Senior Advisor, Government Partnerships - London, United Kingdom - Marie Stopes International

Marie Stopes International

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London, United Kingdom

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About Us
MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world's leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose.

From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world.

Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities.

As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

About the Role
Working closely, with the Head of Government Partnerships who is based in London. The role can be based either in Europe or in the UK with regular travel.

Key areas of responsibility will be:

Fundraising

Work with the Head of Government Partnerships to deliver against MSI's ambitious global funding strategy and achieve donor specific fundraising goals
Specific account management responsibility for a portfolio of government donors (to be agreed)
Responsibility for donor engagement at European level while also working with country programme colleagues on national level engagement strategies
Working with the Head of Government Partnerships to identify, cultivate and work with existing and emerging government donors and partners.
This includes building new and maximising existing relationships to identify new opportunities to expand MSI's donor base and sources of funding.
Strategic leadership of MSI's upstream influencing of existing and emerging donor government audiences (to be defined) with a view to increase resourcing and prioritisation of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) including contraception and safe abortion services.
Liaise with and support the Programme Design and Development Team (PDD) to develop successful bids and proposals for selected donors, in partnership with other MSI colleagues
Work with MSI regional teams and advocacy colleagues, and MSI country programmes (CPs) to identify key opportunities, messages and providing support to enhance country level relationships with current or emerging donors
Work with colleagues across the MSI partnership to monitor policy processes and developments relevant to MSI, and support the development of internal MSI positions to ensure continued leadership of and alignment with the wider with the Third-Party Monitor, coordinating Technical Working Groups and providing technical leadership where appropriate.

Donor Engagement

Lead strategic engagement with key governments and accountability for the implementation of the engagement strategies necessary to deliver against MSI's global fundraising strategy
Lead MSI's engagement with key existing and potential government donors (donors to be confirmed) building and managing relationships to position MSI as the 'first port of call' when government funders consider contraceptive and safe abortion service delivery and technical excellence.
A conduit for transferring knowledge and learning from MSI's programming both to donors partners across the sector, and from key European donors and the wider sector into the MSI global partnership.
Work with the Head of Government Partnerships and other P&P and MSI colleagues to identify and cultivate relationships with governments with whom MSI has not traditionally built successful longterm relationships, despite their interest in SRHR
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Partnerships

Position MSI as a key influencer by transferring knowledge and learning from MSI's programming both to donor partners across the sector, and from key donors and the wider sector into the MSI global partnership.
Proactively engage and serve as a key resource to increase awareness of MSI's global impact and results with strategic partners and individuals.
Supporting the transfer of knowledge, documentation and dissemination of learning, best practices, case studies and successful strategies in relation to MSI's policy engagement.
Support colleagues to increase MSI's international visibility and profile, through strategic engagement with national governments, NGO partners, and donor networks in collaboration with other teams in P&P, MSI's Global Communications teams, regional teams and advocacy colleagues.
In alignment with advocacy team members, cultivate, strengthen and nurture constructive and p