Business Development Officer at Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK)

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement resource mobilization strategy to expand CHAK’s core donors including identification of potential donors and their funding priorities/strategies/lines and instruments, and the development of funding proposals and requests.
• Scan the environment to identify opportunities available through advance intelligence gathering, partner relations and other available resources to provide prospective funding analysis on a regular basis.
• Coordinate funding proposal writing process by creating an in-house matrix to facilitate pre-solicitation, proposal development and preparation.
• Provide oversight in development of a sustainability strategy for fund generation and resource mobilization.
• Develop a fund generation and resource mobilization workplan and continuously follow up the implementation plan as well as regularly support the organization to review and assess opportunities through funding briefs.
• Build and maintain relationships with key donor contacts.
• Maintaining on-going communication with potential partners and other key stakeholder to identify and pursue opportunities.
• Support management to cultivate and strengthen relationships with institutional donors, partner organizations, government, private sector, academia, and other stakeholders.
• Representing CHAK at relevant meetings and events within resource mobilization or donor specific peer networks.
• Coordinating processing of agreements related to funding opportunities to ensure effective and timely follow up, submission and grant renewal process.
• Maintain up to date fundraising and resource mobilization records to facilitate monitoring of approved funding levels and stage of opportunity review.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Master’s Degree in Public Health, Health Economics, Social Science, International Development or related discipline
• At least 8 years’ work experience with 5 years’ experience in proposal development, resource mobilization and/or partnership development in an NGO setting
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrable capacity for relationship building
• Demonstrable international development and program/project management capacity
• Demonstrable proposal writing skills
• Good influencing and negotiation skills
• Good listening and analytical skills
• Demonstrable resource mobilization and proposal development skills
• Strong management and leadership skills