Senior Partnership Advisor - Danish Foundations

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At the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), our partnerships with leading Global and Danish foundations are growing in numbers and size, and we have ambitions to grow this area further in particular in relation to Danish foundations, but also international foundations. For our Global Foundations team, we are now looking for a Senior Partnership Advisor - Danish Foundations who can maintain, develop and drive these crucial partnerships.

Who are we?

While most funds are raised at country and regional level, the Global Foundations team is accountable for ensuring that DRC has a centralised and harmonised approach to addressing foundation donors and keeping an overview of funding opportunities. The team currently consists of 3 staff mainly focused on Danish Foundations and we will be expanding the team during the year to also cover foundations outside of Denmark.Together with the rest of the Partnerships, Engagement and Fundraising Division (PEF), the Global Foundations team is working to increase DRC’s capacity and ambition to expand, deepen, and strengthen partnerships and fundraising activities with donors. PEF is responsible for DRC’s global strategic partnerships and engagement with institutional donors (ID), global foundations, and private contributors at a global level. The division is part of the DRC HQ department for Partnerships, Advocacy & External Relations (PAER).

About the job

As Senior Partnership Advisor - Danish Foundations you will be part of the Global Foundations team working directly with the Head of Global Foundations and the Institutional Donor Team, colleagues based in HQ in Copenhagen, DRC Representations in Geneva, Brussels, and Berlin as well as in DRC regional and country offices. Your overall responsibility will be to strengthen DRC’s capacity to maintain and grow relationships and fundraising efforts with Danish foundations.

You will be expected to take the lead in fundraising processes at all stages, from mapping opportunities and strategic pre-positioning, through proposal development to kick-off of secured grants. An important part of your role is to lead on partnership engagement in close collaboration with key internal stakeholders.

Main tasks

• To develop efforts and initiatives to maintain existing and forge new partnerships with Danish Foundations to mobilize funds for DRC, with a particular focus on maintaining and building relationships.
• Lead and support a deepening of strategic partnerships between Danish Foundations and DRC.
• Research, analyse, and follow donor trends and priorities and communicate/advice on strategic entry points and opportunities to managers within DRC.
• Develop clear protocols for sharing information, communicating, and engaging with Global Foundations in strategic policy issues across the organization.
• Provide support and expertise to DRC country and regional operations on partnerships with the Global Foundations in question.
• Coordinate and lead proposal and bid development processes to Global Foundations according to needs including advice and quality assurance to actual proposal writing together with colleagues from country and regional operations and programme colleagues, facilitation of project kick-off workshops.Develop qualitative and quantitative surveys and analyses to feed into donor trends and global donor analyses, lessons learned and other dissemination documents.

About you

To excel in this role, you will have natural communication and social skills, including networking and the ability to influence. You are comfortable navigating internal stakeholders horizontally and vertically, and representing DRC externally with donors, peer organisations and in other forums.

The role will further require knowledge of Danish Foundations and a good track record of building and nourishing successful donor partnerships with foundations that partner with the humanitarian sector. This role calls for someone who is both a “thinker” and a “doer” with an ability to work on strategic level analyses while being detailed, as well as result and service oriented.

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:

• Solid experience of working in the development and humanitarian sector, and not least working with foundations. Perhaps you have experience from working in a country/field office.
• Experience with programme development and excellent proposal writing skills; knowledge of grant management and requirements for compliance when working with global foundations.
• Attention to detail when needed and at the same time be able to maintain overview of multiple simultaneous processes. Systematic approach to work.
• A strategic understanding and eye for new opportunities and ideas.
• Experience in international context working across cultures with strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills.
• Good collaborative skills and intercultural sensitivity as well as flexibility to work with different people for each opportunity.
• Experience with networking and representation at all levels.
• Master’s degree in relevant field of study or equivalent in experience
• Proficiency in Danish and English is a requirement. French, Spanish and/or Arabic are an asset.

We offer

• A meaningful job in a leading international organisation,
• Flexibility to work from your home.
• A lot of enthusiastic and committed colleagues in Copenhagen and globally
• An informal and supportive work environment

Contract length: Permanent

Work place: DRC Headquarters, Borgergade 10, København K

Start date: May 1, 2024, or as soon as possible.

This is a national position for which local terms and conditions apply. Salary and conditions will be in accordance with the agreement between DRC and AC (agreement for academics).

Application process All applicants must send a cover letter, an updated CV in English as well as a degree certificate.

Closing date for applications: March 3rd, 2024 We expect to conduct interviews the week of March 11th.

Further information

For questions regarding the vacancy please contact: Head of Institutional Donors, Karen Faarbæk de Andrade Lima: [email protected].

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