Posted Nov 07, 2014
Job summary:
Responsible for researching, preparing and applying for grants on behalf of JPP. Managing the donor relationship and reporting.
1.Donor relationships
- Devise and implement an effective donor management strategy for major donors and individual donors. Draft an organization - wide fundraising strategy to include donors and donor prospects.
- Raise significant income in line with agreed fundraising targets.
- Design and implement a solicitation strategy for the donor portfolio, including the case for support and standard text for solicitations and grant applications.
- Work in collaboration with Casework colleagues to ensure effective solicitation approaches to donors.
- Create and manage opportunities to engage donors and prospects in the work of JPP.
- Where possible tailor approaches to engage the individual interests of donors and prospects.
- Draft briefings for relevant staff members, enabling and facilitating effective face to face fundraising meetings between staff members and donors.
2.Research
- Identify and recommend appropriate research tools to carry out prospect research.
- Research and identify new prospects
- Identify the possible level of prospects’ donations and establish the likelihood of their donating to JPP.
- Use research information to formulate individual engagement, cultivation and solicitation plans for prospects.
- In consultation with colleagues, identify individual projects which require funding, and match them with donors’ particular interests.
3.Events
- Plan donor management events as required, to attract and retain donors. Implement events in consultation with relevant members of staff.
- Make best use of other JPP events to cultivate and retain donors, in consultation with relevant staff members.
- Provide donor information to relevant members of staff who plan JPP events.
4.Donor administration
- Ensure the maintenance of written and electronic donor records, in compliance with data protection legislation.
- Ensure that all donations are acknowledged, thanked, logged onto the computerized donor management database and passed to the Operations Director.
- Ensure that the donor database is accurately maintained and updated.
- Ensure that accurate records and filing systems for fundraising activities and events are maintained.
- Ensure that reports are provided to grantors on grant expenditure in a timely manner.
5.General
- Provide income and expenditure reports relating to donor fundraising as required.
- Provide information on donors to staff members as required.
- Assist and advise in setting up and managing a fundraising committee.
- Maximize the contacts of JPP’s board, and devise a strategy for involving the board in fundraising.
- Set up and facilitate face to face meetings with donors and relevant staff and board members.
- Ensure that all fundraising projects and activities are carried out in compliance with current legislation.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Necessary Skills, Experience and Qualifications
- Social sciences graduate
- Experience working as a resource development/ fundraiser for a large charity
- Strong communication and writing skills
- Planning and follow up skills
- Time management, both in terms of your own tasks as well as other team members where these coincide
- Excellent research and data analysis skills
- Experience working with the media
- Experience working with representatives of government
- Language skills other than English
Job Details
Justice Project Pakistan
Justice Project Pakistan is a non-governmental law firm, which was established in Lahore in January 2010. The JPP provides support to those prisoners who are the most vulnerable in the criminal justice system, namely those facing the death penalty and those who are held beyond the rule of law in secret prisons. We provide direct legal representation to prisoners on death row as well as those abducted, rendered and detained in secret prisons (within and outside Pakistan) on a pro bono basis, which includes investigation, litigation and case management. We also initiate strategic litigation that is intended to identify and redress the lapses in the criminal justice system, such as fair trial and torture, by setting valuable precedents in Pakistans jurisprudence.
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