Career Openings at CBM Global Disability Inclusion

About the Role

• ​The job holder is responsible for leading CBM Global’s Institutional Funding (IF) strategic approach, aligned to the CBM Global Federation Strategy.
• This involves leading a professional and high-performing IF function across the Federation, coordinated with Federation Member Teams who are the lead for institutional funding in their domestic donor markets.
• Reporting to the Executive Director, the position holder will lead the core IF team. The role is primarily focused on strategic leadership in the organisation and setting of normative standards to guide the direction of the Federation’s Institutional Funding approach.
• The role is responsible for driving growth, diversification and resilience in institutional income through the implementation of the IF Strategy 2026–2030, with a special focus on strengthening country capacity and coordinating a Federation-wide effort.

​This will be your team:

• The team that you will be joining will have 6 employees in 2026, with expectations that this will increase in subsequent years. You will report to the CBM Global Executive Director. You will have 5 direct reports in 2026.

​Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership:

• Responsible for implementing and refining the IF Strategy 2026-2030 and delivery against growth targets and diversification goals.
• Ensure a unified Federation-wide approach to Institutional Funding that enhances CBM Global’s reputation, credibility and competitiveness in a challenging donor environment.
• Define and implement stage-gated rollouts for Business Development Officer (BDO) recruitment and integration in up to 8 priority countries.
• Champion analytics on proposal success rates and donor information to inform evidence-based decision-making.
• Coordinate with Member Team-led initiatives, ensuring coherence across the Federation, and lead on strategic bids (outside the domestic markets of the Member Teams), where agreed through Lead Team Selection and Go/No-Go processes.
• Serve as a member of the global leadership team, contributing to strategic planning, organisational growth and senior decision-making.

Team and Performance Management:

• Lead, inspire and manage the Global IF Team, including surge capacity and learning coordination and line management support to Country Team BDOs, ensuring clarity of role, strategic alignment and professional development.
• Work closely with Country Directors and Programme Managers in Country Teams and promote pro-active Country Team engagement in institutional funding.
• Foster a culture of excellence, collaboration and innovation in institutional fundraising across all levels of the Federation.
• Embed clear accountability mechanisms, KPIs and feedback loops for performance tracking, pipeline health and success rates.

Donor Engagement and Positioning:

• Provide an external voice for CBM Global in relevant global forums, advocating for approaches that align with CBM Global’s strategy and approach towards inclusive development, disability and human rights.
• Promote and represent CBM Global externally, strengthening collaboration within the NGO sector and with the wider disability movement.
• Coordinate the Federation-wide engagement approach with strategic donors and consortia leads, multilateral agencies and foundations.
• Oversee the development and refinement of CBM Global’s institutional value proposition, ensuring programmatic distinctiveness is well articulated to funders.
• Guide the creation and maintenance of donor engagement roadmaps and prospecting tools; contribute to positioning CBM Global for flagship, multi-country and high-value bids.
• Enable improving positioning and provide on-demand surge for donors where Member Teams lead. Lead bid management for strategic donors outside the domestic markets of Member Teams in accordance with the Lead Team Selection process.

Operational Coordination and Learning:​

• Facilitate the Institutional Funding Working Group and Institutional Funding Forum as central platforms for coordination, alignment and peer exchange.
• Develop and institutionalise processes such as Go/No-Go decision-making, lead team selection and bid management protocols.
• Ensure synergies with Programme colleagues, Technical Teams, Communications and MEL for high-quality, fundable programme design.
• Coordinate strategic learning reviews and annual IF performance reports for governance bodies including the CEO Forum.

​Safeguarding responsibilities:
Knowledge:

• Understands what safeguarding means for the IF function. Understands power imbalances and ways in which team/organisational culture may be reinforcing negative stereotypes and biases, and the impact of these dynamics on the vulnerable and marginalised.  

​Skills:

• Leads the team to develop the necessary skills and expertise to undertake their roles and responsibilities for safeguarding, challenging power imbalances, inequalities, gender bias and discrimination in our IF systems and processes. Leads the team to embed safeguarding in their work and processes. 

​Behaviours:

• Holds the team accountable for delivering on safeguarding standards.
• Articulates and promotes the strategic importance of safeguarding in all aspects of the organisation’s work. 
• Demonstrates leadership in ensuring that staff, programmes and operations are safe for all programme participants, staff and volunteers. 

​Key Outcomes Expected from this Role

• Annual institutional funding income growth per agreed targets by 2030.
• A high-performing IF function is embedded across Secretariat, Technical, Country and Member Teams.
• CBM Global is recognised as a trusted, strategic partner by institutional donors and consortia leads.
• Institutional funding efforts are evidence-based, well-coordinated, and aligned with organisational priorities.
• Strong capacity and systems are in place for sustained, inclusive, and impactful funding partnerships.

