Resource Acquisition and Communication Director

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Resource Acquisition and Communication Director, you will:

• Coordinate/Facilitate proposal development and grants acquisition by building the profile, prepositioning the Zambia National Office including strengthening of the National Office’s proposal grants acquisition capacity.
• Lead the Zambia National Office in developing and rolling out a Resource Acquisition Strategy
• Drive growth in non-sponsorship income (both local and international) in alignment with the National Office Strategy
• Provide high-level management to the Communications Team as you develop and execute the organisation’s internal and external communication plan and strategy.
• Engage and retain government, multi-lateral and private sector donors through successful grants implementation and strong donor relations with the aim of maximising and diversifying the funding base. This includes strong and effective collaboration with other departments to ensure consistent and effective implementation of projects.

Requirements include:

• Bachelor degree required, MBA/equivalent preferred.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience with government and multilateral organisation’s procedures and regulations.
• At least 3-5 years of team management experience.
• Leadership capabilities that include coaching staff to high levels of performance & engaging in effective cross cultural & cross functional working to achieve shared goals and effective indirect line management.
• Experienced networker with an ability to maintain a good up-to-date knowledge of the grant opportunities and trends.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of project management with government and multilateral agencies grant funded projects and experience of grant compliance procedures for major bilateral and multilateral donors.

Must be able to travel extensively.