Working with partners across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Feba is all about the creative use of radio and other audio media to inspire people to follow Jesus Christ.We have a particular focus on ‘closed countries’ and ‘hard-to-reach’ people groups, including places where Christians face persecution for their faith.

We are looking for an outstanding, experienced and highly motivated individual for this new role.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing strong and enduring relationships with current and potential major donors and family trust funds.
• Create compelling, relevant and tailored funding proposals
• Design and develop a targeted contact strategy and bespoke cultivation plan
• Co-create a new major donor development strategy

You will have:

• A clear demonstrable personal Christian faith and a commitment to Feba’s ministry
• A successful track record of securing five or six figure grants from trusts/foundations and/or a major fundraising role
• A strong, engaging presence with individuals and groups
• Ability to negotiate and influence effectively with strong written and verbal skills
• Great networking skills and familiar with the current landscape, approach and technique

The Feba team is small (less than 10 people), all of whom care passionately about what we do.We love to roll up our sleeves, try new ways of doing things and support each other so that we can achieve our goals.If that sounds like you and you share our vision and values, then we’d love to hear from you.

Salary:Circa £21,000 per annum for 21 hours (FTE £35,000 p.a.)

Hours:21 hours per week

Location:Flexible working considered, yet within regular traveling

distance to West Sussex (Worthing - Chichester area).

Closing date:9.00am 2 November 2020

First Interviews:Weeks beginning 9 or 16 November 2020

For more information and application details, please visit the website

This post is subject to an Occupational Requirement that the post holder is a committed evangelical Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

We are seeking candidates with a strong background in safeguarding, with a focus on gender equality and inclusion to join our team at SDDirect.

Department: Technical Team

Location: Central London, with possible international travel

Reports to: Senior Consultant

Appointment term: One-year contract, with possibility for extension (we are open to negotiate whether it is part time or full time)

Salary:  Competitive package in line with experience

Specific requirements: You must be eligible to work in the UK and able to travel internationally.

Closing Date:  15 November 2020, 23:30pm GMT. Interviews will be held in late November.

Social Development Direct (SDDirect) is a leading provider of high-quality, innovative social development expertise, consultancy and research services. As a medium-sized, specialist firm, we  offer in-depth thematic expertise in safeguarding and gender-based violence; governance and inclusive services; security, justice & peace-building; and inclusive economic empowerment.

We have a strong track record, over 20 years, of providing high quality services that include technical advice and support, research, development assistance programme design, delivery and management, monitoring and evaluation. Our clients are leading international development agencies, international NGOs and Foundations. Read more about us and our work on our website.

We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Plan International UK, a leader in gender-based programming for children.  
 

TO APPLY

Your CV and cover letter should be tailored for this job application and should clearly demonstrate how you fit the person specification outlined below, and why you are applying for this role. The CV should be no longer than 3 pages, and the cover letter no longer than 1 page. In your cover letter, please also clearly specify:

• Your ability to travel overseas
• The names of two referees who may be contacted

Interviews will be held in November 2020. SDDirect strives to be an inclusive organisation. Please let us know if you would require any assistance in order to attend the interview, which will be held virtually via Skype, Zoom or Teams.

Due to the high volume of applications, we are only able to respond to shortlisted candidates.

Overview of the Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub (RSH): RSH aims to support organisations in the aid sector to strengthen their safeguarding policy and practice against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment (SEAH). 

The RSH is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). It is delivered by a consortium, led by Options, with Social Development Direct as technical and delivery lead. The contract started in December 2019 and will last for two years with an option to extend for a further two years.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Safeguarding role will provide cover for a period of one year from January 2021 to January 2022, with the possibility of extension.

This full-time position will spend 50% of the time as Capacity Development and Helpdesk Lead on the Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub. For the rest of the time, s/he will play a key role in a senior staff consultant position with the SDDirect Technical Team delivering technical work across our safeguarding portfolio and beyond. This will include desk-based and in-country work, such as undertaking evidence reviews and supporting programme design.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Safeguarding Resource & Support Hub

Helpdesk tasks

• Manage the helpdesk including liaison with RSH Senior Responsible Officer to raise awareness of the helpdesk and support the development of new queries
• Deliver new helpdesk queries or resource them as appropriate
• Provide quality assurance of queries together with the Senior Technical Advisor (STA) where these have been outsourced.
• Support the development of, or commission, spin off products for each RSH query that is completed.
• Work with relevant colleagues to make sure helpdesk reports and spin off products are translated as necessary.

