Sponsorship Manager at ITM Africa Ltd: (Deadline 23 February 2023)

Sponsorship Manager at ITM Africa Ltd: (Deadline 23 February 2023)

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POSITION: Sponsorship Manager

Location : Kigali, Rwanda 

ITM Africa Ltd, an international company specializing in all HR solutions is assisting a client to recruit a Sponsorship Manager 

Purpose of role :

Our global strategy has a specific focus on girls, as they are often the most marginalized and most often left behind. We have committed ourselves to the ambitious target of reaching 100 million girls over five (5) years to ensure they can learn, lead, decide, and thrive. This is our contribution to achieving sustainable development goals and, in particular, the goals of gender equality.

Our organization is transforming itself to meet this enormous challenge everywhere we work. We need a bold, forward-thinking, and innovative Sponsorship Manager for the effective delivery, support, oversight, and development of sponsorship. The Sponsorship Manager will ensure that sponsorship is maintained at the appropriate quality levels. It is a critical funding source for the growing Rwanda CO. The incumbent will also maintain solid relationships with RH and GH sponsorship support staff and, most critically, the NOs.

Supporting the CD, the Sponsorship Manager (SM) has a vital responsibility for internal and external representation on sponsorship issues with critical stakeholders, including RH, GH, and the NOs. The SM will be a member of the Country Leadership Team (CLT) and provides high-level strategic leadership to the CO, working collaboratively with other CLT members.

You will be profoundly comfortable with leading transformative change and have a demonstrable commitment to gender equality. You will lead by example to ensure gender equality is evident in everything we do, from staffing, sponsorship work, programming and influencing, ways of working, and operational excellence. You will work with your team to bring about the right culture in sustaining sponsorship excellence through a high-performing and motivated team. You will ensure that the PIR sponsorship operating model is fit for purpose, we have the right level of sponsorship caseload, and assignments and critical business processes are in place

What you will do :

Strategic Leadership 

• Organisational Strategic Planning: Contribute to the strategic development and management of the CO by evaluating the organizational strategic direction and determining agreed-on sponsorship and organizational objectives.
• Sponsorship Quality Management: Contribute to the execution of sponsorship in line with the Sponsorship Manual and the Sponsorship Commitments.

Sponsorship Leadership

• Sponsorship Strategic Leadership: Set sponsorship strategic and operational priorities for sponsorship through prioritization, decision-making, and monitoring performance and progress towards agreed focus areas and objectives.
• Management of Critical Sponsorship Operations: Provide robust advice and opinion to the CD and the CLT on sponsorship risk, legal, regulatory, and security aspects.

Sponsorship People, Culture, and Ethics 

• Culture, Ethics, and Behaviour in Sponsorship: implement good practices and internal controls that create, encourage, and maintain the desired culture, ethics, and behavior in sponsorship operations.
• People, Skills, and Competencies in Sponsorship: design and develop, in consultation with HR and PUMs, processes and systems that provide for effective identification of staff requirements, competency definitions, effective talent acquisition, and skills development for all sponsorship roles. Also, undertake effective staff performance management processes.
• Sponsorship Organisational Structure: ensure that operating structure principles for sponsorship staff are defined and implemented. Ensure staff numbers and structures in sponsorship will be designed and kept at an efficient and cost-effective level, in line with the sponsorship communications ratio policy.

Sponsorship Operations Management  

• Operations Resource Architecture: ensure that all services, infrastructure, and tools required to run effective sponsorship operations are identified, acquired, and maintained.
• Sponsorship Effectiveness: provide to Programme Units following CO-specific quality standards and the global management standards and sponsorship KPIs.
• Sponsorship Cost Optimisation: ensure that the costs of running sponsorship operations are optimized to comply with sponsorship communications budget thresholds.
• Sponsorship Risk Optimisation: ensure that sponsorship-related risks are identified and maintained at an acceptable level. Ensure risks are captured and regularly updated in Magique.
• Sponsorship Integration with Programmes: ensures that sponsorship is integrated with
• programs to meet the sponsorship commitments. Create a common language and effective collaboration between programs and sponsorship for the effective delivery of the CS.

Sponsorship Compliance and Oversight 

• Internal Compliance in Sponsorship: Ensure that all principles, policies, and frameworks governing sponsorship as directed at global, regional, and country levels are effectively implemented in PIR. Particular emphasis is to be applied to the Data Privacy Policy, Confidentiality Policy, Safeguarding Children & Young People Policy, Code of Conduct, Mandatory Reporting Responsibility, Anti-Fraud, Anti-Corruption, and Bribery Policy, and Document Retention Policy.
• External Compliance in Sponsorship: ensures that all external legal, regulatory, and contractual compliance requirements related to sponsorship are always upheld.
• Sponsorship Performance Monitoring: design and implement effective processes to assess the performance of sponsorship processes and identify continual improvement opportunities.
• Reporting: Design and implement a reporting process that provides quality information related to the effectiveness, efficiency, integrity, compliance, and reliability of sponsorship. The CD and CLT will use such information to support decision-making and provide a basis to assess sponsorship performance.

        Child Protection and Gender Equality & Inclusion

• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded under the policy’s principles and requirements, including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility.
• Includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed following the appropriate procedures.

Risk Management 

• Ensure systems and processes are in place to identify and manage risks, including developing, updating, and reviewing the Program Unit risk register in line with the Global Risk Management Policy and the Global Risk Management Toolkit, and ensuring that risks are adequately identified, assessed, mitigated and reported on

You will be a good fit if you have :

Qualifications/ experience essential: 

• A Master’s degree or equivalent in Social work, International Relations, Development, or a similar field.
• 10 years of relevant experience in the INGO Sector or demonstrated equivalent combination.
• Minumum 5 years experience in child sponsorship programs,
• Demonstrated experience in corporate sponsorship systems
• Demonstrated experience in managing child sponsorship operations
• Demonstrated experience in strategic leadership and planning processes
• Experience with International NGO sponsorship management systems and financial regulations
• Experience in the leading team, coaching, and mentoring, especially managing a large
• Excellent experience in conflict resolution.

How to apply :

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