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Part-Time Associate, Strategic Foundation Partnerships (P1)

Save the Children

Job Description

Part-Time Associate, Strategic Foundation Partnerships (P1)

Full Job Description

Staff whose work requires or potentially could require any in-person interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners, or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise required by law. 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 climate ambitions by supporting the Strategic Foundation Partnerships (SFP) team to raise $40 million in new climate financing. We are looking for a dynamic and highly motivated Associate to support global, multi-stakeholder engagement and collaboration. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of, or a passion to learn about, our work in the climate space. In addition, 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.

Save the Children’s 2022-2024 global strategy calls on the Save the Children movement to respond to and anticipate threats from Covid-19, conflict and climate change. It calls for disruptive thinking, agile ways of working and cross-functional collaboration. The Associate will play a supporting role in accelerating Save the Children’s growth efforts in the U.S. with particular emphasis on increasing Save the Children’s visibility, strategic partnerships and revenue in the climate space.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

  • Support large, complex new business climate opportunities (60%)
    • In partnership with cross-divisional and global teams, support positioning and capture strategies for a range of climate opportunities including drafting marketing and communications collateral, presentation packages, and fundraising assets for philanthropic partners.
    • Coordinate with business teams, Regional and Country offices and SCI global technical colleagues across the movement to help develop high-value ($25 million plus) climate-focused concept notes and proposals including the Bezos Earth Fund and Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet from intelligence gathering to pitch and proposal stages, including project design and partnership engagement, through to submission.
    • 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
  • Knowledge Management (20%)
    • Assist in creating and organizing knowledge management tools and resources in support of new business climate opportunities.
    • Improve and maintain and knowledge management systems for new business development, ensuring proposal files and proposal component parts are kept up to date in 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.
  • Research (20%)
    • Conduct and develop donor and market research to help position Save the Children as a strong competitor for climate funding.
    • Draft research briefs and pre-reads in advance of stakeholder meetings.
    • Research and follow (daily) key climate donors, promptly elevating and sharing relevant news and information.
    • Research and be familiar with our climate strategy, work and offerings globally.

Required Qualifications

  • Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent, plus at least 2 years of relevant experience
  • Demonstrated project management skills; responsiveness to needs of colleagues; and ability to drive projects through to completion
  • Proven attention to detail
  • Proven track record prioritizing and completing projects successfully with basic directions and within established deadlines
  • Ability to handle simultaneous tasks and work in a fast-paced, complex environment, with a commitment to internal and external customer service
  • Ability to accurately coordinate, research, analyze, and present data from varied sources
  • Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
  • Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
  • Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Knowledge of climate issues and Save the Children global programming
  • Experience supporting large, complex proposal development opportunities
  • Graphic design or infographic development skills

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 Salary for this position is $55,250 – $61,750 base salary
  • Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $50,150 – $56,050 base salary
  • Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $45,050 – $50,350 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location.

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.

Click here to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in YOU!

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.

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