Company Profile

For nearly 60 years, Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC) has worked globally to support children and youth who dream of a better world, serving the poor regardless of their faith, cultural, and ethnic background. We deliver our mandate by bringing together diverse people and building partnerships, driven by a common belief: education extends beyond the walls of a classroom and is the most powerful tool children can use to change their world. We focus on breaking barriers preventing access to inclusive, quality education for all, especially girls. 

Christian Children’s Fund of Canada, Ghana Country Office;
Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC), commenced work in Ghana in 1996 in Tamale in the Northern Region. We currently work in 9 districts of Northern and Upper East regions covering a total of 72 communities in partnership with local NGOs.

Our Vision, Mission and Values

• Vision:  We dream of a world where every child has a voice and the ability to achieve their full potential. 
• Mission: Christian Children’s Fund of Canada creates a future of hope for children, families, and communities by helping them develop the skills and resources to overcome poverty and injustice. 
• Values: Across our work, we aim to uphold the values of results, respect, integrity, teamwork and excellence. 
• Results: With a global perspective, we take strategic action to positively transform the lives of children, families and communities. 
• Respect: We champion the rights, dignity and value of all people. We treat others as we want them to treat us. 
• Integrity: We are honest and trustworthy in all our actions. Our actions are consistent with our vision and mission. 
• Teamwork: We combine diverse expertise and personal initiative, creating a powerful synergy to accomplish our shared goals. 
• Excellence: We continually innovate and challenge ourselves to achieve the highest-quality results.

Job Description

CCFC has a vacancy for a New Business Development (NBD) Manager in our country office in Ghana.

• The NBD Manager is responsible for the identification of and effective response to funding opportunities from institutional, private sector and other sources to enable CCFC successfully acquire grants.
• This position will also be responsible for capacity building of country office (CO) staff and CCFC’s local partners, to broadly enhance their resource diversification skills and strategies.
• The NBD Manager reports directly to the Country Director and the NBD Manager at Markham Office.

Key Functions & Results

• To generate revenue through grants acquisition
• Leading the development of the Country Office fundraising strategy, in collaboration with critical stakeholders.
• Conducting trend analysis, building and maintaining relationships with new and potential funders to position CCFC for better success.
• Identifies funding opportunities and working in collaboration with appropriate stakeholders, developing and writing successful proposals for grant acquisitions in a team environment.
• Cultivating strategic partnerships, to win long lasting business relationships with other organizations, funders and contractors.
• Supporting local partners in resource diversification, and dissemination of lessons learned.
• Engaging current and potential funders, partners and the public, in a manner that generates mutual trust and commitment to CCFC’s work.
• Training staff and local partners in identification and response to funding opportunities.
• Networks with other CCFC and ChildFund Alliance colleagues, to exchange mutually beneficial information on new business development, as well as development trends.

Work station

The successful candidate works from the CCFC Accra Office with 30% travel to Country Office in Tamale and main program areas in Northern Ghana.

Required Skills or Experience

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in corporate fund raising.
• Proven track record in development, submission and winning of major grant awards >$1Million.
• Degree in relevant development field; MBA or other relevant post-graduate degree is an asset.
• Proven track recording of raising large grants from bi-lateral and international donors and support donor compliance on grant implementation and reporting
• Professional certificate in grants and resource mobilisation 
• Experience working with institutional, public and private sector funders.
• Adequate working knowledge of the Northern Region of Ghana an added advantage