Head of International Partnership Development

ActionAid International

Johannesburg, Nairobi, London or Brussels

Directorate: Fundraising and Communications

Salary on International Grade F: starting £54,372 per annum

If you have extensive knowledge of major official donors and a proven record of securing significant funds from them, this position as Head of International Partnerships with ActionAid International is the perfect role for your skills. Focused on helping people use their own power to fight poverty and injustice we want you to provide strategic and operational leadership to achieve ambitious fundraising targets from institutional donors.

As Head of International Partnerships you will mobilise people and resources to deliver an innovative strategy and novel tactics to increase institutional income. You will develop and manage relationships with multi-lateral institutional donors and use your entrepreneurial flair to identify and secure new sources of partnership income. You will also ensure the development of systems, processes; practice and culture across the organisation to make sure we work to the highest standards in funds management. In addition, you will work with senior management colleagues to improve the management of institutional funds and develop training initiatives to increase the capacity of staff to oversee contracts.

A graduate in a relevant discipline you will have extensive experience of gaining significant funding from major official donors in a senior fundraising management role. This will have given you an in-depth understanding these type of donors and their funding policies and practices. You must have strong proposal development skills and can demonstrate you have developed and implemented successful entrepreneurial approaches to fundraising. Self-motivated with strong communication skills you will be effective at mentoring, coaching and developing people. In addition you must be able to demonstrate a strong commitment to develop, promote and practice our vision, mission, values and strategy.

If you have the skills and passion to make a difference please visit our website via the link www.actionaid.org.

In order to be considered for this position, you will need to have eligibility to work in South Africa, Kenya, UK or Belgium and you will need to provide proof of your eligibility to work in these locations. We may not be able to consider your application if you do not have the eligibility to work in either of these locations.

Application Procedures

Are you the right person for the job? Please read this carefully before you apply.

Please address the person specification in your application point by point and in detail as it enables us to identify the skills, knowledge and experience you have to be able to do the job effectively.

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification, in addition your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please don’t apply as we only invite candidates for an interview if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description. Thank you for your understanding. 

ActionAid International promotes diversity and welcomes applications from all section of the community.

Application Procedures

Applications should be sent with your CV, motivation/cover letter by no later than 5th August 2015. You are requested to highlight in the motivation/cover letter how specifically you meet the criteria for this role. Please clearly indicate which position you are applying for.

Internal Applications send to: applications.jhb@actionaid.org

External Applications send to: frcomms.jhb@actionaid.org

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. ActionAid International will not consider candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.