United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Business Development Manager

Location: Birmingham, UK

Ref: BDM/IR-AC/1115

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £39,270 per annum

The Academy of a leading international aid charity seeks a Business Development Manager. The Business Development Manager will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for the Business Development programme, the job holder is responsible in improving the Academy’s market position and achieve financial growth by developing relationships with institutions, organisations and other funding agencies with the aim of generating funds and developing new business into a variety of services through selling our training, research and internship services to them. The job holder is required to work closely with the 3 departments, to develop new products and services and market them to potential donor agencies.

The Business Development Manager will follow up new business opportunities and setting up meetings with potential clients and funders. The job holder will provide funding and compliance capacity building programmes to field offices and providing a donor compliance technical quality assurance when submitting proposals and reports. The post holder will develop and Implement the marketing and communications strategy.

Candidates should be confident and highly organised with a natural communication skill and experience in working for an international NGO. The successful candidate will be educated to degree level, ideally with an appropriate post-graduate qualification or 5 years experience in workforce development regardless sector. The post holder will have an excellent level of computer literacy and excellent written and spoken English and a working knowledge of Arabic and/or French. The post holder will have experience in developing concept papers, proposals and bids.

Applicants will be interviewed on an on-going basis and the vacancy will close as soon as the right candidate is found.

Closing Date: On-Going

Islamic Relief promotes equality and meritocracy, and seeks individuals who agree with the IR values together with our policy standards on Anti-Bribery, Child Protection and Code of Conduct. We will carry out screening checks and will take out references on your behalf if you are selected.

Please note, for UK based roles, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who are eligible to work in the UK. We are unable to progress applications which would require sponsorship.

Applicants should be sympathetic to the values of Islamic Relief.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Islamic Relief is an equal opportunities employer.

Only applications from those who already have the right to live and work within the UK will be considered

Please apply by downloading the application pack from our websitehttp://www.islamic-relief.org/Work-with-usand forward the completed form torecruitment@irworldwide.orgon or before the closing date.