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Job Title: Voluntary Fundraising Manager
Job Title: Voluntary Fundraising Manager
Location:Headquarter
Department: Fundraising
Grade: E
Job Purpose: The holder of the position shall be responsible for the implementation of local voluntary / supporter marketing fundraising strategies (including events, appeals, challenge runs through DRTV and face to face marketing to recruit supporters) and design market let supporter marketing products (such as child sponsorship, community sponsorship and cash appeals) aimed at generation of adequate resources (at least £960,000 annually) for AAIK programmes.
Job Purpose: The holder of the position shall be responsible for the implementation of local voluntary / supporter marketing fundraising strategies (including events, appeals, challenge runs through DRTV and face to face marketing to recruit supporters) and design market let supporter marketing products (such as child sponsorship, community sponsorship and cash appeals) aimed at generation of adequate resources (at least £960,000 annually) for AAIK programmes.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop and operationalize effective voluntary
fundraising strategies and actions for AAIK targeting the local market;
- Conduct periodic Voluntary Fundraising market
research and intelligence both in the local market arena to inform the
plan, audience, channel, offer and related benchmarking of new product
proposition;
- Set up local supporter acquisition and
retention (supporter journey) programme for AAIK;
- Set up and manage voluntary fundraising and
funding infrastructure aimed at ensuring effective supporter recruitment,
retention and communication;
- Coordinate and oversee, in collaboration with
LRPs teams effective and efficient local support communications including
project updates through newsletters and other innovative tools
- Oversee documentation of project case studies
and sharing of lessons learnt for the purpose of visibility creation;
- Organize and coordinate local
supporter/sponsor visits to AAIK programme sites for purposes of
showcasing AAIK’s work;
- Promote AAIK brand and visibility through
intensive internal and external communications and public relations;
- In collaboration with communications unit,
design and develop voluntary fundraising promotional materials for brand
awareness and visibility creation
- Conduct staff capacity needs assessments to
guide staff capacity building plans in voluntary fundraising
- Training and awareness creation of AAIK staff,
partners, and communities on voluntary funding;
- Perform any other lawful duties that you may
be assigned from time to time;
Qualifications
Appointment to the position will be
made from persons who have:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing,
Communications, Development Studies, Social Sciences or its equivalent
from a recognized University, a Master’s Degree is desirable;
- Satisfactorily served as fundraising/ resource
mobilization officer or a comparable position with similar
responsibilities in like organizations for a minimum period of five (5)
years; and
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding of
programming issues, resource mobilization including supporter marketing
product development, marketing channels, supporter acquisition and
retention
- Is member of the Association of Fundraisers in
Kenya;
- Demonstrable experience of raising funds from
local sponsors and supporters; and
- Strong understanding of project management.
Key Competencies
- Good conceptual, analytical, presentation and
writing skills;
- Ability to influence and negotiate at
different levels;
- Experience of managing donor relationships;
- Understanding of different donor requirements
and management of donor relationships;
- Excellent Public relations and marketing
skills;
- High level of IT proficiency in use of MS
Word, Excel, Access, Power-point, and e-mail;
- Good line management skills
- Excellent team player.
To apply, CLICK HERE to submit your application; for any queries, kindly
direct the same to hresources.kenya@actionaid.org
Closing date for applications: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 23:59
Closing date for applications: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 23:59
Position: Grants and Donor Compliance Coordinator
Functional Unit:Programme
Administratively
Reporting to: Head of Programmes
Supervising: None
Duty Station: Nairobi
Key relationships:
- Internally: Head of Programmes, Head of Policy
& Campaigns, Head of Finance, Head of Fundraising, Programme
accountants, Programme quality Coordinator, LRP Managers and Monitoring
and Evaluation Officers.
- Externally: Local NGOs, donors, partners.
Main Purpose and Scope: The holder of the position will be responsible for ensuring compliance with donor contract agreements and work closely with program staff and senior leadership team to ensure accurate financial reporting and procedural compliance on all grants.
Responsibilities
- To ensure that partnership and sub-grant
related administrative processes and procedures are standardized and consistently
implemented throughout the program, including pre-award compliance checks,
agreements, and disbursements and reporting
- To act as focal point with donor's in-country
offices on grants management issues for ongoing projects
- To maintain grant management systems and
procedures, and program wide strategies for implementation
- To review donor reports to ensure donor
compliance and to provide project managers and management with relevant
information for decision making
- To maintain an effective Internal Control
System around grants management to ensure compliance with donor
requirements and AAI policies and procedures
- To work with finance to build and monitor
partners’ financial management capacities to ensure compliance with grants
requirements and enhanced reporting
- To support fundraising in proposal budget
preparation and revision and to support annual plans and budgets
- To support the implementation of audit
recommendations for the partners and donor funded projects.
- To analyze project implementation schedules
and support plans by Project teams to adhere to donor reporting timelines.
General
- As part of the Programme team participate in
pursuing the implementation of the CSP
- Work towards increased levels of transparency
and Accountability to donors.
Critical Competencies
- Analytical skills,
- Project management knowledge,
- Grants management,
- Budgeting & budgetary control,
- Report writing skills,
- information management Stakeholder
management,
- planning and organizing;
- oral and written communication;
Qualifications
- A minimum of a Bachelors degree in a related
field with a minimum of five (5) years’ relevant work experience.
- Professional accounting qualifications (CPA
(K) or ACCA) is an added advantage.
Skills Required
- Experience in programme and projects financial
management
- Communication, report writing and analytical
skills.
- Experience in donor contract management
To apply, CLICK HERE to submit your application; for any queries, kindly
direct the same to hresources.kenya@actionaid.org
Closing date for applications: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 23:59
Closing date for applications: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 23:59