Can you drive strategic partnership engagement and business development strengthening the financial base and increase the impact of Ukrainian Red Cross and Danish Red Cross’ work in Ukraine? Are you passionate about developing solid concepts, pitches and proposals and leading high-level engagement with strategic donors? Then you might be the candidate we are looking for in the Danish Red Cross Country Office in Ukraine.

The position will play an integral part in enabling the Country Office to live up to our ambition to continue providing large-scale humanitarian assistance and long-term recovery support to people affected by the crises in Ukraine.

The Danish Red Cross has been present in Ukraine since 2014 as one of the key partners to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS), the largest volunteer-based national humanitarian organization in the country operating in all regions of the country through 180 branches, 1.500 staff and more than 8.000 volunteers.

Since February 24th, the Danish Red Cross has been supporting URCS in their massive scale-up of humanitarian assistance. We have jointly established and managed one of the first humanitarian supply chains into Ukraine providing more than 10.000 tons of humanitarian relief items supporting more than a million people, contributed to scaling up mental health and psychosocial support activities nationwide and supported humanitarian activities within health, international humanitarian law, youth engagement, branch development and winterization. Danish Red Cross remains committed to support the URCS in responding to the humanitarian as well as the long-term recovery needs in Ukraine.

The Danish Red Cross (DRC), as part of the international Red Cross and Red Crescent network in Ukraine, is seeking a Partnership Delegate to drive and support business development, resource mobilization and new partnerships in Ukraine. The position is placed in the Partnership Team responsible for leading DRC’s work within partnerships, resource mobilization and fundraising in Ukraine and based in Kyiv. The delegate will report to the Partnership Team Lead with line management to the Country Manager.

The successful candidate will work closely with URCS, the Country Office Programmes and Finance Teams, and coordinate with the Global Partnership Unit at headquarters, to ensure a strong and proactive development of programs and operations in the country.

As this is a Junior position, 10% of the position will involve learning and training. This will both be through having a buddy in country to support the learning, have regular meetings on development with the country manager and looking actively at training opportunities.

Key Responsibilities (see job description)

The Partnership Delegate will take a leading role within the Partnership Team to strengthening the Country Office’s approach to engaging with strategic donors and ensuring a sustainable long-term financing set-up. The following will be among the key concrete tasks:

• Support building and strengthen donor relations together with Ukrainian Red Cross, the Country Manager, the Partnerships Team and Programmes Team to ensure regular dialogue with potential institutional and non-institutional partners

• Support the design, development, and implementation of business development plans within key sectors and activity lines of DRC and URCS

• Engage continuously with Programmes Team in country to ensure that resource mobilization and business development is conducted in line with strategic and operational priorities.

• Contribute and write specific pitches on new investment and funding opportunities on short notice and proactively in anticipation of potential funding and partnership opportunities.

• Assist in exploring local fundraising possibilities and initiate funding applications in close coordination with the Programmes Team and URCS

• Support coordination of reporting to partners and back donors

Qualification and personal skills

The successful candidate will have a relevant degree in social or political sciences, economic or cultural studies, humanitarian, and/or development studies and have a strong interest in strategic donor engagement and resource mobilization.

A plus if experience in engaging with external stakeholder specifically within humanitarian and development donors, but not a requirement – as long as you are interested and willing to learn.

It is expected that the candidate have a maximum of 2 years’ experience.

The selected candidate will be expected to be able to support and maintain continuous engagement with a portfolio of strategic partners to the DRC in Ukraine and take strong initiatives in identifying, developing, and securing new partnerships and funding opportunities.

Employment conditions

The starting date would be 01.04 2025 or as soon as possible. The length of the contract is 12 months with a possibility to be extended but depending on the situation.

Your duty station will be Kyiv, Ukraine and with travel in-country depending on needs and access. The position is a non-family duty station and will include R&R benefits for as long as the security situation deems it necessary (currently rotations are after every 12 weeks).

Travelling to the project implementation areas will take place to the degree that the security situation in-country allows.

The salary including all allowances and pension payment will be between DKK 37,100 and 40,000 (equal to (EUR 4,975 and 5,365 ) per month, depending on qualifications and experience. Accommodation in a apartment in Kyiv is provided, free of charge.

How to apply

Further information

For questions regarding the position please contact Jakob Harbo Country Manager, jahar@rodekors.dk

Application deadline is 17th of January - and interviews will be conducted in the following weeks.

Your application and CV should be uploaded at DRC web page www.rodekors.dk/job.