Finance & Funding Lead

Role Overview:

Are you an experienced fundraiser, enjoy fostering funding partnerships, and have worked in finance? If yes, an integral role has come up to lead The Resilience Project's Finance & Funding Office. We are looking for a dynamic self-starter to join our team as our Finance & Funding Lead. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and leading our fundraising strategy, expanding our grant application pool, and supporting the financial systems in our organisation. You will work closely alongside our founder and CEO to oversee, manage and drive the relationships and grants that fund our work. This role requires a flexible and experienced finance manager with a history of managing fundraising work and skill in networking.

Are you?

• Experienced in fundraising, grant management, partnership-building, and finance? 

• Interested in youth climate engagement and climate action?

• Engaged in conversations of resilience, mental health and wellbeing?

• Creative? Under 33*? 

• Eligible to work in your country of residence?

• Compassionate? Joyful? A team player?

*Curious about our age cap? We are a youth-led and -focused organisation; our organisation was started by a youth activist to meet youth changemaking needs and we have kept that perspective as we have grown, partly by keeping a young team. By hiring in this age range, we ensure staff's connection to and understanding of our work as well as relatability to the rest of the team. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Fundraising Strategy: Lead the design, development and implementation of a multi-year fundraising strategy that considers current and potential partners, sector-specific funding opportunities, and relies upon multiple income streams. 

• Network Engagement: Co-lead in the furthering of The Resilience Project's partnership network with TRP's founder and CEO.

• Grant Application Management: Oversee the discovery and submission of grant applications 

• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with the C-Suite to contribute to the strategic financial and fundraising planning process, ensuring that financial and fundraising objectives align with the organisation's overall mission and vision.

• Finance Management: Oversee the collection and management of cash flow records of the organisation, ensuring clear storage of records. Support in document delivery for quarterly and annual taxes. 

• Budget Management: Lead on the annual creation of budgets, working with the CEO to allocate Office budgets. 

• Monitoring and Evaluation: Lead in the assessment of the impact of the organisation's fundraising efforts, making informed suggestions for continuous improvement in fundraising strategy, in collaboration with the Chief Operations Officer.

• Community Outreach and Ambassador work: Represent The Resilience Project, our mission and values in community events, national and international meetings and summits, actively engaging with the target audience and stakeholders.

• Team Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, providing leadership to ensure effective collaboration in programme development and delivery.

Essential 

• Proven experience in fundraising strategy development and management, ideally within a nonprofit or community development setting.

• Proven experience in grant applications' management

• Proven experience in working with organisational financial systems

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate with diverse teams.

• Exceptionally strong organisational skills. 

• Results-oriented with a focus on impact and outcomes.

• Passion for making a positive social impact.

Desirable 

• Degree, or equivalent certification in, finance, business, or related field

• Working knowledge of platforms such as Asana, Typeform, Airtable, and Google workspace.

• Strong understanding of community engagement, mental health and well-being.

Additional Job Perks

• The Resilience Project operates a 4-day working week 

• Strong culture of personal development and pastoral support with the provision of mental health days, weekly organisational Unwind sessions and a monthly Pastoral session

• Networking with leaders in the climate, social enterprise and academic sectors

• Strong culture of work driven by values of courage, co-design, joy, community and inclusivity

About The Resilience Project:

People around the world are trying to cope with the climate crisis, extreme weather, burnout, isolation and climate anxiety. The Resilience Project is a youth-led community resourcing young people (and changemakers in B-corporations and NGOs) to become effective and resilient climate changemakers for a sustainable future. We enable people taking action for the planet to find their voice, people and power. Our vision is a resilient changemaking culture, where kinship and compassion are embedded within the fabric of changemaking communities.