Responsibilities:
Fundraising
- Develop development strategies appropriate to various funders and individual donors.
Research and adopt new fundraising approaches and tools to enhance the Fund’s
development capacity.
- Develop a yearly fundraising revenue budget and a fundraising operational plan to achieve
that budget in coordination with Finance Officer and Executive Director.
- Identify and communicate with potential funders to the AHRF (e.g. foundations, waqfs,
corporate sponsors, individuals).
- Identify and communicate with potential funders for human rights grant seekers (e.g.
foundations, waqfs, corporate sponsors, individuals).
- Cultivate network of potential individual donors. Build relationships with contact persons
within funding organizations.
- Plan capital and endowment campaigns in the Arab region and among the Arab Diaspora.
- Create appropriate written materials geared to engaging the interest of individual donors
and funders.
- Draft letters of inquiry, concept notes, and applications as necessary.
- Prepare reports on fundraising efforts.
- Draft and submit interim and final grant reports as needed to established funders. Provide
donors and funders with documents and updates
- Ensure fundraising targets are established and met within expense budgets through planning
and monitoring processes. Document and record all communications with funders
- Represent the Fund at conferences and meetings of funding entities.
Communication & Outreach
- Develop content and effectiveness of website.
- Work with various media for the purpose of informing the public of AHRF’s mission, policies,
practices, and events in a positive, consistent and credible manner.
- Develop a variety of informational materials (electronic and paper pamphlets, brochures,
etc.), including semi?annual e?newsletter.
- Work with PR, Marketing, and Communication consultants as needed.
- Disseminate AHRF informational materials through all possible channels.
- Develop strategies to raise AHRF profile regionally and internationally.
- Oversee production of annual report.
Qualifications
- A commitment to human rights.
- A Bachelor's degree in business or related field.
- A minimum of eight years of fundraising experience.
- Demonstrated success in fundraising inside the Arab region.
- Familiarity with a variety of fundraising practices and procedures.
- Excellent judgment and ability to plan and accomplish goals.
- Ability to juggle a variety of tasks, manage own workload, and work flexibly.
- Ability to lead and guide the work of others.
- Good understanding of budgets within fundraising applications.
- Ability to confidently promote the work of the Fund to donors/funders.
- Conscientiousness in reporting back to donors/funders.
- Creative thinking.
- Good research skills.
- Ability to communicate easily and appropriately with people at all levels within an
organization.
- Ability to work as part of a small team.
- Native Arabic and excellent English skills (writing, reading, and correspondence).
Send CV and cover letter to jobs@ahrfund.org, with “Fundraising Position” in the subject heading.
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