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Alliance Development Director, Nexus-Carbon for Development, Singapore

Fields of Expertise: Climate Change, Energy, Poverty

Nexus is looking for an Alliance Development Director to ensure the growth of the Nexus Alliance, identify and package pro poor climate friendly projects and expand existing in house expertise to new fields of work.

POSITION SUMMARY Position Title:	Alliance Development Director
Position Profile	climate change, pro poor and rural energy, development
Position grade:	Director
Unit/Dept:	"Corporate"
Direct Supervisor	Executive Director
Resource persons:	Technical Director, Communications and Partnerships Director
Duty station:	Singapore
Start date:	1st June 2011

2. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Development Director will have three main responsibilities:

1) Strengthen the Alliance

2) Identify and package pro poor climate friendly projects

3) Expand existing expertise to new fields of work

1) Alliance strengthening and transfer of knowledge (25%)

Oversee and build the Alliance Manager’s capacity (members’ recruitment, capacity building, governance, small grant mechanism)

Oversee the management, the animation and the governance of the alliance

Oversee the Innovation Fund management

Actively take part in promoting Nexus values to other potential member organizations

Ensure management of the knowledge and transfer of the knowledge between members and within the secretariat (matching needs with services offered)

2) Project Development (50%)

Identify, assess, help to design and launch pro poor climate friendly projects

Set up and manage a project evaluation tool

Work closely with members to identify and design large scale pro poor climate friendly projects

In collaboration with the Technical Director carry out appropriate due diligence and package these projects (screening process, proposal writing, fundraising through donor funding and innovative funding mechanisms such as carbon finance)

3) Expertise Development (25%)

Identify new opportunities to expand Nexus expertise base in relation to its core vision and mission (eg agriculture based projects, landscape approaches etc)

Build relevant partnerships in order to fulfill the above

3. PROFILE

Experience

Minimum 7 year professional experience in pro poor climate change project management such as improved cooking stoves, water purification and biogas

Proven ability to manage the full project cycle from proposal writing to implementation and evaluation

Acute knowledge of the international climate change negotiation scene and its future developments

Ability to network and build partnerships with high level stakeholders

Proven ability to manage and supervise staff

Experience in the development (not for profit) sector

Education

Master’s degree in environmental science, development or equivalent

Skills

Excellent analytical skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Excellent Excel skills

Excellent professional proficiency in English is a must

Proven ability to set up and manage procedures

Sensitivity to cultural differences

Personal quality

At ease in working in a small structure, start-up-type, where tasks and responsibilities are in constant evolution, and team is spread over 4 continents

Able to operate in a multicultural environment

High level of autonomy at work, yet with proven team-spirit

Adaptive, patient, resilient and flexible

Ability to work under pressure

Accept to travel frequently (Asia-Pacific region and possibly Africa)

4. HOW TO APPLY, POSITION CONDITIONS:

By email to: m.verles@nexus-c4d.org

Conditions: 5 500 – 6 000 SGD (plus performance based bonus), with a return flight ticket home per year

To see the pdf version of the full Terms of Reference, click here