Fundraising Officer

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Futurelect Full time

Summary
Futurelect is seeking an experienced, dynamic and highly driven Fundraising Officer to join our growing team.

The Fundraising Officer will use their expert communication skills and initiative to identify fundraising opportunities, develop and maintain relationships with current and potential donors, and manage Futurelect's fundraising campaigns.


Reporting directly to Futurelect's Finance & Fundraising Manager, you will have both internal and external-facing responsibilities, gaining insights into a breadth of activities across the organisation, while also learning about the day-to-day principles of running a growing, pan-African non-profit organisation.

Working with a variety of teams - including Communications, Finance, Events Planning, and Programmes, you will conduct research, draft funding proposals, reports and presentations, and support the communications team in producing leaflets and multi-media materials which communicate Futurelect's mission and impact to prospective funders, partners and other stakeholders.


About Futurelect
Futurelect is an independent, non-profit organisation established in 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Our mission is to make the public service work better for more people throughout the African continent by supporting a new generation of ethical civic, political and government leaders.


To achieve this, Futurelect designs and delivers a series of non-partisan, intensive and interdisciplinary leadership development, and training programmes to diverse groups of ethical and innovative leaders annually - particularly young people and women - in order to prepare them for leadership in the public service.

Women and young people are often limited to participating in political life as voters rather than as elected representatives.

We seek to stimulate the creation of a new generation of political insiders from typically marginalised groups in African societies.

Futurelect also supports those who will elect our leaders in the future.

We want to empower vibrant and engaged electorates with the knowledge necessary to participate energetically in civic and democratic processes and hold their elected leaders to account both at the ballot and in-between elections.


Role & Responsibilities

Fundraising:

  • Support the CEO and Finance & Fundraising Manager in executing a multiyear fundraising strategy;
  • Coordinate the implementation and monitoring of regular funding drives in partnership with the special projects, programmes and the communications teams;
  • Support the Finance & Fundraising Manager in developing and implementing a revenue strategy through programme partnerships;
  • Identify potential funders and execute an engagement strategy with both new and existing funders;
  • Arrange and attend fundraising meetings, programme and operational benchmarking sessions and review processes with grantors;
  • Maintain a database of new, existing and prospective funders; monitor and update funder communications, meetings and engagements and keep uptodate records of donor and funder reporting and deadlines;
  • Keep abreast with trends in the philanthropic sector;
  • Support the communications team in the arrangement of major fundraising events, including planning thematic areas, selecting venues, engaging event and logistics staff, and developing a marketing plan for attendance and participation;
  • Effectively convey Futurelect's mission, vision, and programs to potential donors and funders; Coordinate the implementation and monitoring of regular funding drives in partnership with the communications team.

Research:

  • Conduct research on potential donors with an emphasis on identifying new prospects and cultivating existing donors; support the CEO and Executive Director of Programmes in executing an engagement strategy with both new and existing funders;
  • Conduct information interviews with potential donors to assess their interest in funding Futurelect's mission and to determine how best they may be engaged as a funder.

Grant Management:

  • Maintain a database of new, existing and prospective funders; monitor and update funder communications, meetings and engagements and keep uptodate records of donor and funder reporting and deadlines;
  • Identify, and oversee the use of appropriate software for funder relations management, including funder tracking, donor reporting and grant management;
  • Implement financial systems and processes for managing restrictions and programme specific allocations associated with Futurelect grants and funding.

Impact Reporting:

  • Oversee the preparation of progress reports for donors, tracking and reporting on outputs and outcomes for existing and new programmes, where required;
  • Work with the Programmes, Special Projects and Finance & Fundraising teams to review and update the monitoring and evaluation process and conduct an impact study after every 5 years to measure organisational impact, programme deliver

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