Partnership Delegate

Can you drive strategic partnership engagement and business development strengthening the financial base and increase impact of Danish Red Cross’ and partners humanitarian action in Ukraine? Are you passionate about developing solid concepts, pitches and proposals and leading high-level engagement with institutional and strategic humanitarian and development donors? Then you might be the candidate we are looking for in the Danish Red Cross Country Office in Ukraine.

The position will play an integral part in enabling the Country Office to live up to our ambition to continue providing large-scale humanitarian assistance and long-term recovery support to people affected by the crises in Ukraine.

The Danish Red Cross has been present in Ukraine since 2014 as one of the key partners to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS), the largest volunteer-based national humanitarian organization in the country operating in all regions of the country through 180 branches, 1.500 staff and more than 8.000 volunteers.

Since February 24th, the Danish Red Cross has been supporting URCS in their massive scale-up of humanitarian assistance. We have jointly established and managed one of the first humanitarian supply chains into Ukraine providing more than 10.000 tons of humanitarian relief items supporting more than a million people, contributed to scaling up mental health and psychosocial support activities nationwide reaching 80.000 people and supported humanitarian activities within emergency health, international humanitarian law, youth engagement, cash and voucher-based assistance, branch development and winterization.

The Danish Red Cross (DRC), as part of the international Red Cross and Red Crescent network in Ukraine, is seeking a Partnership Delegate to drive and support business development, resource mobilization and new partnerships in Ukraine. The position is placed in the newly established Partnership and Analysis Team responsible for leading DRC’s work within partnerships, resource mobilisation, fundraising and analysis in Ukraine. The delegate will report to the Head of

The successful candidate will work closely with the Country Office Operations and Finance Teams, as well as the Global Partnership Unit at headquarters, to ensure a strong and proactive development of programs and operations in the country.

Key Responsibilities

The Partnership Delegate will take a leading role within the Partnership & Analysis Team to strengthening the Country Office’s approach to engaging with strategic donors and ensuring a sustainable long-term financing set-up. The following will be among the key concrete

• Build and strengthen donor relationships with selected strategic partners through continuous engagement
• Lead the design, development, and implementation of business development plans within key sectors and activity lines of DRC and URCS
• Engage continuously with Operations Team in country to ensure that resource mobilisation and business development is conducted in line with strategic and operational priorities
• Contribute and write specific pitches on new investment and funding opportunities on short notice and proactively in anticipation of potential funding and partnership opportunities
• Assist in exploring local fundraising possibilities and initiate funding applications in close coordination with the Operations Team and URCS
• Be lead in screening specific partnership and funding opportunities and assessing feasibility and risks of the engagement informing strategic decision-making
• Support coordination of reporting to partners and back donors

Qualification and personal skills

The successful candidate will have a relevant degree in social sciences, humanitarian, and development studies and several years’ experience with strategic donor engagement and resource mobilisation.

Technical experience business development, proposal writing, fundraising, and mobilization of funds will be necessary along with excellent communication and networking skills.

The selected candidate will be expected to be able to maintain continuous engagement with a portfolio of strategic partners to the DRC in Ukraine and take lead in identifying, developing, and securing new partnerships and funding opportunities.

Employment conditions

The starting date would be 1 April or ideally sooner if possible. The length of the contract is 12 months with a possibility to be extended but depending on the situation.

Your duty station will be Kyiv, Ukraine and with potential travel in-country depending on needs and access. The position is a non-family duty station and will include R&R benefits for as long as the security situation deems it necessary (currently rotations are after every 8 weeks). In addition you are entitled to 7 weeks of holiday per year.

Travelling to the project implementation areas will take place to the degree that the security situation in-country allows. For security reasons, please also highlight if you have already had HEAT training, and the date of this training.

The salary including all allowances and pension payment will be between approx. DKK 44,000 (EUR 5,900) and DKK 46,500 (EUR 6,250) per month, depending on qualifications and experience. Accommodation in a shared apartment in Kyiv is provided, free of charge.