Proposal and Partnership Manager

Position: Proposal and Partnership Manager

Reference NO : PPM/SCoN/2025/001

NO. of positions: 1

Reports To: Emergency Response Manager

Duty Station: Maiduguri with frequent travels

Contract Term: 1-year fixed term with possibility of extension

Working Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30am - 5:15pm, Friday 8:30am - 1:30pm

Organizational Context:

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today's education crisis. We partner with local organizations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world's toughest places where others won't, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped 526,147 children to go to school and learn, and supported over 33,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Street Child Nigeria: Street Child started in Nigeria in early 2017 and has implemented major humanitarian programmes in the North East to respond to the protection and education needs of children affected by the crisis. We have been supporting over 40,000 children to access quality and safe education, formal and non-formal, by providing spaces and building the capacity of teachers and communities. We work with families and government to overcome the barriers that undermine the development and wellbeing of the children, ensuring parents and caregivers have financial resources and livelihoods to sustain their education, health and other needs, and providing child protection services. Street Child in Nigeria has ambitions to expand beyond the North East and is a reliable partner for ECW, UNICEF, UNOCHA, GIZ and other institutional donors and a member of the national Education in Emergencies, Child Protection and Early recovery and Livelihood sectors.

About

1 About the Job

The Proposals and Partnerships Coordinator focuses on two critical, strongly inter-linked areas: proposal development and leading our local partnership co-ordination in Nigeria; part of our commitment to local leadership. They will be responsible for managing the interface with our partners and for developing new and existing partnerships, improving coordination, strengthening organizational development, completing due diligence and supporting programme delivery across education, child protection and livelihoods initiatives. The role holder will play a significant role in proposal development - in addition to, and as a key part of, the local partner dimensions of this position. Excellent writing skills are essential. This aspect of the role will span both Street Child-fronted applications but also directly supporting key local partners with their own applications - and the longer-term development of their capacity in this area. A distinctive feature of Street Child's partnership proposition to local organizations is a commitment to supporting their own resource mobilization, not just as a downstream partner of Street Child - but independently too.

Responsibilities

2 Key Responsibilities

Proposal writing and development (30%)

• Play a lead role, as directed by Senior Management, in the drafting of compelling proposals for Street Child of Nigeria
• Interact with Street Child's global fundraising teams to support their fundraising activities for Nigeria
• Support key local partner organisations with bid and proposal writing
• Support the longer-term development of key local partners' proposal writing and resource mobilization capability
  
  

Partnerships Coordination (30%)

• Lead and coordinate partnerships across Street Child's programming portfolio
• Manage the communication and agreement of partnership expectations
• Participate in coordination platform and humanitarian clusters to advocate for better approaches for locally led action
• Generate and share evidence about Street Child's ‘localisation' approach at the national and global level
  
  

Partnership Development (20%)

• Provide support to partners in developing and implementing organisational development plans
• Identify new partner organisations and take the lead in conducting the appropriate due diligence
  
  

Programme Management (20%)

• Lead on the development and delivery of Street Child's ‘localisation' projects, including follow up and reporting processes
• Assist in developing and monitoring work plans and budgets, as well as associated deliverables and results/outputs
• Prepare, coordinate reviews, edit, and disseminate project-related reports and documents
• Support Programme Managers during implementation with regular field monitoring to check progress and identify gaps
• Increase the internal and external visibility of Street Child by developing and sharing learning and case studies
  
  
  

Required Skills

2.1 Required Skills

• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• Proven proposal and report writing skills
• Excellent interpersonal, listening and communication skills
• Ability to positively influence others
• An energetic team player who can effectively collaborate
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
  
  

2.2 Core values

• Commitment to Street Child's mission, vision, and values
• We value high integrity, honesty, confidentiality and willingness to work in a flexible, dynamic, and challenging environment
• Acceptance of diversity and inclusion as core principles
  
  

Requirements

Essential

• A bachelor's degree in International development or a related field.
• Prior work experience in international development (3+ years prefered)
• Demonstrable experience in working with local partners
• Demonstrable experience in proposal development and report writing
  
  

Desirable

• Previous experience in a humanitarian setting
• Experience in project management
• Experience in supporting organisational development
• Able to travel regularly, sometimes in insecure environments