​Qualifications, Training, and Education

• Master’s Degree ideally in International Development, Public Policy/Administration, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
• Advance proficiency in English
• Proficiency in French desirable.

Experience and knowledge:

• A proven track record in leading institutional fundraising at a director level within complex, international organisations.
•  Experience in successfully defining and implementing an Institutional Funding Strategy for an International Organisation, defining growth targets, diversification goals and Federation-wide alignment.
•  Demonstrable success in growing and diversifying institutional income from bilateral, multilateral and foundation donors.
• Deep understanding of donor trends and funding environments, particularly in disability inclusion, inclusive development and humanitarian action.
• Experience managing distributed teams, ideally across federated or networked structures.
• Deep understanding of grant management, co-funding mechanisms and cost recovery principles.
• Experience with localisation agendas and capacity building of teams in the Global South.

​Skills / Competencies / Personal Qualities:

• Senior leadership and team management: able to lead through influence as well as formal authority.
• Strategic and systems thinker with strong analytical skills and ability to manage complexity.
• Excellent relationship-building, facilitation and negotiation skills with diverse stakeholders.
• Skilled communicator – persuasive, clear and inspiring across different cultural and organisational settings.
• Proficiency in adaptive planning, risk management and change leadership.
• Strong written communication, including donor-facing documentation and internal reporting.
• Commitment to CBM Global’s values, with a focus on inclusion, partnership, and integrity.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented, and resilient in the face of complexity and ambiguity.
• Strong commitment to localisation, power-shift and equity in funding and partnerships.
• Experience working in cross-cultural teams and diverse environments.
• Committed, excited, and passionate about disability inclusion and the rights of people with disabilities.
• Open to work collaboratively.

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​About the Role

• ​The Institutional Funding Senior Specialist is part of the Institutional Funding Team providing hands-on surge capacity for high priority proposals, ensuring Country Teams have access to relevant tools and guidance, facilitating internal learning and coordination on Institutional Funding (IF), supporting consortium formation and ensuring contractual compliance for proposal bids.
• ​While the Federation Member Teams remain the lead for institutional funding in their domestic donor markets, the Institutional Funding Senior Specialist provides on demand support to Member Team-led bids. For strategic funding opportunities outside the domestic markets of Member Teams the Senior Specialist leads the proposal development team.
• ​The IF Senior Specialist will closely coordinate with CBM Global Technical Teams (Advocacy, Inclusion Advisory Group, Disaster Risk Management, Community Mental Health & Psychosocial Disability, Inclusive Eye Health and Community inclusion/OPD engagement) as the position is cross cutting in nature.

​This will be your team:

• The team that you will be joining will have 6 employees in 2026, with expectations that this will increase in subsequent years.
• You will report to the Institutional Funding Director.
• You will have no direct reports but will work closely with teams across the Federation.

​Key Responsibilities
Proposal development and surge support 30%:

• Lead and coordinate on agreed high-value/strategic Institutional Funding proposal development to deliver high quality, compliant bids aligned with donor requirements and CBM Global internal standards—coordinating inputs across Country, Member and Technical Teams and the Secretariat.
• When leading proposal development, set the bid strategy and workplan; oversee compliance and eligibility checks; broker and document partner roles and governance; align the technical approach with MEL/logframe and budget; clarify risk mitigation and safeguarding measures, run quality reviews; facilitate internal sign off and ensure on-time final submission.
• Provide on-demand surge to Member Teams on proposal bid development as coordinator, contributor or reviewer on one or more bid development tasks.

​Consortium formation, coordination and support 10%:

• Lead or broker consortium formation for strategic bids, act as senior broker/support to strengthen design and governance and take up day-to-day coordination.
• Promote proactive relationship-building and positioning by cultivating priority partner relationships and networks with Country Teams and Technical Teams, identifying positioning opportunities ahead of expected calls in priority geographies/sectors.
• When leading consortium formation, conduct partner/OPD mapping and outreach; assess interest and consortium-fit; lead pre-award due diligence; define value add and workshare; draft/negotiate teaming agreements or MoUs, and document decision procedures – in collaboration with the in-country Business Development Officers for country based organisations, and with Technical Teams for international sector specialist organisations.

​Internal Communication, Learning, and Coordination 30%:

• Support the IF Working Group (IFWG) and IF Forum (IFF) by coordinating meetings, sharing documentation, tracking actions and facilitating peer exchange.
• Curate and maintain internal IF communication platforms to ensure up-to-date, version-controlled resources, decision logs and lessons are easy to find and consistently used across the federation.
• Lead the development, testing, roll-out and upkeep of CBM Global business development tools, resources and guidance. Curate and improve high-quality boilerplates, donor annex examples and checklists, as well as capture lessons and debriefs to strengthen future bids.
• Develop and promote the use of fit-for-purpose consortium coordination support tools (e.g. MoUs, due diligence checklists, decision logs), as well as capture lessons learned to strengthen future partnerships.
• Curate and develop tools that support compliance with donor requirements (e.g. procurement policy, risk register, etc) for donors outside Member Team domestic markets and per Lead Team Selection.

