Full Time
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Posted 2 years ago

Website CIFFchild Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)

Please submit your application on or before 10 April 2023

The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is an independent philanthropic organisation with offices in Addis Ababa, Beijing, London, Nairobi, and New Delhi. CIFF works with a wide range of partners seeking to transform and empower the lives of poor and vulnerable children and adolescents in developing countries, with the ultimate goal of solving seemingly intractable challenges to ensure all children and adolescents have the chance to survive and thrive.

CIFF aims to play a catalytic role as a funder and influencer to deliver urgent and systemic change at scale. Areas of work include empowering girls and boys to control their sexual and reproductive health to avoid unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion and HIV/AIDS; improving children and mothers’ health and nutrition; preventing low birthweight babies; eliminating deaths from severe acute malnutrition, nested within a more integrated approach to childhood development; and deworming efforts to break transmission for good. CIFF’s child protection work focuses on ending child labour and sexual exploitation by enabling an environment that reduces vulnerability of communities and increases protection of children. The organisation’s climate portfolio is driven by a vision of a climate-safe future for today’s children and future generations that also bear the benefits of cleaner air, energy security and sustainable jobs.

We are privileged, as a financially independent philanthropy, to be able to work in challenging areas that others can’t, and we often elect to work on what can be controversial issues that others won’t. For example, CIFF is pro-choice with respect to women’s reproductive rights along with the prioritisation of access to reproductive information and to contraceptive choices. It is imperative to the CIFF family, therefore, that prospective candidates are aware of the issues we work on and embrace all our programmatic work with fully open minds to the huge number of ways in which we seek to empower young lives.

CIFF places significant emphasis on quality data and evidence. For most of its grants, CIFF works with partners to measure and evaluate progress to achieve large scale and sustainable impact. The organisation is committed to sharing as much information as possible about what they and their partners are learning.

Founded in 2002, CIFF employs approximately 160 professionals globally. CIFF strives to couple business acumen and principles with development experience and best practices to transform the landscape for children. It seeks to be the gold standard in grant making and foundation operations.

1. Partnerships Manager, India

Description

Main purpose of the role

Work with the Business Manager and CIFF India leadership team to build deep, long-term partnerships with domestic philanthropies to nurture the ecosystem of giving and build local capacity for transformative giving develop. The Partnerships manager will be expected work across multiple internal and external stakeholders to manage critical relationships, facilitate partnerships development and support a range of thought leadership and field building initiatives.

Key Role: Co-funding and Partnerships

Be the principal coordinator for co-funding and partnerships mechanisms including the development of ambitious, high-value or complex co-funding models and special purpose vehicles (e.g., impact funds, giving platforms etc) building on global, regional, and national expertise, and ensuring the highest quality product. This includes managing the overall process, developing the co-funding and partnerships calendar, leading the design of co-funding models, assigning roles, facilitating workshops, and ensuring inputs from staff are timely, competitive, and compliant.

Identify, research, track, design, and disseminate information on new co-funding and partnerships opportunities with governments, bilateral, multi-lateral and other institutional funders, regional bodies, private sector, and non-traditional donors in line with the India 2.0.
Develop and implement a fundraising strategy to leverage domestic philanthropy working with Business
Manager and India leadership to lead research and identify potential donors to support our co-funding and partnerships vision.
Develop high-quality knowledge products such as inspiring case studies, presentations, impact stories, concept notes, business cases and investment memos,
Maintain co-funding tracking systems as well as measurement against the India strategy and annual targets, and revise/track annual co-funding targets and forecasts accordingly. Regularly report on opportunities and metrics to relevant managers and directors.
Pro-actively seek donor intelligence on prospective new opportunities for co-funding and partnerships.
Lead co-funding analyses to identify and strategically invest in partnerships to advance country office strategies. Document information in trackers, reports, teasers or presentations to the leadership and external audience.
Maintain an ongoing and regularly updated knowledge management system inclusive of context analyses, opportunities, and other resource relevant for future co-funding and partnerships proposal development (gender equality, risks analysis, assessments, data, social impact, cost effectiveness etc.) for effective capture planning.
Engage and provide regular updates to the leadership on the status of the co-funding portfolio, and key trends to monitor. Actively track trends and advise leadership on strategic opportunities, relationships, and pivots necessary to grow.
Develop & manage critical investments support that aim to strengthen the philanthropic ecosystem, including development of knowledge products, strengthening existing platforms networks, thought leadership, and generation of data, evidence, and insights to accelerate philanthropy in India.

Key Role: Strategic Engagement

Build and strengthen critical relationships with national and local governments, bilateral and multilateral donors, regional bodies, private sector, domestic funders, strategic grantees, partners, and co-funders (e.g., diaspora platforms, individual remittances programmes, giving groups, high net-worth individuals, corporate and family foundations, co-investment platforms for Indian Philanthropy) to align CIFF’s mission and strategies.
Provide active support to the Business Manager, India Executive Director and other India Directors to initiate and maintain co-funding and partnerships contacts, plan, and prepare for meetings and strategic in line with the broader India strategy.

