Country: United States of America
Closing date: 30 Nov 2014
ABOUT LAST MILE HEALTH
Founded by survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Last Mile Health (LMH) (known in Liberia as Tiyatien Health) is committed to saving lives in the world’s most remote villages. Working in remote jungle communities cut off from even basic life-saving health services, LMH is building a health system that reaches everyone—by bringing health care to villagers’ doorsteps. LMH trains community members to be health practitioners for their villages and connects them with rural health clinics to offer every person access to the care they deserve. These Frontline Health Workers are able to prevent, diagnose, and treat the top ten most life-threatening health conditions. LMH plans to leverage this experience to help the Liberian government design, deploy and sustain a national network of community health workers that can have a transformative impact on maternal and child health outcomes in remote communities.
Over the past six months, a historic outbreak of the Ebola virus has devastated Liberia and has tragically demonstrated that weak, inequitable health systems leave everybody vulnerable. To match a historic crisis with a historic response, LMH is partnering with Boston-based, Partners in Health (PIH) to launch a significant expansion of LMH’s model, integrated with a package of Ebola treatment and hospital strengthening efforts led by PIH. The goal of this project is to deploy a comprehensive health system—from life-saving essential primary care services in remote communities all the way to strong inpatient Ebola and tertiary care in regional hospitals—for approximately 150,000 rural Liberians, and to work with the Liberian government to sustain that system and expand it to the rest of the country over the coming years. LMH will also work alongside the Liberian government to direct major new sources of funding towards long-term health system strengthening efforts to protect and maintain progress on MDGs 4, 5 and 6 relating to infant and maternal mortality – critical health measures that have regressed most acutely in remote communities since the Ebola outbreak.
GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
The Partnerships & Development team is playing a critical role in identifying new areas of collaboration and leveraging new resources to expand the scope and impact of LMH’s transformative work in Liberia. In the face of the Ebola crisis, the Partnerships & Development team is accelerating its priorities to position LMH to make a lasting, significant contribution to the lives of those in Liberia’s most remote communities. The Partnerships & Development team is growing its operation to enable it to secure more funding from multilaterals, engage new institutional funders, encourage disaster response funders to support underlying country-owned health system strengthening plans and improve communications to reinforce LMH’s role as a thought leader in the global health community.
The Manager of Foundation Relations will manage LMH’s relationship portfolio of major foundations. By cultivating relationships of trust for long-term engagement in a mutually aligned fashion, this individual will prospect new funding opportunities and extend existing ones to finance the organization’s short-term and long-term expansion.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Work with the Chief Development Officer and other members of the Partnerships and Development team to develop strategies to grow current and new funding streams by 10% and 20%, respectively, over 12 months.
- Oversee corporate and foundation prospect research and coordination activities, including the development and maintenance of prospects.
- Cultivate and steward lasting relationships with current and prospective corporations and foundations; plan and execute donor meetings to promote long-term support.
- Attend foundation meetings with other LMH staff and leverage these opportunities to cultivate long-term one-on-one relationships.
- Develop presentations and prospecting materials needed by foundations, LMH’s Board of Directors and other partners to advance LMH’s development priorities and fundraising goals.
- Support the Chief Development Officer and Chief of Staff, Partnerships & Development in developing and updating foundation fundraising strategies and goals.
- Oversee and support the Grants Manager in the development of grant proposals, concept notes, program materials and donor reports, directly writing proposals and reports on occasions when work streams require.
- Provide analysis and reports to Chief of Staff, Partnerships & Development to track corporate and foundation giving progress and prepare status reports for board and organization’s leadership.
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:
REPORTS DIRECTLY TO: Chief of Staff, Partnerships & Development
WORKS DIRECTLY WITH:
SUPERVISES: Grants Manager
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
· Bachelor’s degree required
· 3-5 years experience managing and creating new strategic relationships, experience working with non-profits preferred
· Experience managing portfolio of philanthropic foundations and/or social impact investors
· Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and ability to develop clear and convincing presentation materials
· Strong interpersonal skills and relationship-building qualities
· Ability to work independently with limited structural support
· Successful and proven negotiation, communication and organization skills.
· Generosity of spirit, sensitivity/diplomacy, and willingness to make sacrifices in service of the mission
· Commitment to health and social justice
· Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks at one time in time-sensitive manner
· Comfort working with a casual but high-performing team
· High degree of English fluency required
SUCCESS FACTORS:
A successful Manager of Foundation Relations will exhibit a high level of professionalism and organization. This individual will be able to take over management of key foundation relationships quickly and know how to most effectively leverage the strategic support of the Chief Development Officer and Chief of Staff to meet LMH’s development priorities. The Manager of Foundation Relations will effectively leverage the expertise of the Grants Manager in meeting proposal development and reporting deadlines to secure and extend funding to grow LMH’s footprint of activities.
Commitment: 40 hours/week
Location: New York, NY
Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience
How to apply:
Applications accepted on a rolling basis via JobScore
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