Resource library

• On a daily basis keep the resource library fully up to date including staying on top of new publications and resources. This involves liaising with colleagues working on stakeholder engagement and subscribing to and reviewing relevant newsletters and websites.
• Conduct a quarterly in-depth review of new resources to be uploaded to the resource library in line with the RSH protocol for updating the online platform.
• Quality assure, code and summarise all new resources and share these with the Online Content Lead for uploading to the website.
• Conduct annual gap analysis to understand where key resource gaps are.
• Commission or develop new resources to fill existing resource gaps in close collaboration with other colleagues such as the evidence leads, STA, etc.
• Support the development of resource libraries in multiple languages, and commission translations of resources where needed to fill gaps.

Supporting national hubs

• Provide support on capacity development issues in relation to the development of country assessments.
• Provide support on capacity development to national hubs in relation to resource library, stakeholder engagement and other activities as and when necessary.

Other tasks

• Work closely with the capacity development leads to ensure capacity development plan objectives are met
• Participate in team meetings and key working groups
• Work with the online content lead to make sure the hub continues to stay relevant

SDDirect Other technical support

• Provide high quality safeguarding services to a range of clients (including government departments (e.g. FCDO and other UK Departments), international agencies, non-governmental organisations, foundations and consultancy partners
• Contribute to positive relationships and collaboration with clients and partners
• Support the growth of SDDirect’s safeguarding portfolio of work through providing technical input and content for relevant expressions of interest, bids and research proposals to prospective clients.
• Represent SDDirect and its work as needed at meetings and events.
• Support the development of SDDirect’s safeguarding body of knowledge and practice, strategic thinking, intellectual leadership and planning, staying abreast of current thinking methodologies and good practice in the field.
• Support in the delivery of other SDDirect projects across other portfolios (e.g. Gender Based Violence, Inclusive Economic Development, etc) as needed and depending on availability.

This is not an exhaustive list as duties may vary from time to time in consultation with the post-holder.

PERSON SPECIFICATION
This is an exciting post in an organisation with an international reputation for excellence. In order to meet this challenge, you will need to demonstrate the following experience, skills and attributes:

Essential:

• A university degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. international development, economics, politics, political economy, human rights, public administration, public policy, sociology, gender studies, peace & conflict studies, etc.) or equivalent
• Relevant experience (at least 10 years with some international/overseas experience) related to safeguarding in developing countries, working with multilateral, bilateral or non-governmental development organisations
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, gender equality and social inclusion issues
• Experience in implementing international development contracts on behalf of a multilateral, bilateral, foundation or NGO
• Experience in providing capacity development support
• Experience in research and knowledge management
• Excellent written, verbal and presentational skills and an ability to communicate complex ideas to a range of audiences
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• A clear commitment to human rights, gender equality and social justice
• A self-starter and strong team player
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Ability to travel internationally and to work legally in the UK

Desirable:

• Relevant skills and experience working in one or more of the following thematic areas:
  • Inclusive economic development (including women’s economic empowerment)
  • Governance and inclusive services
  • Security, justice and peace-building
  • Gender-Based Violence
• Bid-writing and proposal development experience for consultancy/research opportunities and tenders
• Experience of working in a consultancy role or as an employee of a donor agency, development finance institution, international NGO, development research body or multilateral development organisation
• Experience of working in the Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East/North Africa and/or South Asia
• Good public speaking, networking and representational skills
• Group and process facilitation skills
• Fluency in other languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East/North Africa and/or South Asia
• People and event management skills/experience

Do you speak Church? Can you help build passion for mission across a wide range of church styles and traditions using your fundraising and/or marketing skills for a great cause? Do you have the gift of administration?

If so then come join our Church Relations team and play a key role in helping us build and maintain relationships with churches for the sake of God’s mission.

