Director Resource Mobilisation

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

The Director of Resource Mobilisation provides leadership within the organisation on UN multi-lateral funding and all donor engagement for humanitarian response. The position oversees and leads in strengthening of resource mobilisation and grants management by providing leadership and support for prepositioning, designing and managing humanitarian response work. This includes programming funded by UN agencies principally, as well as USAID, ECHO, and other pipelines for humanitarian response in coordination with lead Support Offices.

This position manages a team of Senior Technical Advisors and Technical Directors to support Field Offices and liaise with Support Offices. The position closely coordinates with sector teams and Grant Acquisition and Management leadership and staff to ensure well integrated programmes for impact, particularly in the pursuit of multi-sector funding. Key to this position is the leadership and oversight on the Program Investment Management Framework (Booking Protocol) for the different UN pipelines (UNICEF, OCHA UNHCR and WFP) and quality assurance and ensuring reduction of complexity throughout the process to ensure responsiveness and competitiveness. This also involves the process of mobilising match funding from the different WV Support Offices to enhance accountability and complementary interventions for impact.

The Director Resource Mobilisation is a key position in the team reporting to the Senior Director of External Engagement and Resource Mobilisation. He/she supports the positioning of World Vision as a partner of choice for multilateral donors and contributes to advocacy work on quality funding in humanitarian response.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership and Strategy Execution:

• Responsible for leading development and implementation of the resource development plan for the DM team to ensure UN multilateral engagements are well institutionalised and supported.
• Leads the growth of WV UN multilateral funding across the WV partnership and supports in developing of policies and practices.
• Provide strategic support for Field Offices to grow UN funding across World Vision field programs.
• Lead and be accountable for the development and management of the framework for the acquisition, management and booking of resources UN agencies (UNICEF, OCHA, UNHCR and WFP).
• Ensures that the unit is engaged in strategic level and building core relationships with multilateral donors (WFP, OCHA, UNICEF, UNHCR and WFP) at global, regional and national office level.
• Responsible for the effective coordination of support offices in the mobilisation and management of match funding for UN grants.
• Leads the alignment of the Food Assistance strategy and the fragile context model to WV global sector approaches to support achievements of the partnership strategy- through technical approaches (TA) and technical programmes (TP).

Coordination and Representation

External:

• Responsible for establishing global agreements and relationships with assigned UN agencies to foster partnership with WV for growing UN funding.
• Coordinate mapping of donors, understand donor expectations and areas of influence.
• Represent WV in external coordination and strategic meetings and specifically with Regional and global donors (UNICEF, UNHCR, OCHA, WFP, USAID, and other UN agencies) to profile the organisation and ensure that we are well represented in these forums where issues of humanitarian assistance are being discussed.
• Lead the engagement of WV in the global coordination platforms e.g. food security cluster, inter agency standing committee (IASC) ICVA, UN coordination forums to support and profile the work of WV and influence other partners to adopt WV good practices.
• Analyse, identify and influence global partnership opportunities to work with key external institutions towards joint programming with WV as a key participating agency (universities, UN or other INGO partners to foster humanitarian funding.
• Develop relevant and value adding relationships with external agencies that’s are core to the operations of the team.

Internal:

• Promote collaboration/integration with livelihood, health and education sectors to strengthen national office resource mobilisation and joint programming for UN grants.
• Influence and lobby regional leaders, resource development directors, HEA Directors, national directors and support offices to expand programmes and enter new areas based on needs (Food Assistance, Nutrition, water, sanitation, education, child protection, refugee programmes) through UN multi-lateral funding.
• Oversee the development of effective working relationship between the team and the WV Relationship Managers (WVUS FSL for US government funded grants, WVUK for United Kingdom funded pipelines, EULO Office for EU/ECHO funded pipelines, WV Netherlands and WV Germany the bilateral pipelines.
• Lead the coordination with GAM in the pursuit of emergency response funding and other relevant food assistance pipe.

Program Development and Donor Engagement:

• Guide and influence the process of donor prioritisation and ensure systematic engagement UN donors through engaging with SOs for potential entry with new donors and establishing relationships with their Regional representatives.
• Accountable for creating and guiding food assistance program expansion in selected National Offices based on vulnerability.
• Responsible in leading the expansion of UN Multilateral programmes during emergencies and ensures effective implementation.
• Coordinate with the Regional Leadership during Disaster Declaration of emergencies and developing resource mobilisation plans for multi-lateral organisations.
• Responsible for meeting the growth strategy targets for humanitarian funding streams, identify where needs exist and influence adoption of programmes.

Lead in conducting context analysis for different regions and identify opportunities and work with Senior Technical advisors and directors to pursue the opportunities and expand programmes to respond to slow or rapid onset disasters and fragile contexts

Leadership and Management:

• Participate in management meetings and activities including regular meetings, training activities, devotions and other activities as requested.
• Lead in the supervision of three key functions in the unit namely Director, Technical director and senior technical advisors to ensure compliance and performance on their roles.
• Establish performance agreements and development plans with each direct report and ensure they do the same for their direct reports.
• Mentor, coach and facilitate career progression and leadership development for members of the team.
• Provide leadership and guidance in the formulation of key policies and standards for the unit and monitoring compliance and consistency in the interpretation of such policies and procedures.
• Ensure alignment and integration of the Unit plan and goals of line ministries with overall WV partnership strategy and goals.
• Active contribution and support in spiritual nurture of staff.

Knowledge Management and Evidence based:

• Coordinate research, documentation and reflection exercise for learning and evidence building for donor portfolio.
• Facilitate the documentation and dissemination of field best practices, case studies and success stories for engagement with different stakeholders.
• Provide technical inputs into policy briefs to ensure quality of advocacy messages.
• Engage with different advocacy initiatives to mobilise funding from multilateral donors.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• A minimum of 10 years working experience in a high-level management position in program development, donor relations or related field.
• Track record of strong and positive relationships with significant Humanitarian assistance stakeholders (i.e. WFP, UN agencies, NGOs and major donors).
• Minimum of 10 years work experience in senior management leading to a high degree of expertise and knowledge of effective resource mobilisation and acquisition.
• A deep and broad understanding of business operations within World Vision or a similar organisation.
• Significant multi-cultural leadership and management experience.
• Professional maturity translating into the ability to provide counsel and expertise to senior professionals.
• Ability to coach and support experienced senior professionals, providing necessary direction and guidance, managing by objectives while delegating the detailed management of their teams and specialised areas of content.
• Direct experience in- and thorough working knowledge of- food assistance legislation and regulations of major donors including the United States, Canada, the European Union and Australia.
• Strong team player with proven ability to collaborate constructively and find solutions to achieve objectives while building and maintaining good relationships at all levels.
• Masters’ degree in International Development, Social Sciences, or a related field or equivalent experience required.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of an additional international language (French, Spanish and/or Portuguese) is highly preferred.
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English.

Work Environment/Travel:

• Travel internationally and domestically up to 30% of the time.