Pacific Business Development Manager (Asia Pacific)

Pacific Business Development Manager (Asia Pacific) Pacific Business Development Manager (Asia Pacific) Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organisation working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children's rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries. Plan International began working in the Pacific in 2012 and has offices and staff in Solomon Islands (SI) and PNG, in Bougainville and has an established regional office in Suva, Fiji. Plan International PNG Office is seeking to hire a full-time Pacific Business Development Manager (Asia). The Pacific Business Development Manager is responsible for creating long-term value for Plan International in the Pacific region from both existing and new funding sources and relationships through institutional, philanthropic, and corporate partnerships. The position will lead the development of a long-term financial sustainability strategy to ensure Plan Nepal's financial sustainability and ensure Plan International Nepal has a balanced portfolio of suitable, medium, and large grants and a pipeline of future funding. The Pacific Business Development Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies to secure funding and resources for programs and initiatives within the Pacific region. This role requires a proactive and strategic thinker with strong networking skills and the ability to foster relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, including donors, partners, and government agencies. The position holder will also be responsible for leading the preparation and submission of high-quality funding proposals. The role reports to Director of Sub Regions - APAC based in Thailand. Do you have what it takes to be successful in this role? AccountabilitiesShared leadership of the Plan Pacific Country Offices.Supports the development of an organisational culture that reflects Plan International's values, promotes accountability and high performance, encourages a team culture of learning, creativity and innovation, and frees up our people to deliver outstanding results for girls and excellent customer service for NOs and donors.Helps to establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with Plan Pacific's key stakeholders - government authorities, partner agencies including humanitarian and development donors, and local and international NGOs.Ensures the relevant Pacific Country Office complies with all Plan International's operating standards and procedures.Actively role models feminist leadership values.Revises the existing resource mobilization strategy and related documents to ensure that it is tailored for the changing context of the Pacific region.Develops a long-term financial growth strategy to ensure Plan Pacific program's financial sustainability.Ensures a portfolio of quality medium and large grants and a pipeline of future funding opportunities, so that annual country income targets are met and that the Pacific Country Strategies can be delivered.Identifies, retains, and develops existing and new engagements and prospects with foundations, institutions, and corporate donors.Keeps donor mapping and engagement cases up to date through mapping program priorities against donor and corporate opportunities and proactively works with National Organisation (NO) counterparts to identify and win quality grants. Proposal DevelopmentWorks with programme colleagues and the communications team to oversee and coordinate the development, writing, and packaging of successful grant proposals from concept through to award, ensuring that the requirements of different donors are met.Ensures that the proposals developed meet quality standards and are aligned to individual donor requirements for submission.Maximizes cost recovery by ensuring that grant submissions achieve 100% of applicable full cost recovery.Identifies any systemic and structural issues that may impede grants growth in the Pacific region and implements mechanisms to overcome them.Able to understand and assimilate the complexity of Plan's grants business development and systems and procedures, organisational structures and decision-making processes - together with keeping abreast of the increasingly challenging funding environment. Partnership and Donor EngagementWorks continually to ensure a strong professional image among Plan donors, helping to acquire grant funding that will grow and support Plan's programmes in the Pacific region.Establishes and maintains strong relationships with current and potential donors.Identifies and cultivates strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders, including NGOs, community groups, and research institutions.Represents the organization at meetings, conferences, and events to promote resource mobilisation efforts - potentially mostly online.Ensures alignment of CO systems and processes with regional and global reporting systems, including ensuring timely end-of-quarter reporting of all new grants signed and current pipeline.Manages grants compliance of all existing institutional and corporate grants.Tracks funding trends and provides regular reports on resource mobilisation activities. InternalBuilds excellent working relationships with Plan Pacific offices in Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Bougainville (PNG).Builds and manages strong relationships with National Organisation (NO) colleagues. ExternalActive engagement with a diverse set of local, regional, and international donors (both institutional and corporate) and strategic partners.Builds a strong relationship with Plan Asia Pacific's regional strategic partners. Technical Expertise and Knowledge Qualifications, Knowledge and ExperienceBachelor's degree in International Development, Business Administration, Communications, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).Minimum of 5 years of experience in resource mobilisation, fundraising, or a similar role within the international development sector.Proven track record of successfully securing funding from diverse sources, including bilateral and multilateral donors, private foundations, and corporations.Strong proposal writing and project management skills.Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage and inspire a wide range of stakeholders.Knowledge of the Pacific region's development landscape and key challenges.Ability to work independently and as part of a multicultural team.Willingness to travel within the Pacific region as required. SkillsStrong leader - lead with a number of soft skills such as effective communication, motivation, positivity, trustworthiness, creativity, feedback, and commitment.Research & strategic thinking - strong research, market, and strategic analysis skills in order to understand the donor landscape, understanding Plan International's competitive advantage, able to benchmark the competition and to develop a strategy that will keep the organisation ahead.Goal focused - focused on meeting financial targets with the ability to pursue a long-term strategic vision whilst remaining flexible enough to respond tactically to changing demands or unexpected opportunities.Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including excellent English oral and written communication skills: must be able to communicate, present, assert and speak to all the different stakeholders involved, actively listen and gain the confidence of donors and national organisations.Collaboration - involves working with multiple parties from inside and outside the organisation, to achieve Plan International's goals.Relationship building - able to build relationships, influence, provide constructive feedback, manage conflicts and navigate through organisational politics, in order to get things done.Negotiation & influencing - knows when to compromise and when to take a stand, ability to win hearts, minds, and trust, being tactful and diplomatic at all times.Creativity / marketing - able to see new ways of developing existing opportunities, or finding different routes to acquire new grants.Project management - able to set goals, plan and manage projects, manage the risks involved, calculate budgets, cost, time and teams working on ongoing projects.Computer skills - high competency working with Microsoft Office, and other systems. Location: Asia Pacific Type of Role: Pacific Business Development Manager Reports to: Director of Sub Regions - APAC Grade: E Closing Date: 9th August 2024 Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for. We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.. click apply for full job details