Fundraising and Strategic Partnerships Director

Contract length: 1 year or continuous

Hours: Full-time

Location: Home-based (preferred within UTC±3)

Travel: Limited

Reporting to: CEO

Remuneration: 6,700-7,700 USD/month

Deadline for applications: 20 January, 2023

CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools, and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.

We offer in addition to salary:

• an innovative work environment with a diverse and passionate team,
• 20 days of annual leave and 10 days of floating holidays,
• the flexibility of home-based/remote work,

The role

Working as a member of the Leadership Team, the Fundraising and Strategic Partnerships Director will work closely with CEO, leadership team and Board to manage the development and implementation of CLEAR Global’s fundraising and partnerships program, to help reach core stakeholders with our vision: Helping people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak.

We are looking for a creative, proactive, adaptable Fundraising and Partnerships Director experienced in building strategic funding relationships and networks within a global organization with proven communication skills to join our growing team.

In our organizational strategy we have set ourselves some ambitious goals. In the funding and partnerships team, we seek to develop existing and build more strategic partnerships with bilateral and multilateral donor agencies that would increase the income, influence, and programmatic impact.

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Responsibilities

• Develop a 2-3 year program of work that shifts and transforms the fundraising model from reactive to proactive; bringing people from across the organization into fundraising based on partnerships.
• Develop and manage relationships with organizational donors, foundations, corporate donors and individuals working closely with CEO, leadership team and Board;
• Manage and oversee fundraising campaigns, events, and CLEAR Global’s language services sales;
• Lead the Fundraising and Partnerships team;
• Develop compelling concept notes, presentations, applications and associated budgets for submission to potential funders, with support from program and finance teams;
• Have the overview of any funding reporting/compliance due on grants or as requested by funders, including coordinating inputs
• Identify fundraising opportunities and promote CLEAR Global’s work;
• Build a pipeline of prospective donors through research and networking.
• Contribute to a positive, innovative and supportive work environment where CLEAR Global’s values are understood and upheld

Please note that these roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.

Qualifications

The Fundraising and Strategic Partnerships Director should be an innovative self-starter with a strong sense of initiative, an understanding of the humanitarian sector, management credentials, and enthusiastic about the importance of increasing access to knowledge through language. The right candidate is an energetic team player and leader who agrees with CLEAR Global’s basic beliefs and values and who can work virtually with team members based throughout the world.

Requirements

• 12+ years of work experience
• Bachelor’s degree in humanities, international relations, development or relevant field (preferred)
• Experience in fundraising strategies formulation and implementation, donor acquisition and retention, writing successful bids and managing donors/clients.
• Previous experience with International organizations/ exposure to International settings
• Experience managing team members remotely, with the ability to motivate and support
• Strong writing and presentation skills in English, proficiency in other languages desired
• Fluency and writing skills in one or more other languages relevant for humanitarian response preferred
• Familiarity with language and/or communications technology desirable

About CLEAR Global

CLEAR Global exists to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 100,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year.

Core values

CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:

• Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
• Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
• Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
• Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
• Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
• Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and, conduct themselves professionally at all times.

CLEAR Global may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.