Donor Relations Lead

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom The File Foundation Full time

Job description

Location: Home-based / London/ Amsterdam (Occasional presence in the London office required).

Remuneration: £60,000 - £70,000 depending on experience.

Contract: Permanent - Full-Time

Reports to: Head of Donor Relations

**About Us**

Founded in 2018, the Stichting Foundation for International Law for the Environment (FILE) is a major philanthropic initiative working to tackle the climate and nature crisis by scaling up legal action globally.

Driven by the urgent need to facilitate a global transition to a zero-carbon, regenerative society, FILE funds world-leading global partners to deliver pioneering legal and shareholder actions with the aim of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees. Our grant portfolio includes workstreams that cut across global systems, including Just Energy Transition; Food, Forests & Biodiversity; Finance, Investment and Trade, and Governance, Rights & Justice.

Our mission is to change the systems that are responsible for the climate and nature crises by ensuring those in power stop locking us into a high-carbon, destructive economy. We are committed to ensuring legal action can facilitate the transition to a post-carbon, regenerative society that upholds human rights and achieves climate justice.

FILE supports the development of a strong, diverse, and empowered ecosystem of partners, enabling the co-development of strategy to collectively make a meaningful impact on climate change and the protection of nature. We seek to grow the field and facilitate the enabling conditions that lead to successful outcomes. This means as well as supporting legal partners, we support access to key research, knowledge sharing, strategic communications and campaign alignment and learning.

**The Role**

This is an exciting opportunity to take a senior role in FILE’s high-performing fundraising team and secure support from some of the world’s leading foundations working in climate.

FILE is seeking an ambitious and experienced Donor Relations Lead to lead relationships with significant funders and play a critical role in shaping and advancing FILE’s ambitious fundraising strategy. The Donor Relations Lead will take the lead across a portfolio of existing donors and seek new funding opportunities from major philanthropic foundations.

The Donor Relations Lead will work closely with the Head of Donor Relations and FILE leadership to shape fundraising and donor stewardship strategies and drive fundraising success. They will be comfortable operating at the most senior level externally to devise and deliver excellent donor experiences, and adept at navigating complex internal environments.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Donor relationship management and stewardship**

The Donor Relations Lead will lead on several significant funder relationships, co-ordinating internally with FILE Leadership, the Head of Donor Relations and strategic experts to devise and deliver excellent stewardship and donor experiences. This will include:

- Setting donor strategy and creating and managing bespoke donor stewardship plans and communications
- Leading externally in face-to-face and virtual meetings, events and engagements and managing complex donor relationships across multiple stakeholders and workstreams
- Leading on key relationship touchpoints including performance and strategy reviews
- Liaising across internal cross-functional teams to plan and co-ordinate donor engagement at multiple levels
- Leading on proposals, donor impact reports, budgets and other key outputs

**Cultivating new funder relationships**

Alongside FILE leadership and the Head of Donor Relations, they will be responsible for identifying and progressing new pipeline opportunities and become the fundraising lead for specific thematic areas and initiatives. This will include:

- Devising and delivering bespoke cultivation strategies for key donor prospects
- Devising new funding propositions and strategies for high-priority areas and new strategic initiatives
- Working with FILE leadership and strategy leads to delivering engaging cultivation, including through meetings, calls and written materials
- Actively progressing opportunities through the fundraising pipeline and leading on proposal development for target opportunities

**Providing strategic support to the Head of Donor Relations and leading cross-organisational projects and initiatives**

The Donor Relations Lead will provide strategic counsel to the Head of Donor Relations to develop and implement the wider fundraising strategy and take the lead on strategic initiatives such as:

- Designing and implementing an approach to communications planning and delivery, including through the creation and management of key communications content
- Designing, scoping and initiating new donor engagement products and experiences for most senior stakeholders
- Shaping donor engagement priorities and communications for FILE leadership

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