Resource Mobilisation at Christian Aid

Reporting to the Global Head of Programme Funding, you will lead a team of Programme Development and Funding staff working with country programme teams to develop partnerships and programme opportunities that deliver high impact and learning. You will develop the team’s skills and knowledge and motivate them to achieve their potential.
Working with country programmes and your team, you will co-ordinate the pipeline of propositional and open competitive opportunities in close cooperation with the Head of Africa Division, the Head of Programme Quality, and our global advisory teams.

Qualifications for the Head of Resource Mobilisation Job

• You will have a degree level qualification, together with extensive knowledge and senior level experience in the field of resource mobilisation, grant acquisition and programme delivery across development and humanitarian programmes. You will be commercially minded, highly numerate and have strong attention to detail.
• You will be able to demonstrate evidence of high level relationships and partnerships with donors and potential consortium partners across INGO, academic/think tank and private sector, as lead and sub. You will have a track record in delivering awards and supporting set up of new programmes including recruitment of senior staff up to Programme Director level. You will have the analytical skills to evaluate current and future funding opportunities.

Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions:

Building Partnerships

Describe your experiences and direct involvement of establishing external partnerships and relationships over time that resulted in ‘multi-million’ dollar funding of high impact programmes within Africa.

Deliver results

Please tell us about your experience in leading teams to deliver on ambitious targets for development and humanitarian funding, and where you directly delivered contract awards including the successful recruitment of a Programme Director/Chief of Party.

Realise Potential

Describe an example of when you coached a team member to realize their potential to take a leading role in complex programme development and/or bid management for a project team on a large grant or acquisition process.