Partnerships Officer

IICD is a non-profit foundation that specialises in information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool for development. IICD is active in Africa and Latin America where we bring about technical and social innovations that create and enhance development opportunities in education, health, agriculture and economic development.
For maximum impact we work closely with partners from the public, private and non-profit sectors. Our aim is to support our local partners in their efforts to formulate and implement their own ICT-led development policies and programmes.

More information about IICD can be found at: www.iicd.org

The Community Relations Department is responsible for Northern partnerships (acquisition, management and reporting), publications (for knowledge and PR-purposes) and communications (website and events). The team consists of 7 professionals. For Community Relations activities we are seeking an enthusiastic community relations officer in the role of:

Partnerships Officer

At IICD we are seeking to expand and diversify our partnership and marketing activities. The new partnerships officer is responsible for: acquisition in the North, account management in the North, and production of PR materials and activities for our partners.

Summary of key responsibilities

Specific (partnerships)

• Responsible for acquisition with your Northern Private and Public Partners, which includes proposal writing, corporate presentations, facilitation of partnership meetings, organising partnership events, budgeting for proposals and consultancies;
• Responsible for reporting and account management with your Northern Private and Public Partners, which includes reporting on impact and results;
• Co-responsible for the concept and implementation of new acquisition activities for Northern partners;
• Co-responsible for production of public brochures and other communication products targeted at Northern Private and Public Partners;
• Writing of news articles for the website regarding your partnership activities.

General

• Establishes and maintains effective working relations with IICD staff, communities in order to implement the community relations strategy and produces intended results and to use these relationships to identify new opportunities;
• Participates in meetings and presents information, proposals, results, achievements and recommendations as appropriate.

Specific knowledge, skills and abilities:

• 5+ years experience in professional partnership and fundraising acquisition;
• Advanced skills in the complete fundraising cycle: e.g. market mapping, intervention logics through logframes or result chains, partnership strategy development; negotiation; budgeting; facilitation and chairing of partnership meetings, donor relationship management, reporting and monitoring;
• Track record of successful fundraising activities with Public and Private sector Northern partners;
• Capable of writing convincing proposals for public and private sector donors;
• Used to working with fundraising targets;
• Excellent written, verbal, networking and interpersonal communication skills;
• Experience in creating PR-products and organising PR-events for public and private sector donors;
• Fluent in English speaking and writing, fluent Spanish or French is a plus.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Master Degree in Social Sciences, Economics, Marketing, Public Relations, Fundraising, or any other relevant field;
• Expertise and knowledge of ICTs for Economic development, Health or/and Education a plus;
• Knowledge and affinity with ICTs a plus;
• Native English speaker a plus;
• Self-motivated, responsible, with proven commitment to continuous learning and self-development;
• Independent worker;
• Driven to achieve high professional standards;
• Results driven;
• Positive, flexible and optimistic;
• Creative and entrepreneurial;
• High degree of professional versatility and hands-on capability;
• Convincing presenter for smaller and larger groups;
• A team player.

We offer:

• Competent work environment with room for personal development and initiative;
• Competitive salary package conform Dutch NGO standards;
• International working environment.

To apply please email your Covering Letter plus CV to:

Ms F. Alvarez (Sr. HR Adviser) at vacancy@iicd.org

For more information about the position, please contact:

Ms F. Alvarez +31 (0)70- 311 73 11

Closing date: November 23th, 2012