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Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager

Summary

Join One Acre Fund as a Strategic Partnerships Manager and lead in learning and benchmarking strategic capacities required for prime funding opportunities from priority public donors.

Responsibilities

• Work with Head of Public Portfolio to design long-term mission fundraising strategy (country/regional offices)
• Conduct benchmarking and analysis on strategic, administrative, financial, and staffing capacities required to become a major prime
• Consolidate the analysis and provide a recommended subbing/priming roadmap to leadership
• Implement the strategy to sub/prime
• Build on One Acre Fund's current in-country fundraising success and identify prime or sub grant opportunities of $5M per annum or greater, and lead on applications
• Ensure strong strategic alignment between the funding opportunity and One Acre Fund's work
• Advise on the right grant mechanisms and negotiate the terms and conditions for grant agreements
• Support the country teams to identify and develop strong relationships with potential sub-awardees
• Grant management including sub-awardees management, compliance and reporting, and
• Capacity strengthening of One Acre Fund and partners to ensure delivery of the grant results and position favorably for prime opportunities
• Scope and hire for at least one direct report, dependent on fundraising momentum
• Collaborate with Business Development colleagues, senior decision makers, country teams in the benchmarking exercise and decision
• Lead on co-creation of new grant proposals with field leads
• Represent us at relevant events in Africa, US, Europe and other regions
• Identify and pursue additional opportunities to advance our reputation