Regional Business Development Coordinator job at Danish Refugee Council
JOB DETAILS:

Founded in 1956, The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organization providing direct assistance to conflict-affected populations – refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and host communities – in more than 40 countries around the world.
The EAGL Regional Office covers the following country operations: Burundi, Djibouti, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

Overall purpose of the role:
Responsible for supporting the EAGL Regional Head of Programme and Executive Director by leading business development processes at regional level, including partnership engagement, strategic programmatic development, and proposal development. S/he is tasked with anchoring business development in the region to strengthen existing and identify new partnerships and opportunities at regional and country level, and accountable to country programmes for technical support and expert advice around engagement and proposal development.

Responsibilities:
Overall
• Develop, coordinate, and lead regional processes for business development and strategic programme development including portfolio analyses.
• Support donor engagement and the development and maintenance of strategic partnerships in the region.
• Provide business development support to country programmes within the region upon request.
• Coordinate with relevant global functions to ensure regional efforts are in line with organisational

Partnership Engagement
• Contextualise global fundraising and engagement strategies for the region and develop regional donor engagement plans to foster and maintain constructive, long-term relationships with strategic regional donors and partners.
• Lead regional donor mapping and analysis exercises to identify strategic donors (including institutional, private sector, foundations, and non-traditional donors) and areas of programmatic priority overlap and alignment.
• Support donor and partner engagement efforts of the Regional Head of Programme and Executive Director through preparation, intelligence, follow up, and general maintenance of strategic regional partnerships.
• Maintain a comprehensive regional donor database to track donor engagements and coordinate donor outreach and communications throughout the region.
• Develop appeals, marketing materials, capacity statements, and other communications at regional level in close coordination with country programmes, regional leadership, and HQ PEF Division.
• Proactively monitor donor portals and track donor engagements to identify and disseminate new and strategic funding opportunities throughout the region.
• Provide expert advice to country programmes around engagement and fundraising strategies and support country programmes in the development of country engagement strategies, donor mapping exercises, and identification of funding opportunities.

Strategic programmatic Development
• Lead the development of new, strategic, or complex interventions and proposals (such as long-term consortia) at regional level, including external communication with donors or partners and internal coordination and process management with relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborate with regional programme and support teams to align and adapt strategic programmatic priorities and regional capacity with regional donor strategies and funding opportunities.
• Under the direction of the Regional Head of Programme, lead or support country programmes in the development of new, strategic, or complex interventions and proposals outside of country programme capacity or resources.

Proposal Development
Lead the development of multi-country and regional proposals and projects, including convening relevant colleagues in the region and global leads and managing processes to deliver quality and timely submissions.
Upon request and under the direction of the Regional Head of Programme, provide proposal development support to country programmes, including substitution support and expert advice around concept/programme design and narrative proposal development.

About you
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:
• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.

Experience and Technical comptencies
• At least 5 years of experience at a senior level leading strategic new business development, strategic engagement, and fundraising efforts.
• Demonstrated experience leading the development of high-value and complex proposals to humanitarian or development donors. Experience engaging non-traditional donors and alternative funding mechanisms is a distinct advantage.
• Demonstrated experience with effectively engaging, coordinating, and maintaining networks with donors, partners, and local actors.
• Demonstrated knowledge of humanitarian and development programming in any of the EAGL countries.
• Degree in political science, international development, economics or other relevant field.
• Political and cultural sensitivity, patience, tact, diplomacy, persistence, and a team-oriented attitude.
• Willingness to travel across EAGL countries, sometimes on short notice.
• Full professional proficiency in English
• Good working knowledge of French preferred

What we offer
Contract: 1 Year Contract with the possibility of extension, subject to funding and performance.
Salary: in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment Non-Management Band/ F.
Availability: 1st February 2023.
Duty station: Nairobi, Kampala or other DRC office in the EAGL region
Reporting Line: Regional Head of programmes EAGL

Providing equal opportunities We are committed to creating an inclusive and positive work environment based on mutual respect for all employees. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to race, age, ability, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other factor. At DRC we celebrate diversity and appreciate our employees for the people they are and their unique skills, backgrounds, and perspectives. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.
DRC strives to attract, motivate and retain qualified national staff within its programs. As such, we strongly encourage national and diaspora candidates to apply for this position. However, candidates should take into consideration that DRC cannot employ, under an international contract, a national of the country in which he or she will be working.
Promoting high standards : DRC’s capacity to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, IDP’s and other persons of concern depends on the ability of our staff to uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. DRC conducts thorough and comprehensive background checks as part of the recruitment process.

