Working with partners across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Feba is all about the creative use of radio and other audio media to inspire people to follow Jesus Christ.We have a particular focus on ‘closed countries’ and ‘hard-to-reach’ people groups, including places where Christians face persecution for their faith.

We are looking for an outstanding, experienced and highly motivated individual for this new role.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing strong and enduring relationships with current and potential major donors and family trust funds.
• Create compelling, relevant and tailored funding proposals
• Design and develop a targeted contact strategy and bespoke cultivation plan
• Co-create a new major donor development strategy

You will have:

• A clear demonstrable personal Christian faith and a commitment to Feba’s ministry
• A successful track record of securing five or six figure grants from trusts/foundations and/or a major fundraising role
• A strong, engaging presence with individuals and groups
• Ability to negotiate and influence effectively with strong written and verbal skills
• Great networking skills and familiar with the current landscape, approach and technique

The Feba team is small (less than 10 people), all of whom care passionately about what we do.We love to roll up our sleeves, try new ways of doing things and support each other so that we can achieve our goals.If that sounds like you and you share our vision and values, then we’d love to hear from you.

Salary:Circa £21,000 per annum for 21 hours (FTE £35,000 p.a.)

Hours:21 hours per week

Location:Flexible working considered, yet within regular traveling

distance to West Sussex (Worthing - Chichester area).

Closing date:9.00am 2 November 2020

First Interviews:Weeks beginning 9 or 16 November 2020

For more information and application details, please visit the website

This post is subject to an Occupational Requirement that the post holder is a committed evangelical Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

THE CARES FAMILY: PARTNERSHIPS ASSOCIATE (CORPORATE FUNDRAISER)

ROLE FEATURES

• Full time, 12-month contract
• Salary: £30,000 (negotiable for exceptional candidates)
• 26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Based in London

The Cares Family helps people find community and connection in a disconnected age. First established in 2011, our objectives are to reduce loneliness and isolation by creating and supporting meaningful mutual relationships between people who might not otherwise interact; to help people feel belonging, purpose and power in a rapidly changing world; and to bring people together to reduce the gaps across social, generational, digital, cultural and attitudinal divides.

In your role as The Cares Family’s Partnerships Associate, you will work closely with our Director of Development, Head of Development and Head of Community Fundraising to generate at least £200,000 from businesses and national corporate partners across the five branches of The Cares Family (North London Cares, South London Cares, Manchester Cares, Liverpool Cares, East London Cares) as well as for our new national projects.

This is an exciting time to join our ambitious fundraising team. Thanks to the expansion of corporate partnerships this year, you will be responsible for managing and delivering all volunteering and engagement opportunities with current partners to sustain and grow their support. New business development is also a core part of this role so you will create a robust pipeline of prospective corporate partners and convert new multi-year collaborations, sponsorships, and employee engagement and fundraising into income.

With so much of this role depending on relationships, we need a real people-person. You will have excellent organisational and people management skills to engage new businesses and deliver volunteer engagement opportunities. You will be ambitious, innovative and confident in scoping and pitching. We need someone who is passionate about people and who can clearly promote our vision for building friendships across deepening divides. If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

For the full job description and details on how to apply, please see our website. 

DEADLINE: November 4th 2020 at 9am

The Cares Family is an anti-racist organisation committed to advancing anti-racism in our work and in our communities. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, who are under-represented in our organisation. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Cruse Bereavement Care, the largest bereavement support organisation in the UK is looking for an excellent Community Fundraising and Engagement Manager to work across the Midlands and East of England.

Despite being a well-established charity, excelling in utilising a vast network of volunteers, the national fundraising programme is still in its infancy. The charity has ambitious plans, and the fundraising team is growing to fund them. It’s a very exciting time to join our new, and already successful, fundraising team.

We’re looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and driven Community Fundraising and Engagement Manager to recruit, inspire and support fundraising supporters and volunteers across this large geographical area- and in turn successfully deliver challenging fundraising targets.  

Lead by the Head of Community and Events Fundraising, you will be responsible for all Community and Events fundraising income in your region, as well the cross selling of other fundraising streams through on the ground engagement. You’ll provide all supporters with a superb experience, helping them feel valued, supported and aware of their impact.

