FEO( Fund Raising and Evaluation Officer) at Child Life-Line

THE ROLE (JOB SUMMARY):
CLL has been developing in breadth and depth over the past few years and the capacity to support the organisation needs to increase. We are currently developing our fundraising systems and strategies and are looking for a competent and enthusiastic individual to help us ensure our long-term sustainability. The role of the FEO is an exciting opportunity to use your initiative and creativity to help us develop and improve our strategies, as well as sought-after skills in charity fundraising.

Key Responsibilities/ Work activities
Fundraising:

• Help us develop exciting new creative community fundraising strategies through developing resources, working on publicity strategies and more.
• Work with the Program Manager to develop strategy for recruiting major donors and organising successful fundraising events, including receptions for major donors.
• Recruit new supporters and advocates, who represent CLL on a local level.
• Develop attractive resources to accompany our strategy, supporting CLL Executive members in fundraising.
• Research potential funding opportunities and make detailed applications to trust funds and potential donors; write and present proposals

Monitoring/Evaluation:
Develop key performance indicators and lead the development, standardisation and deployment of tools that capture appropriate quantitative and qualitative data to be used in monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

Skills and qualities

• Communication skills: writing dynamic funding proposals and inspiring people to commit to the cause in question.
• Interpersonal skills: you will be constantly interacting with people, persuading them of the value of the organisation. Ability to work well as part of a small integrated team.
• Research and analytical skills: ability to source and analyse information and statistics, research trends and assess costs.
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Resilience and flexibility: fundraising can be a tough job.
• Pro-active, confident, self-motivated individual.

Qualification

• BSc Marketing or any other related qualification with experience
• Update and maintain accurate and complete databases on children and CLL activities; provide monitoring and evaluation reports as required by CLL funding partners in respect of any project or program.
• Provide monthly reports, through the Program Manager, to the Executive Committee (EC) on all M& E activities during the month in review, and half yearly data analysis and evaluation reports.
• Provide feedback to the PM and EC on all strategies and activities, and contribute in-put and ideas to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of CLL operations.
• Train CLL staff as necessary on the data collection tools and templates, and organise lessons learnt workshops/ review of program work plans as appropriate.
• Facilitate documentation and reporting of assessments, program data, lessons learnt and best practices for internal and external sharing.
• Assist with supervision and provision of basic education to children accessing the CLL drop-in centre.
• Undertake any other duties assigned by the PM or the EC as necessary.
• Establish clears systems and ensure regular applications are made.
• Explore new and alternative source of funding to meet our agreed fundraising targets.