Senior Fundraising and Partnerships Manager

SUMMARY:
Our Client is looking for a  Senior Fundraising and Partnerships Manager to join their team

POSITION INFO:
Location: Sandton, Johannesburg Metro, South Africa

Role Overview

As a key ambassador for Wild Impact, the Senior Fundraising and Partnerships Manager plays a critical role in strengthening the organisation’s reputation, credibility, and long-term impact across its conservation and community portfolio. This role focuses on identifying, establishing, and nurturing high-value private, public, and corporate donor-based partnerships.

Key Outputs & Responsibilities

• The Senior Manager will collaborate with South African, regional, and global teams to drive the following:
• Grant Prospecting & Proposal Development: Identify potential donors; draft clear, persuasive proposals; and manage professional copywriting and proofreading.
• Budget & Financial Alignment: Partner with Operations and Finance teams to prepare and refine budgets, ensuring they align with proposal narratives, activities, timelines, and human resource allocations.
• Monitoring, Evaluation, and Integrated Learning (MEAL): Collaborate with the Impact Insights team to develop results frameworks, including project-specific Theories of Change, Log Frames, and MEL frameworks.
• Knowledge Management & Process Coordination: Maintain proposal and reporting templates (boilerplates); coordinate reporting processes; and prepare fundraising reports for the Board of Directors.
• Analytics: Maintain a live database of global and regional donors and track philanthropy trends to inform long-term fundraising strategy.
• Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to Wild Impact’s policies regarding funding sources, confidentiality, and data handling

• The successful candidate must demonstrate a high work ethic, professionalism, and the ability to integrate into a diverse, multi-cultural team.
• Track Record: Proven success in fundraising with a well-established network and the demonstrated ability to scale revenue to over R50,000,000 per annum within three years.
• Strategic Thinking: A results-driven approach with a focus on long-term impact.
• Technical Literacy: High-level proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Project Management: Experience in cross-functional collaboration and managing multiple donor relationships under tight deadlines.
• Financial & Impact Literacy: Strong capacity for budget oversight and impact measurement.

• Communication: Confident public speaker with excellent presentation and influencing skills.
• Drive: Diligent, tenacious, self-motivated, and "hungry" for success.
• Organisational Skills: Highly organised, proactive, and able to manage multiple complex campaigns simultaneously.
• Values: Deeply passionate about social and environmental impact within a non-profit context.
• Presence: Professional and well-presented appearance.

• Education: Minimum of a Bachelor’s or Honours degree in a relevant field.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in proposal development and grant writing across public, private, and corporate funding streams.
• Leadership: Proven ability to coordinate interdisciplinary teams and manage multiple projects.
• Knowledge: Deep understanding of donor requirements, compliance standards, and international proposal formats.