Job Description
POSITION TITLE: Grants & Partnership Manager
REPORTS 1st: Executive Director
SUPERVISES
MAIN PURPOSE OF POSITION:
To work with the Executive Director & communications team to conceptualize, attract, engage and sustain high-level relationships between Bunmi Adedayo Foundation and individual donors and to secure unrestricted and program-focused grants.
RESPONSIBILITIES:.
• Work closely with the Executive Director, and other Team Leads to identify opportunities, develop proposals, and build relationships with prospective individual donors.
• Organize, plan and oversee fundraising activities and campaigns.
• Manage overall grant efforts, optimize the grant administration process.
• Reviewing grant proposals, ensuring compliance with grant regulations, managing grant databases.
• Prepare progress reports, document payments, expenditures, and financial reports.
• Research and apply for relevant grants opportunities on both local and international scales.
• Develop and maintain a pipeline of funder prospects and prospective collaborative partners
• Build upon partnerships with, and secure funding from, a diverse and sustainable base of major donors, with a specific focus on individuals.
• Provide a first-class experience to all our donors and supporters.
• Build relationships with new individual partners and maintain relationships with existing partners.
• Actively contribute to implementing a new integrated fundraising strategy and yearly budgets in line with yearly organizational goals.
• Monitor and analyze key performance indicators to evaluate specific fundraising projects and ensure a steady increase in funds raised.
• Ensure high-quality, ongoing management and engagement with a range of external stakeholders, existing individual partners, and potential individual donors.
• Research and maintain information on donor strategies and funding opportunities on the national level, in conjunction with the program coordinators.
• Lead the development of proposals for submission to donors in coordination with sector leads and the finance and operations teams; contribute to budget development/management in coordination with Finance through budget review to ensure that budget aligns to the proposed intervention and the correct costs are included.
SKILLS REQUIRED
• Strong relationship, business, and project management skills.
• Exceptional strategic planning abilities, attention to detail, and delivery.
• Self-starter who takes initiative, uses sound, independent judgment, and discretion, and seeks guidance and feedback where appropriate – a doer as well as a manager.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; highly organized with concern for detail and a commitment to rigor.
• Excellent verbal, written, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to manage teams, departments, and projects simultaneously.
• Professionalism, empathy, maintaining a sense of humor, and interacting with a diverse array of people from all walks of life.
• Ability to work in a diverse cultural environment with multiple stakeholders (including government authorities, beneficiaries, implementing partners, program staff, donors
• Flexible work attitude: the ability to work productively in a team environment and the ability to solve problem with minimal guidance
• Competence with Windows software applications ( skills: MS Word, Excel, Power Point)
MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES: (IF ANY)
Work closely with the Executive Director to ensure Program success at all levels.
Technical Skills
• Computer literacy
• Good report-writing skills
• Knowledge and experience in various therapeutic orientations and treatment modalities with gender specificity – women
• Competence with Windows software applications (skills: MS Word, Excel, Power Point) Managerial Skills
• Creativity balanced with critical thinking
• Strategic thinking
• Problem solving
• Judgment and decision making
• Attention to detail Interpersonal Skills
• Good verbal communication and presentation skills
• Professional yet warm and friendly attitude
• Able to maintain a positive collaborative relationship among staff
• Cultural sensitivity
• Crisis intervention and conflict resolution skills
• Calm under pressure
COMPLEXITY OF POSITION:
• Must be able to work with little or no supervision,
• Ability to work under extreme pressure
• Strong Organizational Skills with attention to details
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
· 5 years of experience in a related mid or senior-level management role.
· Proven record of fundraising experience in a for-profit or nonprofit organization.
· Proven record of leadership skills at a mid or senior organizational level.
· Excellent marketing skills
· Proven experience as a leader
PREFERRED QUALIFICATION: TRAINING/CERTIFICATIONS:
· MBA or relevant graduate degree in Management, Communications, or a related field.
BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS AND BEHAVIORAL REQUIREMENTS:
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: the ability to successfully and effectively work with a variety of people in a multi sensitive-cultural environment
Interested candidates should send a CV to hrm@bunmiadedayofoundation.org
