Resource Acquisition and Strategic Partnerships Manager job at World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Vacancy title:
Resource Acquisition and Strategic Partnerships Manager

Jobs at:
World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Deadline of this Job:
Monday, October 20 2025

Duty Station:
Uganda | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, October 6 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Want to make a positive difference to the future of people and our one shared home, the Earth? Working at WWF
could be your opportunity of a lifetime.
All around the world, people are waking up to the deepening crisis of nature loss. A growing realization that nature
is our life-support system. And that nobody will be spared from the impacts of its loss. Here at WWF, we are helping
to tackle this enormous global challenge. Our people come from hugely diverse backgrounds and with a variety of
expertise, ranging from HR and finance to advocacy and conservation science. We welcome applications from anyone
who believes they can help us create a better future for people and wildlife.
What we do
We are an independent conservation organization, striving to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and
wildlife. From individuals and communities to business and government, we are part of a growing coalition calling
on world leaders to set nature on the path to recovery by 2030. Together, we seek to protect and restore natural
habitats, stop the mass extinction of wildlife, and make the way we produce and consume sustainable.
We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and highly qualified person to fill the position of Resource Acquisition
and Strategic Partnerships Manager.
Job Summary
The Resource Acquisition and Strategic Patronship’s Manager will oversee grant acquisition for the country office,
leading teams of professionals to design and implement fundraising strategies. He/she will support the building of
strategic partnerships, networking and donor engagement and grants compliance. They will lead the development
and maintenance of knowledge management capabilities to engage and improve the country office attractiveness
for grant acquisitions and grants management.
The Resource Acquisition and Strategic Partnerships Manager at WWF-Uganda has a multifaceted role:
1. Resource Mobilization: They oversee the organization’s resource acquisition efforts, including creating and
implementing a 3–5-year strategy to financially support and strategically advance environmental
conservation activities in Uganda.
2. Strategic Partnerships: They work to build capacity and create an enabling environment for WWF-Uganda to
develop strategic partnerships which play a crucial role in advancing the delivery of conservation priorities.
3. Donor Agreement Management: The manager ensures effective management of donor agreements,
ensuring quality and timely compliance with their implementation.
In this regard, the Resource Acquisition and Strategic Partnerships Manager will:
• Develop, implement, monitor and keep up to date the WWF-Uganda fundraising strategy and annual work
plans to advance WWF’s conservation objectives and increase income, regularly reporting on progress.
• Effectively lead UCO’s proposal development process in conjunction with the Conservation Head and other
relevant staff from capture to negotiation according to the WWF-Uganda proposal development process.
• Conduct an environmental scan / frequent donor and potential funding mapping and provide donor
intelligence (thematic orientations, modalities of engagement, entry points and forecasts).
• Ensure concepts and proposals meet all the requirements of donors and align with the UCO strategy and
conservation priorities, including a pipeline tracking system.
• Work closely with the Finance team to ensure an effective budgeting process for proposal development,
seeking active collaboration between members of the CO team, ROA team, external consultants, as well as
other experts on development of robust and quality proposals.
• Report proactively on the status of the pipeline and fundraising processes to WWF-Uganda CD, proactively
sharing information on opportunities and fundraising challenges within the CO, but also with the ROA team
with a view to strengthen collaboration and align actions.
• Ensure lessons from the project development process are captured and applied to improve future proposals,
promote information sharing and learning.
• Lead fundraising coordination with WWF-International and WWF ROA along with leads from WWF- to
advance fundraising objectives.
• Responsible for identifying, researching, developing and maintaining strategic partnerships with public
sector, Private sector and individual donors in close consultation and coordination with the WWF-Uganda
Conservation Head and WWF fundraising teams across the network, placing focus on opportunities from the
Africa Region.
• Identify, scope and position WWF-Uganda as a partner of choice for new funding modalities such as direct
awards, trust funds, tenders and complex consortia partnerships in line with WWF’s gatekeeping policies.
• Supervise and coordinate the maintenance and upgrading of the fundraising database (C2G) to support
strategy and decision-making by senior management.
• Identify and oversee management of major reputational risks for WWF related to execution of grant
contracts.
• In coordination with the Country Director and program technical teams, draft capacity statements, past
performance references, management plans and other relevant elements of the proposals.
• Ensure that all project proposal processes are in line with the existing ESSF guidelines and standards.
• Lead the development and maintenance of effective relationships with current and prospective donors.
