Regional Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Director Job in Nairobi, Kenya

CARE

is an organization driven by its mission to overcome poverty and social

injustice. The CARE ECSA Regional Office is responsible for the oversight

of CARE’s operations in the region as well as the provision of support to

Country Offices. We work with 16 Country Offices in the region. 

We are

seeking competent, innovative, self-driven and passionate individual to fill

the Regional

Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Director position based in Nairobi who will be

flexible and able to travel to Country offices in the East, Central and

Southern Africa region.
 

The

position is primarily responsible for leading and implementing a strategic,

results-oriented and coordinated approach to the mobilization of significant

additional engagements, collaboration and resources from non-traditional

sources as private-sector organizations, foundations or high net-worth

individuals in order to enable CARE to enhance its capacity to multiply impact

in East, Central and Southern Africa.

This

includes establishing and strengthening relationships with the private sector

and foundations both for programming and for donor potential.
 

The

Regional Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Director will report

to the ECSA Regional Director and collaborate closely with the Regional

Leadership Team (RLT), Regional Management Unit (RMU), CARE Member Partners’

technical teams, Fundraising teams, policy and advocacy and communications

colleagues in mapping, developing, coordinating, and maintaining CARE’s

relationships and partnerships with Key Donor representatives at regional and

sub-regional levels. 

The

incumbent will play a key leadership function to support the implementation of

the CARE ECSA Regional Roadmap, particularly with respect to growing and

diversifying its donor resource base. 

The

incumbent will also be expected to support active application for consideration

of upcoming funding and partnership opportunities for multi-country programming

in the sub-regions along related themes (GBV in Great Lakes, Food and Nutrition

Security in Southern Africa and Resilience in the Horn of Africa with an

overall theme of women’s empowerment in these various areas).

The incumbent will be responsible for leading the development, finalization and

implementation of an ECSA Resource Mobilization Strategy and action plan, which

will feed into the Regional Roadmap as well as sub-regional business plans for

the Great Lakes, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa. 

This

includes leading the process of enhancing collaboration between a community of

existing resource mobilizers at and across the country and regional level and

establishing a common resource mobilization process to leverage the power of

our collective contributions for the greater global good and impact, which

represents a new way of thinking for CARE in the geographies in which we

work. 

This

position will also actively engage with the ECSA Partnering Initiative, a

mature technical support mechanism composed of partnership coaches and

technical experts within CARE who are engaged in providing flexible and

sustained support to partnerships efforts within and across country programs in

the region.
 

The

incumbent needs a combination of excellent innovation, creative thinking,

problem solving, representation, communication and presentation skills, a

strong and varied program background and an ability to quickly grasp and

communicate CARE’s program work (both humanitarian as well as development). 

This

position builds lasting networks and strategic alliances (both internally

within CARE HQs, regions and country offices and externally with the regional

development community and donors; both traditional and non-traditional).

The

incumbent needs to be a “self-starter” who thinks strategically, acts

diplomatically, can achieve valuable results with a high degree of autonomy,

and has the capacity to provide leadership and vision. 

The

incumbent is a member of the ECSA Regional Management Team and will likely be

based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s
  
  degree in Business Administration, Social Sciences, International
  
  Development or equivalent combination of education and at least 8-10 years
  
  work experience in this area


• No
  
  less than 8-10 years senior management experience in either/or both the
  
  non-profit and for-profit context


• Experience
  
  working with and through key traditional donor context and entities – with
  
  a strong and demonstrable working knowledge, connections and networks with
  
  humanitarian and development donors, (e.g. USAID, OFDA, BPRM, DFID, EU,
  
  ECHO, DFATD, AFD, DANIDA, NORAD etc.), as well as non-traditional donors
  
  such as private sector and trusts


• Experience
  
  in international development; strong commitment to gender equality with
  
  solid practical experience addressing gender inequality as a barrier to
  
  food and nutrition security and ending violence


• Proven
  
  experience in results orientated relationship management, networking,
  
  marketing and intelligence gathering


• Knowledge
  
  of donor rules and regulations


• Must
  
  be English-speaking with high French speaking and communication ability;
  
  Portuguese speaking desirable


• Experience
  
  working in East, Central and Southern Africa

Qualified

candidates are encouraged to CLICK HERE to apply for this position by March

31, 2016 through:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

CARE is an Equal Opportunity Employer promoting gender, equity and

diversity. 

Female

candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. 

Our

selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from

abuse.