Application and CV
Only motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered.
DRC only accepts applications sent via our online-application form on www.drc.ngo under JOB.
Please submit your application and CV in English no later than 16th December 2022


DRC as an employer
By working in DRC, you will be joining a global workforce of around 8000 employees in 40 countries. We pride ourselves on our:
• Professionalism, impact & expertise
• Humanitarian approach & the work we do
• Purpose, meaningfulness & own contribution
• Culture, values & strong leadership
• Fair compensation & continuous development


DRC’s capacity to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, IDP’s and other persons of concern depends on the ability of our staff to uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. DRC conducts thorough and comprehensive background checks as part of the recruitment process.

JOB DETAILS:

Are you passionate about supporting people and communities affected by displacement to build their resilience to climate change, environmental degradation and conflict? Do you have demonstrated knowledge of programming for multisector resilience in conflict-affected areas?

Who are we?
Climate change increasingly interacts with the drivers of displacement, including conflict, and disproportionally affects developing countries hosting the majority of the world's refugees and displaced persons. Therefore, through its Strategy 2025, DRC commits to respond to the global climate crisis and environmental degradation by increasing the adaptive capacities of people affected by conflict and displacement and by ensuring that our own conduct is nature-positive. The Programme Division develops programmatic concepts and strategies relevant to DRC’s international operations and delivers support to operations within these areas. The Programme Division hosts various global specialist lead functions including for DRC’s five core sectors: Protection, Shelter & Settlements, Humanitarian Disarmament & Peacebuilding, Camp Coordination & Camp management, and Economic Recovery. The Division is furthermore overall responsible for continuously developing and implementing DRC’s programme handbook and the DRC Response Framework, which articulates how DRC seeks to save lives, promote durable solutions and address root causes of displacement, - capturing DRC’s engagement with persons of concern from the beginning to the end of their displacement. The Programme Platform unit which hosts the Global Resilience advisor role is responsible for strengthening strategic program development, and systematically developing and effectively rolling out the DRC response framework.


About the job
The Global Resilience Advisor will lead DRC’s 2025 global strategic programming initiative to build resilience to conflict and climate change of people affected by displacement. The Global Resilience Advisor reports to the Head of the Programme Platform Unit with technical reference to the Global lead on Addressing Root causes of conflict & displacement (HQ). The Global Resilience Advisor works in close collaboration with DRCs Global Sector & Platform Leads, the Global Environmental Advisor and establishes strong working relationships with regional & country heads of program. The Global Resilience Advisor is a key member of DRC’s ‘go green’ community of practice and will form part of a team of global green advisors.
The overall responsibility of the Global Resilience Advisor is to manage DRC’s Conflict & Climate resilience strategic programming initiative (SPI), namely by driving development of multisector, community-driven resilience programming and disaster risk reduction, and building DRC staff capacity in this domain. In so doing, the Global Resilience Advisor will seek to build on DRC’s existing work across its core sectors and will coordinate closely with global and regional sector leads. The Global Resilience Advisor sets standards for climate & conflict resilience programming in accordance with global good practice, provides programme quality control & monitoring, leads on global/cross-regional programme design and business development and engages in strategic alliance building with global resilience (development) partners and policy forums. This is a full-time global role.


