We are looking for a Manager for Projects and Fundraising at Otra Cosa Network, a development NGO in Huanchaco, Peru. The main duties are fundraising, monitoring and evaluation, and project management.
Start date: 1st November 2022
Application deadline: 8th October 2022
Compensation: At least PEN 1,800 / month, plus free accommodation (bills included) and a mobile phone.
Location: On-site accommodation at our house and offices - Las Camelias 431, Huanchaco, La Libertad, Peru
The Manager for Fundraising & Projects will help manage the organisationโs operations in Peru, working alongside our existing Manager, Marketing and Communications Manager, and Volunteers, under the direction of our UK-based Directors. The new Manager needs to take on a wide range of responsibilities and work with the small local team in line with the organisationโs mission, vision, and approach to community development.
As Manager for Fundraising & Projects, you would be responsible for securing new grants to fund and develop our projects and our organisationโs operational needs.
You would manage at least one of our Otra Cosa Network projects โ Youth; Environment; English teaching; Literacy; Women/community helping to work with the volunteers who make our work possible. You will develop, implement, and deliver appropriate actions to achieve positive and measurable outcomes and opportunities for the Peruvian children & adults with whom we work, and with the volunteers and interns who work with us.
You would also take on some administration roles including accurate financial record keeping; project expenditure reports & quarterly presentations on our progress and issues.
You will work under the guidance of the UK Directors ensuring our volunteers are happy, supported and are working effectively to achieve positive results at OCN and our projects.
The position is for a two-year period, subject to satisfactory performance, after which the position will be reviewed, and the term could potentially be extended by mutual agreement.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Fundraising (a substantial proportion of your time)
- Identifying and approaching trusts, foundations and other potential funders that have not previously supported the work of Otra Cosa Network, creating an annual calendar of key prospects
- Successfully obtaining continued/enhanced funding support from existing partners/donors by keeping them informed of our progress through appropriate Monitoring & Evaluation, expenditure reports and positive feedback including social media of what weโre achieving in the community thanks to their funding.
- Establishing and maintaining a fundraising strategy for Otra Cosa Network, in liaison with UK directors as well as an action plan for the implementation of the strategy
- Developing core generic trust proposals for each project that requires funding
- Writing tailored applications, addressing grant-making priorities or requirements as specified by individual trusts and foundations
- Approaching local funders to seek support for OCNโs projects and core funds
- Developing good partnerships nationally and locally for our HELP projects, particularly focused on the areas of donations and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Maintaining organised electronic files of all fundraising information
- Helping to develop information for induction, fundraising manuals and other resources for use by fundraising volunteers
- Helping to ensure the continued success of our community fundraising events, which provide key funding to our projects
- Directly managing fundraising volunteers
OCN Project Management
- Managing and/or supervising OCNโs programmes, ensuring that they continue to develop and that they are monitored effectively.
- Supervising the coordinators and/or volunteers at the projects
- Ensuring that project finances are properly maintained, recorded and monitored
OCN Office Administration, Finances and Additional Tasks
- Administration, including accurate financial record keeping on spreadsheets; project expenditure reports & and management information reports including quarterly presentations to our Trustees (board of directors) on our progress and issues.
- Support OCN health and safety and child protection policies
- Other ad hoc tasks as required.
About You
- We need a dynamic and flexible NGO professional with at least 3 years of post-graduate experience in a relevant NGO or similar position.
- Fluency in English and a good level of Spanish are necessary.
- Education: 2-year degree required.
- Some international or intercultural experience is important. Latin American experience is desirable but not essential.
- Some knowledge/experience of fundraising & project management is required. Some administration experience is necessary to enable accurate financial record keeping on Excel spreadsheets.
About our organisation:
Otra Cosa Network is a well-established UK Registered Charity and Peruvian registered not-for-profit (NGO), addressing the educational needs of children and vulnerable adults in an extremely impoverished area of Northern Peru.
Our mission is to promote education and social development in our local communities. Our Vision is equal opportunities in Peru for everyone to succeed and thrive.
We work in informal settlements where many community members have been displaced by climate change, disaster and political instability. They live in precarious circumstances, few have running water or sewage provision and there is only sporadic electricity. Additionally, many children are forced to work instead of continuing their education, in order to boost family finances and there are no community-based facilities for learning and developing new skills in a safe environment.