Since CMS believes that all of God’s people are called to mission, it is specifically the task and responsibility of the Church Relations team to engage the UK church in the cause of mission and foster relationships that inspire and challenge: to increase awareness and understanding of mission and foster fruitful partnership. CMS offers a range of ways for churches to engage with global mission, including opportunities to establish formal links with individual people in mission, to receive a CMS speaker, and through prayer and fundraising resources.

The role is responsible to the Church Relations Team Manager, and the CRO will work closely with and support the Church Relations Advisers (CRAs). S/he will also liaise regularly with the wider Fundraising team, Mission Partners, and other colleagues within CMS whose functions have a direct bearing on his/her responsibilities, particularly within the Church and Community Mission, International Mission and Finance directorates.

The Church Relations Officer is a fixed-term, either full-time or part-time role 28 – 35 hours per week (4 or 5 days a week), with a starting salary of £27,480 (full-time; or £21,984 for 4 days a week), and a generous pension scheme contribution. The role will be based at home due to the current pandemic but the post holder will be expected to work from the CMS House, Oxford from time to time (occasionally) when the government’s regulation allows it as well as for key team meetings.

Currently CMS employees are working from home following government advice, and will continue to do so until the government allows office working. As this role is fixed-term, it is envisioned that the appointed person would be able to support the team working from home and equipment/ working tools will be provided.

The ideal candidate will be educated to A-level, ideally degree level, and have experience of fundraising and/or marketing experience, awareness of broad differences in church styles, traditions and etiquettes and experience of building and maintaining excellent ‘customer’ relationships, as well as proven administrative and database skills. The post holder should also be a committed Christian, in agreement with the aims and values of CMS, which can be found on our website, and willing to attend evening or weekend meetings occasionally if required.

This post is fixed term because the Church Mission Society is currently undergoing a strategic review to ensure that our approach to mission is fit for the next generation. The outcome of this work will be clearer organisational alignment around an agreed strategic focus, and organisational clarity that will improve the sustainability of our work, financially and otherwise.

Further details can be found in the job description and person specification available to download.

Closing date for receipt of completed applications:

• Midnight on Sunday 1st November 2020.
• Interviews will be held on 11 November 2020 at CMS house, Oxford or Zoom depending on government guidance.

Saferworld is an independent international organisation.

We believe in a world where everyone can lead peaceful, fulfilling lives, free from fear and insecurity. For 30 years we have worked to prevent violent conflict and build safer lives through our work in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

The Head of People and Culture will provide leadership and oversight to the overall development and delivery of Saferworld’s HR strategy. The position manages the provision of effective and professional human resource services and advice – including the design and implementation of HR policies, practices and strategic initiatives to ensure we recruit, retain and promote highly skilled and motivated people in every area of our work. A key element to the role will be the ability to work collaboratively with a diverse and committed group of senior managers and their teams: to encourage an organisational culture that supports effective behaviours and ways of working that demonstrate clear commitment to Saferworld’s values, mission and vision. The Head is expected to contribute regularly to Saferworld’s organisational learning and strategy development, be an active member of the organisational management group, and meet with the executive team monthly.

Saferworld’s staff are at the heart of our work and their skills and expertise ensure we continue to function a leading conflict prevention and peacebuilding organisation. As we evolve and grow, we want to ensure our programmes, research and capacity interventions retain their quality, stay rooted in the voices of people living in conflict, and ensure our staff are motivated and challenged in their work.

The successful candidate will have significant proven experience at a senior level in the HR management sector preferably in an international NGO. S/he will have a track record of developing and delivering an HR people strategy and of advising HR managers and senior staff. The post-holder will have the ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with a wide range of people, including across cultures and to lead and motivate a positive and inclusive team ethos.

How to apply

Candidates should submit a full curriculum vitae (including comprehensive details of key achievements and responsibilities) and a short covering letter, which fully addresses the competencies outlined in the job description and person specification.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact our recruitment partner.

Simon Lloyd, Director, NFP Consulting

Closing date: Monday 26th October

First interviews: Week beginning 2nd November

Final interviews: Week beginning 9th November

Overview:

Women for Women International works in some of the most dangerous places to be a woman. We serve women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas around the world in 8 countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Eastern Congo, and Northern Nigeria. Our core belief is that stronger women build stronger nations; and with access to knowledge, resources, and a support network, a woman rebuilds her life and improves her community.

