Regional Fundraising Manager – East and Southern Africa at MSI Reproductive Choices

About Us

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

About the Role

In line with MSI’s new global 10-year strategy, MSI2030, MSI’s country programmes (CPs) have developed national strategic plans that outline their goals and business objectives. Building relationships with existing and new donors, mapping opportunities for funding, and creating new partnerships will be essential to ensure adequate funding is available to achieving the goals of MSI2030.

The Regional Fundraising Manager will play a significant role in working with MSI regional teams and CPs to develop, improve and implement country-level fundraising strategies, and positioning with donors and potential partners to influence and build new grant funding opportunities. The role will have a strong capacity transfer and training function, working closely with regional teams to analyse regional strategies and funding gaps, disseminate learning, and build communities of practice. The Regional Fundraising Manager will also work with MSI’s government and foundation donor leads to leverage MSI’s global donor engagement strategies to maximise opportunities for bilateral funding opportunities.

MSI CPs capacity to frame our work, develop messaging and presentation materials and manage relationships with donors varies across the Partnership. To maintain and increase MSI’s funding base, CPs’ will increase their engagement with donors and partners at country level and develop the relationships, messaging and materials necessary to communicate the value add of MSI’s work. This role will be key in improving country-level fundraising and embedding a fundraising culture and skills at country level within the MSI partnership.

About You

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.

To succeed in this role, you must have:

• Extensive experience working in business development or fundraising in the international development, humanitarian, or climate change sectors
• Proven successful engagement with donors, with clearly secured funding outcomes
• Proven experience in maintaining and developing the donor relationships necessary for effective fundraising
• Experience developing regional and country level fundraising strategies
• Developing and delivering engaging presentations and pitches
• Proven experience in the design and delivery of training and capacity building workshops
• Experience in proposal writing and budgeting
• Proven relationship building skills and ability to work jointly and effectively in cross-cultural settings and with a wide variety of stakeholders
• Confidence and ability to represent organisational interests in external meetings and fora.
• Demonstrable success in influencing internal and external stakeholders.

Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written English/French communication skills
• Strong project management skills with demonstrable ability to meet deadlines and perform under pressure
• Ability to multi-task, problem solve, and prioritise to manage multiple and competing demands from internal and external clients
• Strong presentation, training, analytical and strategic skills
• Ability to organise/present complex information in a visual and compelling way to different audiences
• Ability to take initiative and achieve results with limited supervision
• Strong attention to detail and follow-up
• Demonstrated reputation for consistently delivering results to a high standard
• Excellent IT skills: MS word, MS Excel and PowerPoint.

Personal Attributes:

• A strong supporter of the cause of family planning and a woman’s right to safe abortion (pro-choice)
• Committed to the protection of team members and clients, with a focus on vulnerable groups
• Team player, energetic, enthusiastic, and positive
• Quality-focussed and results-orientated
• Resourceful and takes initiative
• Highly organised and action orientated
• Determined to succeed
• Self-awareness
• Willingness to travel required (approximately 10% travel).

For more information about the role, please view the job description and person specification on our website.

Location: East and Southern Africa region (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Yemen and Madagascar), subject to the applicant having the right to work in country

Full-time: Country Programme contracted hours

Contract type: 18-month fixed term contract

Salary: UK salary range, £46,000 – £53,000 or Country Programme salary range + benefits + discretionary bonus

Closing date: 9th February 2022 (midnight GMT). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.