Development Initiatives (DI) is an international development organisation that focuses on putting data-driven decision-making at the heart of poverty eradication.

Our vision is a world without poverty that invests in human security and where everyone shares the benefits of opportunity and growth.

We provide rigorous information to support better decisions, influence policy outcomes, increase accountability and strengthen the use of data to eradicate poverty.

This exciting new role will be responsible for helping us to maintain existing funding streams and identify new funders to help us grow our income and expand our pool of donors.

The successful candidate will play a key role covering the whole spectrum of sustainable fundraising/resource development duties. The postholder will need to think strategically yet be able to roll up their sleeves and work operationally.

Duties include:

• Research the global funding market, identifying new funding opportunities and potential calls for proposals.
• Implement fundraising and development processes to ensure that Development Initiatives is maximising efficiency in fundraising research and proposal development, including updating criteria, budget and concept templates as well as guidance documents for staff
• Support with the development and submission of proposals, ensuring appropriate staff are included in the process to draw on their local knowledge and technical understanding of our work and track follow-up

We are looking for someone who has a sound understanding of statutory, trust and institutional fundraising, including research sources and funding criteria. The successful candidate must have a minimum of three years’ experience of developing high quality and successful fundraising proposals, and experience working in the international development/third sector.

You will have excellent networking and negotiation skills along with the ability to build strong and lasting relationships with key stakeholders.

If you would like to contribute to increasing the impact of a dynamic organisation committed to ending poverty, we would love to hear from you. Please download and read the full recruitment pack and apply here.

Early applications are highly encouraged; we will be reviewing submissions as they arrive and interviews will be held periodically. As we are recruiting on a rolling basis, we reserve the right to end recruitment without notice