Business Development Manager

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation 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 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity

Plan international in Somalia/Somaliland implements programmes that focus in particular on child protection, influencing and advocacy, education and youth economic empowerment, in addition to providing capacity building and working with as well as through partners such as local NGOs, fellow INGOs and the relevant governments in Plan’s areas of expertise.

Plan International Somalia aims to continue to build its annual budget portfolio to reach vulnerable and excluded children, particularly girls every year, with high quality gender transformative programs and influencing work that deliver long lasting benefits. The Business Development Manager is responsible for identifying funding opportunities aligned to program and influencing strategic priorities, coordination of writing and submission of winning funding proposals, formation of strategic partnerships for fundraising and submission of competitive bids and strengthening systems and processes for effective grant management, as well as management of the relationship with donors and Plan’s National Offices (in donor countries)

The Purpose of this role is to lead growth and diversification of the income portfolio for Plan International Somalia in line with the priorities and to implement and/or shape the country resource mobilization strategy.  The incumbent will be responsible to expand and diversify the institutional donor portfolio as well as the corporate donor base.  The post holder will work proactively with National Offices (NOs) within the Plan Federation, to identify and win appropriate grant awards by ensuring the timely and quality delivery of successful proposals and building the capacity of team members in the development of strong quality proposals.

The post holder will be a member of the Country Leadership Team (CLT) on grants management related country activities.  S/he will report directly to the Country Director.  The post-holder will be based in the Hargeisa office with extensive travel to Nairobi, Mogadishu and Plan’s offices in donor countries (NOs).  S/he will uphold Plan’s Core Values and promote Plan’s Purpose and programme principles (transparency, gender equality and diversity) to enhance programme impact.

For more information regarding the role and person specification, please click the below link: BDM Somalia JD.docx

Location: Hargeisa, Somalia

Type of Role: 2-year fixed term contract. Mandatory unaccompanied

Reports to: Country Director

Competitive salary and package available

Closing Date: 21st April 2024 

Tentative 1st round interview dates: 29th and 30th April

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

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 organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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