​Compliance support 30%:

• Build and maintain donor-compliance intelligence for strategic donors such as on eligibility and cost principles, reporting frequency and templates, sub-granting rules, procurement, audit/assurance, branding/visibility, safeguarding and ethics, data protection, procurement, and indirect-cost rates.
• Advise on compliance during bid development for donors outside Member Team domestic markets and per Lead Team Selection, e.g. review donor conditions, flag implications (eligibility, cost share, sub-granting, audit, branding, data, safeguarding/ethics), and coordinate seeking donor clarifications through to submission.
• Advise CBM Global colleagues on addressing compliance issues during project implementation (e.g. request for waivers, budgetary changes, etc) for donors outside Member Team domestic markets and per Lead Team Selection.

Safeguarding Responsibilities:
Knowledge:

• Knows and considers the power people think they hold because of their position at CBM Global and takes care not to abuse it by treating everyone with respect. 
• Considers their personal values and biases, taking care these do not negatively impact on how they interact with and treat the different individuals they will come across during their work at CBM Global. 

​Skills:

• Able to report and escalate safeguarding concerns appropriately. Challenges inappropriate behaviours of peers. Able to implement safeguarding requirements in their area of responsibility. 

​Behaviours:

• Acts as a role model for CBM Global’s commitment to zero-tolerance for abuse, do no harm and safeguarding standards. 

​Key Outcomes Expected from this Role

• High-value and strategic proposals outside Member Team domestic markets are submitted on time and to standard, with a clear bid plan, aligned narrative–logframe–budget, completed quality reviews, and zero critical compliance defects.
• Surge support to Member Team-led bids improves readiness and quality—strengthening compliance pathways and MEL alignment—while preserving Member Team ownership of donor relationships and bid leadership.
• Strategic consortia are designed and coordinated effectively, with documented roles and decision rights, fit-for-purpose teaming/MoUs, agreed workshare and quality assurance, and inclusive ways of working including OPD engagement.
• Internal IF platforms and communities of practice operate on a clear cadence with tools, action point follow up, and concise learning notes that are easy to find and reused across bids.
• For strategic donors, up-to-date compliance intelligence—covering eligibility, cost principles, sub-granting, audit/assurance, branding/visibility, safeguarding/ethics, data protection, indirect cost rates, and procurement—guides Go/No-Go decisions, design choices, and proposal development processes.
• The IF Advisor’s delivery complements the Director of Institutional Funding and respects Member Team leadership in domestic markets, with transparent attribution to lead teams and separate tracking of enablement contributions.

​Qualifications, Training, and Education

• Master’s Degree in International Development, Humanitarian Affairs, Public Policy / Administration, Human Rights, Business Administration, or a closely related field.

Experience and knowledge:

• At least 5 years experience in a similar role(s), with extensive experience of proposal development or project coordination within international development or humanitarian contexts.
• Understanding of donor expectations (e.g. bilateral donors and large foundations) including basic compliance terms.
• Knowledge of consortium models, partnership coordination and internal grant systems.
• Familiarity with internal collaboration tools (e.g. Microsoft Teams, intranet, NGO Online and the use of tools like PowerBI).
• Fluency in English and French (French desirable), spoken and written, with ability to work confidently with stakeholders in both languages.
• Understanding of equitable partnership principles and inclusive practices, including meaningful engagement of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs).
• Experience working in matrixed, multi-country organisations across time zones and cultural contexts.
• Experience working in cross-cultural teams and diverse environments.
• Committed, excited, and passionate about disability inclusion and the rights of people with disabilities.
• Open to work collaboratively.

Skills/competencies/personal qualities:

• Excellent coordination and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to synthesise complex information into clear summaries or guidance.
• Comfortable working across teams, time zones, and functions in a flexible, collegial way.
• Facilitation and negotiation skills for productive design sessions and fair teaming arrangements reflecting partner value-add and inclusivity.
• Capable of navigating digital platforms and learning new systems quickly.
• Commitment to CBM Global’s values, with a focus on inclusion, partnership, and integrity.
• Service-minded and proactive, supporting others to succeed.
• Open to learning and adaptable to the evolving needs of a federated structure.
• Sensitive to power dynamics and committed to equitable partnerships.
• Willingness to undertake occasional international travel for consortium development, workshops, or critical bid processes (desirable).