Kenya Commercial Bank Limited is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, 2016. The holding company oversees KCB Kenya – incorporated with effect from January 1, 2016 – and all KCB’s regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in institutional resource mobilization and fund raising across KCB Foundation, regional offices including subsidiaries.
• Development and submission of high-quality fundraising proposals, concept papers and pitch presentations to donors and other funding partners.
• Scope and identify opportunities for funding, Coordination of efforts and knowledge management aimed at winning new business.
• Maintain an informatics system that monitors and updates on the funding and opportunity pipeline, and lead pipeline and information management to drive informed decisions on future opportunities.
• Review proposals and pitch materials for compliance and soundness with donor requirements as well as adherence to KCB Foundation and Group policies and procedures.
• Support programs and business units to develop and implement resource mobilization strategies.
• Provide technical training and capacity building to countries, staff and project implementation teams on resource mobilization, intelligence gathering, proposal writing to develop high quality proposals.
• Liaise with partnerships and policy and advocacy teams, working together to engage critical stakeholders and generate leads for new/enhanced program funding.

Academic & Professional

Particulars    Detail    Specific Field or Qualification

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree

Professional Qualifications    

• Programme management/ Communication/ Development/ any related area
• Master’s degree    Business Administration (MBA) /Marketing/Related Field/ Project Management/ Social Sciences/ Communication

Experience

• Total Minimum No of Years Experience Required 8

Detail    Minimum No of Years 

• Donor Fundraising     8    ES
• Track record of raising at least Ksh 1B annually     3    DE
• Donor engagement & management     8    ES
• Proposal, concept note and idea note development and preparation     5    ES
• Programme development     5    ES
• Partnership management    4    ES
• Research    3    DE
• Monitoring & evaluation    2    DE