Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, February 09, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Co-Funding & Partnerships Manager

DESCRIPTION
The objective of this role is to support Africa's self-determination leveraging African giving and government funding; maximizing areas for partnership with government, regional bodies, and other funders; and co-designing solutions with African communities, governments, and institutions to ensure accurate problem diagnosis and self-sustaining impact.
CIFF aims to play a catalytic role as a funder and influencer to deliver urgent and systemic change at scale. The Co-funding, Partnerships and Risk Manager is a key member of the For Africa by Africa Pillar, and shall actively support the Co-funding, Partnerships Director and Head of Kenya office and other Africa directors in maintaining good working relationships with host government officials, regional bodies, donors, and other partners.
The manager is expected to proactively identify and track co-funding and partnerships opportunities, facilitate donor engagement, develop fundraising strategies, support development and sharing of co-funding and partnerships marketing materials, and coordinate proposal development for large and strategic co-funding and partnerships opportunities.

Co-funding and Partnerships
• Be the principal coordinator for co-funding and partnerships mechanisms including the development of ambitious, high-value or complex co-funding models and special purpose vehicles (e.g., impact funds, giving platforms etc) building on global, regional, and national expertise, and ensuring the highest quality product. This includes managing the overall process, developing the co-funding and partnerships calendar, leading the design of co-funding models, assigning roles, facilitating workshops, and ensuring inputs from staff are timely, competitive, and compliant.
• Identify, research, track, design, and disseminate information on new co-funding and partnerships opportunities with governments, bilateral, multi-lateral and other institutional funders, regional bodies, private sector, and non-traditional donors in line with the For Africa by Africa Pillar and CIFF Africa 2020-2025 Strategy.
• Develop and implement a fundraising strategy to leverage giving from Africa and beyond, working with Co-funding, Partnerships Director and Head of Kenya office and other Africa directors to lead research and identify potential donors to support our co-funding and partnerships vision.
• Develop concept notes, business cases and investment memos, maintain co-funding tracking systems as well as measurement against the Africa strategy and annual targets, and revise/track annual co-funding targets and forecasts accordingly. Regularly report on opportunities and metrics to relevant managers and directors.
• Pro-actively seek donor intelligence on prospective new opportunities for co-funding and partnerships. Lead co-funding analyses (financial modelling, portfolio analysis, donor landscape assessments etc) to identify and strategically invest in partnerships to advance country office strategies. Document information in trackers, reports, teasers or presentations to the leadership and external audience.
• Maintain an ongoing and regularly updated knowledge management system inclusive of context analyses, opportunities, and other resource relevant for future co-funding and partnerships proposal development (gender equality, risks analysis, assessments, data, social impact, cost effectiveness etc.) for effective capture planning.
• Engage and provide regular updates to the leadership on the status of the co-funding portfolio, and key trends to monitor. Actively track trends and advise leadership on strategic opportunities, relationships, and pivots necessary to grow.
• Conduct win/loss analysis and provide recommendations to increase success rate, while maintaining an appetite for innovative co-funding design.

Risk Management
CIFF seeks “bold solutions”. Boldness brings with it risk, particularly in areas of political, economic, and social controversy, that could damage CIFF’s reputation, endanger its license to operate and pose a threat to programmes and grantees as a regulated charity, safeguarding CIFF’s reputation helps secure the sustainability of the organisation.
• Primary responsibility for managing political, security, reputational and economic risk for the Africa team by being a co-lead of the Africa Risk Working group.
• Co-lead the Africa Risk Working group to ensure efficient progression of political, security, reputational and economic matters from trigger to execution.
• Help develop and implement standards and policies on political, security, reputational and economic risk consistently across the Africa at the direction of the Africa Risk Working group.
• Help drive the delivery of strategic standards and policies to ensure that the CIFF’s exposure to political and reputational risk is managed in a commercially sensitive, practical, and cost-effective manner.
• As subject matter expert, provide advice and support on political, security, reputational and economic matters and policy to Africa leadership and Africa Risk Working group and provide direction to other staff.
• Attend and contribute actively to meetings of committees charged with deliberating on political, security, reputational and economic risk matters relating to the Africa region. Help ensure that discussions take account of wider impacts relating to Africa region.
• Review information material to identify emerging political, security, reputational and economic risk and crisis issues and decide how they should be addressed and/or escalated. Advise the Africa Risk Working group of such issues and their potential impact.
• Review and contribute to Africa risk metrics to ensure political, security, reputational and economic risk is coherently reflected across the region. Produce standardized daily reports on political, security, reputational and economic risk within the region.
• Support the Global Team through the provision of reports and papers and conducting of research related to political, security, reputational and economic risk matters.

Strategic Engagement
• Build and strengthen critical relationships with national and local governments, bilateral and multilateral donors, regional bodies, private sector, indigenous African funders, strategic grantees, partners, and co-funders (e.g., diaspora platforms, individual remittances programmes, giving groups, high net-worth individuals, corporate and family foundations, co-investment platforms for African Philanthropy) to align CIFF’s mission and strategies.
• Provide active support to the Co-funding, Partnerships Director and Head of Kenya office, Africa leadership and other Africa directors to initiate and maintain co-funding and partnerships contacts, plan, and prepare for meetings and strategic in line with the broader Africa strategy.
• Ensure key contacts, required formats and donor strategies are kept up-to-date. Maintain updated capacity statements, factsheets, brochures, and visibility materials. Work with Communications and Partnerships Analyst to ensure relevant content is actively shared externally.
• Develop and maintain systems and tools to track contacts, external positioning opportunities, and donor engagements.
• Cultivate business relationships with government, corporates, and other funders for large scale or strategic co-funding and partnerships opportunities.

REQUIREMENTS
• A Master’s Degree in Finance, Economics or Business Administration, Social Sciences, International Development, or related field, or equivalent by experience, within relevant specialism in private and public financing and partnerships in development.
• At least seven years’ proven experience working in development finance-related consulting, financial advisory, investment banking, project finance or private equity, and track record leading large scale co-funding initiatives and strategic partnerships, successful networking and fundraising in at least two of the areas of: private sector fundraising, public sector partnerships (institutional donors), major donors or foundations.
• Experience leading and implementing fundraising strategies and concepts, with technical experience in financial modelling, risk analysis, and documentation, superior verbal, and written communications skills in English with ability to analyse and articulate strategic issues into appealing presentations/pitches/proposals and to develop targeted marketing materials as needed.
• Experience in establishing, maintaining, and converting collaborative relationships and opportunities with donors and government counterparts, bilateral and multilateral donors, regional bodies, development partners, private sector, philanthropic foundations, and other funders.
• Demonstrated experience utilising diverse, proactive, innovative strategies to competitively position for new funding and productive institutional relationships.
• Demonstrated strategic leadership, operational planning, risk management, and interpersonal skills in a very complex international setting
• Strong representation and negotiation skills

BENEFITS
Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefits package here at CIFF that includes, but is not limited to the following:
• Annual leave - 25 days per annum. Increasing by 1 day after each year of service, to a maximum of 30 days.
• Bonus - CIFF currently operates a discretionary bonus scheme.
• Pension
• Training allowance
• Wellbeing allowance
• Life insurance
• Health insurance

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) on jobs.workable.com to apply

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