This is a home-based role, living within the Midlands or Eastern England.

This is a full time and permanent role, working 35 hours per week (some weekend and evening work will be required)

A full UK driving licence and permanent access to a car is essential.

Closing date:  Sunday 8th November

Interview date:  Wednesday 11th November

Your application should consist of CV and covering letter, which outlines your suitability for the role and should be no longer than two pages.

Cruse welcomes and encourages applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

Latch is looking for an experienced fundraiser who is passionate about our work to help us to secure financial and in-kind support from a variety of funders including corporate partners, charitable trusts, trade bodies and small and medium-sized enterprises. This is a new role at Latch and an exciting opportunity to help us to continue to grow and provide innovative and high quality services to our tenants.

Latch is a unique charitable organisation that purchases and refurbishes derelict and run-down houses in Leeds. When they’re fully modernised and furnished, our properties provide supported housing for people who are homeless or in housing need and are ready to make a positive change in their lives. We also provide training opportunities for long-term unemployed people to gain experience and skills on our property refurbishment projects.

Temporary for 6 months, extension possible subject to funding. 

Interviews to be held 11 November

About FareShare Midlands

FareShare Midlands is a local charity fighting food poverty by tackling food waste. We source food that is surplus to requirements - from suppliers, retailers and manufacturers - and rely on an army of volunteers to help redistribute this food to local charities and community groups who provide meals and food parcels to vulnerable people. Our food reaches many, including individuals who are homeless, unemployed, socially isolated, school breakfast clubs, community centres and those recovering from addictions. 

Right now our food is distributed to 450 frontline charities reaching more than 35,000 vulnerable people every week, but we want to do more!

FareShare Midlands’ Vision

Vision: We have the vision of a UK where “No good food goes to waste”.

Our Values:

Passion – for our cause and the challenge that lies ahead

Ambition – to go the extra mile and drive the change that must happen

Respect – for ourselves, each other, our volunteers, our partners and our beneficiaries

Collaboration – it’s only by working with others that we can be stronger Fighting hunger, tackling food waste

Main purpose of this role

As a Community Coordinator, your role will focus on the growth and sustainability of our network of community food groups in the region. The successful candidate will be an exceptional communicator, with an approachable nature who will play a vital role in developing and maintaining our membership, income, and raising awareness of FareShare Midlands with partners and stakeholders and the wider public.

Location and hours

Initally we're looking for someone to commit 22.5 hours each week, with the intention that this becomes a full time role from March 2021. 

The successful candidate can be based anywhere in the Midlands, but with the knowledge that this role will focus on developing the eastern side of the region and frequent travel will be required (when appropriate and taking account of Covid-19 restrictions). Everyone at FareShare Midlands is assigned a warehouse base in either Nottingham, Leicester or Birmingham, but it is expected that this role will have a mix of home working and working from a warehouse base.

 Duties and Responsibilities

• Retain, develop and grow Community Food Membership for FareShare Midlands across the east of the region.
• Recruit new Community Food Members ensuring high standards of customer care and establishing sustainable member networks.
• Ensure income and growth targets for Community Food Membership are met.
• Work closely with FareShare Go to promote a “One FareShare” offer for our members that enhances shared learning and offers the best possible customer service
• Support the Development Managers and fundraising team with funding bids in the geographic areas you cover.
• Support the implementation of high quality customer care protocols and processes towards our Community Food Members.
• Ensure record keeping and database systems are up to date.
• Work cross functionally with internal teams, particularly the operations team and the finance team, to ensure all elements of membership link together for excellent customer service.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders.
• Monitor standards of customer service to existing members.
• Support communications, PR and Marketing in line with the function needs.
• Ensure impact data on development activity is captured, reviewed and reported.
• Carry out any other duties as may be required in order to maintain service for FareShare Midlands.

