Fundraising Director - Japan

Role title:                            Fundraising Director (FRD)

Organisation:                    Greenpeace, Japan        

Location:                             Tokyo, Japan

Reports to:                         Chief Operating Officer (COO) 

Line Manages:                  A team of 8-10 staff

Salary:                                  Competetive salary and benefits

 

 

Background:

 

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by: investigating, exposing and confronting environmental abuse, challenging the political and economic power of those who can effect change, driving environmentally responsible and socially just solutions that offer hope for this and future generations and by inspiring people to take responsibility for the planet.

 

Greenpeace in Japan

With nearly 25 years of working in Japan, our current campaign focus is on the nuclear energy issue. Right after the Fukushima disaster, Greenpeace was the first organisation documenting and publishing the actual consequences of the incident, revealing the government's reports were undermining the scale of the issue. Thanks to our Independence principle, Greenpeace Japan has been able to expose the truth and hence gain the trust of the public as reliable source of information. In this context, a historical window of opportunity is opened for the growth and development of Greenpeace Japan and a key player of such process will be the Fundraising Director recruited by this process.

 

Non-Japanese nationals are welcome to apply for the position but candidates should have a strong understanding of the Japanese culture and quite preferably, a certain skill level in the language as well.

 

Purpose of this position:

 

This is a key senior management position within Greenpeace Japan and is part of the Senior Management Team (SMT). The SMT has responsibility for advising the Executive Director (ED) on the overall strategic direction of GP Japan, and the effective running of their respective departments.

 

·         The Fundraising Director is responsible for designing the fundraising (FR) strategy, and implementing it in close cooperation with Campaigns and Communications.                                        

·         The FR Department's major responsibility is the recruitment of individual supporters who make financial donations regularly to further Greenpeace's aims and objectives.   Greenpeace does not accept funding from governments or corporations.                                                    

·         This position shall work alongside the other Department Heads (Campaigns, Communications and Organisational) to jointly create a positive, campaign-driven image of Greenpeace in Japan as a precondition for successful fundraising in the country.                                                          

·         The position demands experience with designing FR strategies and good management skills for implementing strong, prioritised and focused work plans that achieve (or exceed, of course) the agreed organisational goals.                                                

·         The FRD is responsible for hiring and effectively leading the Fundraising Team towards the achievement of their individual targets.            Providing leadership, vision and strategic direction for the Fundraising team while facilitating and empowering their work, training and developing them, and as a result, build a strong team.

·         Just like other Director-level positions, the FRD is required to maintain effective relationships with senior influencers and decision makers within the global Greenpeace and with other organisations, corporations (including a wide range of service providers and consultants) as well as government when applicable.                   

Potential fundraising strategies to be designed and tested include direct marketing, e-marketing, tele-fundraising, major gifts, bequests, face-to-face donor recruitment, reactivation and any other creative tool to be investigated in the context of the Japanese giving culture.

                                                                               

COMPETENCY PROFILE                                                 

                                                               

Organization competencies                                                       

·         Professionalism, delivering high-quality products in all the aspects of the work.

·         Achievement- towards measurable objectives both individually and for the team.

·         Interpersonal relationship, building constructive and long-term relationships with all parties involved in the job.       

·         Knowledge sharing                                        

·         Commitment to cultural diversity.

·         Innovation, considering the 'cutting-edge' core value of Greenpeace.                                   

                                                               

Functional competencies                                                           

Technical                                                                                                            

·         Fluency in written and spoken English                                   

·         Knowledge and/or experience in marketing, fundraising acquisition, development and retention methods and budget management.                         

·         Awareness and knowledge of local fundraising market (i.e. Japan) and knowledge of written and spoken Japanese is an asset.                     

·         Knowledge and/or experience in fundraising-related software as well MS Office applications    

·         Knowledge and/or experience in conflict resolution                                       

                                                                                               

Method related                                                               

·         Negotiating skills                                             

·         Knowledge and understanding of the NGO sector                                           

·         Public speaking, able to act as a spokesperson for Greenpeace.

·         Risk assessment: reputation, communication impact, cost performance                                               

·         Presentation and reporting skills                                              

·         Project management, including ability to effectively adjust plans to rapidly changing circumstances                                         

·         Work under pressure, in physically or mentally challenging situations                                     

·         Decision making                                              

·         Budgeting (preparing, presenting, monitoring)                                 

                                                               

Social / self                                                        

·         Being a team player                                       

·         Build and manage relationships with supporters, high donors, consultants, providers and any other external contacts relevant to the job                                       

·         Aesthetic sense (helping to make good choices in graphics, layouts), but most importantly, understanding of what moves the specific target audience                                        

·         Ability to synthesise campaigning issues and to communicate on them in wording, adapted to a target audience                                            

·         Tact and diplomacy                                        

·         Assertive                                            

·         Intellectual ability to understand political issues necessary for the job.                                  

·         Intellectual ability to understand legal issues necessary/useful for the job and ability to work out legal strategies to turn confrontational situations to the advantage of the campaign.                                

Leadership competencies                                                           

·         Planning and organizing, in particular ability to make optimal use of all available capacities in the organisation, including working teams and financial resources available 

·         Empowering and developing people, in particular people with a wide range of skills and expertise                                           

·         Strategic orientation and managing vision, in particular towards understanding the best ways to create messages relevant to our target audiences taking into account their values and the way they can be receptive towards out story-telling.                                       

                                                               

SPECIFIC WORK ENVIRONMENT                                                              

·         Based at the Greenpeace Japan office in Tokyo                                

·         Regular and possibly extensive travel; sometimes field work without communications or IT support.

·         Highly flexible towards working hours.                                  

·         Non-Japanese nationals are welcome to apply for the position but they should have a strong understanding of the Japanese culture and quite preferably, a certain skill level in the language as well.                                               

 

How to apply:

 

To apply for the post, please send in Word document format and in English a letter of application stating the skills and approach that you would bring to the post with your resume in strict confidence (NO PHOTOS) by email to Karem Armstrong at karem@darylupsall.com.

Please ensure that they are sent as Word documents with the titles “your name cover letter” and “your nameCV”. Please put "GP Japan- FR Director” in the email subject line.

Please let us know, in your covering email, where you found out about the post.

Deadline for applications: Monday 29th July 2013, 18.00 CET