Job Responsibilities

• Contextualize global fundraising and engagement strategies for the region and develop regional donor engagement plans to reflect country and regional priorities with a view to fostering and maintaining constructive long-term relationships with strategic regional donors and partners.
• Lead the finalization of periodic updates to regional donor mapping and engagement plans (including institutional, private sector, foundations and non-traditional donors)
• Support donor and partner engagement efforts of country operations and the Regional Senior Management Team.
• Identify and develop new donor and partner contacts relevant to achieve DRC ambitions in the region
• Maintain a comprehensive regional donor database to track donor engagement and coordinate donor outreach and communications with country counterparts in the region.
• Develop appeals, cases for support, concept notes and communication material highlighting DRC’s offering in close coordination with country programmes, regional management and HQ colleagues.
• Proactively monitor donor portals and track donor engagement to identify and disseminate new funding opportunities throughout the region
• Advise country programmes on engagement and fundraising strategies and support in the development of donor engagement strategies, donor mapping exercises and the identification of funding opportunities
• Liaise between relevant HQ teams and country/regional operations on matters pertinent to business development and fundraising
• Support the delivery of trainings on specific donors as well as best practice BD approaches and processes
• Act as a source of knowledge, information on internal BD processes, and donor intelligence, requirements, and compliance considerations
• In coordination with the Regional Head of Programme, lead the development of new, strategic concept notes and proposals at the regional level, including supporting external communication with donors, other partners, internal coordination and managing all related process with relevant internal and external stakeholders
• Carry out periodic analysis of funding trends and donor priorities across the region
• Carry out and periodically share analysis of success rates, reasons, learning etc. for submissions made by DRC
• Collaborate with regional programme and support teams to align and adapt strategic programmatic priorities and regional capacity with regional donor strategies and funding opportunities
• Inform the definition of programme priorities and the design of programme models by contributing donors’ perspectives (strategies, thematic priorities, anticipated funding opportunities, funding constraints and compliance, etc.)
• Strengthen country and regional capability on long-term capture planning for upcoming funding opportunities and support the development of donor-specific communications/products.
• Upon request and in coordination with the Regional Head of Programme, provide proposal development support to country programmes including substitution support, expert advice, and quality assurance around concept notes, programme design and narrative proposal development
• Maintain an overview of regionally hosted grants in relation to donor requirements, rules and regulations, internal and external reporting deadlines, proposal and budget revisions, no cost extensions and partnerships
• Update the DRC Grants Management System on Dynamics for regional grants
• Coordinate the submission of high-quality donor reports – narrative and financial, on a timely basis according to DRC and donor regulations for regional and multi-country grants in the region
• Support SMT to prepare for donor meetings in the region
• Represent DRC at donor meetings in the region, HQ or other locations as necessary