| TITLE: Business Development Assistant (Intern) for Asian Development Bank Partnership |
| TEAM/PROGRAMME: Resource Mobilization Unit, Asia Regional Office | LOCATION: Home based |
| GRADE: Intern | CONTRACT LENGTH: 3 month |
| CHILD SAFEGUARDING: Level 1: A basic criminal record background (DBS) check is required/equivalent police record check. |
| ROLE PURPOSE: Asian Development Bank (ADB) cooperates with a broad range of civil society organizations (CSOs) to strengthen its efforts to reduce poverty and increase the effectiveness, quality, and sustainability of its operations. The way CSOs can engage with ADB is diverse in that ADB integrates CSO knowledge and experience into ADB operations, engage CSOs in sharing knowledge and best practices and collaborate with CSOs for delivering certain activities as part of ADB operations. The relationship is expected to be often triangular in nature, involving both client governments and civil society organizations. For Save the Children, ADB is a relatively new but strategic partner. A number of Save the Children offices gathered in mid-2023 to explore new ways of working in expanding partnership with ADB and Save the Children Regional Office (Resource Mobilization Unit) is in a position to coordinate with various stakeholders including Technical advisors, Advocacy teams and Save the Children Country Offices to ensure that we maximize our leverage to lead bigger impact through major regional development banks such as ADB. For the year of 2024, Regional donor engagement plan is being developed in consultations with relevant stakeholders and the intern’s work will be an important reference to support the partnership development with ADB. |
| SCOPE OF ROLE: Reports to: Ji Young Nam (Regional Business Development Manager, Asia) Staff reporting to this post: None Budget Responsibilities: None |
| KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: - Compile and update donor intelligence for ADB including ADB’s recent priorities and the entry point for CSOs in general
- Review Save the Children Country Offices’ 2024 strategies and Collect ADB- related information that are relevant to the country offices in the region
- Review ADB’s consulting opportunities and Sort out the major thematic focuses in line with Save the Children’s strengths
- Collect ADB’s partnership examples and Write a brief paper to capture the lessons and the next steps
- In order to conduct research and collect relevant information, the intern can support and coordinate in focus group discussions/ technical working groups, as needed, and also support in coordinating with ADB’s CSO Cooperation Network
Other benefits - Opportunity to network with country offices, regional teams and the centre
- Opportunity to learn how INGO functions
- Access to resources at Save the Children internal platform (ONENET)
- Reference upon successful completion
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| BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice) Accountability: - holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition: - sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration: - builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues,
- ·values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
Creativity: - develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
Integrity: - honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
- approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
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| QUALIFICATIONS - Being able to use Microsoft programmes (e.g. excel, word, ppt)
- English speaker/ writer
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| EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS - Research skills (desirable)
- Experience in coordinating with multiple partners (desirable)
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| Additional job responsibilities The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience. |
| Equal Opportunities The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures. |
| Child Safeguarding: We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. |
| Safeguarding our Staff: The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy. |
| Health and Safety The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures. |
| To apply, please submit a CV through the NUS Talent Connect (JOB ID: 226359). Link: https://nus-csm.symplicity.com/ |