Senior Partnerships Manager

Prospectus are excited to be working with our client to help them recruit for a Senior Partnerships Manager to join their team. The foundation is a leading global development organisation working to tackle the root causes of poverty. For more than 50 years, they have helped create strong community institutions that support sustainable, locally driven initiatives to improve the lives of millions of people. By combining local knowledge with global best practices, they strive to bring about transformative and long-lasting improvements to quality of life.

Working alongside the agencies of their development network and through partnerships with local communities, civil society and business as well as governments and international aid agencies, they are building a future where we all thrive together.

This role is offered on a full-time permanent basis paying a salary of £52,000 per annum with flexible working arrangements between home and their London office.

This role is part of the global team tasked with identifying and cultivating new funding partnerships and strengthening existing ones to support our strategic goals. The post holder will engage with European, Asian and North American government and foundation donors to mobilise resources for ten multi-sector profit and not-for-profit agencies of the development network operating across Asia and Africa. In addition, this role is responsible for reporting and donor relations on a portfolio of select grants implementing across network themes and geographies in close collaboration with field units, global teams, and our partners.

They are looking for someone with a demonstrable experience in resource mobilisation and developing relationships, including direct experience with European (EU/EC, Germany, Switzerland, UK) or Asian donors or North American (USAID, GAC) donors. They are looking for a candidate with demonstrable experience in developing and writing complex proposals and arguments, business plans/cases, concept papers, briefs, executive summaries, as well as coordinating multiple inputs from a variety of sources, and simultaneously managing a variety of relationships. The ideal candidate will have an understanding and knowledge of the European/Asian donor landscape to support programmes internationally.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome all candidates to apply, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or pregnancy/maternity. If you have any disability and require reasonable adjustment/s to any part of the process, then please contact Firas El Dib at Prospectus.

If you feel you meet some of the criteria but not all, we really hope you'll enquire and learn more. Prospectus can advise and support on each part of the role and hopefully your application, so we look forward to hearing from you.

In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will arrange for a meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.