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About the Role
The Development Associate will play a critical role in advancing FOLU’s fundraising and donor engagement efforts across the Coalition. This role supports the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) in its mission to transform food and land use systems for a better future for people, nature, and climate.
Responsibilities
- Support Country Platforms and FOLU’s Global Platform with their fundraising strategies through background research and donor intelligence.
- Support FOLU Secretariat with core fundraising.
- Help draft, refine, and quality assure proposals to strengthen positioning with donors and increase the likelihood of success.
- Efficiently manage donor proposal timelines and requirements to ensure timely submissions.
- Assist in budget preparation by working closely with FOLU’s finance and technical teams.
- Help coordinate inputs across multiple country teams and partners for cross-coalition proposals to ensure timely, high-quality submissions.
- Help develop and deliver training and resources for the Platforms on donor engagement, assessment of opportunities, and proposal development processes.
- Enhance the Coalition’s donor intelligence capabilities and capacity by leveraging approaches and tools (including AI) to monitor calls for proposals, identify prospective funders, track philanthropic trends, and prepare informative donor profiles and briefings for senior leaders.
- Strengthen FOLU’s donor intelligence systems (Asana, Salesforce, Excel) by consolidating existing tools into a unified platform, ensuring intelligence is current, accurate, and utilized.
- Coordinate and provide logistical and administrative support for donor meetings, including scheduling, agenda development, drafting papers, developing slide packs, minutes, and follow-up actions.
- Draft and refine donor-facing strategic briefing notes, presentations, and other materials by working with colleagues from across the Coalition.
- Facilitate strategic collaboration across the Coalition to align tightly focused fundraising activities, prevent duplication, and enable effective and efficient targeting of efforts.
- Support the preparation of materials for Coalition-wide planning, FOLU Governance, and fundraising strategy sessions.
Requirements
- Existing work authorization is required where this position is based.
- Existing work authorization is required at the time of application submission as WRI is unable to sponsor any visa work sponsorship for this position.
Skills
- English writing, editing, and research skills
- Organizational skills
- Knowledge management
- Working with cross-functional and culturally diverse teams
- Responding to and managing multiple priorities simultaneously
- CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce)
- Fundraising principles
- Donor landscape of the food-land system
- Sustainable development
- Food systems
- Climate-related work
- International work experience
Location
- London
- The Hague
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience in a fundraising, business development, partnerships, or programme support role
Education Level
- Completed bachelor’s degree in international development, environmental studies, public policy, business administration or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- €45,000 – €57,000 (Netherlands, excluding 8% vacation allowance)
- £38,000 - £47,000 (UK)
Benefits
- Access to the WRI global network with the opportunity to exchange with and learn from passionate colleagues
- Opportunity to have an impact and develop your career within a mission-driven organization
- Access to varied learning and training opportunities
- A workplace that strives to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work
- Opportunity to join and get involved in different working groups and affinity groups
- Commitment to hybrid working model with flexible working hours
- Generous leave days that increase with tenure
About the Company
- World Resources Institute (WRI) works to improve people’s lives, protect and restore nature, and stabilize the climate.
- As an independent research organization, WRI leverages its data, expertise, and global reach to influence policy and catalyse change across systems like food, land and water; energy; and cities.
- WRI has over 2,000+ staff working on the ground in more than a dozen focus countries and with partners in over 50 nations.
- WRI’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
- WRI’s values are Independence, Integrity, Impact, Partnership and Care.
- WRI is committed to advancing gender and social equity for human well-being in its mission.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, caste, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or protected Veteran status.