Development Director

• The development director will provide leadership, vision and strategic direction for the fundraising and communication department, evaluate fundraising and communication strategies and systems to improve strategy setting and decision making, and financial outcomes.
• The ideal candidate will bring at least 10-15 years’ experience in fundraising management or in leading and managing teams, as well as at least five years’ Knowledge and/or experience in sales and marketing as well as in training, mentoring, and developing staff. Fluency in both Arabic and English is required.
• She/he should be passionate about fundraising and have special skills and experience in doing the ask professional coupled with strategic planning and management experience. Also, She/he should have knowledge and experience of fundraising for different causes, latest trends across most, if not all the following:
• Face to face, digital, telephone, direct mail, multi-channel lead development, conversion and fully integrated donor acquisition and development programs
  Detailed understanding of cost of lead/donor KPIs such as ROI, donor lifetime value
  Donor journey development and donor retention on and upgrading strategies to maximize donor lifetime value
• Capacity to develop fundraising mixes of the above channels and present 1-5 years budget
  projections on cost, income and ROI

Main responsibilities:

• Setting the annual and capital fundraising plan.
• Researching and approaching trusts, government agencies and other bodies that could potentially make grants to the organization
• Writing and presenting proposals.
• Managing the grant application process and ensuring that reporting is tracked and meets donors' expectations.
• Developing relationships with major donors, identifying new potential major donors and
  nurturing relationships
• Attending relevant fundraising meeting and forums.
• Periodical donor reporting on projects achievements and progress according donor’s requirements.
• Manage all grants monitoring and evaluation and reporting back to funders.
• Follow up with donors for transfer grant installments.
• Maintain sound and productive working relationships with donors and clients.
• Manage key relationships with funders and development partnerships in conjunction with program managers.
• Produced detailed annual action plans on fundraising and monitor portfolio to secure
  enough fund
• Ensure that each project has an action plan, monitor its implementation and report progress to the board.
• Develop training need assessment for the team and proposed the required training
  courses.
• Maintaining balanced fundraising strategies to cover all segmented target groups.
• Present the work of the organization at events to members of the public, donor organizations and supporters, where necessary delivering presentations.
• Overseeing the communications efforts of the organization internally and externally, including public relations and marketing.
• Promoting the organization’s vision, mission and initiatives to the general public
• Conducting market research, communicating with media personnel to address
  the organization’s news and way of implementation.
• Manage the organization's social media communications.
• Maintain a database of media organizations and contacts within them.
• Regularly meet with and conduct interviews with media personnel.
• Design, develop, and execute marketing and communication plans for the organization.
• Create and produce internal newsletters for the organization.
• Communicating policies and procedures to internal employees to uphold their
  organization’s brand image
• Act as a spokesperson for the organization.
• Write, edit and distribute various types of content, including material for a website, press releases, marketing material and other types of content that take the message to the public.
• Prepare and manage the organization’s communication budget.
• Tracking campaign analytics and maintaining digital media archives.
• Developing and coordinating multiple communication projects concurrently
• Completing projects on time and on budget.