquisition management system effectively standardizes processes for identifying and establishing priority sectors and opportunities, assessing risk considerations and making go / no go decisions
• Provide leadership on the Local Sponsorship Program’ Inuka Angaza’
• Effective and efficient resource management system implemented
• Increased donor satisfaction leading to repeat funding and donor retention
• RAM business process developed in coordination with other sectors
• Increased funding from National resource development
• SPOs supported well to achieve their goals
30%
Grow Resources
• Ensures that all the proposals developed for WVK donors are of quality, meeting donor requirements and aligned WVK strategy
• Actively seek out strategic alliances with donors, NGOs, UN, governments, Support Offices, bilateral and multilateral agencies for purposes of coordination, marketing and fundraising.
• Proactively provide donor updates on existing grants and keep the donor relations on course;
• Ensure good donor and World Vision International Support Office relations by meeting all contractual obligations and achieves high quality planning and implementation levels;
• Ensure new and existing donor exposure to WVK’s impact within communities including round table meetings with leadership.
• Actively network and initiate strategic meetings between donors’ representatives and WVK.
• Coordinate development and review of appropriate sectoral marketing products for key donors
• Ensure Internal & external engagement business processes & communication protocol with Donors are updated and adhered to. Research new and innovative projects and ideas that will be developed further into concepts and proposals
• Develop and roll out specific donor acquisition and retention strategies.
• Strategic Donor engagements and relationships
• Effective and efficient communication with Support offices
• Increase in funding from Multi laterals, Bilateral, foundations and cooperates donors
• Increase in funding from non-traditional Donors in our grant portfolio
• Diversified grant portfolio
• Sustainable grant pipeline
20%
Engagement, Networking & Collaboration with Internal & External Stakeholders
• Designs, implements and coordinates an organizational wide, comprehensive donor relations and stewardship system that fosters positive and mutually rewarding relations between WVK and its donors
• Analyzes key trends and gathers intelligence of individual donor policies and plans vis-à-vis WVKs
• Expands WVKs current donor base, through effective stewardship and new funding opportunities as may be developed to grow donor support for WVK
• Ensure that the successful implementation of a coordinated local engagement strategy
• Identify and prioritize key stakeholders, create clear points of engagement locally
• Develop essential core competencies and provide the support and assistance to foster continuous, effective engagement
• Facilitate WVK engagement with Government and partners
• Ensure that strategic partnerships are established, strengthened and maintained – with the private sector, government and CSO partners.
• Facilitate branding and profiling of the organization
• Local engagement strategy developed and implemented
• WVK priority donors Mapped
• Specific engagement plans for all donors developed and implemented
• Increased Donor visibility for WVK work and impact
• Strong, strategic partnerships developed with peer Organisations, Local NGOS/CBOs and government
10%
Donor Liaison
• Provide oversight to WVUS vision trips donors and partners in line with WVK strategy and program priorities
• Ensure timely provision of reports to Donors and WVUS staff
• Ensure well planned and organized visits as well as excellent customer care for US Major Donors and ensure good return on investment.
• Achieve excellent customer satisfaction for US and South Korea major donor Visits
• Increased funding from South Korea and US major donors
10%
Other
• Perform any other duty as may be assigned by supervisor or designee from time to time.
• Participate and contribute in committees and task forces e.g. Senior Management Committee Any other duties as assigned
• Improved communication and RAM business process

Knowledge, skills and abilities
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Minimum education, training and experience requirements to qualify for the position:
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• Master’s degree in a relevant field from a recognized university
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience of which should include program design for development programs, grant acquisition and management, and local fundraising
• Must have at least 5 years’ experience in leading and coordinating teams
• Ample experience and expertise in partnering with government, multilateral donors and private sector
• Must have experience in local institutions and how they work
• Knowledge of WVI working systems, policies and standards will be an advantage.
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• Training or certification in Portfolio and/or Programme Management with accredited institutions
• Ability to engage at a strategic level with senior government, UN and INGO officials.
• Ability to lead a multi-cultural team with an empowering and outcome oriented approach.
• Strong budgetary and financial management skills.
• Strong negotiation and representation skills.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.
• The person must be results oriented, able to handle public relations, able to satisfy donors and a team player.
• Good interpersonal, organizational and management skills.
• Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, and physical hardship conditions.
• Ability to solve complex problems and to exercise independent judgment.
• Computer literate.
Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
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• The position is results driven with the success rate of proposal development and the ability to identify potential and unsolicited donors to partner with WVK Partner and negotiate and broker Agreements with partners on behalf of WVK
• Ability to work under tight schedules and with highly competing priorities.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Great presentation skills
• Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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