Business Development Officer at Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Take lead on identifying funding opportunities by scanning the environment to identify opportunities available through advance intelligence gathering, partner relations and other available resources to provide prospective funding analysis on a regular basis.
2. Coordinate funding proposal writing processes by creating an in-house matrix to facilitate pre-solicitation, proposal development and preparation.
3. Provide oversight in development of a sustainability strategy for fund generation and resource mobilization.
4. Develop a resource mobilization workplan and continuously follow up the implementation progress as well as regularly support the organization to review/assess opportunities through funding briefs.
5. Build and maintain relationships with key donor contacts.
6. Maintain on-going communication with potential partners and other key stakeholder to identify and pursue opportunities.
7. Represent CHAK at relevant meetings and events within resource mobilization or donor specific peer networks.
8. Coordinate processing of agreements related to funding opportunities to ensure effective and timely follow up, submission and grant renewal process.
9. Maintain up to date fundraising and resource mobilization records to facilitate monitoring of approved funding levels and stage of opportunity review.

REQUIREMENTS:

Academic & Professional Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Public Health, Health Economics, Social Science, International Development, or related discipline

Experience: - 

• At least 8 years’ work experience with 5 years’ experience in proposal development, resource mobilization and/or partnership development in an NGO setting.

Skills and Attributes

1. Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills
2. Good capacity for relationship building
3. Demonstrable international development and program/project management capacity
4. Demonstrable excellent proposal writing skills
5. Good influencing and negotiation skills
6. Good listening and analytical skills
7. Demonstrable resource mobilization and proposal development skills
8. Management and leadership skills
9. Computer literacy