Overall Job Purpose
The Director will set and lead the organisations fundraising strategy, creating new businesses with public and private sector donors including bilateral, multi-lateral agencies and foundations in line with ActionAid Nigeria country strategy, programmatic vision, goals and mission.
The post holder will be a member of the Senior Management & Country Management team and will oversee the operations of the resource mobilisation unit by raising funds through child sponsorship, community sponsorship, institutional donors and other platforms applicable to ActionAid Nigeria as well as coordinate positive relationship with these donors/development partners by leading the process of ActionAid seeking and responding to new and existing fundraising opportunities. S/he will also be responsible for supervising and developing the Resource Mobilization team.
Location: Abuja
Career category: Donor Relations/Grants Management
Years of experience: 10+ years
Key Responsibilities:
Institutional fundraising:
- Coordinate the process of developing and updating ActionAid Nigeria Donor mapping and coordinating the process of mapping institutional funding opportunities with other units
- Work with the Country Director to lead the process of negotiation with donors, peers and consortium members on fundraising opportunities.
- Lead the process of developing fundraising strategy, and implementation
- Link and interact with ActionAid Federation on issues around resource mobilisation and donor management
- Coordinate the development of concept notes and proposals on existing opportunities
- Coordinate the process of interacting with existing donors and maintaining a cordial relationship with them
- Identify and organise opportunities and fora for learning and innovation around programing and fundraising
- Maintain relationship with peer organisation and lead private sector development organisation for joint proposal development and implementation
- Create a partnership plan for identifying, cultivating and managing relationships and negotiations with donors and external partners for development of multi-year programmatic initiatives.
- Direct intelligence gathering, competitive analysis and decision-making, capture, partnering and proposal development for funding opportunities.
- Ensure quality assurance of new and renewed proposals submitted to donors, including full compliance to donor requirements and criteria.
- Ensure compliance with multi donor guidelines and implementation timeline
Administration and Management
- Lead the development, and maintenance of internal systems to support effective resource mobilization
- Develop and implement three years planning document and strategy for the Resource Mobilisation Unit
- Develop and implement a plan for building capacity of country staff to identify, capture, develop business opportunities, and regularly report on business progress.
- Supervise, deploy and develop a team of skilled and effective professionals who successfully support and implement resource mobilization functions.
- Create an environment of accountability, motivation, professional growth and high productivity.
- Foster effective working relationships, engagement and responsiveness of operational support functions essential for successful resource mobilization including communications and marketing, recruitment, budgeting, and other internal operations functions.
Fundraising/Child Focused Programming
- Develop Individual Giving/Corporate Social Responsibility approaches for ActionAid Nigeria.
- Facilitates development of quality High Value project proposals and subsequent program reporting, in a timely fashion
- Provide support and technical advice to the relevant programme, finance and partner staff in project planning, design, budgeting, implementation and reporting for projects.
- Provide field support and technical advice on funding activities within the framework of Child sponsorship policies
- Facilitate Child sponsorship training for ActionAid staff, partners and Community Resource Persons (CRPs)
- Facilitate capacity building workshops for stakeholders on Child’s Right
- Collate and report ActionAid Nigeria’s activities on Child Focused programming to sponsors and International colleagues
- Coordinate ActionAid Nigeria’s NK (or alternate) database management
Reporting & Accountability
- Lead in the development of unit work plans
- Ensure the maintenance of project implementation and report tracking system
- Ensure production of reports to sponsors
- Ensure the provision of periodic reports and special reports on activities carried out (such as appraisals, child message collection exercises reports) by Child Sponsorship Unit
- Lead in the development of strategic documents such as country and programme strategy papers, which chart out the way forward for child sponsorship related work in ActionAid Nigeria
How to apply
To apply, kindly complete relevant application form accessed from https://nigeria.actionaid.org/jobs Application form should be sent in an MSWord attachment to [email protected]. Only electronically submitted forms will be considered. Submitted or Scanned CVs will be disregarded.
Please refer to the website – https://nigeria.actionaid.org/jobs for detailed job description and application form.
Subject line of emails must state clearly, job title of position applied for and location e.g., Director, Resource Mobilisation & Innovations – Abuja
ActionAid offers competitive terms of employment. Applications from women and candidates from the Northeast and Northwest are particularly encouraged.
Closing date for receipt of applications is Monday, 2nd October 2023. While we respect all applicants, interview dates will be communicated only to shortlisted candidates.
ActionAid is committed to preventing any form of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse (including child abuse and adult at-risk abuse) in line with our Child Safeguarding policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; and Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse at Work Policy and Overarching SHEA and Safeguarding Policy; as well as our zero-tolerance approach to Safeguarding concerns.
