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Fundraising

Within this role, you’ll work with Educate!’s fundraising and development team to ensure the organization meets and exceeds our obligations to current donors by keeping stakeholders informed on Educate!'s progress. Examples of potential projects include:

• Write and project manage grant reports and proposals, working closely with Educate! teams across countries to gather information needed for reporting and donor materials.

• Conduct field follow-ups and diligence requests from donors related to pending or submitted grant proposals.

• Research new funding and prospective leads and support in the documentation and ongoing project management of these relationships.

• Support the fundraising team in streamlining internal systems and processes to ensure grant reporting and compliance are effective and efficient.

• Contribute to Educate!’s fundraising and relationship-building strategy at conferences through prospect research, event preparation, and outreach support.

Communications

You’ll work closely with our communications team to shape and execute the organization's marketing and communications strategy, collaborating closely to produce content, manage and improve systems, and ensure consistent branding and messaging standards.

• Work with Educate!’s communications team to support messaging and branding initiatives, overseeing systems for documentation and disseminating messaging to ensure consistency across the organization.

• Manage a centralized dashboard for routine communications tasks with efficient coordination and execution.

• Ensure Educate!’s internal and external communication channels are up to date.

• Liaise with Educate!’s Communications Specialist to create compelling content, including impact stories, articles, blogs, social media posts, print publications, and email newsletters.

• Draft proposals for speaking engagements and content for external sources to drive Educate!’s key thought leadership messages.

General Support

Educate! is growing quickly and we don’t always know everything the coming years will

bring. We are looking for a team player who is happy to wear a variety of hats on Educate!’s External Relations Team, and tag in where there is a need. Some of the things we envision this role supporting include:

• Draft a wide variety of internal and external communications to support Educate!’s fundraising and communications efforts.

• Conduct donor research and/or sector research to inform Educate!’s development strategy.

• Support Educate!’s executive team’s attendance at a variety of special events.

• Troubleshoot and project manage tasks aimed at improving efficiency and coordination on Educate!’s wider External Relations Team, such as building or refining existing fundraising, communications, or compliance processes.

• Build internal expertise on specific aspects of Educate!'s work.