Fundraising Assistant

You will work with our Head of Strategy and Development to help secure financial support for our education institutes and cricket hubs.

What will you achieve?

You will help ensure that

our fundraising targets are met

relationship with our current funding partners are maintained

new potential funding partners are identified & secured

Alsama’s fundraising approach & materials are continuously enhanced, professional, compelling, and authentic to who we are

What will you do?

Support Alsama on fundraising straetgy & goals (quantitative & qualitative)

Support our Head of Strategy and Fundraising to engage current partners regularly with materials/meetings/comms to provide appreciation, impact updates, and potential for further collaboration

Support our Head of Strategy and Fundraising to identify & engage potential new partners with compelling, collaborative, and professional materials – including writing draft grants, developing draft custom proposals, preparing initial agenda for meetings, etc

Occasionally, organise meaningful & smooth in-person visits to Alsama of current donors (or highly-likely potential donors)

Where necessary, to create new materials – this includes direct fundraising materials (eg. “templates” for Alsama proposals), as well as indirect materials required for securing partners (eg. first drafts of policies typically required by donors)

What skills will make you successful?

Compelling, credible, & engaging interpersonal skills

Visual and written communications (eg. proposals, meetings) in English

Quantitative & analytical – able to develop budgets, translate impact

Process management (timelines, critical path, reliability)

Self-driven independent outcome-orientation

Excellent delivery of high-quality outputs in Microsoft Office (excel, powerpoint, doc)

Ideally some experience (eg. internship, ~1 year work) fundraising / grant-writing with start-ups or NGOs

Otherwise, recent university graduates may be considered