Senior Commercial Funding Officer at International Alert

Role duties and responsibilities:

Lead on opportunity identification and positioning for commercial contracts

• Liaise with country, regional and technical teams to identify priority funding areas and build a strong commercial pipeline
• Scan and identify suitable funding opportunities and share across Alert including attending early market engagement events
• Build and maintain relationships with UK, US and European contractors to position Alert as a preferred sub-contractor
• Support pre-bid partnership positioning and consortium building
• Facilitate strategic go/no-go decision making

Coordinate project design and bid development for commercial funding opportunities in collaboration with country, regional and global teams

• Coordinate the bid development process for commercial tender opportunities including programme delivery contracts, framework bids and consultancies
• Support consortium building and partner liaison as required
• Provide written inputs to tender documents and gather relevant information e.g. CVs, compliance documents
• Work closely with finance colleagues to ensure quality financial/commercial proposals in line with donor requirements
• Provide donor-specific guidance to support effective targeting and tailoring of bids and ensure donor compliance

Act as framework coordinator for Alert’s framework agreements

• Be the focal point for partners within Alert’s framework agreements including lead partner liaison (where Alert is a sub)
• Monitor and share draw down opportunities, facilitating go/no-go processes and ensuring compliance with agreed timeframes
• Coordinate bid development process for framework tenders
• Provide guidance and support internally to ensure all relevant teams are well briefed in framework contracts
• Monitor framework performance and provide periodic reports to key colleagues

Help strengthen Alert’s approach to identify and secure commercial contracts

• Collaborate with relevant colleagues to sharpen Alert’s offer, and ensure Alert has up-to-date capacity statements in all relevant areas
• Work with GPU teams to increase our reach and impact on conflict sensitivity and conflict analysis; gender; peace economies; and climate crisis including support to business model development and developing fundraising strategies
• Keep up to date on new rules and ways of working with key donors, and share important intel with colleagues
• Collaborate with Global Delivery team colleagues to support systems strengthening and ensure donor compliance for commercial contracts

Collaborate with the wider Resource Development team on learning and cross-organisational initiatives

• Ensure the CRM is updated with relevant information
• Provide training and learning opportunities for colleagues on commercial contracts
• Contribute to the maintenance of the organisation’s funding pipeline
• Participate in and provideinput to regular team meetings, technical meetings and the fundraising community of practice
• Contribute to team and organisation planning and strategy development

Closing date

3 Nov 2023