Pacific Regional New Business Development Manager

Tags: climate change Environment
  • Added Date: Thursday, 13 July 2023
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Tracking Code
4241-689
Job Description

Come join our Pacific team and help grow Save the Childrenโ€™s funding and partnerships across the Pacific region! Your role will help us drive our Pacific Strategy to improve the lives of Pacific children so that they have access to safe and inclusive education, can be healthy and resilient to the impacts of climate change, and live free from violence in their homes and communities.

Save the Children is no ordinary not-for-profit.

Weโ€™re ambitious, creative and outspoken. We stand up for childrenโ€™s rights. We want all children to be educated, healthy and live a life free from violence. We run programs in Australia and overseas and, if thereโ€™s a disaster - like an earthquake, drought or conflict โ€“ we are there on the ground.

Where you come in:

Reporting to the Regional Director of Pacific Programs, you will be part of the Pacific team, and be responsible for growing Save the Children funding and partnerships across the region. This is a full-time position, based in the Pacific, Australia or New Zealand.

You will make an impact by:

Supporting the advancement of our Pacific Regional Strategy by identifying new business development opportunities across the Pacific region Enabling Country Directors, Program Directors and technical teams to build strong relationships and funding partners Building the capacity of business development experience in our Country Office teams Developing proposals and providing coaching and feedback on proposals Overseeing our Pacific pipeline and coordinating teams to support business opportunities

Does this sound like you?

โ€ฆ..You are someone who thrives in agile environments. Youโ€™ll have exceptional inter-personal skills, youโ€™re innovative and capable of working to tight deadlines with multiple stakeholders. This role suits those who are motivated by having significant social impact, with strong business acumen, strategic selling expertise, and excellent communication skills. You will be determined to make a difference.

This role requires:

Demonstrated experience identifying and securing funding from DAC/non-DAC government donors, multilateral agencies, corporate donors and/or foundations Demonstrated experience in leading assessments of funding landscapes, and developing programme funding strategies to meet strategic goals, ideally in the Pacific Highly developed networking skills and ability to form productive working relationships with external donor agencies Experience in developing funding proposals and tenders in humanitarian and development programs

Working at Save the Children is more than just a job.

Itโ€™s the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place for children and working with others who feel the same. In addition to a connection to social causes, you will have access to:

Opportunity to work on additional projects alongside business as usual Individual learning plans to assist in your career development Internal employment and development opportunities Friendly and flexible work environment Child friendly work environment Full salary packaging benefits (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!) Additional annual leave and paid parental leave Support for workplace wellness, including access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Agile work environment including working from home

๐Ÿ“š ๐——๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—š๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ฎ ๐—๐—ผ๐—ฏ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—จ๐—ก ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ! ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿค ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ก๐—˜๐—ช ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐˜๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—š๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—จ๐—ก ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—จ๐—ก๐—›๐—–๐—ฅ, ๐—ช๐—™๐—ฃ, ๐—จ๐—ก๐—œ๐—–๐—˜๐—™, ๐—จ๐—ก๐——๐—ฆ๐—ฆ, ๐—จ๐—ก๐—™๐—ฃ๐—”, ๐—œ๐—ข๐—  ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€! ๐ŸŒ

โš ๏ธ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ฐ: ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐š ๐ฃ๐จ๐› ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐Ž๐–!

For more information regarding our employee benefits, please follow this link.

Sound interesting?

Weโ€™d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume by clicking on the โ€˜Applyโ€™ section.

Applications close 4pm AEST, Wednesday 26th July 2023.

Position Description โ€“ Regional Business Development Manager, Pacific

For more information about this position, please contact Adele Harmer at adele.harmer@savethechildren.org.au

*We understand flexibility is important to you. We've advertised this role as Permanent, Full-time, but if you're looking for something slightly different, please let us know. We offer flexible hours, remote working, and flexible job structure, among many other employee benefits. All are available for the right candidate!

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it's straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didnโ€™t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know! Weโ€™re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a workplace suitable for all people and can modify our processes to suit you โ€“ no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.

Job Location
Australia / NZ / Pacific region, Australia

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