Business Development Manager at Save the Children

The Business Development Manager (BD Manager) will work to identify donor opportunities, facilitate and participate in donor, member, government and partner engagement, lead the development of fundraising strategies, and coordinate proposal development for funding opportunities.

Recognising that many conversations with donors and members involve a review or update around current grants as well as discussions about new opportunities, the BD Manager will also be expected to keep closely informed about the progress of all major institutional and non-institutional grants and able to speak to results in key reporting documents.

The BD Manager will be located in Dar es Salaam. The role has an external orientation but works closely with the Awards department for interaction with other members of Save the Children International who provide programme funding.

NOTE: THE POSITION IS FOR NATIONAL CANDIDATES

Desired Skills and Experience

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Master's degree in social sciences and development area.
• Significant experience and win rate on proposals
• Proven track record in producing winning bids, proposals, and reports for institutional donors, corporations and others
• Proven ability to design high quality programs
• Recommended 5-7 years' experience in both an emergency and development contexts, preferably with solid experience in at least 2 priority sectors of Save the Children: education, protection, child rights governance, health and nutrition or child poverty.
• Experience in developing proposals for major institutional and private donors i.e USAID, FCDO, EU, ECHO, Sida, IKEA etc
• Excellent coordination, organizational and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels and pull together input from a diverse team.
• Excellent writing/editing, reporting, budget development and presentation/communication skills.
• Experience in presenting project information to donors and partners.
• Experience in coordinating development of large-scale or strategic proposals, including the development of multi-million-dollar project budgets.
• Proven representation skills.
• Cultural awareness mastering and ability to work in an international environment with people from many diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets.
• Experience in solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward.
• Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner.
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required.