SAVE THE CHILDREN ITALIA sta selezionando un/a Institutional Partnership Advisor / Expert da inserire nella sua operatività in Italia. Durata 12 mesi. Tipo contratto: Co.co.co. Scadenza candidature 17/03/2024
ASSIGNMENT
Institutional Partnership Advisor / Expert
AREA
International Programmes / Institutional and transformational partnerships and funding
REFERENT
Institutional Partnerships Lead
CONTRACT TYPE
to be decided, based on experience
ANNUAL GROSS SALARY
range 30.000 – 34.000 €
JOB PURPOSE
The Institutional Partnership Advisor/Expert contributes to deliver Save the Children Italy’s institutional partnership and fundraising strategy for International Programs, contributing to the following key areas:
- Development and management of relationship with key Institutional Donors assigned, including EU, AICS and the French Cooperation.
- Contributing to the increase of SC Italy’s Institutional Funding Portfolio in line with the Strategy of the Institutional and transformational partnerships and funding.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Resource Mobilization
- Explore and analyse funding opportunities disseminating relevant information as appropriate both internally and at Country Office level.
- Actively monitoring and screening funding opportunities in selected Country Offices/regions and as needed.
- Facilitate pre-positioning and coordination with other SC Members ahead of opportunity publication.
- Coordinate the process of evaluation and decision making on funding opportunities both internally and with the Country Office.
Donor engagement & capacity building
- Engaging with donors at Country, Regional and HQs level in coordination with Institutional Partnerships Lead and other functions as planned and needed.
- Developing, implementing and monitoring donor engagement plans, in coordination with relevant SC Italy areas, targeted Country offices and other relevant SC Members.
- Providing inductions/webinars to COs on the relevant donor in charge of.
- Sharing information, briefings and guidance to COs on donor trends and donor engagement strategies.
- Designing and delivering donor engagement workshops to priority COs and/or provide in-country support.
- Liaising with potential partners, as appropriate.
Internal coordination
- Act as Partnership management focal point for day-to day task, info sharing with and from the relevant Donor’s UNIT within SC Movement.
- Represent SC Italy in relevant partnership/donor groups collecting inputs and reporting back to relevant SC Italy organizational areas.
- Directly contribute to funding opportunity allocation processes and represent SC Italy in discussions and negotiations with other SC Members where relevant.
- Contribute to the development of donor specific materials and info pages.
Data collection, analysis, strategies & procedures
- Collecting, analysing and reporting data and information on donor trends and priorities.
- Liaising with relevant organizational areas within SC Italy and SC International in order to collect their inputs and report to relevant coordination and management structures.
- Contributing to the development of SC Italy partnership and fundraising strategies with key donors.
- Contributing to the development of the Business Development Department Strategy and participating to internal task forces according to the needs.
- Contribute to the regular update of SC Italy internal data collection systems/files/platforms.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- University degree in political science, international cooperation, law or related subject.
- At least 5 years of Experience in NGO/INGO sector with an in-depth knowledge of institutional partnership and fundraising.
- Good knowledge of major institutional donors (in particular: Italian MoFA/AICS, DG DEVCO/NEAR/ECHO; French cooperation).
- Good understanding of key financial mechanisms of major international donors of DAC group in humanitarian and development settings.
- Relevant experience in engaging with institutional donors/external relations & lobby.
- Excellent communication and public relations skills with strong English and French language capability (written and oral) and ability to clearly communicate complex ideas and principles required.
- Highly computer literate and confident with Outlook, Word, and Power point, Excel an interest in appropriate use of current information and communications technologies Experience with organization of multistakeholders events, webinars, e-conference and seminars.
- Availability for short term travel in Europe and worldwide.
SOFT SKILLS
- High level of cross-cultural interpersonal skill and proven ability to influence multiple stakeholders is required.
- Good networking capacity.
- Good capacity to interact with a different range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Flexible and adaptable to changing context.
- Pragmatic/solutions oriented/problem solver yet having strong analytical skills.
- Strong team player.
- Able to work effectively with others towards the achievement of common objectives.
- Commitment to Save the Children values.
