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Posted: 30-Nov-21
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 70847-en_US
The Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health (GI), Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking a Senior Program Officer II for an exciting platform called The Challenge Initiative (TCI), a multifaceted program focused on the rapid expansion of urban family planning programs worldwide but with focus on urban poor and slums.
TCI represents a strategic shift away from the traditional model of development: it is demand-driven in which the cities self-select and are required to show political commitment by bringing their own financial, material and human resources to the project; local governments take the lead and can access technical expertise provided by the project at no additional costs as well as apply to TCI's Challenge Fund for additional funding. TCI also leverages funding support from other bilateral, multilateral donors as well as foundations and the private sector. TCI currently works with five Accelerator Hubs covering East and Francophone West Africa (FWA), India, Nigeria and Philippines. A new sixth hub, Pakistan, is projected to come onboard in 2022.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities:
- Works with the TCI Leadership team to engage private donors, foundations, multilateral, and bilateral donor agencies to gain support across TCI.
- Working closely with the TCI's leadership, the RM Manager will develop a resource mobilization plan and timeline for implementation to ensure long-term viability of the platform and continued engagement of new funding streams.
- Lead TCI's strategy for creating new and renewed business with public and private sector donors, in line with TCI's 10-Year programmatic vision, mission and goals.
- Coordinate and support TCI country program leadership throughout Africa and Asia to identify, capture and develop new business opportunities; ensure effective strategic partnerships and donor relationships; and foster effective and responsive cross-functional participation from within the team. This leadership position requires strong commitment to TCI's mission and core tenets and a desire to succeed in a competitive resource mobilization environment with exceptional communication and relationship management skills.
Resource Mobilization
- Plan, formulate and implement resource mobilization strategies and activities.
- Understand the current program and grantees across all countries in which TCI operates, including reports, deliverables, and timelines.
- Identify new opportunities for revenue growth and clearly communicate to key stakeholders.
- Build out revenue and inventory models to illustrate the potential income generation opportunities within the existing model.
- Design and implement a comprehensive resource mobilization strategy to ensure growth and diversification, including regular reporting on the strategy goals.
- Ensure the resource mobilization strategy closely aligns with TCI's communication, operations, M&E and finance strategies and plans.
- Archive both successful and unsuccessful concept notes and proposals for future use.
Donor Cultivation
- Create a work plan for identifying, cultivating and managing relationships and negotiations with donors and external partners for development of multi-year programmatic initiatives, in sync with TCI priorities.
- Under the guidance of the TCI Leadership team, take initiative to grow and expand TCI's current funding partners' base, through effective stewardship and identification of new funding opportunities.
- Develop concept notes, proposals and budgets that align with TCI priorities in conjunction with program and finance staff.
Donor Management
- Build and maintain strong relationships with current and prospective funding partners, to raise awareness of TCI's work, enhance collaboration and identify resource mobilization opportunities.
- Organize and lead briefings, meetings, visits and events with current and prospective funding partners, draft reports and talking points and set action plans for follow up, as necessary.
- Respond to queries from funding partners in coordination with TCI technical teams.
- Support technical teams to ensure compliance on donor requirements, including timely and quality reporting and delivery.
Leadership & Overall Management
- Serve as the lead proposal writer and manager for selected bids.
- Report against agreed indicators to support TCI's monitoring of resource mobilization.
- Capture lessons learned in resource mobilization and business development to support improvement of organizational policies and procedures and report back to TCI's leadership.
- Monitor total donor contributions to cities and analyze trends in commitments and spending over time.
- Develop and maintain TCI's dashboard to monitor resources (both from donor and local governments) to inform decision-making.
- Operate with a high level of independent action in developing work plans, liaising with partners, donors, regarding implementation of programs, and monitoring.
- Represent TCI in key meetings and events and other fora as appropriate, to report on progress achieved, donor and local commitment, present papers/ideas to influence the agenda and drive donor interest and commitment to TCI.
Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory):
- Advanced Academic Degree in International Relations, Economics, Business, International Relations, Public Health or related discipline.
- Minimum of six years of experience at large-scale international development and/or global health organization in resource mobilization and business development, including working for international organizations, foundation, philanthropy or other initiatives; country level experience preferred.
- Experience in strategic partnership development with demonstrated track record of successful donor cultivation and management.
- Additional relevant experience and/or training may substitute for some education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Demonstrated success in resource mobilization in development setting, preferably health.
- In-depth and proven experience managing donor relations (large bi-lateral donors, corporations, foundations, and known family planning donors) with an ability to liaise with HQ and partners.
- Technical knowledge in sexual and reproductive health (family planning, maternal and child health).
- Direct experience developing successful complex project proposals as well as private sector and philanthropies.
- Proven experience communicating effectively, building and maintaining strong relationships both externally and internally, including proven results working strategically with multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent facilitation, writing, diplomatic and interpersonal skills with an ability to be a strong presence in work plan meetings, data workshops, donor and stakeholder meetings.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English language is essential; proficiency in French is desirable.
- Ability and willingness to adjust work schedules and priorities to meet deadlines and juggle multiple opportunities.
- Flexibility and willingness to travel up to 20 percent of the year, as needed.
- A flexible work location arrangement is available.
- Able to take independent action and appropriate risks necessary to achieve results.
- Adapts approaches to meet different needs and concerns of TCI and partners.
- Commits to TCI's core tenets, team goals and works effectively across the team with individuals of different views, culture, nationality, gender and age.
- Exemplifies the highest standards of honesty and integrity in professional and personal conduct.
Additional Information:
- Position is expected to continue for 2 years beginning January 2022, with the possibility for extension based on new funding sources acquired by the selected candidate.
- Regularly communicate and engage in meetings across various international time zones outside of normal business hours.
- Ability to travel for programmatic support up to 20% of the year.
- A flexible work location arrangement is available.
JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for the required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.
Classified Title: Sr. Program Officer II
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MG
Starting Salary Range: $83,148 - $145,480 annually (commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: Telecommute
Department name: Popltn Fmly and Reproductive Hlth Srvs
Personnel area: School of Public Health
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