Resource Mobilization Coordinator at Restless Development

Key Responsibilities

Prospecting and Donor Cultivation

• Identify, research, and cultivate new funding leads, notably trusts and foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors.
• Track donor intelligence, analyse trends, and share insights with country offices and global colleagues to inform agency-wide cultivation strategies.
• Develop capacity statements, pitch decks, case studies, and other assets to communicate agency expertise and support donor outreach.
• Provide high-quality relationship management and stewardship for existing donors, ensuring consistent engagement and responsiveness.
• Assist with tracking key touchpoints, relationship mapping, and proactive follow-up with donor prospects.
• Pitch and promote Restless Development’s work externally, with a particular focus on opportunities across Africa.
• Support major fundraising events (e.g., Africa Philanthropy Forum) to raise visibility and cultivate strategic relationships.

Development of High-Quality Concepts, Offers, and Proposals

• Lead end-to-end bid development, including facilitating design workshops, coordinating budgeting and due diligence, and drafting high-quality proposals that showcase agency expertise and - where possible - are co-created with young people and youth civil society.
• Support in-country teams to produce strong, technically robust submissions, ensuring the effective coordination of technical inputs across programme, MEL, finance, safeguarding, and operations teams.
• Enhance evidence-led storytelling by working with the communications team to develop compelling, well-packaged narratives for pitches and proposals.
• Support in-country teams in identifying, on-boarding and co-creation with potential consortium partners whenever relevant during the proposal development process.

Regional Coordination & Support

• Work closely with in-country teams to understand funding needs, identify opportunities, and strengthen resource mobilisation capacity. 
• Liaise with in-country Resource Mobilization leads in Africa hubs to identify key nodal points of support they require in their fundraising efforts.
• Provide tailored support and training on fundraising, donor engagement, and proposal development to enhance regional fundraising effectiveness.
• Support monthly coordination meetings to ensure alignment, shared learning and timely sharing of updates.

Data, Reporting & Knowledge Management

• Ensure the global programme funding pipeline and funder database are kept up to date. 
• Provide support in quarterly reporting and performance analysis for the global agency and in-country hubs, and actively participate in quarterly shared leadership meetings. 
• Document lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful proposals to inform future bids.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of organisational processes, tools, and knowledge products related to resource mobilisation.

We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our Values.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Experience in institutional fundraising, including donor cultivation, proposal development and pipeline management.
• Ability to lead strategic funding proposals and reports; co-ordinating input from a variety of sources and working to tight deadlines. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Effective networking skills. 
• Creative and systematic thinker.
• Ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams, time zones and geographies.
• Ability to work independently as the role will be remote.