Person Specification

Essential Experience, Skills & Qualities

• Experience of developing sustainable membership and/or partnerships.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in writing proposals, presentations and reports.
• Established numeracy skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Proven ability to form good working relations, both internally and externally
• Ability to work on own initiative and to meet objectives and tight deadlines under pressure
• Strong organisation skills
• Good research skills with experience of identifying quality new leads. 
• Computer literate – Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Ability to work in collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Computer literate – Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Can drive and have access to a vehicle – willing to travel (there will a fair amount of travel required) 
• Ability to work flexible hours in accordance to charity needs
• A moral commitment to FareShare core values as an organisation

Desired Experience

• Degree or higher in environmental, sustainability or development fields
• Established experience in securing new business and income generation and/or business development.

Closing Date is midnight, 1 November 2020

Interviews will be held virtually on Thursday 12 November 2020

The Hackney Playbus team is looking for a talented individual who is willing to absorb themselves in the ethos and work of our charity and use flair and enthusiasm to develop new ways of bringing in both short term and longer term funding streams. The charity has been going since 1972, we are approaching our 50th anniversary which offers a ‘not to be missed’ opportunity to raise our profile. We have a huge body of impactful work and a wealth of fundraising successes to draw upon and we are looking for an individual with fundraising experience, a flexible and creative approach to fundraising and an ‘eye to the winds of change’. The role would include fundraising from Trusts, Foundations, Lottery and Statutory funds as well as developing support from the business sector. 

The successful candidate will be interested in our work, our approach to supporting children and understand the essential role of supporting children and their parents/carers during the crucial early years. The ideal candidate will  have a passion for persuasive writing, they will be efficient, with good attention to detail, organised and a self starter. They will be reliable in meeting deadlines and be organised in working in collaboration both with the Director and the wider team in the development of larger multi year funding applications. They will be competent with numbers,  budgets and financial projections.

We're proud to be heading up the search party for one of the UK's leading children's charities who are looking for a Philanthropy Manager covering Yorkshire or the East Midlands patch. This is a really exciting role within a successful, growing philanthropy team and a brilliant opportunity to gain national charity experience working to support some of the region's most vulnerable children.

Home-based in either Yorkshire or the East Midlands with tons of flexibility, it's a grown-up culture open to suggested working patterns with a charity that understands the importance of life and family-friendly working. Condensed hours, a 9-day fortnight and 4 days per week are all possible.

You'll be working with high net worth individuals to secure major gifts across a wide ranging portfolio. Working closely with existing major donors and colleagues across corporate and community fundraising teams, there is plenty of opportunity to open up this network and make new connections, as well as using your creative business development head to find untrodden paths. This fantastic organisation is keen to build its major donor fundraising in these regions and so this really is a rare opportunity to join a successful team of high value donor fundraisers, responsible for raising the millions of pounds needed to continue the much needed work this charity does.

Ideally, we're looking for a major gifts expert, although this role could work equally well with a talented corporate fundraiser/business developer or a candidate from the commercial sector with experience of high-net worth individuals. You're used to operating at six-figure level with senior stakeholders and have the gravitas to steward key donors strategically.

Whatever your background, you're highly motivated and target driven with exceptional stewardship and relationship management skills who is comfortable in making significant asks. This isn't the job for a maverick: you'll need to be a collaborative team player who understands that a sharing and supportive culture yields better results and that, sometimes, a colleague will be better placed to manage a relationship than you.

If this is you, please get in touch with Ellen at Charity People who can fill you in on the role in more detail.

Closing date: 9am on 1st November

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) supports families and cares for children and young people with life threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.

Head of Fundraising
Location: Field Based between Cambridge, Ipswich and Norwich
Hours: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum

With extensive knowledge and experience of fundraising you will be in tune with latest fundraising trends and techniques, able to create a diversified strategy to optimise income across all income streams, particularly in the face of current challenges presented by COVID19.

You will be extremely capable in balancing the development of strategy with its operational delivery through leading and inspiring a team of fundraisers and developing excellent working practise.

You will be highly experienced and skilled in developing strong relationships with a diverse set of supporters and able to influence across a wide network of stakeholders to achieve the best outcome for the charity.

Your passion for ensuring our supporters reach their potential will be matched with your drive for success and your natural resilience in the face of a challenging fundraising environment.