Identify and represent CIFF at critical platforms, convenings and other networking opportunities to build visibility of CIFF amongst Indian philanthropy
Ensure key contacts, required formats and donor strategies are kept up-to-date. Maintain updated capacity statements, factsheets, brochures, and visibility materials.
Develop and maintain systems and tools to track contacts, external positioning opportunities, and donor engagements.
Cultivate business relationships with government, corporates, and other funders for large scale or strategic co-funding and partnerships opportunities.
As needed provide high quality support to CIFF India team on other projects and initiatives in line with delivering the CIFF India strategy.

Requirements

Skills & Experience

5-7 years of proven experience in strategy development, private financing, fundraising and/or partnerships roles.
Strong knowledge of the India development sector and the philanthropic ecosystem in India. Existing networks within the Indian philanthropic ecosystem is an advantage.
Experience in establishing, maintaining, and converting collaborative relationships and opportunities with bilateral and multilateral donors, regional bodies, development partners, private sector, philanthropic foundations, and other funders
Proven ability to work across multiple teams and stakeholders with flexibility, efficiency, and diplomacy in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to work well independently, a motivated self-starter, with good initiative and problem-solving skills

Key working relationships

CIFF India Executive Director and the India leadership team (India Directors)
External affairs and communications team
Various India sector teams

Benefits
Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefits package here at CIFF that includes, but is not limited to the following:

Annual leave – 25 days per annum. Increasing by 1 day after each year of service, to a maximum of 30 days.
Bonus – CIFF currently operates a discretionary bonus scheme.
Training allowance
Wellbeing allowance
Life insurance
Medical insurance

Please submit your application on or before 10 April 2023.

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2. Finance Business Partner

Description

Main purpose of the role

Programme Finance business partners are the critical interface between the finance function based in London and the India programme management team, playing a key role of representing finance in the India team and representing the India team in finance function. The FBP will provide commercial and financial input to the design and delivery of our programme investments. They will provide added value support to the India team, by performing modelling for cost benefit analysis and ad hoc data analysis as required. This role also involves technical oversight and support to ensure that CIFF’s grant monies are safeguarded and utilised in the pre-agreed manner. The FBP is responsible for the due diligence assessment of CIFF’s grantees including internal controls, processes and procedures and ensuring grant activity is properly reported.

The FBP will work across the broad portfolio of Girl Capital, Child Health & Development, Adolescence, Child Protection & Climate activities in India which focuses on improving the survival, health and well-being of children, adolescents and their mothers and education and skilling of girls and young women

The position is based in the CIFF office in New Delhi and involves travel to the programme implementation sites in India in order to work closely with our partners in monitoring the expenditure on CIFF’s grants. Some travel will also be required to the UK.

The reporting line is to the Senior FBP, India, based in New Delhi.

Role’s responsibilities

Advice on the finance structure of grant proposals
Analysis and negotiation of grantee budgets
Management of the payment approval process
Financial, governance and risk due diligence prior to investment approval
Input into monthly management reporting process for grant disbursements and multi-year commitments
Support of external provider in completing grantee audits
Working with grantees to strengthen their financial and operational controls

Decision support

Provide added value, commercial and financial advice on relevant aspects of programme design and delivery
Carry out financial modelling and analysis to support programme decision making
Act as a trusted advisor to the India leadership team

Grantee Assessment

Prior to investment approval, reviewing the budget submitted by the grantee for reasonableness and accuracy. Budgets should also comply with CIFF’s internal policies and be compatible with the
Foundation’s priorities and financial resources. Where appropriate, suggest changes to the proposals and agree internally.
Working with the sector teams to identify financial and operational risks which may impact on programme strategy and develop mitigating solutions to the identified risks for the grantees to implement.
Supporting partners in building financial reporting tools, giving guidance where necessary on data analysis and interpretation once tools are operational.
Supporting the Finance team and Portfolio Managers in analysing the quarterly financial reports submitted by the grantees and in preparing summaries of progress and performance.
Working with grantees to address the findings of audits to improve the internal controls and processes of CIFF’s partners
Analysing trends and findings from prior year audits to ensure that all key lessons from previous reviews are implemented
Preparing financial or grantee assessment-related dissemination materials for CIFF and as needed, for distribution to other stakeholders.
Responsibility for the quality of the data on CIFF’s grantee database, Fluxx, and reporting through Power BI.

Grants accounting and controls

Working with the finance team to support management reporting, e.g. analysing key trends in granting activity and disbursements and using this analysis to develop internal reporting and to benchmark future grant budgets.
Supporting the finance team in the statutory reporting of grant and programme related investment activities and for complex mixed motive investments.

Working with the management of the grantees to implement a control system which ensures that all major risks of the grantee are identified and mitigated, whilst meeting CIFF’s grant stipulations.
Working with the Fluxx team to improve the effectiveness of this grant management tool to support all aspects of the relationship with Grantees.
Ensuring compliance with Charity Commission audit and financial best practice.