Assistant Officer - Fundraising

Job Description

Title: Assistant Officer - Fundraising

Company Name: Practical Action - Bangladesh.

Vacancy: 01

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Tk. 46221 - 46221 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 1 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• At least 1 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

• Candidates who identify as Indigenous People are encouraged to apply.

• Bachelor’s degree in social science, development studies or any other relevant degrees from a recognized/accredited university.

Experience & Knowledge     

• At least 01 years of experience in business development, proposal and paper writing (skills of editing articles, publishable papers), fund mobilization for a national or international development organization.

• Track record of understanding research and development work around urban development, WASH, agriculture, energy and Disaster risk reduction.

• Well organized and attentive to detail.

• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and to set priorities.

• Excellent English writing, analytical and communication skills.

• Excellent ability to work with a face to face and virtual cross-functional team.

• Excellent documentation skill.

• Basic knowledge on Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel.

• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and to set priorities.

• Good ability to work with a multicultural team.

• Willing and able to travel independently outside the station.

• Strong advocate for climate action, climate and social justice.

The Assistant Officer-Fundraising plays an important role at organizational level for fund/income mobilization which includes – assist in proposal writing, researching donor calls, donor intelligence sharing and Programme intelligence support. As a member of the Business Development, s/he will collaborate closely with Manager-Fundraising, to ensure integration of income mobilization approaches.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the problems, opportunities, scope of innovation and systemic change issues around Practical Action's change ambitions - 1) Farming that work 2) Cities fit for people 3) Energy that transform, and 4) Resilience that protects.

• Use and update organisational online proposal development and management system to facilitate an integrated proposal development process (Project and Award Management System-PAMS).

• Update HubSpot (donor relationship management platform) in regular intervals.

• Explore data from PAMs and generate quarterly updates, secured and unsecured and pipeline figures, update pipeline figures.

• Explore opportunities from designated and open sources of call.

• CV formatting and preparing profile of the proposed team members in regard to specific fit of the donor/call requirement.

• Undertake field visits for fundraising as required.

• Assist in proposal development activities as required.

• Assist in regular reporting from fundraising team (monthly, quarterly and other ad-hoc requirements).

• Assist in donor intelligence gathering and preparing of call summary.