Senior Institutional Partnership Advisor

Are you looking for a challenging and impactful role where you will be able to use your experience working with private foundations and innovative financing to help strengthen the work of Save the Children globally?

Save the Children is one of the world’s leading child rights-based organizations and we are currently seeking an experienced and dynamic Senior Institutional Partnership Advisor with a proven track record when it comes to engaging strategically and effectively with private foundations and innovative finance.

The position is part of our Asia team and advises across the department and collaborates closely with colleagues across the Save the Children Alliance and within the house.

YOU WILL
The Senior Institutional Partnership Advisor ensures that Save the Children Denmark identifies and utilizes all relevant funding opportunities with private foundations and innovative finance in a strategic and coordinated manner and ensures that relationships with key private foundations are developed, maintained, and strengthened. The responsibilities include among other things the following:

• Work strategically with our key donors, particularly develop our engagement with large private foundations in order to increase funding and maximise policy influencing.
• Lead on the strategic engagement with key donors and financial partners. You will ensure that relationships with assigned donors are further developed and strengthened.
• Be responsible for capturing, analysing and disseminating information concerning funding and policy trends.
• Advise the teams and the department and serve as Save the Children Denmark’s donor focal point internally and externally for selected donors.
• Be part of a regional team, but also work closely with the team of institutional partnership advisors and contribute to the department as a whole while being supported by an account officer and a student assistant.

KEY TASKS

• Relationship management - engage with key stakeholders both internally and externally and keep updated on key development and opportunities
• Programming - engage in funding opportunities and pro-actively develop new ideas and pitches to bring forward
• Collaboration - coordinate around public-facing campaigns, advocacy and information about the partnerships including key learnings
• Account management - engage with all stakeholders to share and advice as well as negotiate on new opportunities and account setup
• Innovative finance - be the key focal point on innovative finance and blended finance and link with other actors

­­YOUR PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL PROFILE
The relevant candidate has a master level university education in a relevant area of study or similar qualifications. In addition, we expect that you have the following experience and competencies and have successfully applied them for at least a decade:

• Experience working with private foundations and private-sector funding, and preferably concrete experience working with innovate financing.
• Strategic skills in partnership and programme management and understanding of Save the Children’s main technical areas.
• Knowledge of and experience working directly with a wide range of donor partners and internal stakeholders.
• Experience, interest and knowledge of current thinking and future trends for international development issues.
• Proven experience of providing creative and innovative approaches in developing new initiatives that contribute towards partnership objectives.
• Strong leadership behaviours, including external orientation, situational agility, partner focus, delivery of results, strategic vision and purpose, negotiating & influencing.
• Understanding of project design, quality programming and effective delivery and complexities of various country contexts.
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English and preferably also in Danish.

In addition to the above, you are a natural communicator with strong networking skills and can convey complex issues with clarity and brevity. You find it motivating to build new, fruitful working relationships and you excel at delivering tailored, influential advice to internal and external audiences. You are a self-driven, problem solver, and take effective decisions you are prepared to account for - based on full evaluation of the opportunities and risks, and by keeping in touch with external trends and their potential impact on strategic choices.

TERMS & RECRUITMENT PROCES
Save the Children Denmark employs a hybrid working model to offer its employees flexibility regarding location of execution of work. Accordingly, as an employee, you can work from home during the week if the work allows it and in agreement with your manager.

You will be employed according to the terms and conditions of the local Collective Agreement between Red Barnet and the relevant unions. Employment and salary follow SCD’s present terms and conditions. Travel may be required 2-3 weeks annually.

Deadline for applications is

Sunday 29th September (23:59 o'clock - Copenhagen time)
. Interviews will be held in the following weeks.

Department: Gammel Kongevej 60 , Frederiksberg C

Location: DK - København

Application deadline: 29 Sep 2024