This role is field based with an opportunity for the right candidate to be based anywhere within East Anglia, but must be able to travel between our fundraising office locations in Cambridge, Norwich and Ipswich.

Closing date: Wednesday 11th November
The interview process will comprise of:
1st stage interview on Thursday 19th November, to include an informal presentation.
2nd stage interview (for successful candidates from 1st stage) on Thursday 26th November.

To Apply and for More Information:

If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website. 

This post is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.

EACH is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications for all sections of the community. EACH reserves the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

No agencies please.

Do you have a track record in trust / grant fundraising and a passion for raising funds to support older people struggling with loneliness, isolation and other challenges? 

Our Fundraising Manager has gone on maternity leave so we are looking for someone who is confident to hit the ground running and manage our organisation’s fundraising programme. The majority of our fundraising income currently comes from trusts, foundations and other grants so experience, proven success and a flair for writing and relationship building are essential.

If, in addition to trusts expertise, you also have wider fundraising experience – particularly in community fundraising, this would be very valuable.  We are realistic about the limitations currently imposed by the pandemic but we are definitely aspiring to grow other areas of our fundraising over time. 

Older people in our community need our help and support more than ever at the moment so we need funding more than ever.  If this challenge excites you then please get in touch.

Main purpose of the Job

To be responsible for owning and implementing Age UK B&NES’s fundraising strategy in order to increase income and help make Age UK B&NES’s services more sustainable. Although some of the Charity’s services are funded through statutory contracts, the future of this income is uncertain.  This post is therefore crucial in order to ensure that we can continue to ‘be there’ for older people in our local community.

The post-holder will oversee all areas of fundraising with a constant focus on return on investment and with a primary focus on trust and grants fundraising.

Key Fundraising tasks / responsibilities

• To raise funds from charitable trusts, foundations and other grant-making bodies
  • To undertake research into charitable trusts and other funding bodies
  • To cultivate existing relationships including writing of progress / impact reports and liaising with other staff about outcomes / evaluation of services
  • To implement a programme of applications to trusts and foundations in order to achieve the agreed budget
• To explore and pursue other fundraising opportunities locally to increase income and also to increase awareness of the organisation’s need for funding.  This will include:-
  • Encouraging individual giving including from local major donors
  • Securing support from the local community and from local companies
  • Promoting legacies through newsletters and other avenues
  • Encouraging In Memoriam donations
• To research and pursue any relevant opportunities for funding from statutory sources and from Age UK (national)

Communications and marketing work

• Promote the key values, aims and objectives of Age UK B&NES
• Promote a culture of cross organisational working by communicating fundraising priorities to the wider organisation
• Be aware of the priorities and pressures at all levels in the organisation and contribute to shared problem solving strategies
• Contribute to marketing and publicity relating to promoting the services of the organisation (there is a Communications Manager in post)

Administration

• To ensure that the database is used to record details of all supporters
• To maintain efficient administrative systems to ensure that supporters are thanked and are kept up to date on the impact of their support

Budgetary management

• To take responsibility for developing the fundraising budget each year, for reviewing it continuously and for updating the CEO and Trustees.

About Internews

Internews is an international non-profit organisation whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard.

Internews provides communities with the resources to produce local news and information with integrity and independence. With global expertise and reach, Internews trains both media professionals and citizen journalists, introduces innovative media solutions, increases coverage of vital issues and helps establish policies needed for open access to information.

Internews programmes create platforms for dialogue and enable informed debate, which bring about social and economic progress. Internews’ commitment to research and evaluation creates effective and sustainable programs, even in the most challenging environments.

Internews operates internationally, with administrative centres in California, Washington DC, and London, as well as regional hubs in Bangkok and Nairobi. Formed in 1982, Internews has worked in more than 90 countries, and currently has offices in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America.

About the role

We seek a talented fundraiser to help us sustain and grow our income and help us succeed in our mission and, in particular, to help us grow our portfolio of global technology work focused on digital rights, online safety and security, and freedom of expression online.

You will be an experienced trusts and foundations fundraiser who can bring demonstrable success in securing, managing and effectively stewarding significant grants, together with an understanding of the current grant-making climate across the UK and Europe, and the technology sector in particular.

