JOB VACANCY FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Company: Plan International
Category: Business Development
Location: Accra
Job status: Full-Time
Salary: GH
Education: Degree
Experience: 7 years
Job expires: 17 Feb-2021
Dimensions
of Role:
• Financial measures or statistics relevant to post such as budget; list of
direct and indirect reports
• Leads Country Resource Mobilization Planning and implementation.
• The Grants and Resource Mobilization Coordinator and Local Fund-raising
Specialist reports directly to the position.
• Area of Responsibility – Country Program (CSP and Country Res. Mobilization
Plan)
Typical Responsibilities - Key End Results of Position:
“What” is done and “why”, but not “how”; include indicators for success
Please state why each activity is done and the indicators for success
Business Development Manager’s role in
the CLT:
• Participate in CLT decision-making.
• Support the CLT to manage relationships and processes relating to partners
(NGOs and communities), including partner assessment and engagements.
• Take responsibility as part of the CLT for risk management processes
in-country.
Strategy Development
• Responsible for the development and roll out of a Resource Acquisition and
Management strategy.
• Support the localisation of Plan-Ghana Resource mobilisation Strategy in line
with the Ghana CSP.
• Facilitate in identifying Plan program priorities for fundraising.
• Participate and play a key role in the development and refinement of Plan
Ghana’s CSP.
• Provide direction in the development of individual PU fundraising strategies
for Plan Ghana.
Qualification Required & Experience
• Master’s degree in relevant field such as international development,
Planning, Management, Marketing and Communication and in social sciences, or
any related field.
• A minimum of 7-10 years of relevant professional experience in Grants
Acquisition and Management.
• Preferably At least 5 years work experience with international development or
humanitarian organizations.
• Demonstrated track record developing successful funding proposals for major
institutional donors.
• Capacity building experience in project design, implementation, reporting,
and evaluation.
Demonstrated
behaviors needed by the postholder to successfully perform the role:
• Develops, motivates coaches and manages procurement team in the country for
donor procedures.
• Promotes high performance by all staff.
• Promotes innovation and learning.
• Communicates clearly and effectively.
• Gains, develops and retains credibility about his/her performance.
Skills
Specific to the post needed to put knowledge into practice.
• Preferably knowledge of funding cycles, strategic priorities, and
requirements of major donors such as EU, USAID, CIDA, GF, World Bank, etc.
• Understanding of International Donor requirements
• Maintains good contact with partners, Multilateral Companies and
organisations operating in Ghana.
• Excellent proposal and report writing skills.
• Fundraising skills
• Analytical skills
• Program/project management skills
• Financial Management skills.
• Networking and partnership development.
• Strong team building and motivational skills.
• Strong negotiation, facilitating and influencing skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft applications usage and other relevant software and
other applications.
• Self-starter, takes initiative and works with minimal direct supervision.
• Strong inter-personal and cross-cultural skills.
• Flexible, able to shift directions quickly and occasionally work long hours
to meet tight proposal deadlines.
Location: Accra
How To Apply For The Job
To submit your application, click on the link below and complete all relevant
fields on the online application form.
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Closing Date: 17 February, 2021
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