ClientEarth’s mission is to use the law to protect the earth and its inhabitants. Since we were founded in 2008, we have grown to become one of the world’s most ambitious environmental organisations, utilising our in-house legal expertise to create positive change around the world.
Underpinning this success is our development team, who raise the critical funds we need to realise our ambition. Since 2016, our highly impactful team has grown our income from around £7m to over £30m today. To support our continued growth, we are looking for a new Business Development Manager to join our team and help take our fundraising to the next level.
You will join at a time where we have an ambitious new fundraising strategy, and you will work closely with our programme teams around the world to grow a pipeline of funding opportunities and secure new funding from trusts, foundations and statutory donors. You will be an excellent writer and copy editor with the ability to turn complex ideas into compelling pitches and proposals. Collaboration will be at the heart of everything you do, and as a highly strategic thinker you will be able to create influential and lasting relationships both internally and externally.
Main Duties
* Prospect research and pipeline development - Identify and establish new funding contacts, and represent ClientEarth at high level events to support the development of a growing and robust pipeline of donor and funding opportunities, and maintain portfolio of relationships;
* Business Development and Income generation - Lead on aligning ClientEarth’s strategic programmatic priorities and budgetary needs with funders’ interests and criteria to develop compelling approaches to funding opportunities;
* Strategy - Support the Head of Business Development to develop and implement the team’s strategy.
Role requirements
* Significant and demonstrable experience of working in a fundraising or business development role for a charity, NGO, private or public entity.
* Track record in securing multi-year, six and seven-figure grants from trust, foundation or statutory donors.
* Significant experience in drafting complex, successful proposals for trusts, foundations and statutory institutions.
* Experience of successfully developing relationships with new donors, encompassing both personal engagement with prospects and/or coordinating the input of colleagues from across the organisation.
ClientEarth values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We aim to appoint the most suitable candidate at all times and welcome applications from people from all different backgrounds.
Please note that ClientEarth is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in the UK.
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