Ideally bringing your own knowledge of key contacts and networks to the role, you will also benefit from pipeline research that has already been conducted. You will also ensure that all current grants are given appropriate donor care. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in developing and expanding trust and foundation support for Internews’ mission.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining a pipeline of charitable trusts and foundations that could support a range of Internews’ projects, programmes and activities including, but not necessarily limited to: digital rights and information security; media freedom; and supporting information provision within humanitarian settings, and on environmental and health issues;
• Pro-active relationship management of existing trusts/foundations, including coordinating all commitments for these funders across the charity;
• Researching, writing and monitoring applications for a broad range of trusts, foundations and other grant giving institutions, packaging programmes into innovative ‘asks’ that meet the criteria of the funder;
• Ensuring that all income is recorded, monitored and reported according to required deadlines.
• Contributing to and providing regular updates across the organisation to ensure trust and foundation fundraising activity is embedded across the organisation and is aligned with the wider plans and objectives of the charity.
• Undertaking administrative responsibilities related to new funding being secured including liaising with Programme Support and Finance teams to record new income and ensuring all funding agreements are signed and returned on time.

Person Specification

• Proven experience working successfully in a trust and foundations fundraising position in the third sector, securing 5-figure and 6-figure donations;
• Experience preparing fundraising applications, demonstrating fundraising success and excellent writing skills and close attention to detail in written tasks; 
• Experience securing funding for tech-related projects is essential;
• Excellent relationship builder and networker both internally and externally; 
• Experience of managing relationships with trust and foundation donors; 
• Demonstrable experience of maximising opportunities from researching prospects to generating meetings, and securing income to achieve targets;
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint);  and CRM databases (specifically Salesforce) and good, accurate typing skills; 
• A strong understanding of trust and foundation practices and principles; 
• Tactful and assertive, with the ability to communicate and work collaboratively at all levels in a complex environment;
• A high level of practical and organisational skills;
• Ability to work on your own initiative.

Recruitment Timeline

• Closing date for applications: 6 November 2020

Candidates must submit a succinct covering letter of no more than 2-pages explaining how they satisfy the requirements of the roles and responsibilities and person speciation in addition to a CV highlighting relevant experience. The successful candidate will also be asked to provide three professional referees, one of whom must be from their most recent employer.

The above noted job description is not intended to describe, in detail, all the tasks that may be assigned but rather to give the job holder a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of his/her position. As the nature of business demands change so, too, may the essential functions of this position.

This position will be located in the United Kingdom and therefore a successful applicant must obtain the Right to Work in the UK in order to commence their employment

Founded in 1963, we operate as an independent charity with a vision to make a real difference to people’s lives by improving the quality of mathematics education and learning.

We are passionate about mathematics and mathematics education, and the users of our services are at the centre of what we do. We offer professional development for teachers and innovative resources for teachers and students, and are recognised national experts in mathematics curriculum development. We find our work hugely rewarding and stimulating, and our innovative and collaborative work with a range of partners, including government, enables us to deliver flagship mathematics education development programmes for teachers, as well as informing national policy. We run some government contracts, in partnership with others, where we believe they are consistent with our charitable objects. We also promote innovation through ground-breaking development work and awareness raising.

We work at the forefront of innovation in education. To maintain and build on this innovation and leadership we hope to work with a wider range of donors who share our aspirations for improved maths education for everyone. The fundraising trustee is a new role to help us steer this new ambition.

If you have the experience to support us, and you are passionate about the development of the next generation, we would love to have you on board!

We are looking for a Trustee with experience of fundraising with corporate funders and high net worth individuals. In addition to the standard trustee responsibilities of setting strategy and policy for the organisation while ensuring that it is operating efficiently and in compliance with relevant laws and regulations, the Fundraising Trustee supports the development and overall governance of MEI’s fundraising and related communications strategy, working closely with the CEO, Deputy CEO and the contracts and finance committees.

This is a new post and an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to a national charity at a critical stage in developing its ambitions for the future.

