Recrutements au Sénégal

United Purpose recruits 01 West Africa Grants and Business Development Manager

United Purpose recruits 01 West Africa Grants and Business Development Manager

Job purpose

The Grants and Business Development Manager will support a portfolio of four countries in West Africa with all aspects of resource mobilisation and business development.

Working closely with assigned country teams, the post-holder will play a key role in pipeline development, donor engagement, positioning for contract and grant opportunities and lead the development of high-quality bids. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and French will be critical to this role.

Key responsibilities

Proposal Development

  • Identify, research and advise on new funding opportunities.
  • Lead proposal development for assigned countries/donors and coordinate cross-organisational teams to respond to funding opportunities.
  • Contribute to meeting ambitious departmental financial and non-financial (volume and quality of proposals) targets.
  • Develop and oversee timetables; coordinate inputs; write and edit content; provide quality assurance on fit with donor priorities; ensure compliance with internal review and approval procedures; ensure timely submission; and follow up with donors for feedback.
  • Work closely with colleagues in the Programmes Department, who lead project design, to contribute to the assessment, research and design of projects for specific donor funding opportunities.
  • Liaise with donor staff and colleagues on progress of applications or potential funding opportunities.
  • Work closely with Programmes Department colleagues to support and/or lead contract negotiation with institutional donors.

Donor Strategy Alignment, Engagement and Relationship Management

  • Actively manage relationships with assigned funders.
  • Coordinate donor strategy to maximise relationships and funding from donors through: meeting donors and cultivating contacts; liaising with colleagues across the organisation to coordinate donor meetings and briefings; and writing capacity statements/quality statements for specific donors.
  • Maintain up-to-date information on donor priorities, strategies, regulations and activities pertaining to United Purpose’s strategic plan.
  • Ensure relevant staff including senior management and Country Directors are briefed on donor activities, through the preparation of briefing notes and maintaining up-to-date information on our management information system.
  • Provide advice to Programme Department colleagues on donor policies and priorities, and managing funding contracts, in order to support overall donor strategies.
  • Maintain and report on donor relationship and income pipelines on a periodic basis.

Programme Funding Team and Miscellaneous

  • Work with colleagues within the Programme Funding Team, and across the organisation, to improve the standard of proposal and report writing and donor relationships, and ensure funding opportunities and contracts are managed according to donor requirements.
  • Contribute to Programme Funding Team reporting through ensuring donor information is up-to-date in UP’s management information system.
  • Represent UP in donor funding-related groups and networks.
  • Keep up-to-date on relevant areas of the development sector.

The organisation

United Purpose is a leader in community-led development and grassroots innovation, supporting people to gain agency over their own lives – so they can move Beyond Aid. UP works in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil and Bangladesh. In West Africa, we operate in 7 countries (Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Togo, Nigeria & Cameroon) with over 80 staff, 50 partners and an annual turnover of around £5 million. Our work focuses on women & youth empowerment, developing sustainable livelihoods & agriculture value chains, nutrition & food security, climate & health resilience, and natural resource management & peace building.

In August 2021 United Purpose joined the Gorta Group of organisations (which also includes Self Help Africa, Partner Africa and TruTrade). Together, the Group is dedicated to ending extreme poverty and inequality across the globe. Our work reaches more than six million people, and invests upwards of €45m in our programming that includes improving food systems, facilitating access to markets and financial services and enabling access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene.

This is an exciting time to join us as the merger of two like-minded and entrepreneurial organisations will be catalytic in nature as we look to tackle the global challenges of today and tomorrow as one unified organisation.

Expériences / Formation

  • Fluency in English and French (spoken and written) with the ability to write proposals/bids in either language.
  • Minimum of five years’ experience of securing institutional funding.
  • Evidence of success in winning large (multi-million GBP) donor funding grants/contracts – ideally including experience of major donors such as EU, USAID, AFD and UN agencies.
  • Minimum of five years’ experience working with large and diverse multi-nationality virtual teams.
  • Experience of managing and prioritising own workload, meeting tight deadlines and working under pressure.
  • Excellent written skills including proposals and reports, and the ability to creatively turn complex project and/or organisational information into a compelling business cases.
  • Strong and creative oral presentation skills and experience.
  • Strong numeracy and analytical ability, with ability to understand complex budgets and expenditure reports.
  • Ability and willingness to travel when required.

Salaire

Contract type: permanent (open to all candidates with right to work in Senegal)

Hours: Full time 40 hours per week Monday – Friday

Reports to: Head of Programme Funding (UK) & Regional Director, West Africa (Senegal). The role will be based with United Purpose in Dakar and work closely with the Regional Director, but will be part of the UK-based programme funding team.

Salary: EUR 29,000 – 32,000 / CFA 18,978,314 – 20,941,588 per annum

Comment postuler

Send a CV and cover letter to the following e-mail address: rugie.jallow@united-purpose.org

In the cover letter, please ensure to explain the following:

  • Why you are applying for the position
  • How your skills and experience meet the person specification
  • When you would be able to take up the position if it were offered to you

Applications should be submitted in English.

Deadline for applications is midnight on the 14th February 2022. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

United Purpose is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against applicants based on gender, religion, ethnicity, age, disability, religion or sexual orientation. United Purpose also has a Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults Policy, which reflects our commitment to protecting the people with whom we work. All candidates will be expected to comply with this policy and its procedures.

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