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Strategic Funding Specialist

Employer
ActionAid
Location
EC1R 0BJ, London (Greater)
Salary
£35,013 - £36,072 per annum
Closing date
10 Mar 2019

Job Details

This is a really exciting opportunity to work across a dynamic team to drive growth in some of our most vital and strategic areas of funding.

 

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are ending violence against women and girls and helping change lives, for good. We won’t stop until women and girls are out of danger, out of poverty and on track to create the future they want.

We are recruiting to the role of Strategic Funding Specialist within ActionAid’s Philanthropy and Partnerships (P&P) team. This is a really exciting opportunity to work across a dynamic team to drive growth in some of our most vital and strategic areas of funding.

The role will be focused primarily on supporting the Asia Regional Hub, which is part of the Trusts and New Markets Team, through producing compelling concept notes, fundraising materials and reports. An important element of the role will be to design and produce cases for support and other project information covering thematic areas of ActionAid’s work, in order to assist in relationship cultivation for the Asia Region.

The role will also support investment areas such as corporates and new markets, as well as the wider P&P team, and will develop inspiring fundraising materials and manage knowledge and information systems to help to drive growth.

To succeed within this role, applicants must have excellent written communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex issues in a compelling and persuasive manner, and the ability to adapt their style of writing to suit a range of different audiences. They must also have previous experience of working in a fast-paced environment and of managing and prioritising a varied workload.

If you have this, mixed with exceptional organisational skills and the ability to manage a range of projects and tasks to meet key deadlines, this may be the role for you.

We are keen to receive applications from those who can demonstrate a proven ability to work in a cooperative and flexible way as part of a busy team. Also important is the ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues across the ActionAid federation.

Being able to demonstrate that you have a good understanding of international development programmes or that you have experience of working in this area will be an advantage.

ActionAid is committed to driving improvement through digital channels, tools and ways of working. We will ensure that we provide the technology and the training to enable all staff to perform their roles to the best of their abilities. In return, we ask that all staff are committed to continually improving their digital skills and knowledge within the working environment. Our recruitment processes will evaluate the digital skills of all applicants.  

Please note that this role is being offered as a fixed term contract, which will run until the 31st of December 2019.

Company

ActionAid is an international development charity which works in 45 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1972, ActionAid is an international federation and has offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and Washington DC, as well as London.

ActionAid UK is part of the international federation and almost all of the people and partners who run ActionAid programmes are from the developing world. This means its staff are on the ground, experiencing poverty at first hand. They see day-to-day how poverty affects people’s lives, and are uniquely placed to give a voice to the women and children who suffer most.

ActionAid’s work has several different components, unified by a commitment to place women and girls at the centre of its work. The charity aims to end hunger by giving millions of people in extreme poverty the skills they need to grow sustainable food, and campaigns to address the causes of hunger.

ActionAid also responds to emergencies and conflicts. It provided emergency assistance to more than 600,000 people in 2015 and trained nearly 46,000 others to protect lives and prepare for emergencies. In total the charity responded to 27 emergencies around the world last year.

Improving access to education is another facet of its mission. 59 million children, more than half of them girls, were out of school in 2013. ActionAid works with more than 5,000 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help over a millions girls and boys get the free, quality education they are entitled to.

Women’s rights and gender equality informs all of ActionAid’s activities. The charity works with communities against female genital mutilation, gender-based violence and forced early marriage.

ActionAid also campaigns for tax justice, fairer wages and more effective aid which can tackle the roots causes of poverty. It estimates that poorer countries lose around $200 billion a year from tax dodging by companies.

A variety of different roles are available at ActionAid including policy adviser, fundraising offer and HR manager. Employee benefits are plentiful, encompassing the opportunity to develop new skills, a pension scheme, childcare vouchers and free advice services.

ActionAid also supports selected UK employees to travel to host countries in order to gain first-hand experience of its in-country work. Frequent secondments, whereby employees work, for a period, in another department or different country in the federation, take place. The charity encourages job shares.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 3122 0561
Location
33-39 Bowling Green Lane
London
EC1R 0BJ
GB

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