Country: Myanmar
Closing date: 05 Oct 2017
Position: Business Development Manager (Pursuit Lead) /Programme Funding Manager- Asia Pacific
This role will provide proactive funding strategies and increase VSO funding from a diverse range of donors of institutional donors (e.g. EU, UN, DFID, USAID etc.) in support of VSO's programmes and regional operations. You will deliver business development leadership and coordination for VSO Country Offices in Myanmar, Philippine, and Pakistan
This is an exciting opportunity to provide critical strategic leadership to maximize VSO's funding for high quality programmes with far reaching impact in Myanmar, Philippine, and Pakistan.
Skills, qualifications and experience
• Experience of securing funding from a range of institutional donors and direct experience of producing compelling project proposals and designing and implementing successful business development strategies
• Proven ability to research new funding opportunities and to make appropriate judgements about their potential to realise significant restricted income
• Experience of establishing and cultivating strong donor relationships that have delivered substantially increased income
• Proven track record in writing winning donor proposals for donors including USAID, EC, UKAID, SIDA and UN Agencies – including proven ability to develop log frames, monitoring frameworks, and theories of change
• Experience of establishing partnerships between organisations including teaming agreements and consortia bid development. This includes experience of working with major development contractors.
• Experience of preparing compelling, high quality documentation (concept notes, presentations, proposals, budgets, reports, logframes, theories of change etc) for different donor and partner audiences
• Familiarity with M&E tools; theories of change, monitoring frameworks, and basic evaluation techniques
• Strong interpersonal skills, including written, verbal and presentation skills used in international settings – experience of leading and facilitating workshops and training
• Ability to be self-directed and take initiative within organisational mandates – strong administrative and organisational skills
Strong administrative and organizational skills: ability to be self-directed and take initiative
• Strong analytical and financial and skills
How to apply:
Please follow this link to apply:https://www.vsointernational.org/about/careers/jobs/regional-programme-funding-managerbusiness-pursuit-manager-a0md000000bffi8iaj