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Senior Business Development Specialist

Employer
ActionAid
Location
EC1R 0BJ, London (Greater)
Salary
£39,628 - £40,828 per annum
Closing date
21 Aug 2018

Job Details

Do you have a passion for designing innovative development programmes to transform gender norms and realise women’s and girls’ rights? ActionAid UK is looking for an experienced business development expert to lead the development of commercial tenders and complex grant proposals to fund the delivery of our ambitious new strategy, Together with Women and Girls.

 

As a Senior Business Development Specialist, you will be a key member of the International Development Policy and Practice (IDPP) team, which includes business development, programme quality and assurance, and technical specialists.

The team is responsible for the development, funding and management of institutionally-funded development programmes. The Business Development team is a new dedicated sub-team within IDPP, responsible for designing and implementing the organisation’s new fundraising strategy and delivering ambitious income growth for ActionAid.

As a Senior Business Development Specialist, you will work alongside the Head of Business Development and other members of the Business Development team to build ActionAid’s profile across the sector with donors, partners and networks. You will design and lead donor and partner engagement strategies to position ActionAid strategically for funding opportunities. You will be a champion for women’s and girls’ rights and an advocate for increased resources for progressive women’s and girls’ rights programmes and approaches.

You will be responsible for leading complex and high priority grant proposal and commercial contract opportunities, coordinating bid teams across London and in-country, to ensure the delivery of high quality, competitive and compliant proposals and tenders. You will play a key role in developing and nurturing ActionAid UK’s relationships with institutional donors, partner organisations and networks.

You will also lead internal team projects such as developing donor-specific training materials; developing capacity-building plans with other federation members; and designing and supporting new team processes, procedures and systems.

To support the start-up of this new, dedicated Business Development team, we are looking for candidates who will bring creativity, innovation and proactivity, to secure new channels of funding, strengthen internal process and ways of working, and build the business development capacity across the organisation. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of developing high quality, successful proposals and commercial tenders of seven figures and above, preferably with DFID.

You will have excellent project management skills, with the ability to lead and work collaboratively with virtual teams across multiple countries in high pressure environments in meeting tight deadlines. You will also have a strong approach to mentoring and supporting the personal development of other members of the team to learn and grow.

We are particularly interested to hear from candidates with experience of developing or managing programmes focussed on violence against women and girls, women’s economic empowerment or adolescent girls.

Company

ActionAid is an international development charity which works in 45 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1972, ActionAid is an international federation and has offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and Washington DC, as well as London.

ActionAid UK is part of the international federation and almost all of the people and partners who run ActionAid programmes are from the developing world. This means its staff are on the ground, experiencing poverty at first hand. They see day-to-day how poverty affects people’s lives, and are uniquely placed to give a voice to the women and children who suffer most.

ActionAid’s work has several different components, unified by a commitment to place women and girls at the centre of its work. The charity aims to end hunger by giving millions of people in extreme poverty the skills they need to grow sustainable food, and campaigns to address the causes of hunger.

ActionAid also responds to emergencies and conflicts. It provided emergency assistance to more than 600,000 people in 2015 and trained nearly 46,000 others to protect lives and prepare for emergencies. In total the charity responded to 27 emergencies around the world last year.

Improving access to education is another facet of its mission. 59 million children, more than half of them girls, were out of school in 2013. ActionAid works with more than 5,000 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help over a millions girls and boys get the free, quality education they are entitled to.

Women’s rights and gender equality informs all of ActionAid’s activities. The charity works with communities against female genital mutilation, gender-based violence and forced early marriage.

ActionAid also campaigns for tax justice, fairer wages and more effective aid which can tackle the roots causes of poverty. It estimates that poorer countries lose around $200 billion a year from tax dodging by companies.

A variety of different roles are available at ActionAid including policy adviser, fundraising offer and HR manager. Employee benefits are plentiful, encompassing the opportunity to develop new skills, a pension scheme, childcare vouchers and free advice services.

ActionAid also supports selected UK employees to travel to host countries in order to gain first-hand experience of its in-country work. Frequent secondments, whereby employees work, for a period, in another department or different country in the federation, take place. The charity encourages job shares.

Company info
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Telephone
020 3122 0561
Location
33-39 Bowling Green Lane
London
EC1R 0BJ
GB

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