Fundraising and Partnerships Manager, Africa at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Kenya

Major Functions: The post holder will advise and support WWF Africa Offices develop and implement their
resource mobilisation strategy , with a focus on developing strategic public and private sector partnerships
with global and regional companies and institutional donors.

The post holder will initially focus on a fund raising initiative aimed at raising funds for WWF Africa’s Transformational Project Initiatives.

Longer term, the role will focus on growing the diversity of funding across Africa offices and from within Africa, and broadening the portfolio of donors to include foundations and high net worth individuals supporting WWF Africa’s conservation work, both within and outside of Africa.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads a compelling fundraising initiative for Africa’s Transformational Project Initiatives with a focus on
  developing strategic public and private sector partnerships with global and regional institutional donors,
  companies, and high net worth individuals.
• Keeps Africa Country Offices abreast of WWF growth context, fundraising strategy development,
  approaches, and tools that lead the development and delivery of income targets that leverages the unique
  strengths of WWF to achieve Africa’s ambitious targets for growth.
• Advises and supports Africa Country Offices on developing robust and appropriate resource mobilisation
  strategies to raise funds from public and private sources, including Government Aid Agencies, foundations,
  corporations, HNWI and other potential streams of income from within and outside of Africa.
• Supports country corporate engagements, in line with WWF policies and approaches, and in close
  coordination with the global corporate engagement teams.
• Monitors the performance of all WWF Africa offices in terms of fundraising and partnerships and makes
  recommendations for improvement as appropriate. Provides income and performance analysis and
  information on local office performance;
• Works closely with the global fundraising director and public and private partnerships leads and is an
  active member of the relevant fundraising and partnership communities of fundraising;
• Acts as focal point for NO fundraising and partnership teams and Public Sector Partnerships focal points on
  global as well as regional funding opportunities;
• Manages a Community of Practice of Fundraisers and Partnership managers for Africa;
• Performs other duties as requested by the line manager.

Profile

Required Qualifications:

• A first degree in management, business administration, marketing, or other relevant field.
• At least 6 years’ professional experience in leading resource mobilisation or income generation functions preferably for a non-profit organisation.
• Fluency in English required. Fluency in French and other languages that are widely used at an international level is a distinct advantage.
• Understanding of income modelling and budget setting

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Track record of achieving income targets, ideally in a partnership or fundraising function
• Experience in developing partnerships with corporations and/public sector organisations
• Knowledge and experience of the not-for-profit sector, preferably of environmental non-governmental
  organizations.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, including the ability to build a team of highly motivated and well
  qualified staff to achieve results.
• Strong strategic and analytical skills, including a talent for crystallizing key strategic options for
  discussion and decision.
• Superlative diplomatic and communication skills, including an ability to work and communicate
  effectively with a broad spectrum of individuals (individual donors, business leaders, public figures,
  WWF staff), within a broad range of cultural environments.
• Fully supportive of WWF’s mission and global priorities.
• Must be committed to equal opportunity employment policies.

Working Relationships

Internal: Policy & Partnerships Director, Communications and Marketing Director, Deputy Regional Directors,
Finance and Operations Director, People and Organisational Development Director, Organisational
Development and Change Director, Africa Fundraising and Partnerships contacts; WWF International Global
Fundraising Director and Partnerships Directors, WWF Network office fundraising and partnership staff and
communities of practice.

External: External partners, fundraising consultants and suppliers, fundraising consultants, researchers.