The statutory duties of a trustee:

• To ensure that the organisation complies with its governing document, charity law, company law and any other relevant legislation or regulations.
• To ensure that the organisation pursues its objects as defined in its governing document.
• To ensure the organisation uses its resources exclusively in pursuance of its objects: it must not spend money on activities which are not included in its own objects, no matter how worthwhile or charitable those activities are.
• To contribute actively to the Board by giving strategic direction to the organisation, setting overall policy, defining goals and setting targets and evaluating performance against agreed targets.
• To safeguard the good name and values of the organisation.
• To ensure the effective and efficient administration of the organisation.
• To ensure the financial stability of the organisation and its sustainable growth.
• To secure the appointment of the Chief Executive and monitor his/her performance.

It is expected that the new Trustee will:

• have senior strategic level experience or as a charity Trustee;
• understand the role of the Trustee and be able to add value to the charity through expertise, counsel and sound judgement;
• understand the competing pressures (financial, operational, personnel) involved in running a complex organisation;
• have experience of dealing with the challenges associated with delivering organisational and governance changes;
• have a broad range of business and financial skills and experience;
• be able to contribute strategically on a wide range of issues;
• take collective responsibility for the direction of the organisation, be good at working in teams, and able to be effective in a complex organisational environment where significant cross-boundary collaboration and partnership are essential.
• In addition to these generic duties and responsibilities, the specific responsibilities of the fundraising trustee will entail the following:
  • To have a substantial background in either a corporate giving/CSR or fund/foundation management role, or as a senior charity fundraiser with a sound understanding and experience of charity fundraising at strategic and operational levels.
  • Bring overall leadership and drive as the Fundraising Trustee, supporting the development and overall governance of MEI’s fundraising and related communications strategy, working closely with the CEO and Trustee for Finance.
  • To ensure that there is the right breadth and depth of fundraising and related communications skills within MEI and the Board of Trustees, with access to the right networks, in order that the charity is in the best possible position to develop and deliver high quality strategies in fundraising and related communications.
  • To be an active member of the Finance, Audit and Risk (FAR) Committee, ensuring that fundraising and related communications strategies are aligned to the wider budget strategy.

MEI is committed to promoting and ensuring equality and valuing diversity. We will not discriminate unlawfully in any aspect of employment and want MEI to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from underrepresented groups, including people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

Further information available on application.

We are looking for an experienced individual, who can play a key role in marketing our charity and help us raise vital funds for our work. Enthusiasm, attention to detail and a passion for young people are essential!

This is a new role which is designed to help us move forward with our vision to see the young people of Weston living life to the full!

WCYP started in 1992 as a ministry of the parish church in Weston, Southampton. The project has grown considerably in recent years and is now registered as a separate Christian charity with two key objectives: 

• promoting the personal, social and educational welfare of young people, and
• promoting the gospel of Jesus Christ among those young people. 

Your role will be to assist in coordinating the marketing for the project and to assist the trustees and project manager implement the fundraising and marketing strategy.

Hours: 15 hours per week

The position is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

The deadline for applications to be received is the 30th October 2020.

Charity No: 1173543

This role is partially funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Overview:

Women for Women International works in some of the most dangerous places to be a woman. We serve women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas around the world in 8 countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Eastern Congo, and Northern Nigeria. Our core belief is that stronger women build stronger nations; and with access to knowledge, resources, and a support network, a woman rebuilds her life and improves her community.

Our model works and we have the data to prove it. In our 26-year history, Women for Women International has reached over half a million women. The women we work with across 3 continents earn just $0.81 a day when we enroll them. At graduation, it’s $2.11, nearly tripled.

Our impact goes beyond income. The number of women who say at least one household member went to sleep hungry in the last four weeks has gone from 18% to 5%. And more women say they speak out against women's abuse: 26% report having publicly spoken in the last 6 months against physically abusing women.

When women have the right tools, they realize the power within themselves to transform their lives, their families, their communities, and finally their entire nations.

