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• Develop and maintain a Resource Development Business Plan to guide
  strategic interactions with potential donors and partners.
• Proactively build strong networks and relationships with key donors.
• Represent WVU to donors, both informally and formally, including
  giving presentations on behalf of WVU, as required.
• Represent WVU in negotiations with donors over grant contracts etc.
• Maintain a strong overall awareness of donor trends (both globally
  and for Uganda specifically) and awareness of specific, relevant grant
  opportunities.
• Facilitate and coordinate interactions between WVU colleagues
  (including technical specialists and senior leadership) and key donor
  representatives, as appropriate.
• Engage with WV Support Offices in order to support their donor
  interactions in global capitals.
• Collaborate with colleagues to develop and disseminate information
  resources (e.g. fact sheets, capacity statements, situation reports) that
  can enhance donor engagement.

• In addition to donor relationships above, the jobholder will:
• Collaborate with colleagues (especially technical specialists) to
  ensure effective networking through and information flow from inter-agency
  fora, including refugee sector working groups and government ministry
  working groups. This will include direct participation in such fora from
  time to time.
• Collaborate with colleagues (especially technical specialists) to
  ensure effective bilateral engagement with key government ministries.
• Proactively develop strong relationships with counterparts at peer
  NGOs, UN agencies, and other organisations in order to facilitate
  information sharing, enhance intelligence gathering on donor opportunities
  and identify potential partnerships for grant applications.
• Proactively develop strong relationships with World Vision Support
  Offices with a view to identifying new funding opportunities from private
  fundraising sources.
• Represent WVU within the global organization as focal point for
  Grant Acquisition & Management, interacting with other World Vision
  offices including in the East Africa Region (EARO), Brussels and Geneva
  offices, and Global Centre.

• Steer the development and submission of winning funding applications
  (approximately 50 applications annually) in accordance with WVU Grant
  Acquisition Procedures and related best practices. This shall include
  day-to-day coordination of a team of Business Development Officers and,
  from time to time, direct writing of proposals.
• Make timely recommendations to Senior Leadership Team on grant
  opportunities, which should be pursued.
• Ensure strong collaboration with World Vision Support Offices on
  relevant funding opportunities.
• Ensure strong coordination with other departments within WVU on
  proposal development, notably technical specialists, operations division
  and finance.
• Engage additional resources from within the World Vision
  International partnership, as necessary, in order to enhance proposal
  development. This may include technical specialists, grant writers (where
  surge capacity is needed) or other contributors.

• Manage a team of 3-5 staff ensuring high performance management,
  capacity building and teamwork.
• Provide leadership in facilitating a high performance management
  culture, open trustworthy staff relationships and integrity to enhance
  smooth staff relations and accountability.
• Lead recruitment processes, as required.

• Contribute, as required, to ongoing development of the WVU National
  Strategy, particularly giving advice from the perspective of latest donor
  trends.
• Collaborate strongly with Operations division for smooth handover of
  awarded grants so as to ensure effective start-up of implementation.
• Provide ongoing advice to Operations division, as required, on
  issues relating to donor regulations and relationships.
• Maintain a general overview of the implementation status of existing
  grant projects so as to be able to effectively communicate with donors, as
  required.
• As a senior staff member, participate in and actively support the
  overall leadership of the Programme Quality division.
• Be flexible to undertake additional tasks, from time to time, in
  order to enhance the overall performance of the Programme Quality division
  and WVU in general.
• Contribute to effective information management and information
  flows. This shall include provision of all relevant inputs into the
  Horizon information system and provision of necessary management reports
  within WVU and EARO.
• Ensure quality management of departmental budget.

• The applicant for the World Vision Senior Resource Development
  Manager job placement should preferably hold a Bachelor’s degree in a
  relevant field (masters is preferred).
• Five years of experience in programme design and/or proposal
  development. Significant experience of government donor relations and
  fundraising is essential.
• Well informed on latest trends in grants sector.
• Excellent writing skills.
• People management skills. Strong interpersonal and networking skills
  to work cross organizationally and with different cultures.
• Results oriented leader with the ability to handle a heavy work
  load, manage and satisfy multiple conflicting organizational, donor and
  other stakeholder demands.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all staff
  and other key partners.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Demonstrate leadership and team building ability.
• Ability to provide spiritual leadership to the team.
• Good planning and organizational skills.

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