Business Development Officer

Internews Europe

Reporting to: Acting Senior Business Development Manager

Start date: ASAP

Location: London, United Kingdom (hybrid working)

Type of Contract: 6-months fixed-term contract

LoE: Full time (100%)

Salary range: £35,813 (C1)

About Internews:

Internews works to ensure access to trusted, quality news and information that empowers people to have a voice in their future and to live healthy, secure, and rewarding lives. We envision a world where everyone can communicate freely with anyone, anywhere, and exchange the news and information they need to shape their communities and the world.

For 35 years and in more than 100 countries, we have worked with our local partners to build hundreds of sustainable organizations, strengthened the capacity of thousands of media professionals, human rights activists, and information entrepreneurs, and reached millions of people with quality, local information, improving lives and building lasting change. On issues ranging from health and the environment to conflict and governance, Internews has developed approaches that harness the power of media and information to create positive change.

Internews is a charity operating internationally, with administrative centres in California, Washington DC, London, and Paris as well as regional hubs in Bangkok and Nairobi. Formed in 1982, Internews currently has offices in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America.

Our commitment to a culture of belonging:

Internews is passionate about our core values and about supporting positive change in the world. We pride ourselves on our commitment to innovation and flexibility. We believe that diverse teams are strong teams, and work to support an ethic of belonging, dignity, and justice for all people. Our current team includes a mix of genders, parents and non-parents, the self-taught, and people of multiple races, nationalities, ages, sexual orientations, and socio-economic backgrounds. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage candidates of all races, genders, ages, abilities, orientations, ethnicities, and national origins to apply, and actively welcome those with alternative backgrounds and experiences.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Acting Senior Business Development Manager and acting as a part of a 12-member Global Development Team, the Business Development Officer will ensure the smooth running of Internews’ European institutional fundraising, ensuring timely submission of successful funding proposals and helping to secure annual fundraising targets. The Development Officer will continually work with programme staff around the world to jointly identify new fundraising opportunities, to coordinate proposal development processes and to support new programme concepts and proposals. The Development Officer

works to increase funding in support of Internews’ mission by managing, writing, and finalizing proposals and concept notes that are submitted to donors. He/she will work closely with programme, impact and learning, and technical staff to ensure that project designs within proposals and concept notes are technically sound by leading teams through a comprehensive design, review and editing process .

Working under the leadership of the Acting Senior Business Development Manager and in close collaboration with colleagues all over the world, he/she will contribute to a strategic approach to business development at Internews to ensure the organization raises over 18,000,000 GBP annually from public sector donors.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support achievement of annual fundraising targets.
  • Reviews solicitation materials from public sector donors (DFID, EC and SIDA, etc.) and then develops timelines, writing guides and compliance matrixes for proposals and concept notes
  • Writes, reviews and edits proposals and concept notes to donors, including working with program and technical teams on the development of the technical approach.
  • C onducting basic desk research, document formatting, and the development of situation analysis, capacity statements, past performance references for proposals an concept notes to European public sector donors
  • Leads cross-functional teams to both design and write high quality proposals and concept notes for targeted donors.
  • Manages the kick-off and/or design meetings for assigned proposals as required.
  • As required, takes the lead in generating final text for donor solicitations, working with program and technical staff members and others to finalize proposals, through following a structured review process in line with Internews’ policies and guidelines.
  • Supports strong partnerships with other local and international partners through timely communications with regards to particularly opportunities. As required, may work with supervisor to manage partner expectations during the proposal process.
  • Contribute to building the skills of programme teams to approach donors in the field.
  • Ensure consistent and smooth handover of new grants to contracting and programme teams.

Qualifications:

Essential

  • At least 3 years’ experience working for an international development organisation.
  • Extensive and demonstrated prior experience with successful proposal writing (at least two years), including leading proposal opportunities from start to finish; Demonstrable track record in securing significant, multi-year, multi-million, public funds from development donors in Europe.
  • Solid understanding of institutional donor funding trends and priorities.
  • Excellent project manager with the ability to lead and work collaboratively with different teams and technical leads.
  • Experience working with diverse and talented teams.
  • Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Computer literate with advanced abilities in Teams, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
  • Commitment to and understanding of Passion for the role of media and increased access to information in changing lives.
  • Relevant undergraduate University degree.
  • Excellent oral communication and presentation skills.
  • Superior writing skills with demonstrated ability to translate complicated technical material
  • into easy to read and compelling text. Ability to both edit others writing, and accept feedback on written text, with both grace and humor.
  • Proven organization skills, with strong attention to detail.
  • Proven ability to multi-task and prioritize within the context of a flexible and shifting workload.
  • Ability to handle sensitive donor information with the utmost discretion.
  • Ability to work under pressure and with tight deadlines
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the demonstrated ability to maintain a sense of calm, and project a sense of humor in the face of strict deadlines.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage a working group/team to achieve a high-quality proposal.
  • Must be able and willing to work well with a diverse range of colleagues to achieve ambitious fundraising targets. Proven ability to operate effectively in a multicultural environment.
  • Proficient with Microsoft Outlook, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word and internet research.
  • Relevant University Degree; candidates without higher education credentials will be expected to demonstrate additional/equivalent professional experience;

Desirable

  • An established international network with Internews’ target donors and/or partners
  • Experience of working in geographic regions in which Internews works;
  • Prior experience working in the media development field.
  • Spanish, French, German or Swedish language skills a plus.
  • Prior project budgeting experience helpful, but not required.

The above noted job description is not intended to describe, in detail, all the tasks that may be assigned but rather to give the job holder a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of his/her position. As the nature of business demands change so, too, may the essential functions of this position.

This position will be located in the United Kingdom therefore a successful applicant must both be present in the UK for the duration of the assignment and obtain the Right to Work in the UK in order to commence their employment.

How to apply

Position Description (taleo.net)


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