Main Responsibilities
• Develop 3-year resource mobilisation strategic and action plan.
• Knowledge sharing and capacity building on resource mobilisation best practises and how to identify donors that match Fair &Square’s core mandate of economic empowerment for women.
• Use of project management tools and techniques to integrate organize and manage donor information such as a Gantt chart.
• Prepare training material on grant writing.
• Review current policies and make recommendations on policies required for funding.
• Identify a crowd funding platform that can be included on the website for public donations.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate University Degree (or equivalent) in International Development, Nonprofit Management/Social work, Business Administration, Public relations, Economics, Finance, Project Management etc
- Experience in Resource Mobilization, Proposal Writing, Grant Management, Communications
- Ability to facilitate capacity building activities
- Strong interest in women’s rights issues;
- Effective organizational and problem-solving skills;
- Excellent interpersonal skills / ability to work in a multicultural and mixed environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity;
- Capacity to take initiatives and work autonomously
Project description and context:
Crossroads International will engage Canadians, Canadian stakeholders, Crossroads staff and volunteers, local partner organizations and women and men in sub-Saharan Africa to become Gender Equality Champions both in Canada and overseas.
The Volunteer Cooperation Program (VCP) aims to reduce gender inequalities and alleviate poverty by addressing gender-based violence, inequalities in access to resources and economic opportunities, and barriers in exercising strategic forms of choice, voice, and influence.
Description of the partner
Fair and Square needs a resource mobilisation database that will enable the organization to identify specific targeted donors for funding opportunities. Fair and Square needs a specialist that has excellent knowledge of potential donors, their eligibility criteria, and dates that funding opportunities open.
Economic empowerment of women is vital to the national wellbeing of Eswatini. Swazi women only gained independence in 2006 before which time women had the legal status of minor children. Fair and Square believes the best, and only way to sustainable livelihoods is to advance the status of women within our country through economic empowerment. Fair and Square also facilitates health, wellness and educational support including well established peer educator programs in HIV, domestic violence prevention, and personal financial management training and mentoring.
According to Ngwira (2010), female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households in terms of income and more often they have fewer means of moving out of poverty. In addition, they have lower access to inputs, credit, extension services, and land. In Eswatini, women are particularly vulnerable to poverty.
Constitutionally, women can own and control land and their finances. However, traditional social systems discriminate severely against them and often bar them from owning and controlling land. In rural areas, women have less access to education (IFAD 2007). In the context of an agriculture-based economy, these in general lead to female-headed households being poorer than those headed by men (Source: The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Southern Africa www.iita.org).
Description the volunteer mandate
The resource mobilisation volunteer will be collaborating with the Operations Manager Jeanine Bello and Julie Nixon the Programme Director to create a resource mobilisation plan, a crowd funding platform and donor identification strategy of local and international donors. Jeanine and Julie will both learn immensely from the resource mobilization volunteer, especially in regard to finding and targeting local corporate donors funding for Fair and Square to improve financial and programmatic sustainability.
Eligibility criteria
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- Be a Canadian Citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
- Willing to conduct fundraising and public engagement activities before, during and after the placement
- Share the commitment of preventing and addressing sexual misconduct
- In good physical and mental health (medical examination required)
- The volunteer needs to bring their own computer.
- The volunteer must be available to attend an online pre-departure training.
Personalized support before, during and after the mandate provided by an experienced and welcoming team. The Crossroads’ experience includes the following:
- Daily living allowance (depending of the country of assignment)
- Plane ticket and local transport
- Pre-assignment online training.
Crossroads International is committed to addressing gender-based violence by supporting the innovative work our partner organizations in ending violence against women and girls.
APPLICATION
To apply for this position, we kindly ask that you fill out Crossroads’ online application form.
Please contact our volunteer mobilization team if you have any question: volunteer@cintl.org
We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