Purpose:

Women for Women International has the ambition to dramatically increase grant funding to support programming that has been proven to be transformative for marginalized women survivors of war in fragile and conflict affected countries. The Director of Global Business Development will collaboratively weave together existing strategies at national and regional level into a comprehensive Global Business Development Strategy that can guide business development across the geographic footprint of the organization. This position will be responsible to ensure that the strategy is adaptive to a dynamic and sometimes disruptive global context, supporting the global organization to build the relationships and partnerships needed for global BDU staff and staff in county to go after the most strategic opportunities. This position is responsible to ensure that the Global Board of Directors and the Executive Leadership Team remains informed of progress towards targets and engaged, as appropriate or advantageous, in BDU activity.

In addition to strategic coordination and leadership, the Director of Global Business Development will take an active role in identifying suspects, cultivating prospects, leading proposal development processes as needed and ensuring effective stewardship of current funding partnerships. The global organization has strong teams that carry forward business development from the first identification of a prospect all the way through to the final grant report. This position is envisioned to help ensure that all the teams and the processes continue to work smoothly, efficiently and effectively. Given an ambitious growth strategy, a high volume of opportunities, proposals and activity, the ideal applicant will also have demonstrated experience in contributing to the nuts and bolts of successful proposals and the willingness to take part in any part of the process to ensure success.

Women for Women International offices around the world are increasing their business development capacity and, in some instances, hiring dedicated professional business development staff. The Global Business Development Director will support the continued capacity building of the global fundraising operations and help to ensure that country offices get the support they need to grow their capacity to raise money locally. In addition, this position will help to ensure that implementing country offices can have the most efficient and streamlined engagement with business development staff globally.

The location for this position is flexible with a preference for candidates from a region where WfWI currently works (Africa, Central Asia, Middle East, Europe or the US).

Duties and Responsibilities:

Global Business Development Strategy

• We have an adaptive and rolling strategy process. Keep track of global trends and new developments and draw up analysis from each fundraising operation in order to update and implement a multi-year strategy and an annual business development workplan that will enable WfWI to meet ambitious revenue targets.
• Ensure that the Global Pipeline is regularly updated and serves to help teams track progress towards revenue targets and informs decision-makers on progress toward goals.
• Report progress to and discuss challenges with the Leadership Teams and appropriate Board committees and the Global Board of Directors.
• Work closely with key fundraisers, program staff and other teams across WfWI to implement effective strategies and approaches to grow funding and scale our programs.
• Work across all parts of the organization that are engaging in various forms of partnership to ensure that we can leverage these partners in global BDU efforts, including identifying and cultivating strategic partnership relationships.
• Coordinate fundraising activities of relevant WfWI actors.
• Support Country Office and program staff to understand and implement best practice in fundraising and partnerships with governments, institutions, foundations and corporations.
• Builds strong relationships across the organization to strategically deploy programmatic experts, staff and leadership towards implementation of the Global BDU Strategy, including support to the CEO and other Executive Leadership and staff in country offices in efforts to build relationships with donors, steward current philanthropic partnerships and achieve strategic goals.

Identify Funding Sources and Cultivate Donors

• Manage business intelligence collection efforts by staying abreast of overall funding developments and understanding overall funder priorities and calls for proposals.
• Coordinate & manage the research and strategy for pursuing viable funding opportunities from foundation, corporations and government donors.
• Build and maintain an active pipeline of prospects, in keeping with revenue targets.
• Develop leads on promising funding opportunities by initiating outreach and strengthening relationships with current and potential donors, as required.
• Identify and build partnerships with other NGOs for joint proposals.
• Regularly communicate with country offices to gather business intelligence and keep them abreast of new areas of business development and ensure that each country has a comprehensive donor mapping and a business development strategy.
• Ensure that there is a strategic approach for key priority funders including mapping our approach to funding.

Prepare Proposals

• Depending on the size and complexity of the proposal, serve as lead coordinator, proposal reviewer, and/or lead writer on submissions.
• When coordinating a submission, manage technical writer, researchers or consultants where applicable, and anyone else directly involved in the application to produce compelling and competitive proposals.
• Train other staff members to coordinate all aspects of proposal development and to write high-quality proposals.
• Develop and cultivate relationships with technical specialists, subject-matter experts, and professional writers to contribute to technical solution designs, reviews, and analysis of proposals and business development strategy.
• Contribute to technical solution design processes as needed.
• Ensure that relevant internal stakeholders contribute to proposal design and that, when appropriate, relevant staff approve the final proposal.
• Liaise with colleagues in the development of a coherent budget, ensuring adherence to grantor criteria in relation to accepted costs, percentages, and format.

