Overview
Support the identification, development, and management of new and diverse institutional donor partnerships, focusing on engaging non-traditional donors and innovative financing mechanisms.
Key Responsibilities
- Play a key role in implementing business development strategies.
- Build strategic relationships.
- Strengthen Oxfam’s global positioning.
- Identify high-value funding opportunities.
- Collaborate with programme, technical, and influencing teams.
Required Experience
- Strong experience in donor account management, particularly with non-traditional funding partners such as Multilateral Development Banks, Gulf donors, climate funds, and innovative financing mechanisms.
- Excellent interpersonal, networking, and negotiation skills with the ability to influence and build relationships at senior levels.
- Proven experience in building and maintaining partnerships and securing outcomes through successful negotiations.
- Ability to initiate donor engagement, identify opportunities, and represent organisational priorities effectively.
- Strong analytical skills, including experience developing business cases in development, humanitarian, or social enterprise contexts.
- Experience working across teams and influencing without direct line management authority.
- Knowledge of emerging donor trends and ability to translate insights into strategic opportunities.
- Desirable: Experience with innovative funding models such as impact investing, blended finance, or public-private partnerships.
- Desirable: Familiarity with Gulf donors, World Bank processes, or climate financing mechanisms.
