Specialist – Business Intelligence and Fundraising
Job Description
Title: Specialist – Business Intelligence and Fundraising
Company Name: Practical Action - Bangladesh.
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master of Social Science (MSS)
∎ Master degree in Agricultural Science /Business Administration/ Natural Science/Environment /Disaster Risk Reduction/Development Studies/Economics or any other relevant field.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Co-ordination of funding proposal (on development issues) writing process to donors mainly for Agriculture (includes Fisheries, Livestock), Resilience and Climate change areas but also contribute in Urban WASH and Energy sector as necessary.
∎ Use organisational online proposal development and management system to facilitate an integrated proposal development process
∎ Writing, collating, editing narrative (Project Idea, Concept Note, Result Framework, Theory of change, Full narrative etc.) of Agriculture, Environment and Climate change related proposals.
∎ Sourcing and donor intelligence data tracking from designated/open sources, sharing donor call information, assess donor call and donor priority, continuously update donor base and conduct donor mapping.
∎ Networking with Foundations, Institutional donors, Corporate, UN, INGOs, Champions of different sectors, Universities, Think Tanks, research institutes, private entities, Government Ministries, on issues of common interest for consortium building
∎ Writing opportunity summary from donor calls, capacity statements, donor focal point coordination, Teaming Agreement, LOI/EOI
∎ Regular communication with donors (focal points) and representation, facilitate co-development of proposals, consortium building, strategic partner diligence and risk assessment,
∎ Work with UK Business development team, Global Change Hubs, on donor engagement strategies and integrated proposal development, work with M & E L on contextual assessment of a proposal, call feasibility assessment, capacity beguiling on proposal writing, Sharing donor compliance of a call
∎ Donor liaison, relations, networking and building funding consortium building
∎ Understand the problems, opportunities, scope of innovation and systemic change issues around Practical Action's change ambitions - 1) Farming that work 2) Cities fit for people 3) Energy that transform, and 4) Resilience that protects
∎ Undertake field visits for fundraising (evidence gathering, stakeholder consultation, community consultation etc.) as required.
∎ Assess donor calls, check organizational and donor fit. Share donor intelligence to others in the country office and internationally weekly, monthly and quarterly
∎ Update the organization's online Project and Award Management System, HubSpot platform in regular intervals.
∎ Contribute to funding growth and gap analysis
∎ Report to Business Development and Quality Assurance Head and closely work with Strategic lead and Finance team, Operation Head, Project Managers/Specialists analyzing funding gap in each quarter and share that information for planning and income forecast.
∎ Regularly track the pipeline projects to calculate accurate pipeline amount of income by quarter and by year.
∎ Building organisational profile through donor relation and consortium building - 10%
∎ Represent Practical Action internally and externally (particularly to donors, partners ) on strategic matters related to income growth
∎ Support to strategic large projects as advisor, conduct studies for critical evidences.
∎ Invite donors to see our works, attend donor meetings
∎ Managing people: coordinate/Team up with Thematic specialists and Project Mangers for funding - 10%
∎ Encouraging joined up ways of working with other units of Country office- especially thematic leadership unit, HR, Gender Focal points, M & E L, programme delivery unit, and finance and services teams
∎ Develop sub teams for specific donor proposal identifying staff from different team, build team capacities related to marketing, strategic relationship and proposal development
∎ Promote team Learning & development including approaches such as coaching, mentoring, peer learning and reflection activities
∎ Delivering Performance reaching impact - 30%
∎ Measure success rate of our submissions, analyze and share door feedback, failure causes
∎ Collect donor and partner feedback on our works for future improvement in new calls
∎ Explore data from PAMs and generate quarterly updates, secured and unsecured and pipeline figures, update pipeline figures
∎ Collaborate with different thematic groups, M& E team and Communication & Marketing team, Gender Specialists as required under the supervision of Business Development and Quality Assurance Head.
∎ Work for Practical Action Consulting Ltd. arm for funding sources and conducting studies.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience in donor proposal writing and research paper writing (skills of editing articles, publishable papers), fund mobilization for a national or international development organization. Understanding/Coordination of development projects in agricultural areas, climate change and resilience will be considered as an advantage.
∎ Track record of working in development projects agriculture, energy and disaster risk reduction, resilience. Having research skills, overseas education will be an added advantage.
∎ A person well organized, attentive to details, and use concise, persuasive writing
∎ Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and to set priorities
∎ Excellent English writing, analytical and communication skills
∎ Excellent ability to work with a virtual cross-functional team
Salary: Tk. 90000 - 105000 (Monthly)
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Provident fund, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance, Gratuity
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
Company Information:
∎ 16 Jan 2022
∎ Practical Action - Bangladesh.
∎ Address : House # 28/A, Road # 5, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1205
∎ Web : www.practicalaction.org
∎ Business : Practical Action is an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.
We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.
We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.
Category: NGO/Development