Support Country Office Business Development

• Coach and mentor Country Office teams to pursue local opportunities.
• Support Country Offices with updating of their business development plans
• Identify resources needed to strengthen fundraising capacity in countries.
• Develop a plan for strengthening business development in each Country Office.

Communication & Teamwork

• Prepare and communicate analysis and trends to the Leadership Team and Global Board of Directors.
• Communicate with colleagues in Global Programs Unit, Finance, Development, and the UK office. Must be able to operate in an environment with over-lapping roles.
• Develop an effective process for sharing proposals, templates, and cases for support so that all WfWI fundraisers can access material helpful to support their fundraising efforts.
• Participate in internal meetings and processes to represent the global BDU teams as needed.
• Performance manage direct reports in line with WfWI’s performance management framework, including setting of annual performance objectives, development plans, appraisals throughout the year, and regular one-on-one meetings
• Responsible for training, developing, managing and leading staff as well as hiring appropriate staff
• Ensure safeguarding measures are implemented within area of responsibility
• Follow up, and address Code of Conduct or Safeguarding issues appropriately
• Adhere to WfWI’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policies and report concerns

This position will require regular national and international travel, estimated at 25% but subject to change.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree required and Master’s degree preferred, in a relevant subject, or the equivalent in experience.
• At least ten years of experience in fundraising with hands on experience across at least two funding channels (i.e., foundations; corporate partnerships; or government (bilateral or multi-lateral) for an international NGO.
• Proven track record of success in fundraising with evidence of personal engagement and leadership of successful, large, and complex proposals and pitches.

• Proven successful grant writing experience.
• Adopts a growth mindset and has demonstrated experience in relationship-based fundraising strategies.

• Experience managing staff and working cross-departmental, cross-country contexts with a proven record of building, managing and working with virtual teams and creating an enabling environment.
• Current and strategic understanding of the global humanitarian, development and gender funding environment and future trends.
• Excellent spoken and written English to include research, writing, and communication skills.

• Editing experience and strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated experience building the capacity of staff in country offices.
• Independent, but good at working with a team and ability to coordinate with others to produce material on deadline, usually managing multiple deadlines.

• Proven ability to build consensus and support across, up and down the organization.

• Excellent budget management skills including the ability to oversee complex program budgets in compliance with donor requirements.
• Certification or formal credentialing in nonprofit fundraising management or philanthropic leadership a plus.

• Proficiency in French, Arabic, Swahili or Dari is a plus.
• International work experience delivering restricted/unrestricted funded projects a plus.
• Commitment to and respect for Women for Women International’s mission and values
• Computer skills including working with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Email
• Ability to travel as required and have flexible work schedule which may include early mornings, evenings and weekends. May be required to occasionally work beyond normally scheduled hours.

Organizational Values:

Adhere to WfWI’s Code of Conduct and organizational values -

Empowerment, Integrity. Respect. Resilience

The duties, responsibilities and activities of this job description may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

St Peter’s School York is one of the leading schools in the country delivering a dynamic all-round education to children from ages 2 to 18. Superbly located on a 47-acre riverside campus just 10 minutes’ walk from the centre of York, St Peter’s is an over-subscribed co-educational, day and boarding school with ambitious plans for the future.

This is a new role for the School and offers an exciting opportunity for a professional with strong fundraising experience to join the St Peter’s community. The successful candidate will work closely with the Head Master and engage with the School’s Governing Body, Senior Colleagues and the Whole School Community. Key to this engagement will be the forging of close links with the School’s alumni body, The Old Peterites.

A competitive salary will be offered which will be commensurate with qualifications/experience. 

The closing date for all applications is Tuesday 3rd November 2020 at 9.00am.

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to checks by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Registered charity number: 1141329