Fundraising Manager

Freelancingforgood; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A nonprofit organization, ALLFED, seeks a Fundraising Manager to oversee and develop their fundraising activities. The role is remote and part-time, requiring a blend of leadership and practical tasks to support diverse teams. Candidates should possess strong skills in project management, communication, and fundraising, while being meticulous and strategic in their approach to enhancing donor relationships.

Qualifications

• Experience in nonprofit fundraising, including grant writing.
• Solid analytical and communication skills are essential.
• Comfortable with strategic thinking and hands-on execution.

Responsibilities

• Manage fundraising activities between various teams.
• Develop and coordinate ALLFED's fundraising strategy.
• Support grant-writing and donor relations efforts.

Skills

Fundraising

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Degree in relevant field or fundraising qualification

Tools

CRM Systems

Excel

Job description

ALLFED is looking for a Fundraising Manager to join their team.

Overview:

• Part-time position: up to 15-20 hrs a week initially
• Location: Anywhere (Remote)
• Language: English
• Salary: to be agreed based on scope and experience
• Applications closing: until filled

Job Description

ALLFED’s Fundraising Manager will connect the dots between fundraising work that is currently done by various ALLFED teams (research team, finance team, communications team, operations team, events team).

They will be a go-to port of call for any matters related to fundraising and will be charged with maintaining a holistic view of all fundraising activities happening in the organisation.

Our Fundraising Manager will need to be both a thinker (planning and strategising) and a doer (happy to manage others but also to step in and crack on with things). They will likely be a fundraising generalist, with a mixture of research, analytical, project management and communications skills and someone comfortable with both databases and long writing pieces.

Please note this role is not purely managerial, it’s equally hands-on. The ideal candidate should be just as comfortable rolling up their sleeves to deliver key tasks themselves as they are in guiding and managing others to do so.

Responsibilities

Fundraising team:

• Manage, support and provide oversight of ALLFED’s Donor Relations Coordinator in their role.
• Support and provide oversight of ALLFED’s grant-writing functions.
• Identify any skills gaps and recruitment needs.
• Support team members with their fundraising efforts.
• Provide fundraising as needed.

Fundraising strategy:

• Co-ordinate and project lead the development of ALLFED’s fundraising strategy (together with ALLFED Directors).

Systems and procedures:

• Ensure ALLFED’s internal lines of fundraising responsibility and accountability (between teams/people) are clearly delineated and upheld.
• Ensure optimisation and smooth running of ALLFED’s donation platforms and systems to boost donation values and optimise donor experience.
• Assist the finance committee with relevant compliance (such as the gifts acceptance policy, donor reporting, or charitable solicitation licences in the USA).

Fundraising functions:

Donor care and communication:

• Ensure all aspects of the ALLFED’s Donor Relations Coordinator responsibilities are in hand and well taken care of.
• In particular, verify and ensure all donor records are in good order at all times and core donor care activities and communications are happening in a timely manner.
• Periodically report on this to ALLFED directors.
• Contribute to gathering evidence of impact and external quotes and testimonials; able to subsequently use them in our fundraising work.
• Contribute to Annual Reports (and other relevant communications).

Grants coordination:

• Ensure all aspects of the ALLFED’s Grants Coordinator responsibilities are in hand and well taken care of.
• In particular, verify and ensure all grants activities are happening efficiently, grant records are in good order and core deadlines are communicated and kept.
• Ensure that all aspects of grant management are considered, such as grants compliance, due diligence, and reporting obligations.
• Periodically report on this to ALLFED directors.

Major donors cultivation and reporting:

• Ensure we deliver first class stewardship and relationship management to our VIP and major donors.
• Help identify gatekeepers and donor acquisition pathways.
• Research prospective donors and fundraising opportunities.
• Coordinate and lead approaches to philanthropists, high net worth individuals, grant making trusts and foundations.

Other related duties as required.

Role Requirements

For all ALLFED roles:

• A mature, open-minded attitude – we are trying to help feed the world!
• Self-motivated, reliable, hard-working, able to get along with people.
• Awareness of ALLFED’s work and mission.
• Comfortable with working remotely.
• Access to high speed Internet, headset + webcam.
• Good English language skills, both spoken and written.

Role-specific

• Strategic outlook – always looking at the bigger picture and how the decisions we make now will impact ALLFED in the years to come.
• Imaginative and able to spot fundraising and engagement opportunities, and general engagement and alliance-building.
• Evidence of a solid fundraising background.
• Nonprofit fundraising experience (including grant writing and campaigns).
• Excellent line management skills (experience of remote teams a bonus).
• Excellent prospect research, analytical and communications skills.
• Excellent project management skills (and ability to rigorously stick to deadlines).
• Highly organised, and able to track multiple fundraising pathways, activities and actions due in a timely manner.
• Highly competent at using and maintaining CRMs, with an excellent understanding of opportunities pipelines and relationship databases; capable of getting the best out of them and CRM system optimisation for fundraising purposes.
• Excel power user, able to work efficiently with substantial data sets and train team members on it.
• Imaginative and able to spot fundraising and engagement opportunities, and general engagement and alliance-building.
• Financially literate, with an excellent understanding of P&Ls and budgets, able to set and effectively implement any relevant controls.
• Happy and open-minded attitude about wealth and able to interact with grantors and high net worth individuals in an appropriate manner.
• Ability to produce reports and summaries in a timely, concise, data-driven and also understandable manner.

Desirable (nice to have)

• A degree or fundraising qualification, or studying for one.
• Membership of a professional fundraising organisation (such as UK’s Chartered Institute of Fundraising or similar).
• Understanding wealth assessment and data sources per country (especially USA and UK).
• Familiarity with 501(c)(3) financial reporting and funding requirements.
• Familiarity with Google Workspace, GreenRope CRM and Trello.
• Familiarity with Effective Altruism and its core principles.
• Experience working with high net worth individuals.
• Experience with foundation grants.
• Multilingual, with an experience of living and/or interacting with various cultures.

How to apply?

To apply for this role, please complete our Expression of Interest form. We will follow up shortly.