Senior Advisor, Resource Mobilization and Strategic Engagement Consultant

Serve as principal strategic advisor to the Group Director General on resource mobilisation, donor relations, strategic partnerships, political engagement, and institutional positioning for the African Risk Capacity Agency. The role supports strengthening institutional sustainability and engagement across Africa in climate and disaster risk financing.

Responsibilities

• Lead resource mobilisation efforts for the African Risk Capacity Agency.
• Manage strategic partnerships and donor relations to enhance institutional sustainability.
• Provide executive advisory support to the Group Director General on strategic engagement and political relations.
• Strengthen Member State engagement and support advocacy and institutional positioning.
• Oversee strategic intelligence and donor mapping to identify funding opportunities and partnership prospects.
• Increase financial sustainability and diversify funding sources for ARC.
• Enhance visibility and increase Member State support for ARC initiatives.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in Agriculture sciences, economics, finance, public policy, international development, international relations, business administration, climate finance, or related fields.
• Minimum 15 years of progressively responsible experience in fundraising, partnerships, donor relations, and strategic engagement.
• Demonstrated managerial and professional competence with progressively responsible professional experience in public affairs strategy and advisory roles of government, economic development at scale and Africa-related agricultural or insurance development.
• Firm knowledge of the Agency’s mandate, structure and program of work.
• Proven intellectual, managerial and technical leadership in one or more areas of the Agency’s mandate.
• Experience in weather risk management and insurance in developing countries.
• Sound knowledge of continental and international climate, agriculture, insurance and finance policy networks.
• Has contributed to the design and implementation of strategies and work plans to identify, build and maintain partnerships between organisations and with governments.
• Has led complex negotiations for partnership agreements.
• Has gained significant experience leading large and/or multicultural teams and improving performance.
• Able to proactively develop deeper relationships at a senior level with appropriate stakeholders.
• Able to apply this ability strategically to identify opportunities to raise the profile of ARC, develop new relationships and further organisational aims.
• Represent ARC in multilateral/inter-agency fora, leading guidance to team members in facilitating open and informative oral and written communication between partners and influencers and directs a team in support of preparation of external communication materials.
• Demonstrates ability to conceptualize impactful means for reporting outcomes of ARC internal activities and also outcomes of multilateral/interagency dialogues to facilitate decision-making.
• Utilizing ARC internal information along with partnership information and analysis to form insights which support fact-based discussion for enhanced partnership relationships whilst proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Supports the maintenance, management and analysis of information in appropriate ARC systems.
• Able to translate the ARC strategic objectives into action-oriented plans at the Department level and for internal and external stakeholders.
• Leads by example, initiates and supports innovation.
• Decisive with proven mature judgment and initiative.
• Demonstrates a high sense of integrity, trust and confidence.
• Successful track record of managing groups of people of diverse languages, age, gender and cultural groups towards a common objective, by fostering team spirit, building trust and ownership and recognizing team successes and ensuring staff development.
• Demonstrates an ability to manage programs and projects efficiently under shifting priorities in order to achieve targets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a track record of showing dynamism and tact.
• Ability to critically evaluate complex issues and develop strategic, evidence-based solutions for immediate and long-term goals.

Skills

• Resource Mobilization
• Strategic Engagements
• Fundraising
• Donor Relations
• Partnership Development
• Public Affairs
• Economic Development
• Agricultural Development
• Insurance Development
• Weather Risk Management
• Climate Finance
• Policy Analysis
• Negotiation
• Multicultural Team Leadership
• Stakeholder Engagement
• External Communications
• Reporting and Analysis
• Programme Management
• Project Management
• Strategic Planning

Languages

English, French