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Associate Director, Partnerships and Alliance Members Development, DIAL
United Nations FoundationWashington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Sept 2024
💰 $135,000/yr($125,000/yr – $135,000/yr)
About the role
The salary range for this position is $125,000-$135,000.
Position Overview
The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) works to advance a more equitable world by putting the rights and aspiration of people at the center of digital transformation. To that end, we connect people with evidence to design digital systems and tools that work for society through research, demonstrations, and policy advocacy. We collaborate with others to promote digital systems and governance approaches that maximize participation, agency, choice and trust, with a particular focus on effective data exchange systems and strong data governance.
Hosted by the United Nations Foundation, DIAL is a partnership among the world’s leading digital development champions, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and the German Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ), among others.
This role is a new position reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with the leadership of DIAL. Successful candidates will bring new ideas and creativity to strengthening the partnership base of DIAL. She/he will lead the systematic outreach to funders who make up alliance members of DIAL to share updates, gather insights and needs, and encourage further support to DIAL’s work. She/he will actively represent DIAL in meetings and events to build the base of alliance members whose strategic priorities aligns with the work and ambitions of DIAL.
The Associate Director will lead the business development function at DIAL through identification of new strategic opportunities, development and management of proposals, and creation and institutionalization of core business development materials and processes. As opportunities arise to grow the funder alliance base, the Associate Director will manage the internal process of identifying opportunities that align with DIAL’s mission and, in coordination with DIAL team members, designing and developing the project, submitting the final project proposal and tracking the movement, and any changes, required by the funder.
Finally, the Associate Director will be a critical part of alliance member/board meetings. The Associate Director will help to design conversations that generate insights and wisdom from alliance members while showcasing the best of DIAL’s work during the performance period. These are critical moments to foster a sense of network and peer engagement for alliance members.
This position is based in Washington, DC (hybrid work schedule).
Essential Functions
Strategic Partnerships Development
Position Overview
The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) works to advance a more equitable world by putting the rights and aspiration of people at the center of digital transformation. To that end, we connect people with evidence to design digital systems and tools that work for society through research, demonstrations, and policy advocacy. We collaborate with others to promote digital systems and governance approaches that maximize participation, agency, choice and trust, with a particular focus on effective data exchange systems and strong data governance.
Hosted by the United Nations Foundation, DIAL is a partnership among the world’s leading digital development champions, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and the German Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ), among others.
This role is a new position reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with the leadership of DIAL. Successful candidates will bring new ideas and creativity to strengthening the partnership base of DIAL. She/he will lead the systematic outreach to funders who make up alliance members of DIAL to share updates, gather insights and needs, and encourage further support to DIAL’s work. She/he will actively represent DIAL in meetings and events to build the base of alliance members whose strategic priorities aligns with the work and ambitions of DIAL.
The Associate Director will lead the business development function at DIAL through identification of new strategic opportunities, development and management of proposals, and creation and institutionalization of core business development materials and processes. As opportunities arise to grow the funder alliance base, the Associate Director will manage the internal process of identifying opportunities that align with DIAL’s mission and, in coordination with DIAL team members, designing and developing the project, submitting the final project proposal and tracking the movement, and any changes, required by the funder.
Finally, the Associate Director will be a critical part of alliance member/board meetings. The Associate Director will help to design conversations that generate insights and wisdom from alliance members while showcasing the best of DIAL’s work during the performance period. These are critical moments to foster a sense of network and peer engagement for alliance members.
This position is based in Washington, DC (hybrid work schedule).
Essential Functions
Strategic Partnerships Development
- Create and implement a multi-year development plan for foundations, corporations, governments, and international development agencies to support the organization’s goals and business development plans.
- Collaborate actively with the CEO and Senior Leadership team to appropriately leverage contacts and involvement to engage with prospects, research funding prospects, identify connections to new funders and funding sources, and develop approaches to ask and build productive relationships.
- Work with the CEO and Leadership team to shape donor outreach plans. This includes reviewing DIAL’s current target list, shaping the engagement process for existing targets, and converting them to higher value contributions.
- Research, identify, and build relationships with a range of opportunities to create a robust pipeline of support for DIALs key fundraising objectives, to include attending conferences, events, and key donor engagement activities.
- Support the design and development of the technical aspect of project proposals, including guiding teams on clarifying their theory of change, objectives, main activities, and results.
- Coordinate the end-to-end proposal development process, demonstrating writing effectiveness and using a proposal-management process to ensure seamless execution. This includes running a go-no-go process, conducting internal strategy meetings, developing compliance matrixes, setting effective timelines, leading red team reviews, white glove reviews and submitting the final proposal.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to respond effectively to funding opportunities, ensuring all deadlines are met and actions are tracked.
- In collaboration with the CEO, cultivate a stronger relationship with DIAL alliances by:, understanding their organizational strategies, developing key connections with the organization, attending alliance events, and supporting discussions on key alliance priorities.
- Solicit, and secure sustained long-term funding of board alliances by developing a keen understanding and enunciation of how DIAL’s va
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