The Organization
- Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
The Opportunity
The Business Development Associate supports the Business Development Manager in identifying funding opportunities in line with Plan Egypt’s program priorities, writing successful grant applications and supporting the budgeting process in coordination with program and finance colleagues. The Business Development Associate will furthermore be engaged in strengthening linkages with local donor missions and national offices.
The Business Development Associate is needed to support the achievement of country resource mobilisation targets and learning regarding the funding portfolio, while assisting the Business Development Manager and Deputy Country Director (DCD) Programs to develop a strong professional image among Plan donors so that additional grant funding is acquired to grow and support Plan’s program. This will be achieved through actively seeking and maximizing opportunities for additional funding from a variety of sources.
Responsibilities include:
- Produce and regularly update a comprehensive mapping of all donor opportunities (by sector and geography) in Egypt taking into account Plan Egypt’s program priorities and support the development of an analysis to be used by management for review and decision making.
- Support the development of resource mobilization plans to operationalize the resource mobilization strategy of Plan Egypt
- Research where potential opportunities for grants funding can be found and actively identify grant opportunities.
- Monitor, analyze and consolidate relevant grant information and disseminate where relevant within Plan Egypt.
- Support the timely development of grant proposals in line with agreed organizational procedures and in close coordination with Program Design Unit, Program Areas and other relevant departments and units within Plan Egypt and National offices.
- Support the development of detailed, activity based program budgets and ensure that all categories of program costs and apportioned costs are taken into account at the conceptualization and submission stage of grant preparation.
- Packaging grant proposals to suit the requirements of different donors, including working with the Communications team to develop separate marketing collateral aimed at different audiences (NOs, Institutional donors, Corporates etc) and aligned with the Country Strategy Plan with a view to realize Plan International’s ambition to be gender transformative in all projects.
- Support Business Development Manager, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Programme Quality Manager and DCD Programs, to act as Plan Egypt representatives on grant matters, representing the interests of Plan Egypt externally including to National Offices, donor organizations and other stakeholders.
- Support BDM, Strategic Partnerships Manager and DCD Programs to develop, manage and maintain strategic partnerships with local actors, including bilateral, multilaterals, corporate donors and external networks.
- Ensure successful on-going donor relations and ‘ownership’ of relations with donor representatives locally and develop and maintain a strong and professional image of Plan Egypt among relevant donors.
- Populate BDU sector library on a rolling basis with relevant primary and secondary literature, flagship projects, curricula etc.
- Update share-point and PLANet pipeline tracker regularly
Do you have what it takes?
- In order to succeed in this challenging and varied role you will require proven professional experience and demonstrable knowledge in one or more key program areas of Plan International Egypt (i.e. gender sensitive child protection, youth participation; sexual and reproductive health rights; education and early childhood care and development; youth economic empowerment) as well as gender as a result of study, training or practical experience on grants acquisition
- Practical experience in drafting and reviewing activity based budgets in donor formats;
- Practical experience working with a range of institutional donors;
- Excellent English oral and written communication skills;
- Excellent Arabic oral and written communication skills;
- Conceptual and analytical skills
- Excellent people skills
- Planning and monitoring
- Marketing skills
Behaviours (Plan International’s Values in Practice)
We are open and accountable
- Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
- Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
- Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
- Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
- Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organization for all children, girls & young people.
We strive for lasting impact
- Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
- Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
- Focuses resources to drive change and maximize long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
- Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.
We work well together
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
We are inclusive and empowering
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children
Type of Role: One year fixed term contract
Location: CO. Maadi,Cairo
Reports to: Business Development Manager
Closing Date: 20th March 2018
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
Please note that only applications and CVs written in English will be accepted.
A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Child Protection Policy.
As an international child centered community development organization, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realization of children’s rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.
Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organization, do everything we can to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
Plan International operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all areas of the international community.
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