Director, Marketing & Fundraising Save the Children South Africa

Position: Director, Marketing & Fundraising

Department: Fundraising, Marketing and Communications

Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer

Effective Date: ASAP

Locations: Pretoria (commutable from Johannesburg)

Salary: Competitive and to commensurate with experience

Backgroung

Save the Children works for children in over 120 countries worldwide. Our 14000 employees work towards a common mission of inspiring breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Position Purpose

Save the Children South Africa is a fast growing and dynamic child rights organisation that has helped local communities improve the life of more than 90.000 vulnerable children in Africa since 1997. As part of their new strategic plan, STC is opening a new fundraising unit which will be based in Pretoria, a short commute from Johannesburg.

This position is responsible to provide the overall leadership, direction and management of Save the Children South Africa’s fundraising, marketing and communication activities. The incumbent is a member of the Senior Management Team, which calls for collaboration and shared organisational problem solving.

Principle Tasks and Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a diverse fundraising program including committed giving, foundations, corporations, major gifts, events and planned giving
• Build solid prospect management, research and donor stewardship programs to support the growth of revenue generated fundraising
• Oversee backend systems and processes to support all aspects of fund development; develop tools for tracking fundraising revenue and donor prospects.
• Lead, manage and coach a small team of 6 to 8 employees, ensuring that the Fundraising Department in Save the Children South Africa is optimally organized and staffed to achieve its vision and financial goals
• Create an environment in which staff are supported, enabled, and empowered to deliver excellence and reach their full potential through creativity, collaboration and cross-functionality
• Ensure adequately trained staff and systems are in place to produce the results required to meet the current and future departmental goals
• Ensure the effective development, management and monitoring of the Fundraising Department’s annual budget. Track financial and program performance through regular monthly reporting including revenue/expense and budget controls
• Build successful long-term relationships with donors, volunteers and other key stakeholders.
• Lead and direct, as a member of the Senior Management Team, the development, planning, analysis and execution of the strategic and annual fundraising plans.
• Contribute to management meetings, board committees and Save the Children International forums to address broad issues relating to strategic direction, policy development, planning and budgeting.
• Manage communications and be responsible for developing media, website and online strategies to increase public awareness of Save the Children throughout South Africa
• Design and implement a proactive marketing communications plan to promote key initiatives in the development plan, in cooperation with other Save the Children International marketing communication initiatives
• Oversee all fundraising and marketing collateral materials (annual report, brochures, donor reports, newsletters, etc.) designed to profile Save the Children South Africa’s work and ensure adherence to the global brand standards.
• Create an environment that ensures effective sharing of information with all facets of Save the Children International
• Represent and promote Save the Children with enthusiasm and professionalism, building and strengthening relationships with key donors, funders and prospects, and the media as appropriate
• Lead the field of fundraising and philanthropy, monitoring trends to ensure Save the Children benefits from current knowledge, resources and techniques
• Infuse the culture of fundraising into all Save the Children’s activities

Competencies

• Relationship building
  • Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships and collaborative work approaches both internal and external contacts; client service orientation
  • Team player within management team who easily shares information and willingly receives input
    
• Management skills
  • Experience managing staff (directly and indirectly)
  • Leadership skills when dealing with staff and volunteers
  • Demonstrated capacity for problem solving
  • Organization to work effectively and facilitate multi-tasking
  • Adaptable and flexible to respond to changes in priorities
  • Delegation to maximize resources
  • Respect for others
  • Supporting other to do their jobs effectively
    
• Other Competencies
  • Drive to achieve results while working under pressure
  • Committed to values of Save the Children
  • Understands the “big picture”. Strategic skills, forward thinking
  • Creativity

Position requirements

• A minimum of 6 -10 years of fundraising experience with proven track record in Private Sector Fundraising (including mass-market fundraising, Corporate and HVD fundraising).
• University degree or equivalent combination of work experience and education
• Demonstrated strong leadership and experience (minimum of 5 years) in managing, motivation and coaching fundraising and communications staff within an evolving organizational culture.
• A fundraising generalist with proven track record in developing fundraising plans which lead to increased revenue. Emphasis on mass-market fundraising and securing corporate partnerships
• Experience in implementing donor stewardship strategies
• Ability to use numbers to support all fundraising decisions
• Previous experience working with fundraising databases
• Excellent general computer proficiency – knowledge of systems including Internet and Microsoft Office(Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
• Valid passport and ability to travel both nationally and internationally
• Subject to police reference check (child protection requirement)

To Apply

To apply for the post, please send a letter of application stating the skills and approach that you would bring to the post along with your CV/resume (no photos) in English in strict confidence BY EMAIL ONLY to Karem Armstrong at karem@darylupsall.com.

Applications sent by other means will not be considered.

Please ensure that they are sent as Word documents with the titles “your name cover letter” and “your name CV”. Please put "Director FR-Mktg STC South Africa” in the email subject line. Also please let us know where you saw the post advertised.

The deadline for application is Monday 14^th May, 2012