Room to Read
Experience: 3 to 5 Years
Skill Required: Business Development/ Resource Mobilization,Project and Program Management
Apply By: 30-11-2022
As Development Manager, Europe, you will help secure the funding that allows Room to Read to meet its goal of promoting literacy around the world. You’ll accomplish this by cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major donors, partners, and prospects in Europe, with a focus on Switzerland. Using your exceptional relationship building and communication skills, you will engage with corporate and foundation partners, as well as individual donors, to build awareness of Room to Read’s goals and strengthen their commitment to our mission.
You will cooperate closely with the Development Director, EMEA, and the global development team to craft and execute fundraising strategies and manage donor events and activities across Europe. Additionally, you will lead, with the support of the EMEA Director, the Swiss Board strategy and communications, including four board meetings a year.
If you are based in Zurich and are dynamic, personable, results-oriented and self-motivated with a track record of delivering fundraising results in the non-profit sphere, we’d love to learn more about you.
What you’ll do:
What you’ll bring:
We offer:
A competitive salary with excellent benefits.
Versatile and interesting work with excellent career growth potential.
Opportunity to travel to our global offices.
An innovative, meaningful, fun, and rapidly growing organization.
A chance to make an impact on changing the world through literacy and gender equality in education.
Application Procedure:
Please apply on our careers page at Careers - Room to Read. Applications accepted until the position is filled. Due to high applicant volume, we regret that we cannot personally respond to all applicants.