Programme Development and Partnerships Lead

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:
Empleado de Plazo Determinado (Fixed Term)

• Regular donor landscaping, analysis and donor prioritisation, including development of donor engagement plan.
• Lead planning and pre-positioning for new opportunities, ensuring donor intelligence gathering, relationship building, partnership/consortium discussions and initial programme design begin well in advance of opportunities (CfP/RfP) being launched, wherever possible.
• Develop a practical resource mobilisation plan (inc. targets) based on the national strategy, programme needs and taking into account the donor landscape – covering corporates, institutional donors, commercial contracts and individual givers.
• Lead WVA’s resource acquisition efforts, including positioning with priority donors, identifying strategic opportunities, leading on proposal development for medium and large opportunities and overseeing the submission of concept notes, lower value proposals and grant renewals.
• Lead the programme/proposal development process, in collaboration with Ops and technical staff, to ensure that new programmes are evidence-based, strategically aligned, integrated with existing programmes where appropriate, technically sound and responsive to Ministry Impact priorities.
• In collaboration with Finance ensure quality budgeting, including cost recovery and negotiation with Support Offices and Donors where necessary.
• Ensure timely completion of relevant WVI processes (including Go/No
  
  Go, annual targets, pipeline development, contracts & MoU approvals etc), assuring engagement with SLT, ND, RO and SO, as appropriate.
• Maintain a multi-year funding pipeline, ensuring that PDPI Team provide regular pipeline analysis, forecasts and recommendations to SLT/ND to inform leadership decision‑making.
• Explore local resource development opportunities (including individual giving and funding partnerships with churches and schools, etc.), analyse for viability and risk and position and pursue those that align with WV’s vision, values and strategy.
• External engagement plan developed reflecting resource mobilization plans.
• Targeted networking and external engagement in meetings, events, forums and strategic spaces in order to grow key relationships, position for funding opportunities and strengthen WVA reputation as a trusted partner of choice.
• Relevant briefings provided to ND, SLT members and other staff involved in external engagement, to ensure unified and optimised approach to external engagement across WVA.
• Identify and foster key relationships with government and other key local stakeholders to strengthen the FO’s brand and profile within the country.
• Identify and lead on engagement with new partners, including positioning with potential implementation or technical partners ahead of funding opportunities.
• Ensure appropriate external engagement and marketing resources developed for different donor audiences and “price points”.
• Ensure due diligence processes are carried out in a timely fashion with all new and existing donors and partners.
• Ensure systems are in place to assure that all partners comply with WVI safeguarding and anti‑corruption requirements.
• Provide strategic oversight to PDC developing a practical and targeted communications plan, where social media, external communications, impact stories and donor‑facing materials all contribute to WVA's positioning, partnerships and resource mobilization objectives.
• Support PDC’s management of WVA’s social media channels, ensuring that they remain active with posts contributing to the donor engagement and resource mobilization plan.
• Lead consortium development, including building consensus and working effectively with donors, government, technical partners, churches, local implementation partners and others to…