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Job Title: Business Development Manager
Organisation: Living Goods (LG)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Deputy Director, Regional Business Development
About US:
Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in emerging markets, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them most. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, and wealth, of underserved communities.
Living Goods is on a rapid growth trajectory—we plan to expand our coverage from 1.9million people to reach 5.8 million people, almost tripling in size by 2020. To support these ambitious goals, the Living Goods Business Development team will have to raise significant funds from bilateral, multilateral and institutional donors in the US and globally. As such the Business Development team at Living Goods is growing quickly, to include a new position that supports our growing prospects.
Job Summary: The Business Development Manager should be a passionate individual with a strong track record of delivering results to join the fundraising team to further develop and build out our pipeline of funding opportunities. The position will focus on external facing relationship building with key bilateral, multilateral and institutional donors and implementing partners at the regional and country level with a focus on Kenya and Uganda. The candidate will also be expected to secure new grants by tracking and scoping priority opportunities, building partnerships with implementers as needed, and shepherding opportunities through to proposal submission—this will include internal tasks such as proposal writing, program design, budgeting, and the preparation of supplementary documentation. This position will require an exceptional eye for detail, a strong sense of professional judgment and responsibility, and solid writing and communications skills.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide support in the roll out the Living Goods business development strategy in East Africa, particularly with bilateral and multilateral donors
- Build and manage a high-value portfolio of existing donors and potential new prospects. For example:
- Research, track and analyze new funding opportunities and competitive intelligence and maintain a pipeline of opportunities relevant to Living Goods
- Develop and support the Uganda Country Director’s cultivation and strengthening of relationships with prospective funders, implementing partners, government officials and other key stake holders in the region
- Shepherd funding opportunities through all of the required stages and decision-making processes, including coordinating partners, writing concepts/proposals and putting together supplementary materials as needed to successfully submit applications
- Assist the program teams to steward existing donor relationships, including reporting
- Proactively support the business development team with process improvements including internal coordination on capture planning, proposal development and stakeholder engagement. This includes developing appropriate tools and resources to support more streamlined processes
- Quickly develop a strong fluency in Living Good’s key portfolio of health interventions to support external representation within the donor and implementing partner communities
- Serve as an articulate and enthusiastic spokesperson for the organization at meetings with demonstrable capacity to represent Living Goods on your own
- Support with hosting key donor visits in Uganda
- Support Living Goods to develop key collateral for business development, external communications, and advocacy among priority stakeholders
- Work in liaison with the partnerships team to support the expansion of Living Goods operations through implementing partnerships in Kenya and Uganda, and to new countries as needed
- Work closely with the advocacy and government relations team to support activities to influence donors and partners, including supporting the development of Living Goods external facing communications collateral
- Other responsibilities as needed
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Living Goods Business Development Manager job placement should hold a Bachelor’s degree
- A minimum of four to five years of professional experience with fundraising/business development in the international development space required
- Experience living/working in the developing world preferred
- Demonstrated passion for Living Goods’ mission and alignment with its values
- Excellent communication skills across all mediums that engage and inspire others, particularly with writing
- Ability to support both back-end (e.g. administrative tasks) and front-end (e.g. relationship management) roles
- Superior customer focus and relationship management orientation
- Exceptional judgment, including a high level of discretion when handling confidential materials
- Proficiency with Salesforce and Microsoft Office
Compensation: A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity.
How to Apply:
All candidates are strongly encouraged to Apply Online at the web link below.
Deadline: 31st May, 2017