FUNDRAISING ASSISTANT
Grants/Fundraising Assistant
Job Description:
We are seeking a dynamic individual to join our team as Grants/Fundraising Intern. This role is pivotal in enhancing our program visibility, building strategic relationships, and ensuring the sustainable funding of our initiatives. If you are passionate about making a positive impact, connecting with diverse stakeholders, and driving fundraising efforts, we invite you to apply for this exciting internship position.
Key Responsibilities:
I. Fundraising, Grants Management & Reporting:
What you will gain by volunteering with us
Job Description:
We are seeking a dynamic individual to join our team as Grants/Fundraising Intern. This role is pivotal in enhancing our program visibility, building strategic relationships, and ensuring the sustainable funding of our initiatives. If you are passionate about making a positive impact, connecting with diverse stakeholders, and driving fundraising efforts, we invite you to apply for this exciting internship position.
Key Responsibilities:
I. Fundraising, Grants Management & Reporting:
- Prepare timely program reports, newsletters, and (annual) reports for donor updates.
- Ensure compliance of grants with ROF and donor policies/procedures.
- Ensure all relevant information relating to the grant is available on a timely basis and also grant documents from proposal to the final stage are properly filed.
- Monitor spending/run rate against grants and awards on a monthly basis and provide information to program leads to adjust spending accordingly
- Work with the Executive Director & program officers to ensure that the relevant team members - are familiar with the impact goals and grant implementation requirements for successful grant/funding applications.
- Work with the relevant teams to support applications for new grant budgets and provide relevant supporting documentation when required.
- Support the Fundraising and Communications team with identifying and evaluating new funding opportunities.
- Outline agreed-on outputs for each successful grant/donation and work with the Programs
- Collaborate with the Program officers to ensure that outputs are scheduled into field operations within a timeline that fits the grant/donation requirements
- Maintain good ordered google drive folders containing all the grant/donation documentation, reports, and any other necessary materials linked to a grant/donation.
- Schedule all reporting needs for each grant/donation; collate information and draft text for grant reports in time for management and field teams to add their information and finalize. Send completed reports to donors before or on their due date.
- Work with the Program Officers to ensure all the metrics required to be reported back as a measure of grant/donation success are included in the Monitoring and Evaluation plans for the grant area and that necessary data is collected.
- Assist the M&E team in monitoring and evaluating the value of grant funding and the costs incurred by management
- Be a self starter
- Strong organization, communication and document coordination skills
- Experience in research and report writing
- Experience in working with target and deadlines
- Education in community development, International Development/Africa Studies, Business related subjects, Economics, or sales and marketing.
- Ability to build strong relationships with new people and organizations
- Detail oriented with excellent time management skills
What you will gain by volunteering with us
- An opportunity to support marginalized girls through Education
- Build valuable relationships with individuals, companies and local businesses in your community
- Gain practical experience on how fundraising/working in the charity sector looks like
- Vital fundraising knowledge/ skills to build your CV
- Develop positive working relationship with grassroots organizations supporting girls education
