As Partnerships Manager, you will help drive new and innovative funding partnerships with locally-based foundations, institutions, and corporations in collaboration with the Country Director. You will develop and maintain a pipeline of funding opportunities, including research, identifying funding opportunities, preparing concept notes, full proposals, and other core external content; updating tracking systems, and managing partnerships. You will work closely with the global partnerships team on the overall country funding pipeline to drive towards coordinated revenue targets. The ideal candidate will be a strong verbal and written communicator, able to work independently and reliably to hit deadlines, and adept at collaborating with several fast moving teams around the world.

Core functions will include:
1. Proposal Preparation and Writing:
1. Drafting of introductory materials, pitches, concept notes, funding proposals, grantee reports, and more, for a variety of audiences in line with global processes.
2. Support Country Director in designing core program parameters for proposals
Coordinating proposal development process from identification to submission of complete proposal packages, in collaboration with the global partnerships team, including seeking the appropriate sign offs from different teams
4. Preparing reports to funders on the status of ongoing programs, in collaboration with the implementation team
2. Partnerships and Communications:
1. Supporting the Country Director in managing key in-country partnerships, including through day to day formal and informal communications and presentations and coordinating meetings
2. Handling meetings with assigned partners, as needed
3. Tracking priorities and strategies of key partners
3. Content Development and Research:
1. Developing high quality, brand-accurate content for the country office, including one pagers, proposal FAQs, standard pitch decks, templates etc. that leverage global templates and global core content, for example to support partner visits
2. Conduct country-specific research and analysis on country context, stakeholder landscape, and program-specific domain areas
4. Lead Generation:
1. Providing pitch materials for management outreach to potential funders.
2. Identifying relevant funding opportunities to pursue and surfacing key details for Go/No Go decision-making on whether to pursue
Attending in-country meetings, as appropriate, to identify possible partners for future collaboration
5. Pipeline Management and Analytics:
1. Tracking partnerships activities and metrics in line with global processes in relevant systems and supporting the CD in doing the same
6. Internal Coordination:
1. Working closely with global Partnerships Managers to ensure complementarity and maximise synergies between locally and globally driven funding opportunities.
2. Collaborating with the global partnerships team to drive at overarching country revenue targets.

What we’re looking for:
Required
o Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong writing skills
o Excellent organizational and project management skills
o Self starter who is able to figure things out and hit deadlines
o An excitement and energy for the work we do
o Demonstrated experience working well across distributed, multi-cultural teams
o Experience working in Kampala and understanding of the country context
o Interest in maximizing GiveDirectly’s impact by building, managing, and scaling relationships and projects with GiveDirectly’s partners
o A minimum of 3 years experience in partnership development and/or fundraising
o Prior experience securing funding from major funders of social protection programs: USAID, World Bank, FCDO, United Nations agencies, etc.
Fluent in English
• Relevant work authorization requirements e.g. authorization to work in Uganda
Nice to have
Knowledge of relevant software systems: Salesforce, Slack, GSuite, Asana
Able to create high polish presentations in PowerPoint and/or Google Slides