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About the Role
The Senior Manager, External Relations leads the development, cultivation, and stewardship of major public funding partnerships, focusing on the UK funding landscape and extending to other regional markets. This role contributes to DNDi's long-term financial sustainability through strategic fundraising, partnership development, donor stewardship, and external representation.
Responsibilities
- Develop engagement strategies to cultivate influential champions, advocates, and strategic partners.
- Lead the development of high-quality funding proposals and strategic concept notes.
- Represent DNDi with government, research, and policy stakeholders to strengthen organizational visibility and influence.
- Cultivate and manage relationships with key partners, coalitions, PDPs, research institutions, policy makers, policy platforms, and sector influencers.
- Design and coordinate strategic engagement activities, events, and communications.
- Lead fundraising contributions to impact, investment case, and evidence-generation initiatives.
- Lead stewardship and engagement strategies for strategically important and complex donor partnerships.
- Maintain a deep understanding of partner priorities and decision-making processes.
- Coordinate senior-level donor interactions, reporting, reviews, and partnership initiatives.
- Provide specialist advice to senior management on donor trends, funding opportunities, partnership risks, and strategic positioning.
- Prepare strategic donor intelligence, funding analyses, policy, and analytical briefs.
- Define strategy for fundraising and engagement in the UK and other regional markets.
- Contribute to organizational strategic planning processes and support implementation of strategic initiatives.
- Contribute to internal cross-functional workstreams requiring fundraising expertise.
- Manage staff, consultants, and external collaborators.
- Foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing across functions.
- Contribute to departmental and organizational management processes and forums.
Requirements
- Master’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience, in international development, public health, political science, international relations, business, or a related field.
- Significant experience securing and managing major institutional and government funding partnerships.
- Proven experience leading complex fundraising, partnership or external relations functions.
- Demonstrated experience working with government donors, research funders, multilateral organizations, foundations, or global health stakeholders.
- Experience managing staff, consultants, projects, and complex stakeholder relationships.
- Demonstrated success representing an organization with senior donor, research or policy stakeholders.
- Experience working effectively in complex multicultural team environment and matrix structure.
- Minimum 8 years relevant experience with at least 5 years at the managerial level.
- People/Project Management training is necessary.
- Fluency in English.
- Very good knowledge of Microsoft Suite.
Skills
- Advanced expertise in fundraising, donor relations, partnership development and resource mobilization.
- Strong strategic, analytical and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and secure major funding opportunities and lead complex initiatives.
- Excellent writing, communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Strong project, people and partner-management capabilities.
- Ability to think creatively and operate independently.
- High independence in programme delivery and exploring new opportunities.
- Strong knowledge of the UK government, research, and innovation landscape.
- Ability to identify, analyze, and respond to emerging policy, funding, and stakeholder opportunities.
- Proficiency in local languages desirable.
Location
- Remote
- United Kingdom (UK)
Work Type
- Full time
- Permanent role
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- Minimum 8 years relevant experience
- At least 5 years at the managerial level
Education Level
- Master’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience
About the Company
- The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) is an international, not-for-profit research and development (R&D) organization.
- Together with more than 200 public research and industry allies worldwide, we use the power of partnership, innovation, open science, and advocacy to develop and deliver new treatments for neglected diseases that disproportionately impact millions of the world’s poorest people.
Equal Opportunity
- DNDi is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive organisation.
- Our success and global reach are dependent upon our ability to encourage diversity and draw on the skills, understanding and experience of all our people.
- We particularly welcome applications from those who are underrepresented in at DNDi and across the sector, especially women, and including, but not limited to, black and minority ethnic candidates, and those with other protected characteristic.