Our model works and we have the data to prove it. In our 26-year history, Women for Women International has reached over half a million women. The women we work with across 3 continents earn just $0.81 a day when we enroll them. At graduation, it’s $2.11, nearly tripled.

Our impact goes beyond income. The number of women who say at least one household member went to sleep hungry in the last four weeks has gone from 18% to 5%. And more women say they speak out against women's abuse: 26% report having publicly spoken in the last 6 months against physically abusing women.

When women have the right tools, they realize the power within themselves to transform their lives, their families, their communities, and finally their entire nations.

Purpose:

Women for Women International has the ambition to dramatically increase grant funding to support programming that has been proven to be transformative for marginalized women survivors of war in fragile and conflict affected countries. The Director of Global Business Development will collaboratively weave together existing strategies at national and regional level into a comprehensive Global Business Development Strategy that can guide business development across the geographic footprint of the organization. This position will be responsible to ensure that the strategy is adaptive to a dynamic and sometimes disruptive global context, supporting the global organization to build the relationships and partnerships needed for global BDU staff and staff in county to go after the most strategic opportunities. This position is responsible to ensure that the Global Board of Directors and the Executive Leadership Team remains informed of progress towards targets and engaged, as appropriate or advantageous, in BDU activity.

In addition to strategic coordination and leadership, the Director of Global Business Development will take an active role in identifying suspects, cultivating prospects, leading proposal development processes as needed and ensuring effective stewardship of current funding partnerships. The global organization has strong teams that carry forward business development from the first identification of a prospect all the way through to the final grant report. This position is envisioned to help ensure that all the teams and the processes continue to work smoothly, efficiently and effectively. Given an ambitious growth strategy, a high volume of opportunities, proposals and activity, the ideal applicant will also have demonstrated experience in contributing to the nuts and bolts of successful proposals and the willingness to take part in any part of the process to ensure success.

Women for Women International offices around the world are increasing their business development capacity and, in some instances, hiring dedicated professional business development staff. The Global Business Development Director will support the continued capacity building of the global fundraising operations and help to ensure that country offices get the support they need to grow their capacity to raise money locally. In addition, this position will help to ensure that implementing country offices can have the most efficient and streamlined engagement with business development staff globally.

The location for this position is flexible with a preference for candidates from a region where WfWI currently works (Africa, Central Asia, Middle East, Europe or the US).

Duties and Responsibilities:

Global Business Development Strategy

• We have an adaptive and rolling strategy process. Keep track of global trends and new developments and draw up analysis from each fundraising operation in order to update and implement a multi-year strategy and an annual business development workplan that will enable WfWI to meet ambitious revenue targets.
• Ensure that the Global Pipeline is regularly updated and serves to help teams track progress towards revenue targets and informs decision-makers on progress toward goals.
• Report progress to and discuss challenges with the Leadership Teams and appropriate Board committees and the Global Board of Directors.
• Work closely with key fundraisers, program staff and other teams across WfWI to implement effective strategies and approaches to grow funding and scale our programs.
• Work across all parts of the organization that are engaging in various forms of partnership to ensure that we can leverage these partners in global BDU efforts, including identifying and cultivating strategic partnership relationships.
• Coordinate fundraising activities of relevant WfWI actors.
• Support Country Office and program staff to understand and implement best practice in fundraising and partnerships with governments, institutions, foundations and corporations.
• Builds strong relationships across the organization to strategically deploy programmatic experts, staff and leadership towards implementation of the Global BDU Strategy, including support to the CEO and other Executive Leadership and staff in country offices in efforts to build relationships with donors, steward current philanthropic partnerships and achieve strategic goals.

