Senior Advisor,

About African Wildlife Basis

African Wildlife Basis’s mission is to make sure wildlife and wild lands thrive in trendy Africa.

The African Wildlife Basis (AWF) is the oldest worldwide conservation group targeted solely on Africa. Since our founding in 1961, AWF has acknowledged that Africa’s wildlife sources and ecosystems are crucial to the long run prosperity of Africa and its individuals. Some key details about AWF:

• With a geographic deal with the continent of Africa, AWF works with Africans on the native, regional and nationwide ranges to preserve the continent’s super pure sources.
• We imagine that sustainable growth is sweet for Africa when balanced with biodiversity conservation.
• We deal with key African species, together with elephants, rhinos, lions and different massive carnivores, mountain gorillas and Africa’s different nice apes.
• AWF is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with workplaces all through Africa and in Europe and North America.

Our Conservation Method

For long-lasting affect, conservation in Africa have to be executed at a large-landscape degree, along with native, nationwide and regional companions. Conservation should additionally take into account the wants of not merely the wildlife residing within the space but in addition the individuals. To that finish:

• Supporting, selling, investing in African conservation management is in our DNA and a elementary constructing block in all the things we imagine in and do as a corporation.
• AWF targets massive areas of land that stretch past single parks, even nationwide boundaries.
• We implement quite a lot of conservation initiatives, all of that are centered round three particular areas: land, wildlife and folks (together with schooling and enterprise).
• AWF incorporates local weather change adaptation and mitigation efforts into a lot of our tasks. As a result of conservation doesn’t at all times take impact with out political will, we additionally work with governmental companions and regional our bodies to impact coverage change.

Function Abstract

The Senior Advisor, Principal Giving (Sr. Advisor) is a senior degree front-line fundraiser who will construct and handle a portfolio of 25 to 35 principal donors. A part of an Particular person Giving crew, the Sr. Advisor will develop high-level engagement methods, conduct in-person cultivation and solicitation conferences, and help Government and Board interactions with high donors, prospects, and connectors. Reporting to the Chief of Workers and dealing intently with the Chief Government Officer and different AWF executives, the Sr. Advisor’s major emphasis is figuring out, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding high-level prospects who’ve the capability to make transformative presents of $1 million per 12 months or higher. Unfold throughout the USA and internationally, the Sr. Advisor portfolio is a mixture of new, lapsed, and lively relationships. The Sr. Advisor will construct a broader base of help for AWF at this giving degree. The Sr. Advisor might be supported by a crew of donor researchers, stewardship professionals, and communications consultants.

The Sr. Advisor should champion the strategic engagement, creativity, and poise required to encourage and mobilize the aspirations of inner companions and potential donors alike. The Sr. Advisor will exemplify the subtle stewardship important to sustaining and increasing donor relationships and should embrace the position as a mentor of corresponding finest practices.

The Sr. Advisor is a excessive affect position with particular person annual fundraising targets beginning at $10 million. The Sr. Advisor might be anticipated to journey extensively inside the US and internationally to program websites and past. The Advisor is a senior fundraising skilled who will drive modern philanthropic alternatives and contribute considerably to AWF’s development.

Duties

• Establish, domesticate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of roughly 35 excessive web value people and household foundations with the capability to make $1 million+ annual presents.
• Develop and implement individualized donor methods for cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Contribute to superior prospect analysis to develop the Principal Giving portfolio of AWF.
• Accomplice with Government and Board management and throughout groups to develop personalized fundraising methods and funding alternatives.
• Information the path of written proposals, white papers, strategic plans, budgets, and different collateral supplies as wanted for securing vital ($1M+) philanthropic investments.
• Conceive of and lead specialised gatherings and conferences designed to interact donors on the Principal Giving degree, accompanying management as wanted.
• Observe fundraising progress and be liable for the information administration of the assigned portfolio.
• Workers AWF’s Marketing campaign Steering Committee, in partnership with the Vice President of Particular person Giving
• Play a key position in organizing and/or creating AWF safaris concentrating on principal donors.
• Function a mentor to the person giving crew as members construct their very own portfolios of principal donors.

Abilities and Expertise

• Substantial and demonstrated observe document securing principal presents of +$1m USD;
• Documented success in personally implementing refined, multi-year cultivation methods that use a relationship-building and strikes administration strategy resulting in profitable reward closure;
• Demonstrated capacity to safe a number of annual principal degree presents of $1 million+ by means of renewals, upgrades and new donor relationships;
• Demonstrated capacity to efficiently advance donors by means of donor pipelines, from prospect to principal reward;
• Excellent cultivation and solicitation expertise with the flexibility to deepen the connection of donors to AWF;
• Distinctive interpersonal expertise and the flexibility to work together successfully with AWF’s various employees and donor group;
• Skill to train logic, to display an understanding of the ethics associated to growth actions, and to make use of discretion in interactions with donors, prospects, volunteers, and others;
• Complicated problem-solving expertise coupled with the flexibility to conduct analysis, collect knowledge, analyze data, and put together efficient, correct, and well timed stories and different paperwork to help fundraising objectives;
• Collaborative with the flexibility to foster efficient working relationships inside a crew setting;
• Information of fundraising strategies and ethics together with strikes administration, solicitation finest practices, blended giving, proposal growth, prospect identification, program planning, fund solicitation, database administration and donor monitoring;
• Strong expertise with advertising and social networking methods and instruments;
• Extremely developed verbal and written communication expertise and the flexibility to current successfully to small and enormous teams;
• Exterior relations expertise and the flexibility to speak and interact successfully and meaningfully inside various communities;
• Skill to take care of a excessive diploma of confidentiality and duty relating to data associated to AWF and confidential prospect data;
• Skill to develop information of, respect for, and expertise to interact with these of different cultures and backgrounds;
• Proficiency with Microsoft Workplace Suite and cozy working in donor/prospect laptop database techniques;
• Downside fixing together with the flexibility to take initiative and set priorities;
• Skill to be versatile and agile to thrive in a fast-paced setting;
• Consideration to element and thoroughness in finishing assigned duties on time,
• Expertise in conservation and/or advancing African led conservation is fascinating.

{Qualifications}

• Bachelor’s diploma;
• At the very least ten years of profitable skilled fundraising expertise, together with with fundraising campaigns;
• Expertise working in Raiser’s Edge
• Eligible to work within the U.S.
• Fundraising {qualifications} desired however not a requirement.