• Support the UCO with networking and liaising with key in-country and international donors.
• Identify key strategic partnerships for the UCO and WWF, including civil society organizations, INGOs, UN and
government entities, and develop and support strategies to cultivate partnerships on priority programmes
and initiatives.
• Actively engage in and support UCO’s communication work; ensure business development collateral (a
portfolio of quality programme and project proposals, research and evidence of impacts of WWF-Uganda
work) are up to date and ready for sharing with potential donors.
• Scope and develop partnerships with other organizations working in the international development, climate
resilience and environment/ Natural resources sector and provide effective coordination for the
establishment of proposal development working groups with representatives from key stakeholders within
and outside UCO (consortium formation).
• Act as focal point for WWF-Uganda in Network communities of practice on fundraising, public sector
partnerships and corporate engagement as relevant.
• Lead effort to integrate national-level fundraising strategy with the landscape conservation approach and
design landscape-specific fundraising action plans.
• Create opportunities for WWF-Uganda senior staff to engage regularly with different donors in order to
position WWF-Uganda as a leading implementation partner.
• Contribute to the advocacy process and support WWF-Uganda to influence and conceptualise programmatic
priorities at the country and regional level.
• Build trust and long-term partnerships with key donors and investors, ensuring that potential risks in project
implementation are communicated to donors timely and adequately and that potential reputational issues
are being addressed as quickly and effectively as possible.
• Monitor overall donor and strategic partners outreach activities to ensure that relationships, content
development, follow-up and reporting are being managed appropriately.
• Work with program, communications, and fundraising staff from across the WWF network to develop a range
of fundraising, communications and marketing materials to support WWF-Uganda’s conservation activities.
• Actively participate in relevant donor meetings and networking events to further develop funding
relationships.
• Participate and contribute to relevant funding platforms to broaden perspective on industry trends, keep up
to date on changes to funding and application processes and jointly influence donor funding architecture.
• Facilitate signing of agreements with donors and MOUs with local partners.
• Monitor the adherence and compliance of grants and projects to the terms and donor’s requirements,
including evaluations, branding requirements, project close-outs, assets handover, etc.
• Coordinate regular program and financial reporting, overseeing compliance with contractual requirements.
• Lead the quality assurance and effective management of donor agreements with WWF UCO and overall
quality assurance of project and programme development.
• Strengthen the UCOs’ institutional capacity to acquire relevant grants.
• Provide adequate training to field staff on proposal development and grants management skills (including
proposal-writing and report-writing).
• Build staff and partner organization capabilities for successful grant acquisition and management.
• Lead the management of the knowledge database to ensure information is shared among technical team,
field program and other concerned staff, to capture new opportunities and track the ongoing grants.
Required Qualifications and Experience
• Minimum Master’s degree in Business management, Law, Marketing, International Relations, Business
communication, Development Studies or related fields.
• At least 10 years of proven experience in business development, sales, financial resource mobilization, key
account management, of which at least 5 have been in designing, developing and fundraising for
transformational projects with INGOs/NGOs/ Not-for-profits/ and/or in a leadership role preferably within
an International Development organizations or complex matrix environment.
• Experience in developing and writing project proposals to a broad portfolio of philanthropic actors,
including but not limited to public sector, foundations, and corporate sponsors.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills in English.
• Charming personality, versatile, with great positive energy.
• Knowledge and experience of the realities of conservation & development issues, donor strategies, funding
instruments and contract administration.
• Successful track record of cultivating funding partnerships across sectors.
• Experience of coordinating and negotiating with Government and donors at all levels.
• Excellent understanding of development partnerships, fund-raising, donor strategies, functions and
international relations.
• Proven financial analysis skills which include, but are not limited to, preparing and reading financial
dashboards, scenario planning, financial investment decision-making, and business case development.
• Good understanding of conservation, development and political interests in the countries of WWF-ROA.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, and proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships,
negotiate/mediate on issues, chair, resolve conflicts, and develop capacity.
• Self-starter with the ability to work quickly and efficiently to meet tight deadlines in and out of office hours.
• Strong cross-cultural skills and versatility in dealing with different types of partnerships.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and commitment to the mission of WWF Uganda.
• Demonstrates WWF’s behaviors which are Strive for Impact, listen deeply, collaborate openly and Innovate
fearlessly in their way of working.
• Adherence to WWF’s values, which are: Courage, Integrity, Respect and Collaboration.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure
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