DIRECTOR FOR RESOURCE MOBILIZATION AND DONOR CO-OR at The County Government of West Pokot

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of a comprehensive resource mobilization, strategy, including regular reporting on the strategy, goals and benchmarks.
• Create a partnership plan for identifying, cultivating and managing relationship and negotiations with donors and external partners.
• Direct intelligence gathering, competitive analysis, decision making, partnering and proposal development for funding opportunities.
• Create an environment of accountability, motivation, professional growth and high productivity.
• Lead the development, refinement and maintenance of internal system to support effective resource mobilization.
• Ensure quality of all new and renewal of proposals developed and submitted to donors including full responsiveness to donor requirements and criteria.
• Should be the team leader in selection of proposal bids.
• Develop a record of all NGOS and development partners in the county.
• Perform any other duty as assigned from time to time by the Governor

Requirements for Appointment

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Statistics, International Relations, Business Administration and any other related field.
• Master’s Degree in a relevant field is an added advantage
• Minimum 10 years’ experience at managerial level

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Successful, demonstrated team leadership, management track record in business and proposal development.
• Extensive understanding of key donor programmatic and procurement environment.

Core Competencies

• Ability to portray and uphold a positive County/ National image
• Being a visionary, result oriented and strategic thinker.
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills;
• Capacity to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines.

Terms of Service- Contract 2 years renewable once
Salary as prescribed by SRC