Hanoi – Fundraising Advisor At Save the Children

Key Responsibilities

Funding Strategy and NBD Change Management:

• Support country office to develop and implement high quality Country Funding Strategy and Donor Engagement Plan, linked to Vietnam Country Strategic Plans.
• Lead design and delivery of CO funding strategy which aligns program demand (Country Strategic Plans) with funding supply (donor landscape). This strategy will include both public and private funding sources, and will be developed in close collaboration with Save the Children members.
• Drive and accelerate sustainable and diverse portfolio growth for Save the Children in Vietnam as well as regionally where appropriate, working in alignment with the global funding strategy and members’ funding strategies.
• With guidance and support from regional resource mobilisation team and members, supports country TE, Finance, AM, PDQA staff with capacity building around business development
• Ensure best practice ways of working by attending regional Communities of Practice and embedding best practice into the country ways of working.

Relationship Management:

• Support the CD and SMT to build strong relationships and funding partnerships.
• Proactively engage on a strategic basis with institutional, corporate and other donors at country level in order to facilitate technical programme exchanges, influence policy and thinking, and identify key areas of potential cooperation, including programme funding.
• Represent Save the Children as needed with key institutional, corporate, foundation and other donors.

Strategic Portfolio Planning:

• Support strategic planning and operational processes and tools that achieve high quality award portfolios.
• Understand and effectively communicate the country’s pipeline and priority funding gaps, as agreed with CD and country leadership. These may include thematic/program gaps, co-financing gaps, and operational sustainability gaps.
• Proactively work with the regional resource mobilisation teams to drive improvement in strategic portfolio planning across the movement.

Capture Planning and Opportunity Preparation:

• Facilitate conversations with PDQA, TE, and Operations teams to gather intelligence, assess competitiveness, make Go/No Go decisions, and adequately resource teams build for pursuing all strategic funding opportunities.
• Maintain and build capacity in systems or processes for collecting donor, implementing partner, and competitor intelligence and information.
• Closely collaborate with the regional resource mobilization team and members to identify and capture new funding trends, new and innovative funding opportunities and donor types and develop appropriate engagement strategies.

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