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Role: Associate, Foundations and Corporates.

Reports to: Deputy Director – Foundations and Corporates.

Are you passionate about making a real difference in global health? Do you thrive on building meaningful relationships and inspiring others to support life-changing causes? Living Goods is seeking an entrepreneurial and dynamic fundraising professional to join our growing business development team and help revolutionize community health in Africa.

About Living Goods:

We’re on a mission to ensure no woman or child dies from easily preventable diseases. To bring high-quality healthcare door to door, we’ve partnered with African governments to ensure that community health workers (CHWs) have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to save lives. We focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harness community-level data to transform health systems. In 2023 we supported over 12,000 CHWs, impacting more than 6 million people across Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.

The Opportunity:

Living Goods (LG) seeks a highly motivated Associate – Foundations and Corporates, who is a strong team coordinator and systems-builder with an exceptional eye for detail, a strong sense of professional judgment and responsibility, and solid organization, writing and communications skills. You’ll manage, strengthen, and create critical systems and data related to grants and donor stewardship, improving the efficiency of our donor data and keeping the Foundation and Corporations sub-team organized and on track as we scale. You’ll support on proposal and report writing. And you’ll eagerly jump into strategic projects to help move us more quickly towards our revenue goals, including leading our sub-team’s efforts to research, identify, and connect with new funders. You may also have the opportunity to manage a small portfolio of donors, depending on performance and need.

You will thrive in this role if...

You’re a hungry learner. You’re excited to soak up information while learning and continuously improving. You bring a problem-solving orientation to your work and proactively seek opportunities for reflection and feedback. You have a knack for strengthening processes and systems to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your and your team’s work.

You appreciate quality data. You’re diligent about maintaining accurate, up-to-date records because you know that strong knowledge management is the foundation for solid decision-making. This attention to detail permeates your work.

You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment. You’re resourceful and at ease with ambiguity and rapid change. You possess a positive, can-do attitude, and are adept at identifying creative solutions to obstacles. You can juggle many important responsibilities at once and you’re rigorous about prioritizing.

You’re an excellent communicator who knows how to keep teams on track. You know how to communicate effectively with leadership and your peers to help motivate, organize, and focus. You thrive on helping your colleagues stay on track and are an expert at proactively following up to get the job done.

You want to grow with us. You’re excited to take on new projects, learn new skills, and always have an eye out for professional development opportunities. Living Goods is committed to the career development of our employees.

Key Responsibilities:

Proposal and Reporting Support

+ Support the Business Development team by helping to collate information, pull together attachments, and create first drafts of new proposals and reports.

+ Play a role in liaising with other teams, including those in the field in East Africa to ensure we have the latest updates and information as we structure new proposals and update our donors.

+ Support the ongoing management of existing grant funding by writing reports and liaising with finance and program teams to ensure we are delivering to plan for our donors.

+ Be an excellent editor with an eye for detail to ensure that all of our written materials are polished and ready to present to funders.

New Donor Research and Pipeline Development

+ Conduct research and analysis on prospective donors to identify new funding opportunities.

+ Think creatively to help surface new methods for sourcing these opportunities. Help identify strategies to connect with and engage new donors.

+ Work with the Business Development Operations Associate to manage our prospective donor data and pipeline to ensure our records are up to date. Keep the team organized, informed, and on track as we pursue and pitch these new donors.

Revenue Stream Coordination and Portfolio Support

+ Be the critical engine of the Foundations & Corporates sub-team by keeping the team up to date on latest trends in the field, supporting the organization of team meetings, and helping to prepare the team for donor meetings, conferences, and events.

+ Help field donor requests and questions as needed, ensuring excellent customer service for all Foundation and Corporate donors.

Where appropriate, manage a portfolio of donors directly. With support from your direct supervisor, the right candidate will have the opportunity to manage a portfolio of donors and take on increasing responsibility and autonomy if appropriate.

Essential Qualifications, Experience, & Attributes:

+ Bachelor’s Degree.

+ 1 to 3 years of professional experience.

+ Exposure to fundraising/development and/or global health.

+ Experience working with donor management and/or CRM software.

+ Experience providing support to senior executives and working in collaboration across teams.

+ Excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills.

+ Customer service orientation.

+ Strong time management and prioritization skills.

+ Exceptional judgment, including a high level of discretion when handling confidential materials.

+ Passion for Living Goods’ mission and alignment with its values.

+ Willingness to quickly learn new systems and tools such as donor databases, and donor. prospecting/research tools, and Microsoft Dynamics 365.

+ Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Outlook.

Why join Living Goods?

+ The opportunity to directly impact millions of lives through your fundraising efforts

+ Be part of a dynamic, diverse, and mission-driven global team

+ Competitive salary and benefits package

+ Potential for international travel and firsthand experience with our programs

+ Professional development and growth opportunities in a growing organization

If you're ready to take your fundraising career to the next level and make a lasting impact on global health, we want to hear from you!

The salary band for an Associate role within the Business Development team is $44,000 to $57,000, commensurate with experience.

Living Goods is an equal - opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information. If offered a role at Living Goods, we’ll request consent to complete a background check, which is part of our hiring process.

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