Save the Children, an organization that campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard, is recruiting a New Business Development Intern (NBD) at their Kenya Country Office – Nairobi.
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Regional and Multi-Country Programmes (RMCP)
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Internship
CHILD SAFEGUARDING: Level 3 the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The NBD Intern will be part of Save the Children’s East and Southern Africa Regional and Multi-Country Programmes. He/She will provide resource mobilisation and NBD support to the RMCP team.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Head of Programme Development – matrix line to the Head of RMCP
Dimensions: Save the Children works in 12 countries in East and Southern Africa (Kenya & Madagascar, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi and Ethiopia). This Intern role will mainly focus on supporting the RMCP in New Business Development.
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
1) Coordinate, lead and develop tools to track upcoming funding opportunities for decision and action.
- Assist the team to research and gather funding intel from potential new institutional donors, regional corporates and other non-traditional funding donors and sources through research on funding platforms and through sector publications aligned to the RMCP Strategy.
- Develop a plan to share gathered Intel with the Head of RMCP for further action and follow-up.
- Develop a calendar of upcoming opportunities.
2) Coordinate and lead knowledge management using SharePoint and other SCI Platforms for the RMCP BD Work
- Maintain files and data sharing on SharePoint and other SCI Platforms for ease of access by all team members.
3) Assist the RMCP team in designing and developing concept notes, technical thematic briefs, communication materials and packages and other related collateral for use in members’ and donors’ engagement.
- Assist the team in reviewing, proofreading, packaging and disseminating the above-mentioned documents as guided by the Head of the RMCP team.
4) Support the team in the coordination and management of multi-country and regional funding opportunities proposal development processes to ensure the process is well coordinated across teams and COs.
- Assist the Head of RMCP to analyse the opportunities, organise and effectively run regional/multi-country proposal kick-off meetings.
- Follow up with proposal team members to ensure meeting attendance and timely implementation of agreed-upon action points.
- Support the proposal lead in writing/ filling out the non-technical section of the proposal document (as may be required) to ensure timely production of high-quality applications for donor funding.
- Assist the team to organise and facilitate key proposal development After Action Review Meetings.
5) Support the team in analysing the regional pipeline and strategic portfolios.
- Support the Head of RMCP to analyse the regional monthly/quarterly portfolio report by donor and sector to pick and document trends and factors affecting the RMCP success rate.
6) Perform any other BD related tasks as may be assigned by the Head of RMCP from time to time within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
- Holds self, the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary support to
- improve performance and timely applying appropriate channels to remedy the situations when results are not achieved or are delayed.
- Creates an environment that enables and maintains our culture of child safeguarding.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
- Future-oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to, builds and maintains effective relationships with the team, other SCI colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
- Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.
- Being agile and flexible enough to work collaboratively and successfully within a geographically dispersed cross-disciplinary, matrix team structure.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
- Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach.
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence.
- Displays consistent excellent judgement.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Recently completed a degree or studying for a degree course in business management, project management, international relations, international development, or a related field who wishes to gain some practical experience.
- Demonstrates some form of international development or fundraising BD experience in an NGO/INGO sector is highly desired.
- A high degree of attention to detail and the ability to lead key tasks to on-time completion under significant pressure and with minimal supervision.
- Strong analytical and information management skills;
- Excellent computer skills, especially in MS Excel spreadsheets, PDF and MS Word required
- High level of integrity and ability to work as part of a professional team
- Excellent communication, process and time management skills.
- Proven ability to handle a challenging workload
- Cross-cultural experience, understanding and sensitivity;
- Strong/Excellent interpersonal, networking, written and oral communication and re/presentation skills;
- English fluency (written and verbal) required
- Commitment to Save the Children values.
