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ECHO Partnership Manager : Brussels, Belgium

ECHO Partnership Manager
Reporting to:Head of Plan EU Office
Based in:Brussels, Belgium
Status: Full time (5 days/week)
Summary
Plan Europe is a regional network within Plan International, one of the largest international children’s development organisations in the world, which links 12 European national offices of Plan and 50 programme countries around the world with the Plan EU Office in Brussels. Plan EU office works in close collaboration with Plan International’s headquarters (IH) and regional offices. Plan Europe strives to ensure that the promotion and protection of the rights of the child is a priority for the EU’s external action in policy and practice.
Over the last years, Plan International has been scaling up its disaster risk management and humanitarian work, and Plan is now recognised as one of the global leaders in child-centred disaster risk reduction. In particular, with ECHO, Plan collaborates and mobilises resources from ECHO for both humanitarian response and for disaster preparedness and risk reduction work (through DIPECHO).
The ECHO Partnership Manager position is a newly created role in the Plan EU office, to respond to the fact that the Plan EU office will soon become the Global Account Manager for ECHO on behalf of the Plan family. The Account Manager oversees the fundraising process and the engagement strategy with ECHO. Its role is to maximize funding potential for Plan as a whole and influence ECHO around Plan priorities and approaches. He / she is responsible to ensure that there is a coherent and managed approach and collaboration within Plan towards ECHO, presenting a “One Plan” face to the donor. All work needs to be aligned with Plan’s DRM efforts. This position is designed to ensure that Plan is effective and efficient in its fundraising and influencing with ECHO and that it has effective and contractually compliant systems and processes to deliver any programme and manage any contract.
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How to apply:
To apply for the post, please send a single page letter outlining the skills and approach that you would bring to the post, your self assessment against the requirements and competencies, together with your CV toalexandra.makaroff@plan-international.org by 5 September 2014, 6pm Central European Time, with the title “ECHO Partnership Manager”. Interviews will take place in Brussels during the week of 22nd September 2014. We regret that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.