Senior Director, KPA Resource Mobilization

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor's degree in conservation, environmental management, international development, finance, economics, or a related field.
  
• 10 or more years of experience in public fundraising, conservation finance, international development, or a related field.
  
• 5 or more years of supervisory experience.
  
• Extensive experience building, managing, and influencing strategic partnerships with governments, institutional donors, international funding organizations, and other senior stakeholders across international and cross-cultural environments
  
• Extensive experience working with GEF, GCF, bilateral donors, multilateral funding agencies, and/or other institutional funding
  
• Experience leading complex proposal development processes from concept through award.
  
• Extensive experience engaging and developing partnerships with governments, institutional donors, and international funding organizations.
  
• Experience developing organizational strategy and leading complex programs.
  
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing people.
  
• Experience working in a complex matrixed and global fundraising environment
  

Knowledge & Technical Expertise

• Deep understanding of public funding mechanisms, including GEF, GCF, bilateral, and multilateral funding systems.
  
• Excellent proposal development capability.
  
• Strong program and project management skills.
  
• Exceptional strategic thinking and strategic judgment, with the ability to translate vision into implementation.
  
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing, collaborative, and inclusive teams.
  
• Comfortable operating in complex systems and navigating ambiguity.
  
• Highly organized with strong prioritization and decision-making skills, delivering consistently against ambitious objectives.
  
• Exceptional relationship-building, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, and influencing skills.
  
• Skilled facilitator and convener, comfortable engaging governments, donors, and senior leaders.
  
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including excellent proposal writing, editing, presentation, and facilitation skills.