- Office in Munich
Description
We are looking for a senior leader to focus on Fundraising & Partnerships, taking over the responsibilities previously held by Julia Samwer. This role will be central to shaping and driving Ashoka Germany's resource mobilization strategy, with overall responsibility for the financial sustainability of the organization. At the same time, it will deepen and expand engagement with our HNWI / ASN community
What You'll Do:
Key Responsibility:
- Co-Lead Ashoka Germany and hold overall responsibility for strategy development, governance, team development
- Recruit major donors with a focus on individual giving
- Build relationships with new leads, potential partners, surfacing opportunities for funding and collaboration incl. HNW, E2, ASN and others
- Develop and curate the engagement strategy for members of ASN and lead high-net-worth donor relationship management
- Act as key point of contact for ASN members and HNW
- Build and steward strong, trust-based relationships across all partner groups, designing engagement journeys that activate each partner’s potential to contribute to Ashoka’s vision of “Everyone a Changemaker”
- High communication skills with a variety of different stakeholders, including high networth individuals
- Ability to activate and motivate a network through 1:1 relationship
- written communication, verbal presentations and match-making skills
- At least 5-7 years’ experience in raising funds or resources of all kinds (min. 10 years professional experience)
- Low to zero resistance to ask for money
- Fast understanding of resources in the room and how to connect them to people who need them
- Project-management and event-management skills
- Experience in involving and leading the whole team in all related matters
- Knowledge of data-management tools, like Salesforce preferred
We are looking for a position on change manager/ senior change manager level, to maintain, engage and recruit Germany’s Support Network of funders.
As part of the profile we envision:
Core Criteria
Additional Information
About Ashoka:
Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker.
Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.
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