Head of Transformative Partnerships & Influencing

About ADD International.

ADD is a participatory grant-maker for disability justice. Our vision is for a world in which ableism no longer exists, and disabled people can fully participate in society. Our mission is to strengthen disability justice activists and organisations through resourcing, and leadership skills.

We are transforming our organisation and getting back to our roots by sharing more power and resources directly with activists. Over the next ten years, we have a goal to provide £25 million long-term unrestricted grants directly to disability justice activists and movements. Crucially, we will also give disability justice activists greater decision-making power on who should receive funding and how funding should be spent.

Our new ‘Fundseeking’ Strategy outlines how we will raise the funding and cultivate the right partnerships to provide the flexible resources that disability justice movements need and that allow ADD to become the grant-maker we aspire to be. This is not a usual fundraising strategy. It decentres ADD’s own growth and instead focuses on using our position and proximity to wealth with intention to channel more resources to disability justice movements that are less able to access them. The first two years of this strategy have successfully raised £3 million in unrestricted funding from funders who share our vision.

Find out more about this process at https://add.org.uk/transformation/. Our ten-year strategic framework can be found on our website here: https://add.org.uk/mtiririko/

About You.

• You are a successful, senior fundraiser with a track record of securing large, (ideally flexible) grants from trusts, foundations and bilateral funders.
• You are not happy with traditional approaches to international development, and you believe in shifting power to activists and organisations in the majority world.
• You are passionate about social justice and/or human rights, and you understand at least a little bit about disability justice.
• You are looking for more meaning to your fundraising career.
• You are fed up with the transactional nature of funding partnerships and you believe that the funding system could be fairer.
• You have the passion and energy to do something about it.

If these statements sound like you, then we highly encourage you to apply for this rare and exciting job opportunity at ADD.

Job Purpose.

ADD is looking for a Head of Transformative Partnerships and Influencing to lead both our institutional fundraising and influencing work.

This role will help us to reimagine our partnerships with institutional funders and partners (primarily medium to large trusts and foundations, bilaterals in the UK, Europe and the USA and INGOs); nurturing and expanding them to enable more resources and opportunities to flow to disability justice movements in Africa and Asia.

The post holder will ensure that these transformative partnerships lead to fairer funding for disability justice; including significant investment for ADD’s strategy and transformation.

This role will also lead’s ADD’s mission to inspire the sector more broadly on issues that our central to our transformation and strategy such as; INGO transformation, decolonisation, justice, equity and participatory grantmaking.