Current Opportunities 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

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​Role duties and responsibilities:

Provides strategic leadership on peace economies programming in Alert

• Convenes country and regional teams to develop a 3-year strategy for Peace Economies, to further Alert’s thought leadership in this field; and advancing policy engagement with governments, civil society, business leaders, investors and others, to influence the positive impact of their activities and policies on peace and stability.
• Leads our global programmes on peace economies, providing project management, conducting research, training, and direct engagement with actors targeted in the scope of the programmes.
• Develops peace enhancing models of investment and economic activities
• Stays current on economic trends and developments relevant to fragile and conflict affected states – including political economy analysis methodologies sharing and exchanging these with colleagues internally and externally to deepen understanding on relevant topics
• Maps a path to financially grow Alert’s work in this domain, and develops proposals and raises funds for new projects, working closely with colleagues across the organisation
• Works closely with teams in the Global peacebuilding Unit to deliver multi thematic approaches to peace positive investment.

Provides support to, and gathers evidence of peacebuilding impact in peace economies practice area from, Alert’s country and regional programmes

• Provides technical support to country and regional programmes on economy and conflict/peace issues
• Promotes cross team collaboration linking to Alert’s other priority thematic areas and Alert country teams
• Coordinates with regional and country programmes to gather lessons on what works, developing relevant guidance or policy recommendations

Leads, supports and engages in research, policy and advocacy activities

• Leads our global advocacy efforts on integrating conflict sensitive business practices into international standards and policies on corporate social and environmental responsibility, human rights due diligence, and investors sustainability frameworks
• Leads our engagements with investors and other private sector actorsfocused on conflict-sensitive business practices, the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, and the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights
• Produces high quality policy and communication products for national and international policy makers and practitioners including: policy reports, briefing papers, discussion documents and articles

Manages staff and financial resources for effective programme delivery

• Manages and supervises staff and consultants in the peace economies team
• Manages budgets in compliance with Alert and donor requirements
• Ensures that all projects have clear work plans for effective implementation
• Maintains good relations with donors and relevant partner organisations in the UK and overseas
• Ensures the timely preparation of external and internal reports as required
• Ensures financial sustainability of the team by effective resource planning and budget management

Develops and maintains networks and relationships with key policy audiences

• Builds and maintains networks and collaborative relationships with relevant partners including national and international institutions (e.g. other INGOs, academia, business networks, UN agencies, IFIs, companies, bi-lateral donors, OECD)
• Keeps abreast of sectoral policy discussions and prioritises where and when Alert engages to maximise influence and profile
• Represents Alert in various policy for adapting programmatic and policy messages to relevant audiences.