Strategic Development Lead

Job Title: Fundraising Director

Job Description:

Overview

The Fundraising Director will lead the development of a comprehensive fundraising strategy, focusing on establishing a robust network of diverse supporters. This role involves building and growing a team to achieve annual fundraising targets through engaging stakeholders internally and externally.

Key Responsibilities

• Create a roadmap and strategy for fundraising with clear short-, medium-, and long-term objectives based on a shared vision of desired outcomes.
• Develop a national network of diverse supporters, strengthening existing connections and adding new champions and donors.
• Build a diverse portfolio approach to fund raising to ensure effort and target distribution across different kinds of sources.
• Proactively execute multiple aspects of the plan, engaging high net worth individuals, corporations, foundations, and other pertinent entities.
• Work closely with Foundation Leaders to establish an effective fund channelization and utilization process, along with clear measures to determine net value added in targeted thematic areas.
• Keep initiative teams informed on emergent trends and outlooks in terms of long-standing partnership and/or support commitments to ensure operating designs are simple, relevant, and practicable in terms of measurable impact.
• Utilize understanding of leading-edge philanthropic pipeline and cause-related marketing management to drive related funding endeavors across different thematic areas.
• Work with cross-functional teams to continually identify opportunities for enrichment and augmentation of fundraising opportunities and impact.

Requirements

A Master's degree in business, social sciences, or another related field is required, along with a minimum of 10 years of experience in direct fundraising and partnership roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership position. Experience with social or development sector organizations is preferred.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills, with ability to work across boundaries and get things done.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision and comfort with the ambiguity of the fundraising universe.
• Highly organized, with strong project management skills, interpersonal skills, and executive presence.
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and time-zones.
• Ability to stretch limits to meet deadlines and time-bound goals for self and team members.
• Outstanding leadership capabilities, ability to communicate a compelling vision, and drive results while developing a strong team.
• Adaptable, with penchant for innovation and keen eye for emergent trends, regulatory environment, and fast-evolving policy context, with willingness to learn on the fly.

Why Choose Us?

We believe that wellbeing should be at the very center of our life journey. Our mission is to reimagine how the world experiences wellbeing and how companies (like ours) support the wellbeing of their people. We're a group of talented, socially conscious, gritty, innovators using technology and human energy to create a vibrant wellness ecosystem.