Business Development Consultant at Save the Children Nigeria in Nigeria

Team and Position Objective

To offer strategic executive guidance and direction on all Program Financing matters across Save the Children. Optimise and align our local-to-worldwide program financing project sample and lead uninterrupted enhancements in our capabilities, financing procedures and donor strategic collaborations. Mix art and science to turn findings into action. Work alongside extensively across the movement, and collaborate directly with primary stakeholders, both within and beyond StC, to directly inform, shape, and link key strategic program financing practices and programs that improve the movement's Worldwide plan and Worldwide Financing Structure goals.

Position objective

To offer specialist business development assist and direction that, in actively partnering with and optimizing Country and Member endeavors, aids securing Country Plan in sync Program Financing. This internationally accessible WCA-attentive Business Development Consultant position, directly enables the growth of Country earnings across the whole business development cycle, which includes proposal development, offer drafting and strategic business development monitoring of key financing connections and avenues. By actively partnering with Members and Executing Country Workspaces in WCA and beyond, this role ensures a systematic, premium quality and internationally regular approach to recognizing, certifying, and tracking Program Financing and Donor Strategic collaborations and their avenues, in sync with Country Financing Plans that directly support to the local-to-worldwide targets of Save the Children International.

Chief Accountabilities

Assist during the formation and dispatch of country-specific business development initiatives (which includes but not limited to country donor relations, work collaboratively development, avenue recognition, capture organizing, prepositioning, proposal development and offer drafting) that assist Country Workspaces secure priority, flagship financing avenues in sync with their Country-specific key focuses and the worldwide targets of Save the Children International. Offer specialist direction and assist to country Executing workspaces on the project setup and entry of premium quality, attractive financing proposals; this comprises directly top on cross-operational proposal development and offer drafting as is needed. Where suitable, assist country/executing workspaces promote and sustain connections with key Members, donors and associates, making sure that information exchange and engagement are regular with Save the Children's values of honesty and reliability and partnership. Track and evaluate emerging financing practices and avenues, presenting strategic strategic guidance to country workspaces and/or the wider BD and program financing group to adjust and take action productively as may be suitable. Where suitable, assist country workspaces during the formation of participant relation strategies and country financing plans, optimizing Save the Children's visibility and collaboration power in multifaceted situations. Actively documentation on any key concerns risks connected with country financing differences, business development capacity, or other that may risk the program financing long-term viability of Country Workspaces in the region. Guarantee adherence with all Program Financing qualifications and organisational rules, which includes those connected with diversity, equity, and addition, to uphold Save the Children's dedication to honesty and reliability and responsibility

Preferred:

Accreditation or development in international development, program management, program financing/capital raising and connections management Accredited membership of applicable specialist bodies is preferred

Advantageous background: 

• Expertise of operating in a country / executing workspace or regional workspace of SCI/A or equivalent
• Demonstrable expertise in offering strategic monitoring of key financing avenues and making sure alignment with organisational targets.
• Expertise in supervising emerging financing practices and making strategic strategic guidance.
• Exhibited cultural skilled and the capability to operate productively across different cultural situations.

Crucial Competencies:

• Strategic Thinking: Robust critical thinking with the capability to think strategically and internationally. Capability to set driven and difficult targets, while taking duty for personal and team development.
• Connection Management: Capability to build and preserve efficient connections with teammates, members, external associates, and donors. Values diversity and partnership as suppliers of power.
• Information exchange: Clear articulation competencies, both documented and verbal, with the capability to communicate effectively sophisticated creative thoughts transparently and persuasively to different target groups.
• Proposal Development: Competence in leading the project setup and entry of premium quality and attractive financing proposals, which includes robust drafting, editing, and project coordination competencies.
• Financial Strategic insight: Deep knowledge of budgeting, financial plan management, and donor adherence qualifications.
• Bargain and Shaping: Robust bargaining ability with the capability to shape participants at different levels.

Valuable abilities:

Executive guidance: Established leadership competencies with the capability to motivate and mentor cross-operational teams, nurturing an environment that fosters responsibility, aspiration, creativeness, and honesty and reliability. Issue resolution: Capability to formulate and motivate new and creative strategies, while ready to take self-controlled risks.  Capability to evaluate the avenues and risks a offer may show and build in suitable mitigations.

Time Zone:

(that the position holder must be accessible to operate in): WCA region time zones (UTC+0  to UTC+02:00)

Right to operate:

The successful applicant must have the unrestricted right to operate in their ongoing or preferred site for the duration of job. 

Language Qualifications:

 English, French

Financial plan Duty:

None.