Children International Hiring for Global Partnerships Specialist at Kansas City Metropolitan Area Full Time

Position Summary

Children International is seeking a highly motivated and passionate individual to join our team as a Global Strategic Partnerships Specialist. In this role, you will support this new and growing team by providing administrative and project support for key functions. This will include support in operations, communications, and all aspects of the partnership development cycle. You will support the team’s work in all its revenue channels (i.e., grants, contributions, product donations) with diverse partners, whilst collaborating closely with the Global Manager of Strategic Partnerships to help grow the workplace giving, and employee engagement channel.

Responsibilities

• Support the administrative and project management functions behind the development and stewardship of institutional partnerships (foundations, corporations, organizations, government) and other activities of the GSP team.
• Support GSP team account managers in data entry of contact reports, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship plans and actions in our donor database (Dynamics 365).
• Oversee donation acknowledgment letters specific to the GSP team portfolio in collaboration with appropriate account managers.
• Work closely with Global Manager, Strategic Partnerships to help implement workplace giving campaigns. Support external relationship management of workplace giving and employee engagement accounts and activities, including presenting at events as needed.
• Support the GSP team in assessing and implementing new technologies and platforms to enhance partnership cultivation, product donations, partner stewardship, and workplace giving programs.
• Work with the Global Manager, Product Donations to learn the administrative aspects of international shipping logistics to provide support with paperwork and freight vendors as needed.
• Assist in gathering and maintaining documentation necessary for various proposal, report and compliance needs that support our grants and product donation programs.
• Maintain and organize electronic filing systems for the team utilizing SharePoint, MS Teams and Dynamics.
• Record detailed meeting minutes for various internal and external meetings for the GSP team. Help to schedule internal and external appointments, as requested by a member of the GSP team.
• Run reports and complete analysis for the GSP team through MS Dynamics and create compelling Excel documents.
• Maintain a content collection of frequently used proposal responses as well as polished bios for subject matter experts throughout the organization.
• Manage internal vendor setup and invoicing for GSP team, ensuring timely payments with Finance.
• Assist with various writing and editing assignments as needed.
• Help to coordinate appropriate partner recognition and promotional opportunities such as ordering gifts through agencies, branded promotional items and plaques.
• Screen and respond to inbound partnership inquiries and assist with running due diligence reports, as requested.
• Complete special projects and other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. Communications-related or International Development fields a plus.
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of professional work experience in an administrative capacity required.
• Experience in or exposure to workplace giving and/or fundraising through corporations and foundations is a real plus.
• Possess high technological proficiency. Advanced skills with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and digital platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Teams, Zoom, etc.)
• Entrepreneurial and positive attitude to support a new and growing team in building new systems, policies and procedures, while striving to meet ambitious growth goals over the next five years.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills with the ability to build effective working relationships internally and externally.
• Superb critical and creative thinking skills with great attention to detail.
• Strong writing, proofreading and editing skills.
• Able to quickly gather data and information from both internal and external sources, analyze and effectively summarize it for a variety of stakeholders.
• Strictly observe confidentiality and strong ethics with respect to all beneficiary information/financial and other organizational data.
• Comply with and ensure adherence to the agency’s policies, safety and security protocols and child safeguarding norms and guidelines by self as well all stakeholders both internal and external.
• Promote diversity and inclusion, value other cultures, and demonstrate respect while relating with all organizational constituents irrespective of their race, color, faiths, gender, sexual orientation, age, caste, disabilities, experiences, beliefs, and ethnicity.