What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Associate, Government Partnerships position at Acumen?
About the Role
The Senior Associate will contribute to the Development & Partnerships team by supporting the engagement of Acumen’s current government partnerships, and support development of new partnerships to further Acumen’s strategy and goals. Each of our partnerships involve a range of engagement activities that include project management, communications, event planning, and reporting. We work cross-functionally, engaging closely with Acumen’s programs, communications function, legal and finance to develop and deliver effective funding partnerships.
Specifically, the Senior Associate will be accountable for :
- Work with the government partnerships team, including the Director, on managing existing government partnerships and developing new ones. This may include proposal development and grant writing, contracting, reporting, relationship and account management, participation in key events and meetings, and organising high-level donor and ministerial visits, events or requests in coordination with in-country and events teams across Acumen.
- Support tracking the effectiveness of key government partnerships across Acumen. This may include working closely with the Grant Management team and Energy and Agriculture Partnerships teams to ensure a consistent approach to our engagement and relationship management and identifying areas for deeper and more strategic engagement with government partnerships across Acumen.
- Collaborating effectively cross-functionally with finance, legal, communications and regional teams to provide inputs on delivery of grants funded by government partners, including on donor reporting, compliance, grant-based deliverables and dissemination of outputs.
- Evaluating requests for proposals and managing the proposal development process from start to finish and contract negotiations for new business development opportunities with government funders.
- Contributing to ad hoc cross-functional and cross-sector projects (e.g., gender-lens investing, refugee-lens investing, youth employment, green entrepreneurship) funded by government and other institutional partners.
- Conducting an annual assessment of government partnerships and preparing an analysis deck to share partnerships’ strengths and areas of opportunity. Document best practices and provide recommendations for engagement with partners and internal synergies for effective engagement.
- Conducting research on events, conferences, and other potential opportunities for Acumen to share key areas of work with government audiences, which may include supporting the creation of sessions at conferences. Also representing Acumen at external events, conferences and workshops as needed.
- Updating current fundraising and comms collateral as needed to incorporate new messaging for government audiences.
- Be an active member of the Institutional Partnerships cohort and the broader Development and Partnerships team, joining cohort meetings and supporting knowledge sharing within the cohort and the broader D&P team.
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