VISION SPRING is looking for Resource Mobilization Lead 2023 in Dhaka
Job Responsibilities:
Donor Engagement & Fundraising
- Cultivate and nurture a portfolio of funders, including governments, institutional foundations, corporate and individual donors, by expanding long-term relationships with VisionSpring’s philanthropic investors and building new partnerships with prospective donors.
- Support the continual improvement of our organizational donor stewardship practices to maintain the effectiveness and integrity of VisionSpring collaborations. Proactively communicate with donors and look for ways to engage philanthropic investors in order to keep them connected to our work.
- Ensure donors receive timely, comprehensive, and accurate reports.
- Prepare thoughtful and what can be complex and multi-layered proposals and requests for renewal funding, working collaboratively with program/field staff on proposal writing, objectives, indicator development, and budgeting.
- Develop and regularly monitor the opportunity pipeline and calendar for punctual execution of proposals, reports, trips to the field, and other forms of engagement.
- Leverage VisionSpring’s Salesforce customer relationship management system to track written communications, meetings, submissions, and gift processing, with strict attention to data integrity.
- Process incoming donations and ensure all donors receive timely acknowledgement.
Startegic Planning & Reporting
- Actively participate in departmental strategy development and execution.
- Work with the local and Global development team to design and implement annual business development plans and budgets
- Regularly report on key metrics to the VisionSpring executive leadership and other stakeholders.
VisionSpring is a pioneering hybrid non-profit/social enterprise recognized by philanthropic leaders as one of the world’s most innovative high-impact social enterprises. In fact, we are nearing the $2 billion impact mark, having corrected the vision of over 8.6 million people, and we are growing at a rate of ~20-25% per year. With a robust portfolio of leading national and international foundations, governments, and corporations as supporters, including the Skoll Foundation, Mulago Foundation, Jasmine Social Investments, USAID, an innovative partnership with Warby Parker, and a growing cadre of long-term, major donors, VisionSpring is poised for significant expansion.
VisionSpring seeks a business development Lead for its Bangladesh operation to build strategic partnerships with a growing portfolio of dynamic, sophisticated funders and donors. Reporting to the Country Director of Bangladesh and Global Vice President of Resource Development, this role will lead fundraising and business development efforts with Bangladeshi corporations, governments, and philanthropic investors (individual and foundations). This role will also support global fundraising and business development grants directed to Bangladesh but originating in the global North. The person in this role will work as part of an entrepreneurial team to raise the philanthropic capital needed to augment our earned revenue and will collaborate closely with program teams in all other countries in Asia and Africa where VisionSpring is active as well as program and business development teams based in the US.
Location:
BangladeshBenefits
- Competitive salary, based on experience.
- VisionSpring offers competitive benefits, including health insurance, gratuity funds, festival bonus and paid time off.
Eligibilities
- A minimum of 10 years of professional experience.
- Demonstrated success managing a portfolio of funders with increasing responsibility and revenue performance.
- Prior experience with relationship management, including working with diverse and sophisticated thinkers.
- Prior experience with programmatically complex proposal writing (preferably international development proposals focused on Bangladesh overall market or specific industries of Bangladesh, e.g. Ready Made Garments workers and so on), pitch deck development, or business plan writing.
- Demonstrated interest in social enterprise models and desire to learn how to articulate and share VisionSpring’s unique approach.
- Extraordinary follow-through, attention to detail and deadlines, and a strong personal sense of accountability.
- Must meet the highest standards of ethics, with a demonstrated capacity for discretion and for handling sensitive information with care.
- A strong commitment to respectful collaboration with colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
- Experience in developing budgets.
- Aptitude in Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- The ability to travel 20-30% of your time (depending on the requirement)
- Experience synthesizing program updates from to generate evocative and compelling reports
- Proficiency with CRMs such as Salesforce
