Fundraising Officer Part Time Temporary 4 months

Self Help Africa is a growing, ambitious organisation, with a projected turnover of approximately €25m in 2018. Institutional funders of our work include the European Union, Irish Aid and UK Aid, together with a broad range of philanthropic trusts and foundations. Self Help Africa also operates a number of subsidiary social enterprise - Partner Africa, TruTrade and Traidlinks.

This is a truly exciting time to join the organisation and join a growing dynamic team across the UK, Ireland, Africa and the USA.

This exciting role will support the growth of fundraising across a diverse range of income streams to achieve long term, sustainable income growth. This will be achieved through developing partnerships and supporter relationships which enhance the giving experience, generate donations and improve understanding of the impact of Self Help Africa’s work.

The key purpose of this role is to support the development and implementation of a short fundraising action plan for the summer months, to generate cash income through identifying and developing new fundraising opportunities from events, community activity, cash appeals, shop boxes, bag packing, shopping centre collections and any other opportunity that will generate life changing funds.