Individual Consultant: Fundraising Consultant

Job Description

Position Title: Fundraising Consultant

Status: One-year contract

Reports to: Liberia Conservation Fund Board of Directors

Location: Remote (with travel expected)

About the LCF

The Liberia Conservation Fund, Inc. (LCF) is the first independent public charity created with the ambitious goal to finance the conservation of Liberia’s protected areas and environment. Founded in 2017, the LCF is a not-for-profit corporation incorporated in the United States and is designed to provide funding and technical aid for: (i) the management and protection of existing and proposed protected areas and their surrounding areas in Liberia, and (ii) long term biodiversity conservation, sustainable community development, improved land, aquatic, and marine management practices, and climate change mitigation and adaptation within Liberia. As a national conservation fund, the LCF will serve as a mechanism for channeling funds from a range of conservation finance sources to support the conservation of Liberia’s protected areas, ecosystems, and environment. The LCF currently holds a US$1.7 million endowment (the Nimba Endowment) to fund the long-term conservation costs of the East Nimba Nature Reserve (ENNR). In addition to capitalizing the Nimba Endowment, the LCF hopes to raise funds to support regularity of operations, full-time staff, and grow the LCF into a truly national fund supporting conservation priorities and action across all of Liberia. LCF operations in Liberia are carried out by (1) a contracted Administrator, a role currently filled by Conservation International-Liberia, with a primary emphasis on grant-making; and (2) a part-time Executive Director, who provides day-to-day operational support and leadership for the LCF, while engaging key partners in Liberia to support LCF’s mission.

About the Position

The LCF seeks to engage a consultant to work with the Board of Directors and the Executive Director to lead a concerted, time-bound fundraising, marketing, stakeholder engagement, and capacity building campaign to raise at minimum $1 million in charitable funds from one or more donors during the one year consultancy period. Remotely-based, with occasional travel for donor engagements, the consultant will work with the LCF leadership to develop a targeted fundraising and marketing strategy that includes stakeholder engagement and capacity building. The Fundraising Consultant will help the LCF raise funds enabling it to fulfill its long-term vision to become a fully operational entity, serving as the primary destination for international funds to support the conservation of Liberia’s environment, its biodiversity, and combat climate change through sustainable community development. Deliverables include but are not limited to the following:

• Develop a fundraising and marketing strategy with the goal of raising US$1 million during the course of the consultancy and US$5 million over 5 years;
• Develop briefs, concept notes and pitch decks to potential donors;
• Lead the organization and execution of fundraising events in collaboration with the LCF Executive Director, Administrator, and Board;
• Cultivate strategic partnerships with institutional donors, charities, foundations, and other
  sources of funding to identify and secure large-scale funding opportunities;
• Represent the LCF in its fundraising activities and work with the Executive Director, the LCF Board of Directors, and Administrator to ensure successful outcomes;
• Participate in the National Forest Forum to be held late-October 2025 in Monrovia, Liberia; 7) Provide training to LCF staff/Board in donor engagement and proposal development;
• Keep accurate records of all activities undertaken and provide regular progress reports to the Executive Director / Board.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of proven experience in fundraising, donor relations, and proposal writing for non-profits, preferably those working in the conservation, environmental, or sustainable development field.
• Demonstrated experience and success in engaging with and securing funding from governments, major bilateral/multilateral agencies, philanthropic foundations, and private sector partners.
• Ideally, familiarity with biodiversity conservation issues and protected area management activities with a preference for candidates with specific experience in conservation in Liberia, or at least Africa.
• Be a highly energetic, self-starting, entrepreneurial and creative individual who can express/recognize ideas, opportunities, and communicate goals and objectives clearly.
• Exemplary verbal and written skills in English.
• Travel flexibility and responsiveness to donor opportunities.
• Experience working with and reporting to a Board of Directors, interacting with Board members and submitting quarterly reports thereto.

Consultancy Details

• The start date will be subject to mutual agreement, with a preference for as soon as possible.
• This is a part-time role, with an average monthly expected level of effort of 4 days.
• A substantial portion of work can take place remotely, though noting that a portion of the role involves in-person meetings/engagements with stakeholders in Liberia and/or abroad. This includes attendance at the National Forest Forum in Monrovia, Liberia (tentatively scheduled for the week of October 27-31). Other travel may be necessary in line with fundraising opportunities.
• Compensation will be commensurate with experience, paid monthly, subject to submission of invoice and progress report.

Application

Interested applicants are requested to send a CV and cover letter (including consultancy fee expectations) in electronic form to hrliberia@conservation.org, copying LCF Director & President Andrew Schatz (aschatz@conservation.org) and LCF Director & Treasurer Eduard Niesten (eddy@ecoadvisors.org).

The deadline for receipt of applications is September 19, 2025.

About the Organization

CI works in over 40 countries, almost exclusively developing countries in the tropical and sub-tropical regions to conserve the world's heritage of biological diversity while improving the economic and social well-being of people who depend most heavily on those natural resources. Our investments are focused on about 30 biodivsersity hotspots and five high biodiversity wilderness areas. These geogrpahic foci are mostly larger landscape and seascape corridors. Our financial support comes in roughly equal portions from individuals, corporations, foundations, and bilateral and multilateral public development agencies. Our annual operating budget is approximately $120 million, making us one of the top international conservation organizations.