Identify Funding Sources and Cultivate Donors

• Manage business intelligence collection efforts by staying abreast of overall funding developments and understanding overall funder priorities and calls for proposals.
• Coordinate & manage the research and strategy for pursuing viable funding opportunities from foundation, corporations and government donors.
• Build and maintain an active pipeline of prospects, in keeping with revenue targets.
• Develop leads on promising funding opportunities by initiating outreach and strengthening relationships with current and potential donors, as required.
• Identify and build partnerships with other NGOs for joint proposals.
• Regularly communicate with country offices to gather business intelligence and keep them abreast of new areas of business development and ensure that each country has a comprehensive donor mapping and a business development strategy.
• Ensure that there is a strategic approach for key priority funders including mapping our approach to funding.

Prepare Proposals

• Depending on the size and complexity of the proposal, serve as lead coordinator, proposal reviewer, and/or lead writer on submissions.
• When coordinating a submission, manage technical writer, researchers or consultants where applicable, and anyone else directly involved in the application to produce compelling and competitive proposals.
• Train other staff members to coordinate all aspects of proposal development and to write high-quality proposals.
• Develop and cultivate relationships with technical specialists, subject-matter experts, and professional writers to contribute to technical solution designs, reviews, and analysis of proposals and business development strategy.
• Contribute to technical solution design processes as needed.
• Ensure that relevant internal stakeholders contribute to proposal design and that, when appropriate, relevant staff approve the final proposal.
• Liaise with colleagues in the development of a coherent budget, ensuring adherence to grantor criteria in relation to accepted costs, percentages, and format.

Support Country Office Business Development

• Coach and mentor Country Office teams to pursue local opportunities.
• Support Country Offices with updating of their business development plans
• Identify resources needed to strengthen fundraising capacity in countries.
• Develop a plan for strengthening business development in each Country Office.

Communication & Teamwork

• Prepare and communicate analysis and trends to the Leadership Team and Global Board of Directors.
• Communicate with colleagues in Global Programs Unit, Finance, Development, and the UK office. Must be able to operate in an environment with over-lapping roles.
• Develop an effective process for sharing proposals, templates, and cases for support so that all WfWI fundraisers can access material helpful to support their fundraising efforts.
• Participate in internal meetings and processes to represent the global BDU teams as needed.
• Performance manage direct reports in line with WfWI’s performance management framework, including setting of annual performance objectives, development plans, appraisals throughout the year, and regular one-on-one meetings
• Responsible for training, developing, managing and leading staff as well as hiring appropriate staff
• Ensure safeguarding measures are implemented within area of responsibility
• Follow up, and address Code of Conduct or Safeguarding issues appropriately
• Adhere to WfWI’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policies and report concerns

This position will require regular national and international travel, estimated at 25% but subject to change.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree required and Master’s degree preferred, in a relevant subject, or the equivalent in experience.
• At least ten years of experience in fundraising with hands on experience across at least two funding channels (i.e., foundations; corporate partnerships; or government (bilateral or multi-lateral) for an international NGO.
• Proven track record of success in fundraising with evidence of personal engagement and leadership of successful, large, and complex proposals and pitches.

• Proven successful grant writing experience.
• Adopts a growth mindset and has demonstrated experience in relationship-based fundraising strategies.

• Experience managing staff and working cross-departmental, cross-country contexts with a proven record of building, managing and working with virtual teams and creating an enabling environment.
• Current and strategic understanding of the global humanitarian, development and gender funding environment and future trends.
• Excellent spoken and written English to include research, writing, and communication skills.

• Editing experience and strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated experience building the capacity of staff in country offices.
• Independent, but good at working with a team and ability to coordinate with others to produce material on deadline, usually managing multiple deadlines.

• Proven ability to build consensus and support across, up and down the organization.

• Excellent budget management skills including the ability to oversee complex program budgets in compliance with donor requirements.
• Certification or formal credentialing in nonprofit fundraising management or philanthropic leadership a plus.

• Proficiency in French, Arabic, Swahili or Dari is a plus.
• International work experience delivering restricted/unrestricted funded projects a plus.
• Commitment to and respect for Women for Women International’s mission and values
• Computer skills including working with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Email
• Ability to travel as required and have flexible work schedule which may include early mornings, evenings and weekends. May be required to occasionally work beyond normally scheduled hours.

Organizational Values:

Adhere to WfWI’s Code of Conduct and organizational values -

Empowerment, Integrity. Respect. Resilience

The duties, responsibilities and activities of this job description may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.