Senior Advisor, Government Partnerships

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

Working closely, with the Head of Government Partnerships who is based in London. The role can be based either in Europe or in the UK with regular travel. Key areas of responsibility will be:

Fundraising

• Work with the Head of Government Partnerships to deliver against MSI’s ambitious global funding strategy and achieve donor specific fundraising goals
• Specific account management responsibility for a portfolio of government donors (to be agreed)
• Responsibility for donor engagement at European level while also working with country programme colleagues on national level engagement strategies
• Working with the Head of Government Partnerships to identify, cultivate and work with existing and emerging government donors and partners.
• This includes building new and maximising existing relationships to identify new opportunities to expand MSI’s donor base and sources of funding.
• Strategic leadership of MSI’s upstream influencing of existing and emerging donor government audiences (to be defined) with a view to increase resourcing and prioritisation of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) including contraception and safe abortion services.
• Liaise with and support the Programme Design and Development Team (PDD) to develop successful bids and proposals for selected donors, in partnership with other MSI colleagues
• Work with MSI regional teams and advocacy colleagues, and MSI country programmes (CPs) to identify key opportunities, messages and providing support to enhance country level relationships with current or emerging donors
• Work with colleagues across the MSI partnership to monitor policy processes and developments relevant to MSI, and support the development of internal MSI positions to ensure continued leadership of and alignment with the wider sector.and with the Third-Party Monitor, coordinating Technical Working Groups and providing technical leadership where appropriate.

Donor Engagement

• Lead strategic engagement with key governments and accountability for the implementation of the engagement strategies necessary to deliver against MSI’s global fundraising strategy
• Lead MSI’s engagement with key existing and potential government donors (donors to be confirmed) building and managing relationships to position MSI as the ‘first port of call’ when government funders consider contraceptive and safe abortion service delivery and technical excellence.
• A conduit for transferring knowledge and learning from MSI’s programming both to donors partners across the sector, and from key European donors and the wider sector into the MSI global partnership.
• Work with the Head of Government Partnerships and other P&P and MSI colleagues to identify and cultivate relationships with governments with whom MSI has not traditionally built successful long-term relationships, despite their interest in SRHR**.**

Partnerships

• Position MSI as a key influencer by transferring knowledge and learning from MSI’s programming both to donor partners across the sector, and from key donors and the wider sector into the MSI global partnership.
• Proactively engage and serve as a key resource to increase awareness of MSI’s global impact and results with strategic partners and individuals.
• Supporting the transfer of knowledge, documentation and dissemination of learning, best practices, case studies and successful strategies in relation to MSI’s policy engagement.
• Support colleagues to increase MSI’s international visibility and profile, through strategic engagement with national governments, NGO partners, and donor networks in collaboration with other teams in P&P, MSI’s Global Communications teams, regional teams and advocacy colleagues.
• In alignment with advocacy team members, cultivate, strengthen and nurture constructive and positive relationships with a wide range of financial, political, and technical partners, including funders, national decision makers and influencers, policy makers, academic institutions, opinion leaders and other partners as champions to advance universal access to contraception and safe abortion.
• The development of partnerships in new sectors, partnerships and opportunities to expand MSI’s reach, including making arguments for how SRHR intersects with issues such as climate change, gender, youth, and nutrition, and build the business cases for forming partnerships to support these efforts.
• Develop an effective network of partnerships and relationships for MSI across Europe (and key identified countries) to leverage and deliver technical, financial and other resources to support MSI’s global mission.

Building County Programme Level Fundraising Capacity

• Work with Country Programme colleagues to identify funding opportunities at national level, including supporting with strategic analysis of and messaging for local donor missions for current, new and emerging donors
• Work with CP colleagues to draft and deliver engaging pitches and presentations to various donor audiences
• Work with CP and PDD colleagues to inform country level fundraising strategies and engagement plans

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 perform this role, it is essential that you have the following skills and experience:

• Established network or ability to establish relationships with politicians, decision makers, and international agencies across Europe.
• A track record in successful 1) fundraising and engagement with donors, senior policy makers and civil society with clear outcomes (SRHR experience preferred) and 2) legislative and policy engagement with policy makers, parliaments, and decision makers (5 years plus experience)
• Excellent communication skills – excellent verbal and written English communication skills and ability to organise and present information in a compelling way
• International development experience ideally in securing funding for both service delivery and advocacy programmes is an advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct donor policy analysis and produce briefs, factsheets and messaging
• Strong analytical and strategic skills
• Ability to travel regularly within Europe, to the USA, Sub-Saharan Africa
• Ability to work independently and pro-actively
• Full working proficiency in another European language
• Experience and knowledge of global health or allied thematic area also desirable

Qualifications:

• Degree in related subject

Personal Attributes:

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 be committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.

For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is:

• Pro-choice and committed to MSI’s mission
• Demonstrates MSI team member behaviours and professional self-development.
• For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is a self starter, a strong people communicator, with the initiative, drive and ability to influence different donors and teams across the MSI Partnership. You will be results oriented and have a maturity of approach that comes from your previous experience. You will work in both face to face as well as remote working situations
• If UK based, MSI has a very flexible hybrid working policy, which requires a minimum of 2 days in the office in central London with the rest of time home based, if preferred.

For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.

Location: London Support Office (hybrid working)

Full-time: Full Time

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £46,000 – £53,000 per annum. Discretionary bonus + benefits

Closing date: 13th March 2023 (midnight GMT). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.

For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.