Corporate and Foundation Partnership Officer

5 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Mercy Corps Full time

Location: Edinburgh or London, UK

Position Status: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Starting salary range for this role is £31,120 - flexible commensurate on experience

Closing date: Applications to be submitted by August 28th

**About Mercy Corps**

Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.

**The Department**

The Development team drives and supports Mercy Corps’ strategies for restricted funding, unrestricted funds and brand profile raising. As a part of this team, the Corporate and Foundations Team (CFT) cultivates and maintains strategic relationships with private donors, working closely with programme colleagues around the world to develop partnerships that support social impact at scale in our priority areas including economic and market development, food and water security, climate change, peacebuilding and emergency response, creating lasting impact with and for the local communities with whom we work.

**The Position**:
**Essential Responsibilities**:
**Prospecting & Research**
- Support the development of the prospect pipeline with regular prospect mapping, research and qualification.
- Develop and coordinate Due Diligence reports in accordance with approved Mercy Corps' partner ethics policy and Due Diligence process (in conjunction with the CFT Research Manager based in the US where appropriate).
- Coordinate and keep updated team work plan and projection documents.
- Support in managing prospect engagement trackers.
- Support the development of fact sheets, pitch decks, impact reports, background briefs and meeting talking points, collaborating with relevant team members in communications and programmatic teams.
- Attend external webinars to gather information on donors and state of the sector to further inform research.

**Grant Compliance**
- Support CFT Senior Officers with coordinating contracting and agreement processes where required.
- Update the CFT pledge tracker and coordinate with Development Operations (DevOps) to process funds as they are received; flag pledge schedules, payments, monthly reports and adjustments.
- Ensure Raisers’ Edge is up to date and records are accurate and accessible on the appropriate internal and global drives.

**Profile Raising**
- Maintain a communications and events planner for CFT in Europe, inputting into global trackers where relevant.
- Coordinate profile raising opportunities in collaboration with the global CFT Communications team.
- Support the development of messaging and materials for CFT audiences.

**Coordination**
- Attend cross-team meetings on behalf of CFT and feedback on agency updates.
- Support the team to enhance and/or devise appropriate and efficient processes and procedures to improve internal coordination.
- Coordinate cross team initiatives as required e.g. related to emergency response appeals or global campaign initiatives requiring CFT input.

**Supervisory Responsibility**: None

**Accountability**:
**Reports Directly To**:Strategic Partnerships Manager

**Works Directly With**:The Development team, operations and Partnerships teams

**Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders**:
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

**Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills**:

- Minimum of 2 years of experience in a fundraising/development support role
- Experience in a cross-cutting role within a team.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience working within a research and coordination-heavy role
- Outstanding writing and analytical skills; ability to craft accurate, succinct and condensed research analysis and present this information in a clear and actionable way.
- Ability to multitask, balancing urgent priorities with longer-term projects.
- Experience working in the international development/humanitarian sector preferred.
- Experience and/or familiarity with international development issues preferred.
- Excellent verbal communication skills, able to present the organisation and discuss opportunities for collaboration with a diverse range of actors.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- IT literate with good knowledge of Microsoft Office and databases and the ability to manage complex spreadsheets/trackers.
- Experience of using/managing relationship databases, ideally Raiser's Edge

**Success Factors**

**Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions**

**Ongoing Learning**:
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