Proposal Development Manager Job at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Main responsibilities:

• Coordinate thought leadership across offices, concerning Network-wide, large ticket, initiatives involving many offices (beyond regular fundraising), to successfully raise funds for the achievement of the Global Goal of the Practice.
• Convene strategic content from across the Network and ‘translate’ complex, technical content into persuasive and compelling proposals.
• Collaborate with the Fundraising Community of Practice on the development of major initiatives to accelerate transformational funding opportunities for the achievement of the Global Goal.
• Provide proposal development expert support across the Practice by developing exchange of best practices (e.g. proposal examples, language used, winning pitch decks etc.).
• Provide operational fundraising support to the Practice (i.e. on-demand help with editing/fine-tuning proposals and reports).
• Together with the Practice Leadership, and the Network Fundraising community, identify critical programme needs that require funding and match these to funding opportunities in support of the Global Goal
• Work with Network fundraising and partnership experts to ensure that proposal development is accurately tuned to match their requirements
• Work with fundraising community to develop funding events that allow WWF to showcase is biggest and most promising ideas to most promising donors
• Project coordination of the proposal development for big topics i.e. collect and share best-practices to utilise the full potential of most recent know-how across the network.
• Provide assistance, upon request from offices, with communication/content/grant proposal representation toward the donors.
• Contribute to the Knowledge-Management platform to share learnings.
• Liaise with Focal Points and Fundraising leads in Offices and coordinate with the Practice to support fundraising concepts and proposals (co-design).
• Coordinate stewardship and reporting requirements.
• Liaise regularly with Focal Points and Practice Members to share developments, updates and progress.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as required by the Practice Leader

Required Qualifications, Skills and Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in English, journalism, communications or related relevant field.
• Excellent written and oral skills in English;
• At least five years’ relevant professional experience in writing marketing, fundraising, PR or communications materials
• Experience of working in an international environment, particularly an NGO, would be an advantage.
• Proven ability to create donor friendly materials including experience in grant/proposal and donor report writing and understanding of the principles of communications and fundraising, especially donor needs. Experience of producing fundraising appeals (online, or through direct mail) an advantage.
• Excellent editing and proofreading skills with very high attention to detail.
• Knowledge of fundraising principles and practices, preferably in a non-profit environment.
• Ability to coordinate/manage processes and projects that require participation and contribution from staff for which the post holder has no direct supervisory responsibility.
• Demonstrated competencies in all relevant computer packages required for writing and formatting materials.
• Ability to manipulate, analyse and interpret data and good understanding of proposal budgets.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines and ability to coordinate projects with many variables, set and meet realistic deadlines, and manage a timeline under pressure.
• Ability to communicate a compelling and inspired vision in written and presentation materials and to formulate and clearly communicate ideas to others.
• Passion for conservation and adheres to WWF’s values, which are: Knowledgeable, Optimistic, Determined and Engaging.