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Fundraising Manager

(Full-Time Position)

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Job Overview

As a Fundraising Manager at Employer, you'll be a pivotal part of our team, driving our fundraising initiatives and playing a crucial role in leveraging and securing resources to support our training programs. You'll be at the heart of our mission, connecting with the Belgian philanthropic ecosystem and crafting compelling narratives to support our cause. This role offers the opportunity to work with a small and dynamic team, and drive meaningful change in the lives of vulnerable populations.

Responsibilities and Duties

As Fundraising Manager, your responsibilities will include

Developing and implementing a fundraising strategy including specific actions, targeting both individual donors, foundations, family offices and corporate partnerships

Identifying funding opportunities which aligns with Employer’s social mission and impact KPI’s.

Drafting engaging grant and donation proposals and their follow-up reports that really connect with the donors and partners and that are compliant with the overall support reporting guidelines.

Identifying partners and collaboration opportunities. Building and maintaining strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, including major public or private donors, corporate sponsors, and foundations.

Implementing, overseeing and optimizing digital platforms for donor engagement and fundraising campaigns, ensuring effective reach and impact, by using our Friends of Employer fund opened with the King Baudouin Foundation (FRB) and any other tool that will be most relevant to reach the target group.

Monitoring and analyzing fundraising activities, using data to drive strategy and improve results.

Representing Employer together with the CEO in various events and meetings.

follow-up on donations, reporting toward finance department and/other internal and external stakeholders

In this position, you will be part of our Project Team directly managed by our CEO. You will collaborate closely with our Project Managers to monitor the implementation, staffing, and budgeting of projects with key stakeholders. You will also work alongside our finance team to effectively manage budgets and handle invoices for partnership agreements and grants.

Jouw profiel

Are you the team member we’re looking for?

Get ready for an exciting journey! For this engaging job, you'll need to

Have at least years of professional experience in fundraising, preferably within the Belgian philanthropic ecosystem.

Have a proven track record of achieving fundraising targets and driving growth

Have excellent writing skills in English and French, with proficiency in Dutch being an added advantage.

Have good relationship-building skills and a strong sense of business priorities

Be comfortable with digital tools and platforms, with a talent for leveraging technology in fundraising.

Be organized, structured and assertive willing to strive to work as efficiently and effectively as possible

Be an excellent team player

As a member of Employer you will be expected to contribute to our continuous desire to improve ourselves and embrace Employer values of social inclusion and fair treatment across gender, races, religions and all the differences that make us all humans.

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