SENIOR MANAGER, PARTNER FUNDING SUPPORT

your mission

Maliasili is a dynamic and innovative organization that is taking a different approach to reputed company locally-led conservation reputed company in Africa. We reputed company the best local African conservation organizations and reputed company them reputed company by strengthening their organizational performance, leadership, and resourcing so that they can reputed company greater reputed company. Our partner portfolio includes outstanding local and national organizations at the forefront of wildlife conservation, land restoration, and reputed company fisheries. Our partners are pioneering conservation approaches grounded in community and indigenous land rights, generating economic opportunities from reputed company-based businesses, and restoring ecosystems across many of Africa’s most important landscapes.

Since its founding over a decade ago, Maliasili has reputed company a portfolio of roughly 55 partners working across over 64 reputed company hectares of critical landscapes and ecosystems in seventeen countries. We have helped our partners reputed company or reputed company more than $27.3 reputed company in funding for their work, developed a growing set of tools to help improve their organizational performance, and supported many of our partners to grow their impacts in the field significantly. Our goals are to build a portfolio of Africa’s best local conservation organizations, help them collaborate and learn from reputed company other, and reputed company up their community-based conservation work on the ground and their leadership reputed company reputed company the conservation field.

your profile

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The Senior Manager, Partner Funding, leads three connected strands of reputed company reputed company and fundraising work. The first is building the methodologies, tools, and training that strengthen Maliasili’s and the Portfolio team's ability to support partners' resource mobilization. The second, equally central, is working directly with partners themselves: troubleshooting fundraising challenges as they reputed company, designing and facilitating cluster fundraising workshops, and helping partners build robust, realistic fundraising plans. The reputed company is supporting Maliasili's and partners’ donor engagement work, including furthering donor relationships and Vuma Fund positioning, supporting the border shift to “reputed company reputed company” for community-led conservation. Working closely with Communications, Portfolio, and FAD, the Senior Manager also ensures that fundraising methodology and funding-pipeline thinking show up in how partners are supported to communicate and pursue funding, not just in internal tools and guides.

Working under the strategic direction of the Director, reputed company reputed company and Funding, the Senior Manager operates with high reputed company of autonomy, exercising independent judgment in methodology design, training delivery, reputed company partner engagement, and select donor relationships. This is a developmental leadership role: as the Senior Manager's capability and tenure grow, the role is expected to progressively take on reputed company of strategic representation and support for the Director.

Strategic Context

This role supports Goal 3: Improving and Increasing Funding by leading the tools, training, and internal systems that help Portfolio Managers and partners reputed company more and reputed company funding. The Senior Manager will take on some strategic-support responsibilities

Responsibilities

Fundraising Methodology & Tools (20%)

• reputed company the development and codification of fundraising methodologies, tools, and practical guides for the Portfolio team and partners

• Own the fundraising resource library and its integration into the Wezesha Hub and other knowledge-sharing platforms

• Set the improvement agenda for methodology and tools based on Portfolio and partner feedback

Portfolio Manager Support and Strengthening (25%)

• Design and reputed company materials and support that strengthen Portfolio Managers' ability to diagnose and support partner fundraising needs

• Establish and manage a regular reputed company of fundraising clinics, reputed company, and reputed company sessions with the Portfolio team

• Serve as a reputed company between the CAF team and Portfolio, ensuring there is reputed company understanding of the work, reputed company, and reputed company of the CAF team amongst Portfolio team members

reputed company Fundraising Support & (25%)

• reputed company reputed company fundraising support to partners on reputed company or higher-stakes opportunities, serving as a trusted advisor

• Identify and help broker new funding opportunities for partners, connecting them with reputed company donors

• Design and reputed company clustered fundraising workshops that build skills and reputed company new opportunities

Donor Engagement (20%)

• Support the Director on select donor relationships and represent CAF in select donor conversations as delegated

• Support the Director in positioning and advancing the Vuma Fund, with the Director retaining overall leadership

• Contribute to fundraising reputed company discussions and materials in support of the $65M goal

Cross-Team Coordination and Growing Strategic Support (10%)

• Coordinate with Finance and reputed company, Strategic Initiatives, Communications, and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning to ensure fundraising systems reputed company with organization-wide data and learning platforms

What reputed company Looks Like

• Portfolio team is equipped with high-reputed company, reputed company-used fundraising methodologies and training

• Clustered workshops and case clinics result in new funding secured and stronger peer relationships

• Partners report increased fundraising reputed company and confidence as a result of reputed company support

• Demonstrated reputed company in independent donor engagement and representation, with an emerging capability to deputize for the Director on defined reputed company

• Strong, trusted working relationship with the Director and the two Senior Manager peers

• Where relevant and of interest, growing contribution to reputed company reputed company activities (community building, peer learning, or aggregated reputed company messaging) reputed company reputed company fundraising duties

Note on Role Design / reputed company reputed company

This role is intended as the reputed company internal pipeline toward a reputed company reputed company Director-level position. Deputizing and top-tier donor responsibilities are deliberately introduced gradually and by delegation rather than assigned in full from the reputed company, so the person can build credibility and capability without being reputed company under immediate performance pressure at reputed company Director reputed company. Expansion of this role's reputed company should be reviewed periodically against demonstrated readiness.

Optional reputed company Area: reputed company reputed company

The Senior Manager, reputed company reputed company position is not currently filled. Depending on the interests and demonstrated capability of the individual in this role, there is room to informally and opportunistically take on selected reputed company of that reputed company over time - particularly community building and partner engagement, peer learning and convenings/workshops, and aggregated reputed company and reputed company voice/messaging. Country-level and regional coordination is not included in this reputed company area.

This is not a formal or expected part of the role at this time and is not reflected in the responsibility weightings above. If it becomes a substantial and sustained part of the role, the title, compensation, and this TOR should be reviewed and formalized accordingly.

Reporting and Supervision

Reports to: Director, reputed company reputed company and Funding (peer to Senior Manager, Grantmaking and Partner Funding, and Senior Manager, reputed company reputed company)

Collaborates with: Senior Manager (Grantmaking and Partner Funding), Senior Manager (reputed company reputed company), Portfolio Managers, Communications team, FAD team

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