Description:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Manage relationships with WiDEF funders
- Establish and maintain productive relationships with all WiDEF funders including coordinating routine check ins, overseeing donor-specific reporting and ensuring WiDEF management team is continually up to speed on partner priorities and shifting needs / interests.
- Lead WiDEF quarterly leadership committee process – equivalent to managing board meeting preparations, meeting planning, etc - with USAID and BMGF
- Serve as relationship manager on WiDEF partnership and funder cultivation efforts
Support WiDEF Advisory Committee
- Coordinate advisory council of 10-12 executive-level leaders in digital inclusion from across the global south including managing engagement and process, generating and refining agendas; preparing pre-reads and other materials; and supporting WiDEF Technical Director in managing quarterly meetings, including supporting online facilitation, capturing and ensuring completion of all follow up actions
- Build relationships with AC members and explore avenues to maximize value of AC to WiDEF and of WiDEF to AC members and their institution
Manage internal CARE partnership collaboration processes and groups
- Establish and maintain relationships with wide array of internal stakeholder groups including but not limited to Global Managment Team, Executive Management Team, Board of Directors, Resource Development, Institutional Program and Operations and Program, Strategy and Innovation teams.
- Coordinate WiDEF engagement with these stakeholder groups to maximize value of CARE to WiDEF and of WiDEF to CARE
WiDEF partnership communications and marketing collateral and support KM generally
- Generate evergreen and opportunity-specific partnership marketing materials for WiDEF ensuring the program is always prepared to advance partnership opportunities. This includes developing standard materials as well as crafting tailored collateral for specific partners / cultivation opportunities, particularly presentations/pitch decks and follow up communications.
- Support overall WiDEF knowledge management, including ensuring WiDEF team and collaborators are able to access the information easily and efficiently on demand.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 7+ years of professional experience and a track record of successful partnership development, stakeholder management and/or resource mobilization, ideally within a global organization or company.
- Detail oriented, self-sufficient and proactive – anticipate scenarios, develop contingency plans, proactively engage and guide leadership team to ensure partnerships are healthy and thriving
- Knowledge of global development landscape