Save the Children
Job title:
Associate, Strategic Foundation Partnerships (P1)
Company
Save the Children
Job description
Description :
All Save the Children employees are required to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 unless otherwise required by law. All new employees hired to Save the Children will be required to submit proof of vaccination as part of their onboarding process. Failure to provide proof of vaccination may result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment. Save the Children complies with federal, state and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in advancing Save the Children’s global partnerships by supporting the Strategic Foundation Partnerships (SFP) team to steward and grow several of its most important funding relationships. We are looking for a dynamic and highly motivated Associate to support global, multi-stakeholder engagement and collaboration with several of our highest impact partnerships. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of, or a passion to learn about, building high-performing strategic relationships with foundation partners. They will have administration and organizational skills to support and evolve the systems, tools and processes used to track and advance several large, complex funding opportunities concurrently.
The Associate, SFP, will work closely in partnership with multiple account managers in the SFP team to provide excellent support, administration and stewardship of several of the largest and most complex donor accounts held by the SFP team. You will be responsible for supporting multiple facets of these important strategic relationships, helping to manage current awards and compliance, to strengthen compelling communications with current donors including via required social media content, to contribute to knowledge management efforts on these priority partners and to support account managers across the full range of partner engagement.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Account Management Administration & Support (70%)
- Support large, complex existing partnerships, including the multi-year Educate a Child award plus at least 1 to 2 priority strategic partnerships (e.g. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
- In partnership with SFP account leads and cross-divisional and global teams, support award management, compliance, reporting, intelligence gathering and research, positioning and engagement with SFP’s most strategic partners.
- Coordinate with Country Offices and business teams to help develop excellent reporting, communications, marketing and communications collateral, presentation packages, and fundraising assets for philanthropic partners.
- Plan and schedule meetings, draft meeting briefs, take notes and circulate next steps.
- Produce and maintain internal and external stakeholder identification and mapping tools for opportunities.
- Draft clear and compelling PowerPoint decks for internal and external meetings.
- Coordinate information updates utilizing Teams and other intranet pages, and regularly audit pages to ensure relevant and up-to-date content and links.
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure steady flow of high-quality social media content related to these partnerships.
- Conduct research into strategic partners, giving trends and related information to inform the direction of partnership development.
Partnership Operations, Knowledge Management, Efficiency & Results (20%)
- Assist in creating and organizing knowledge management tools and resources in support of new business opportunities.
- Improve and maintain knowledge management systems, ensuring proposal files and proposal component parts are kept up to date in a consistent manner to support backstopping, handover, and future use.
- Actively create and maintain appropriate systems and tools for process tracking to support the identification, selection and response to strategic opportunities.
- Promptly respond to requests for information from fundraisers, Regional Offices, Country Offices, SCI global technical colleagues and Business Teams.
- Uniformly maintain accurate and up-to-date donor files/archives.
- Contribute to SFP knowledge management efforts, internal web pages, weekly newsletters and thought leadership efforts.
Special Projects (10%):
- Contribute towards the implementation of the Strategic Foundation Partnerships strategic plans as required and assigned as well as other opportunities that relate to the fundraising and strategic efforts of the unit.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent, plus at least 2 years of relevant experience
- Willingness and ability to work additional hours during Save the Children Emergency Responses, if needed.
- Demonstrated organizational and time-management skills;
- Demonstrated ability to balance multiple tasks, without sacrificing quality through attention-to-detail;
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
- Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
- Professional proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in communications, marketing, fundraising, and/or a related role with an emphasis on persuasive writing or equivalent;
- Experience or knowledge of Adobe Design Suite
- NGO or Humanitarian knowledge and/or experience
Compensation
Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:
- Geo 1 – NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target hourly pay for this position is $26.56 – $29.69
- Geo 2 – Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target hourly pay for this position is $24.11 – $26.95
- Geo 3 – Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target hourly pay for this position is $21.66 – $24.21
Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available ). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.
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About Save the Children
No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.
You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.
Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.
Expected salary
Location
Fairfield, CT
Job date
Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:40:28 GMT
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