DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, FOUNDATION

  • Contractor
  • ATLANTA United States of America
  • TBD USD / Year
  • CARE profile




  • Job applications may no longer being accepted for this opportunity.


CARE

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.

Professional foundations provide CARE with significant revenue that fuels many of our most innovative programs. From smaller foundations contributing catalytic funding for cutting-edge efforts to large donors that share CARE’s aspiration to leverage learning to achieve results at scale, foundation partnerships and the resources they generate are integral to CARE’s mission to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. The Director of Development (DOD) will cultivate and manage a diverse portfolio of foundation donors, with an emphasis on engaging partners to support CARE’s work in education and economic empowerment.

As the driver for resource mobilization, the Director of Development will have the fundraising experience to develop, drive and deliver on a robust resource mobilization strategy for CARE. In addition, the DOD will cultivate and steward foundation prospects and donors from across CARE’s vast portfolio of work globally. The DOD will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as a proactive and strategic approach to fundraising. This position requires substantial contact and strong collaboration with CARE teams in the U.S. and around the world, as well as the ability to navigate complex internal processes and procedures that ensure effective compliance with financial management policies. The DOD will also serve in a vital coordination role, supporting team leadership in management of large partnerships, and the entire team through relevant research efforts around foundation trends and opportunities, leveraging proven skills in analysis and understanding of the international development funding landscape.

Responsibilities:

  • Donor Cultivation and Revenue Growth.
    • Working under the guidance of the Foundation Partnerships team leadership, and in coordination with the other team members, colleagues from technical units and country offices, the DOD will generate new leads for their assigned portfolio the of donors, with an emphasis on small to medium-sized foundations and education and economic empowerment funders. Building on emerging and existing opportunities, the DOD will proactively develop and implement strategic outreach to deliver revenue growth for CARE.
  • Donor Stewardship and Coordination.
    • The DOD will serve in a critical coordination function for several large foundation partnerships, including Bloomberg Philanthropies and Educate A Child, providing support to team leadership in ongoing stewardship and comprehensive relationship management. This may include preparing correspondence and briefing materials, reporting and administration, fulfilling communication requirements, and other donor requests and requirements.
  • Concept and Proposal Development.
    • The DOD will manage the concept or proposal development process for assigned foundations or new prospects resulting from outreach, working in close coordination with program teams and country office colleagues to generate quality concepts and proposals. When necessary, the DOD will hire and manage consultants to contribute writing or the monitoring and evaluation design of these products
  • Research Analysis and Support.
    • Under the guidance of team leadership and key colleagues, the DOD will support formative research and analysis for the Foundation Partnerships team. This will include the updating and creating research profiles for CARE’s current foundation donors and prospects and evaluating trends and opportunities within foundation
  • Internal Communication.
    • The DOD maintains strong relationships with relevant program colleagues and country offices and remains abreast of new program approaches and developments, results, and publications. This individual works in close coordination with colleagues on the Foundations Partnerships team to ensure that internal and external communication is effective and well managed
  • The DOD will also fulfill unique and exceptional tasks as assigned by team and fundraising leadership.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Public Relations, International Development or a related field.
  • Masters degree or above or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
  • At least seven years progressive experience in any combination of fundraising, program implementation or management, resource mobilization or field work.
  • Demonstrable knowledge and experience in fundraising for international development.
  • Ability to represent CARE with external audiences and develop strategic opportunities for the organization and its leadership.
  • Excellent writing, presentation and organization skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
  • Capacity to facilitate internal decisions across multiple stakeholders as required to produce content for proposals.
  • Ability to meet deadlines, manage multiple responsibilities and priorities and achieve results under pressure.
  • Experience working as part of a remote team.
  • Evidence of strong analytic skills and strategy development.
  • Advanced editing skills.
  • Experience working with budgets.
  • Computer literacy, including with Word, Excel, and other Microsoft Office applications, as well as Teams and Zoom.
  • Willingness to travel 10% (when appropriate).
  • Foundation fundraising, proposal development or resource mobilization experience at a large non-profit.
  • Expertise in education and economic empowerment programming.
  • Strong knowledge of programs focused on adolescent girls, gender-based violence or child marriage.

How to apply

To apply for this position, please visit our website at

https://phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg02/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=CAREUSA&cws=52&rid=5938

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