Director Global Private Partnerships

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We are recruiting for a Director for Global Private Partnerships to our Private Engagement team based in Copenhagen. Can you address the funding gap by mobilising private sector partners? Are you looking for a challenging opportunity to develop and strengthen DRC’s strategic partnerships and income generating agreements with global private foundations, private sector actors and individuals? As Director for Global Private Partnerships you will have freedom to strategize and operate based on your expertise and form DRC's global fundraising strategy.

Who are we?

The Programme, Policy & External Relations (PPE) department is responsible for DRC’s global program policy development, program quality assurance and accountability, and drives global programme innovation, business development, evidence & learning. The department also leads global advocacy & press and builds and expands external relations & institutional fundraising at global level.

As an addition to the PPE department, due to current reorganization, we have included a new division responsible for Global Private Partnerships. The division includes a Private Engagement team consisting of around 30 employees responsible for Global Private Engagement with private donors and a Global Private Foundation team consisting of 3 employees. The position reports to the Executive Director for PPE.

The ambition is to strengthen DRC’s focus on private partnerships including private foundations and private companies and thereby to grow this part of the division over time.

About the job

With close to 83 million people being forcibly displaced due to war and conflict we need to mobilise much broader to ensure the funding needed to address human suffering and pave the way for sustainable solutions for the displacement affected communities. Available institutional funding is simply not enough. Nor is the funding graciously provided for by private individual contributors. New actors must be engaged in reducing humanitarian and displacement related needs. The Sustainable Development Goals highlight the importance of mobilising broader, especially with private sector, to ensure not only funding, but also new ways of thinking and working, alternative types of financing as well mobilisation of global solidarity towards addressing displacement challenges and needs.

The Director for Global Private Partnership will play a crucial role in addressing the funding gap by mobilising private sector partners and resources to engage in addressing displacement related needs and financing gaps. The Director is leading DRC’s overall engagement with and fundraising from private foundations, private companies and private individuals. While DRC over recent years has been successful in enhancing our engagement with the private sector with a focus on Denmark, our new Global Strategy 2025 has a clear ambition to develop, accelerate and deepen our private engagements at a global scale.

The main purpose of the role as Director for Global Private Partnerships is therefore to develop and strengthen DRC’s strategic partnerships and income generating agreements with global private foundations, private sector actors and individuals as well as taking responsibility for anchoring the private sector strategy both in HQ and across regional and country operations. Based on close collaboration with the Directors of Programme and External Relations, the Executive Director for PPE, the Regional Executive Directors and the Secretary General, the Director for Global Private Partnership will drive DRC’s ambition of moving its private partnerships engagements from being primarily locally rooted in Denmark to the global level.

The Division is placed under the Programme, Policy and External Relations (PPE) executive leadership to ensure that income generated from and via engagement with private partners is based on and in support of DRC’s programmatic approaches and the vision defined in DRCs strategy 2025.

The Director for Global Private Partnerships will, as a first step, and together with the Head of Section for Private Engagements and other Directors develop a detailed global fundraising and engagement strategy for Private Partnerships.

Within the framework developed by the Danish Refugee Council’s mission, values, strategies, policies and principles, the responsibilities of the Director Global Private Partnerships include:

Strengthen global private partnerships and relations

• Developing and implementing a high- impact strategy to enhance income from global foundations and private sector partnerships within the strategic impact areas.
• Execution of the strategy to increase funding.
• Shared value partnerships working with the private sector and foundations to treat social challenges as business opportunities.

Leadership

• Leading the Divisions global accountability of developing, growing and nurturing DRCs income generating activities from private partners.
• Managing and coordinating the work of the Division in close cooperation with the Head of Global Private Engagement.
• Development of the Global Private Foundations team currently consisting of 3 employees. The ambition is to substantially expand this team over time subject to landing large scale global private partnerships
• Inspire and support the capacity of DRC’s Regional and Country offices to build private sector partnerships in cooperation with Regional Executive Directors, Regional Heads of Programme and relevant specialists.
• Be part of PPE top leadership team (DMT)

Anchor private engagement and partnership activities within the entire organisation

• Successfully integrate private engagement and partnership activities within the organisation in order to strengthen the connection between programmatic activities and private sector relations and fundraising.
• Build and develop the division so that it can best support DRC’s 2025 strategy and our global ambitions for strengthening global private engagements.
• Work closely together with other Divisions in HQ, Regional Executive Directors, Country Directors, and other stakeholders across DRC.

About you

To be successful in this role we expect you to have a proven track record of landing global private partnerships e.g. with global private foundations and global private companies.

All employees should master DRC's core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity.

Moreover, we also expect the following:

• Significant experience working with global private partnerships from the humanitarian or development sector e.g. from an international NGO, UN or from a global foundation.
• Entrepreneurial mind-set with the ability to build, develop and strengthen activities within global private partnerships.
• Experience with leading of leaders, change management and organisational transformation.
• Strong communicator including ability to co-create products and sales material.

We offer

We offer an exciting role where you will have the possibility to define the role and how the tasks are performed. You will have a lot of freedom to strategize and operate based on your expertise as long as the results are achieved.

Contract length: Permanent

Workplace: Borgergade, Copenhagen

Start date: As soon as possible

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with the agreement between DRC and Lederaftalen between Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening og Lederne (agreement for managers), which can be found here: www.lederne.dk.

Application process

Applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV in English. Apply online on our page Current Vacancies at www.drc.ngo.

Closing date for applications: 3 February

We expect to start conducting interviews during week 6 in Copenhagen.

Further information

For questions regarding the vacancy please contact Rikke Friis, Executive Director for PPE by email [email protected].

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.