Partnerships & Resource Mobilisation Lead

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African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

Remote (global)
  • Career category: Fundraising/ Grant management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (global)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 23/04/2025
  • Location: Remote (global)
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Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. Strategies and Planning

  • Lead the development a robust Resource Mobilisation Strategy or comprehensive review of existing Resource Mobilisation Strategy and Partnership Strategies as a tools that enhances the Network’s financial sustainability to support realisation of strategic results in pursuit of the mission.

2. Research and Prospecting

  • Research and monitoring of trends in funding landscape – map and identify potential partners mainly amongst traditional donors, philanthropic foundations, private sector corporations and foundations etc.
  • Distinguishing short term from long term investments including individual giving – high net worth, broad based/crowd sourcing, online etc, new funding sectors, geographies…

3. Donor / Funding Partner Engagement

  • Contribute and support relevant offices for ultimate responsibility and accountability
  • Lead in designing front office and back-office roles, as may be applicable

4. Proposal Development

  • Lead in identifying ultimate responsivity, accountability and sign off, recognising need for design and development of high-quality grant proposals and related pitch documents for applications for external funding in collaboration with programmes and Finance & Operations teams.
  • Lead the clarification of donor conditionalities

5. Contractual Compliance and Tracking

  • Coordinate with internal stakeholders or support identification of ultimate responsibility and accountability for specific contracts, in line with requirements and obligations.
  • Oversea, review and manage contracts

6. Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

  • Lead identification of ultimate responsibilities for financial and narrative reporting
  • In accordance with specific / unique funding partner requirements, lead building of reporting templates for narrative and financial reports.
  • Play key role in evaluation findings, informing further action on resource mobilisation with the same partner or future approaches.

7. Documentation

  • Lead management of up-to-date donor related information and documents – proposals sent, approved, budgets, contracts, progress reports etc.
  • Managing the master list of supplementary documents to minimise turnaround time when these are needed for other proposals etc.


8. Education and Experience

  • A bachelor’s degree in international development, Business Administration, Communications, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
  • At least 6 years of experience in partnership development, resource mobilization, fundraising, or related fields, preferably in the non-profit sector, Human/Women rights’ organization.
  • Proven track record of successfully securing funding from diverse sources, including government agencies, foundations, and private donors.
  • Extensive experience with donor regulations and compliance requirements, including experience with grant writing and reporting.
  • Experience in building, maintaining, and managing relationships with strategic partners, preferably multilaterals, governmental institutions, and non-profit organizations.
  • Demonstrable experience of leading, supporting, and monitoring large, multi-country, bilateral, multilateral, private sector, and philanthropic projects and partnerships.

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