Appel à candidature : FHI recrute un(e) Directeur(trice) de portefeuille, société civile et consolidation de la paix aux Etats-Unis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strategic Planning and New Business Development

  • Drive short- and long-term business planning to ensure the continual growth of FHI 360’s civil society and peacebuilding portfolio.
  • Ensure all stages of business development have the right personnel, tools, resources and processes to best support securing new business—from positioning and capture to award.
  • Provide senior-level oversight for capture management and proposal design; working with HQ and field technical staff and other units to develop innovative and responsive programs.
  • Serve as executive champion for live proposal efforts, a go/no-go decision maker, and a senior proposal reviewer/approver.
  • Identify, secure funding for, oversee the development and launching of new technical products and services in line with CSPB’s priority areas and demand.

Team Leadership and Talent Management

  • Build, support and empower diverse, collaborative, and high-performing teams, capable of meeting and exceeding project, portfolio, and G3E goals.
  • Nurture a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative team that is receptive to diverse persons, perspectives, and languages, including the inclusion of local personnel in design, management, business development and thought leadership efforts.
  • Recruit and retain experienced leads for major practice areas and work with leads to hire and retain experienced technical specialists.
  • Provide development opportunities for staff; facilitate diverse and rewarding work opportunities.
  • Mentor staff, ensuring a pathway for professional growth and advancement

Portfolio and financial management

  • Maintain and expand a robust portfolio of active grants and contracts in CSPB practice areas through client and stakeholder engagement, business development, quality implementation and strategic thought leadership.
  • Recruit, retain, support and/or continually strengthen well qualified, highly motivated and effective team leads and technical specialists in CSPB practice areas.
  • Ensure high client satisfaction and cost-efficient, and compliant project implementation.
  • Collaborate effectively with other FHI 360 technical teams on complex, multi-sectoral challenges requiring CSPB expertise to ensure project success.
  • Lead annual budget planning, manage the CSPB G&A budget, and ensure accurate LOE projections and sufficient coverage for CSPB staff.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with FHI 360 regional and country offices, enterprise services and FHI 360 subsidiaries (e.g., FHI 360 UK) to ensure effective and efficient business development and program implementation.
  • Represent CSPB at FHI 360 leadership and management meetings, supporting G3E initiatives, and ensure strong coordination/ alignment between CSPB and the organization.

Technical and Thought Leadership

  • Drive the effective integration of new business development, thought leadership, and implementation.
  • Oversee CSPB’s technical contributions to FHI 360’s Strategy—particularly with regards to addressing eroding social cohesion and mitigating increasing conflict—to ensure success.
  • Work with CSPB’s practice directors and technical advisors to ensure technical quality oversight and assistance for CSPB programs and facilitate ongoing learning.
  • Direct a strong focus on monitoring, research, evaluation and learning, including implementing robust research/learning agendas and committing to continuous learning.
  • Oversee active CSPB participation in thought leadership initiatives, including regular professional presentations and articles and op-ed pieces in publications and social media.
  • Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with all technical units, ensuring the innovative use of CSPB expertise to support projects in other sectors.

External Representation

  • Liaise with USAID as well as bi-lateral and multi-lateral organizations, government agencies, private sector organizations, and other partners to present CSPB’s expertise, learning and impact in support of business development and thought leadership objectives.
  • Empower CSPB staff to serve as external ambassadors for the portfolio’s expertise and impact, continually strengthening CSPB’s reputation for thought leadership and high-quality implementation within the development community, particularly vis-à-vis USAID.
  • Provide expert advice and work with CSPB’s technical experts to present innovative approaches to funder and practitioner communities in CSPB’s areas of expertise.
  • Advance CSPB’s visibility through regular professional presentations, participation in conferences, and authoring articles and op-ed pieces in publications and social media, etc.
  • Ensure CSPB expertise is brought to bear in support of FHI 360’s Strategic Plan and other priority cross-sectoral initiatives.

Applied Knowledge & Skills:

  • Strong business acumen with the keenness and quickness to understand and deal with a “business situation” (risks and opportunities) that leads to a good outcome designed to improve financial performance and leadership development.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of theories, concepts, and practices with project management, process development and execution.
  • Knowledge of non-profit funding streams, including government and philanthropic.
  • Strong time-management, multi-tasking, and organizational skills.
  • Strong negotiator and collaborator who strengthens business relationships.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong consultative and negotiation skills.
  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills to plan, organize, and manage resources for successful completion of projects.
  • Excellent and demonstrated public relations, policy development, project management and diplomacy skills required.
  • Adaptable to new approaches to doing business.
  • Ability to motivate, influence and collaborate with others across all levels of the organization.
  • Ability to build positive local working relationships with local communities, district government officials, UN and where appropriate, donor representatives.
  • Ability to take initiative and focus on results.
  • Ability to learn new skills and systems, with an entrepreneurial work ethic.

Education:

  • Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent • Civil Society, Communication and Social Marketing, Economic Development, Education, the Environment or a Related Field.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 15 years of relevant professional experience and a master’s degree or, in lieu of a master’s degree, a bachelor’s degree and relevant combined experience would be considered.
  • Minimum of 10 years working with the developing world in civil society strengthening, civic participation, peacebuilding and/or conflict mitigation or related fields.
  • Experience partnering with major international funding agencies active in one of more of CSPB’s technical areas. Extensive experience partnering with USAID required.
  • Track record for successfully overseeing positioning, capture and business-development initiatives resulting in a continually growing portfolio of programs with diverse funding sources.
  • Track record for forward-thinking planning and sound leadership, ensuring compliance, operational and cost efficiency, and technical excellence.
  • Strong people management with a record of recruiting, hiring, supporting and growing high-performing, diverse and inclusive teams both in HQ and in the field.
  • Proven experience leading change-management and organizational-development processes.
  • Excellent writing and presenting skills.
  • Fluency in English required; proficiency in additional languages preferred.

Application process

Application deadline : May 08th, 2023