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Educate! works to transform education in Africa to teach youth to solve poverty for themselves and their communities. Educate! provides youth with skills training in leadership, entrepreneurship and workforce readiness along with mentorship to start real businesses at school. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. E...
This individual will create and edit compelling impact reports and partnership proposals, support the management of key external relationships, and be a critical member of Educate!’s multi-national fundraising team. The External Relations Manager reports to the Director of External Relations and is an externally-facing member of our team representing Educate! to funders and other key stakeholders. This individual will also play an important role internally by building and strengthening the fundraising systems and processes required to move Educate! towards its revenue goals, coaching teammates, and serving as a link between External Relations and other teams like Programs, Monitoring & Evaluation, and Finance.
We are looking for a self-starter with meticulous attention to detail, exceptional communication skills and native English proficiency, and advanced structuring, writing, and editing skills. Experience living or working in Africa is a strong plus and our hope is that this individual will spend significant time (at least several weeks) with our teams in East Africa in their first year. Our ideal candidate will already have some professional writing experience and experience preparing compelling content for external audiences, but a variety of backgrounds would suit this role.
In this role, you will have a chance to work closely with Educate!’s teams in East Africa who implement our programs on the ground, and you’ll develop high-quality content, materials, and relationships to showcase our impact to key stakeholders. You’ll join a motivated, passionate, overachieving international team that is positioning Educate! to be the leader in skills-based secondary education in Africa.
Performance Objectives
Develop and manage grant reports, proposals, and other materials to communicate Educate!'s strategy and impact externally (50%)
You’ll work with our fundraising team to ensure that Educate! meets and exceeds our commitments to our funders by producing high-quality grant reports that keep our stakeholders informed on Educate!'s progress and mission. We envision this role will primarily be editing reports, while also frequently writing and creating new content for proposals and other materials to communicate Educate!’s strategy and impact externally. You will work collaboratively to develop comprehensive, engaging, and tailor-made proposals and reports to submit to prospective and current funders.
Support fundraising strategy, revenue generation, and relationship management (25%)
Educate!’s success relies on the important external relationships we have to fuel our mission, particularly with funders and experts in our sector. You will:
Strategic projects and team support (25%)
Educate! is a fast-growing organization and we don’t know everything the coming years will bring. We are looking for a skilled generalist and team player who is happy to wear a variety of hats and tag in to support the team wherever there is a need. Some of the things we envision this role supporting include:
Qualifications
This position is well-suited for those with 3-5 years of work experience. The ideal candidate will have:
We’re also requiring for this position:
Priority application deadline is February 6, 2023.
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