Fundraising and Resource Mobilisation Advisor

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  • Posted on 8 July 2025
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Job Description

Duration: 18 months

Role Title: Fundraising and Resource Mobilisation Advisor

Country/Project: Youth Prison Population Alliance (Youth Pops 2: Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Botswana

Duration: 18 months

Role purpose

The purpose of the role includes:

  • To strengthen capacities of country chapter networks of SANOP to identify, analyse, and diversify resource mobilization for sustainability.
  • To support risk identification analysis and management with regard to fundraising, and formation of effective county level, national and regional partnerships to leverage national and regional footprint to diversify funding.
  • To capacitate Country chapters in developing strategies for fund raising and resource mobilisation.

Safeguarding level: Level 1: This post will have no direct contact/access to children and vulnerable adults as the role works to capacitate civil society organisations. The post holder will be expected to have a full commitment to uphold VSO safeguarding policy at all times. As part of our safer recruitment practice, a criminal background check will be obtained for post holder prior to start date.

Project background and contextual information

The Youth POPs project delivers a unique and innovative approach, targeting youth population, in prison populations across Southern Africa. It has been progressively built on strengthening youth-led spaces/associations/clubs for youths in prison and youth who are ex-inmates. Through employing a rights-based approach, programmes have heightened demands on HIV and health service creation and improvement, centred on youth-led social accountability and advocacy. The project, running from 2025 to December 2026, is being implemented in Southern Africa, namely eSwatini, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. It is being implemented in a consortium approach with the four partners bringing in their special expertise. Southern Africa Network of Prisons (SANOP), as the lead partner, exists to serve the prison and ex-prison community and promote human health and dignity in Southern Africa. In the Youth POPs project, is coordinating initiatives that promote health, rehabilitation and reintegration, movement leadership, network strengthening and influence, cross learning and sharing, and research and advocacy.

Role outputs

  • Identify and prioritize current gaps in SANOP Chapters and partner organizations ways of working that inhibit pursuit and management of funding opportunities (e.g., strategic costing, Value for Money analysis, payment by results, aid transparency, partner negotiation, consortia arrangements).
  • Convene cross functional working groups to develop appropriate policies and recommended ways of working to address identified gaps and then recommend how they can become embedded within Business Development.
  • Ensure that partner organizations are continually aware of, and able to respond to, changing funding landscape and areas for focus.
  • Ensure knowledge and information sharing across VSO and partners to better leverage emerging funding experiences and insights.
  • Support partner organizations in the analysis and engagement in various forms of resource mobilizations and the importance of diversification of funding opportunities.

Experience and skills required for this volunteer placement

  • Graduate degree level in international development or related discipline
  • Proven track record of matrix / task management of multi-disciplinary, cross organisational teams for specific resource mobilization deliverables
  • Proven, demonstrable experience of securing funding – from contractors, donors, and fund managers for commercial and grant opportunities.
  • Experience of negotiating partnerships between parties, including teaming agreements and sub-awards and procurement contracts, strong analytical skills, and experience in data analysis.
  • Experience creating legal and programmatic content for institutional bids!
  • Proven ability to communicate confidently, transparently, and clearly to multiple internal and external stakeholders – ability to effectively influence internal and external audiences.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunities: VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.

VSO reserves the right to close this job early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

All volunteers have an allowance paid in local currency. The allowance meets reasonable living expenses in country, but will not be enough to send money home.

VSO works with some of the poorest communities in the world which means accommodation varies and will be basic.

Deadline for Applications: July 21, 2025 00:00:00

“While we try our best to keep our information updated, the closing date of the actual job source may be changed by the recruiter without prior notice. With this, please make sure to check the official job link when submitting your application. Thank you.”

About the Organization

VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers. Our vision is a world without poverty in which people work together to fulfil their potential. We bring people together to share skills, creativity and learning to build a fairer world. VSO welcomes volunteers from an ever increasing range of countries, backgrounds and ages. National agencies in Canada, Kenya, the Netherlands and the Philippines recruit volunteers from many different countries worldwide and this international approach allows us to combine and learn from a rich variety of perspectives. Tackling Disadvantage at "Grass Roots" Level Ours is a very individual "people to people" approach to development. Instead of sending food or money, we send women and men from a wide range of professions who want the chance to make a real difference in the fight against poverty. These volunteers work in partnership with colleagues and communities to share skills and learning and jointly achieve change. But we have to be realistic in our expectations. We commit to long-term development goals and long-term partnerships and focus on sustainable development rather than the short-term relief of certain problems. VSO also works to address the structural inequalities and barriers that prevent people from exercising their rights. We use our experience and our supporter networks to work for changes in policy and practice - rich and poor countries - that reduce disadvantage. VSO is by far the largest independent volunteer-sending agency in the world. Since 1958, we have sent out more than 29,000 volunteers to work in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Pacific region and, more latterly, Eastern Europe in response to requests from our overseas partners. At the moment we have around 1,500 people working in placements in these regions. Shared Partnerships, Shared Benefits You only have to talk to VSO volunteers to realise that they gain from their experience, personally or professionally, as much as they contribute. Many will enthuse how fascinating it was to explore a different culture at first hand. Others will point to the friendships they have made. But many will also tell you how their professional talents have been stretched, and how they have learnt new skills that will significantly enhance their career prospects on their return home. If ever it was true that "you get out what you put in", VSO is proof positive. This experience makes volunteers passionate in challenging misconceptions about developing countries. In the current climate, it is more urgent than ever that we work to achieve a global community where people of all cultures are seen as equal, learn from each other and share a common sense of rights and responsibilities as global citizens. VSO builds on this experience and passion to support a range of global education activity. To find out more about volunteering with or supporting VSO visit our website at www.vso.org.uk

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