Donor Relations Officer
Duration: Permanent
Location: Stellenbosch / Remote
BACKGROUND
Peace Parks Foundation, founded by President Nelson Mandela, HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Dr. Anton Rupert, is a leader in large-scale ecological restoration across southern Africa. Through co-management partnerships that unite governments, communities and donors, it restores vast transboundary landscapes that deliver measurable conservation and livelihood outcomes. Vision 2050 will secure 18 functional landscapes spanning 980,000 km², one of the world’s largest land-conservation initiatives.
Visit: www.peaceparks.org
JOB PROFILE
You are passionate about nature, love to network and are interested in meeting people with an understanding of biodiversity, climate change, and sustainable development issues within southern Africa. You are a great communicator, explorative, creative, and are very organized. You understand donor needs and why donors are in a partnership with Peace Parks. Managing timelines and multitasking while meeting deadlines comes naturally. You have preferably got fundraising experience or can justify why you would be a good fit for this role. You have an eye for detail and a need to work collaboratively in a team to ensure processes run smoothly and deadlines are met.
Job Purpose
Peace Parks is about Conservation at Scale. The purpose of a Fund Developer is to support the expansion and diversification of Peace Park’s donor base and mobilisation of funding for people and nature. This is done through supporting the development of new and creative partnership opportunities and lasting partnerships, communicating Peace Park’s messages in an engaging way, taking charge of the coordination and quality checking of donor reports, and ensuring administrative processes run smoothly.
Duties And Responsibilities
The role includes identifying funding opportunities aligned to priority funding needs; raising awareness among donor audiences; crafting applications; compiling informative reports; contributing to communication products; acting as donor liaison/relationship manager; and owning administrative processes.
Business Goals
Strategic Impact
Mobilise resources to produce sustainable impact
Manage donor relationship and key stakeholders
Lead and pro-actively coach key stakeholders on Peace Parks’ approach to mobilise resources to achieve sustainable impact
The company offers a competitive cost-to-company salary package, which includes contributions to a retirement fund and medical aid, ensuring holistic support for your financial and personal well-being.
Please apply online.
We appreciate the time and effort taken by all applicants in expressing their interest in this role. Due to the high volume of applications received, we are only able to contact candidates who are selected for further consideration. If you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion. We encourage you to apply for future opportunities that match your skills and experience.
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Location: Stellenbosch / Remote
BACKGROUND
Peace Parks Foundation, founded by President Nelson Mandela, HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Dr. Anton Rupert, is a leader in large-scale ecological restoration across southern Africa. Through co-management partnerships that unite governments, communities and donors, it restores vast transboundary landscapes that deliver measurable conservation and livelihood outcomes. Vision 2050 will secure 18 functional landscapes spanning 980,000 km², one of the world’s largest land-conservation initiatives.
Visit: www.peaceparks.org
JOB PROFILE
You are passionate about nature, love to network and are interested in meeting people with an understanding of biodiversity, climate change, and sustainable development issues within southern Africa. You are a great communicator, explorative, creative, and are very organized. You understand donor needs and why donors are in a partnership with Peace Parks. Managing timelines and multitasking while meeting deadlines comes naturally. You have preferably got fundraising experience or can justify why you would be a good fit for this role. You have an eye for detail and a need to work collaboratively in a team to ensure processes run smoothly and deadlines are met.
Job Purpose
Peace Parks is about Conservation at Scale. The purpose of a Fund Developer is to support the expansion and diversification of Peace Park’s donor base and mobilisation of funding for people and nature. This is done through supporting the development of new and creative partnership opportunities and lasting partnerships, communicating Peace Park’s messages in an engaging way, taking charge of the coordination and quality checking of donor reports, and ensuring administrative processes run smoothly.
Duties And Responsibilities
The role includes identifying funding opportunities aligned to priority funding needs; raising awareness among donor audiences; crafting applications; compiling informative reports; contributing to communication products; acting as donor liaison/relationship manager; and owning administrative processes.
Business Goals
Strategic Impact
- Identify opportunities aligned with strategic needs of the organisation
- Look for opportunities based on research and in collaboration with key internal stakeholders
- Develop a concept that speaks to the opportunity (including input on log frames)
- Review the concept with key internal and external stakeholders
Mobilise resources to produce sustainable impact
- Develop a full proposal/campaign in line with donor criteria and organisational requirements
- Coordinate finalisation and signing of grant or other agreements
- Coordinate project inception meetings
- Monitor and ensure quality reporting in line with contractual obligations
Manage donor relationship and key stakeholders
- Grow relationship with existing donors and expand Peace Parks support from key strategic donors
- Partner with other organisations and align expertise to strengthen Peace Parks’ projects
- Conduct joint fundraising with other organisations and NGOs
- Develop strong internal relationship with key project teams
Lead and pro-actively coach key stakeholders on Peace Parks’ approach to mobilise resources to achieve sustainable impact
- Provide direction and expertise to project managers in field and relevant teams at head office to equip them to understand grant commitments and donor expectations
- Drive communication and feedback at all levels to align with the strategic focus of the organisation to meet its core objectives
- Develop and grow functional and leadership skills to stay future fit and relevant for the changing needs of the organisation
- A degree or equivalent qualification in natural or social sciences, communications, or similar
- A minimum of three years’ of demonstratable experience, which includes:
- Experience in managing a portfolio of partnerships including evidence of achieving new business targets as part of a larger team
- Experience developing / assisting to develop targeted applications and proposals with a proven ability to present work in a compelling way that articulates the mutual benefits of prospective partnerships
- Capable in cultivating relationships with existing and prospective partners; in a way which communicates values and builds potential for long term support
- Full understanding of fundraising best practices and a track record in successful fundraising
- Exceptional writing skills and communication (English)
- Solid co-ordination and quality assurance skills
- The ability to collate information from disparate sources to provide timely and impactful donor reports, which requires an ability to build relationships with staff in remote areas
- An ability to act as an Account Manager, responsible for the coordination of a donor portfolio to ensure the grant lifecycle develops and is implemented smoothly from inception to close out
- Knowledge of and experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning and impact reporting based on donor requirements, including understanding of Theories of Change and logical frameworks
- An ability to use Peace Parks’ online customer relationship management system to record and process opportunities, agreements, reports, thank you letters, campaigns etc.
- An ability to work under pressure and honour deadlines with a track record of delivering on time
- An ability to travel as required
- Experience in co-ordinating due diligence processes
- Experience and ability to manage donor events
- Experience of working in consortiums
- Experience in project management
- Advanced computer skills, including Excel and D365 / other CRM processes / software
- Ability to create infographics / dashboards using tools such as Power BI
The company offers a competitive cost-to-company salary package, which includes contributions to a retirement fund and medical aid, ensuring holistic support for your financial and personal well-being.
Please apply online.
We appreciate the time and effort taken by all applicants in expressing their interest in this role. Due to the high volume of applications received, we are only able to contact candidates who are selected for further consideration. If you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion. We encourage you to apply for future opportunities that match your skills and experience.
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