CHIEF PARTNERSHIPS OFFICER

Partnerships Leadership and Strategy:

• Leads the creation and implementation of Muso’s development and external partnerships strategy.

• Conceives of, builds, and supports their team to deliver on a rigorous, ambitious, and achievable strategy to continue Muso’s rapid growth in a sustained, diversified, and strategic manner.

• Collaborates closely with senior leadership members across the organization to better integrate fundraising needs into team workflows and build programs and procedures that address these needs.

• Provides strategic guidance to the leadership team, identifying key opportunities and strategies to increase revenue and strengthen the team’s ability to meet deliverables.

• Contributes to development and implementation of strategic plans as part of the senior leadership team.

• Leads the communication of our strategic goals, plan, and progress with external partners.

• Determines and leads the growth of the development team needed to achieve Muso’s strategic goals.

Relationship Management:

• Identifies and engages major funding prospects, including new sources of funding support from individual philanthropists, private foundations, corporate foundations, and bilateral and multilateral global health institutions.

• Builds relationships with prospective and current donors to nurture strong funding partnerships.

• Oversees and supports all donor engagement, follow-up, and fundraising campaigns. Supports development team members and leadership team members strategically to build external relationships and manage follow-up.

• Supports growth of development team through mentorship, feedback, and identification of leadership opportunities for team members.

• Leads diligence on prospective funding partners to determine whether or not Muso should pursue a partnership, in alignment with our mission, values, and strategy.

Development Planning:

• Analyzes and researches funding partnership opportunities, identifying potential growth areas and which streams and relationships should be prioritized and pursued.

• Oversees team systems-building and manages team values and intra-team communication and collaboration standards.

• Manages, approves, and evaluates all development activities to ensure that the fundraising goals are being achieved.

• Oversees and contributes to team-wide processes for researching, developing, writing, and submitting grant proposals.

• Leads the development and frequent updating of probability-adjusted development forecasting.

• Prepares regular reports on progress for the Board of Directors and team.

Marketing and Communications:

• Manages the development of communications materials to engage current and prospective partners, including quarterly impact reports and annual reports.

• Approves and oversees all communications and fundraising strategies, including digital messaging and communications.

• Supports communications team to ensure that Muso’s marketing materials are clear, compelling, values and mission-aligned, and beautifully presented.

• Along with the CEO, represents Muso’s work in the public sphere through presentations and conference participation, or strategically deploys other team members to do so.