Strategy and Policy
• Develop and maintain global partnerships for evidence-building and learning on conflict & climate resilience 
• Support external communication for donor & partner influencing and shared learning based on DRC’s regenerative resilience programming
• Work closely with the Global and Regional MEAL and communications teams to ensure research, learning and data from resilience programming are captured, documented and institutionalized and shared (incl through multi-media approaches)
• Strengthen DRC’s relationships with academic institutions focused on research and learning on regenerative resilience and circular practices
• Ensure that DRC’s competitive slot as a global leader in Regenerative Resilience in Displacement is secured and further strengthened
• Represent DRC in policy and donor fora, contributing to global debate on ecological responses to conflict, natural disasters and global migration



Technical advice and support
• Provide technical support for Regional Office and Country managers in the design, quality control and monitoring of community-led systems-based resilience programming and disaster risk reduction.
• Contribute to raising funds for (cross)region regenerative and circular resilience programming applying systems-based and nature-positive solutions. 
• Deliver relevant policy, standards, resources, guidance and tools to country and regional operations.
• Contribute to DRC’s learning and evidence-building on resilience & community-led disaster risk reduction programming, including by collecting and sharing good practice.
• Support documentation and replication of good practices across countries/regions.



Resources, training and learning
• Build DRC sector staff capacity on programming for community resilience to (interlinked) conflict and climate risks. This will include development and roll-out of a global resilience manual, training package and establishing a Global Resilience Learning Hub.
• Oversee technical capacity building of field teams through in-person, site-based trainings and demonstrations.
• Ensure institutional knowledge management on resilience, including maintaining and updating Intranet site and Collaborative Space / SharePoint.
• Collect and disseminate internal learning on circular practices and regenerative resilience programming and work with the Go Green global advisor in Asia on strategies for organizational change in support of nature-positive programming.


About you
• To be successful in this role we expect you to have minimum 6 years’ experience in progressively more senior recovery and development programming roles, including minimum 3 years designing and managing complex multisector resilience initiatives in conflict-affected locations.
• All employees should master DRC's core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity.



Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required
• Excellent and up-to-date knowledge of systems-based approaches and resilience concepts, policy debates and practical (technical) methods.
• Demonstrated excellence in implementing circular, regenerative and restorative practices using participatory methods with vulnerable and displaced communities, working in a variety of country contexts.
• Demonstrated experience in applying innovative approaches to climate change adaptation in conflict-affected contexts.
• Demonstrated knowledge of conflict analysis, conflict sensitivity and/or conflict resolution techniques.
• Experience working in complex institutional environments and a strong ability to establish close collaborative working relationships across dispersed geographical locations. 
• Demonstrated experience in training design and facilitation, on circular practices, regenerative resilience and/or climate change adaptation. 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including writing and facilitation. 
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as part of a small team, and to form close working relationships with a diverse range of multi-cultural colleagues. 
• Highly motivated and hard-working, with strong attention to detail. 
• Strong computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point).
• Able and willing to travel for up to 45 days per year.

Desirable
• Experience designing and implementing community disaster risk reduction programming.
• Experience in applying conflict analysis and conflict sensitivity techniques to programming
• Demonstrated understanding of peacebuilding and/or community safety programming.
• Experience conducting technical trainings in regenerative practices and circular economy.
• Experience using Climate vulnerability assessments in programme design and implementation.
• Experience with forecast-based and/or climate early warning programming.


We offer
Contract length: Two years with possibility of extension, subject to donor funding
Workplace: DRC Regional Office East Africa and Great Lakes based in Nairobi, Kenya or DRC Country Office Kampala, Uganda   

Employment band: Non-management F
 Salary and conditions for the position will be on DRC terms.


Application process
All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV in English. Apply online on our page. Current Vacancies at www.drc.ngo.
Closing date for applications: December 16, 2022. We expect to conduct interviews early next year



DRC as an employer
By working in DRC, you will be joining a global workforce of around 8000 employees in 40 countries. We pride ourselves on our:
• Professionalism, impact & expertise
• Humanitarian approach & the work we do
• Purpose, meaningfulness & own contribution
• Culture, values & strong leadership
• Fair compensation & continuous development


DRC’s capacity to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, IDP’s and other persons of concern depends on the ability of our staff to uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. DRC conducts thorough and comprehensive background checks as part of the recruitment process.