Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer

at  CorpsAfrica

ABOUT CORPSAFRICA:

Founded in 2011, CorpsAfrica provides the opportunity for Africans to serve as volunteers in their own countries, along the lines of the Peace Corps model. We train college-educated young Africans and send them to live for up to one year in rural, high-poverty communities to facilitate small-scale, high-impact projects that are identified by local people. CorpsAfrica aims to promote a culture of public service in Africa by giving participants the opportunity to apply their education, skills, and energy toward helping their fellow citizens overcome extreme poverty. www.corpsafrica.org
CorpsAfrica has steadily expanded operations from Morocco to Senegal, Malawi, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, The Gambia, and Uganda over the last decade. Having successfully proven the power and effectiveness of the model, CorpsAfrica has begun to receive significant funding from large donors. As we reach a point of significant inflection leading to future expansion, we seek to add motivated, capable, and highly effective staff to our team.

• Supports the development of a comprehensive corporate and foundation donor strategy to meet fundraising goals and objectives.
• Manages a portfolio of corporate and foundation donors through proactive cultivation, solicitation and stewardship efforts.
• Conducts prospect research to identify and prioritize potential corporate and foundation donors.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with corporate and foundation partners through personalized communication, meetings, site visits and events.
• Collaborates with teams across the organization to develop compelling funding proposals, impact reports, and other materials for corporate partner solicitation.
• Support the Director of Development to provide regular progress reports, including revenue forecasts, donor engagement metrics, and activity updates to senior leadership and Board of Directors.
• Serves as the organizational lead, providing strategic counsel to staff and board members on any engagement with corporate and foundation partners.
• Ensures accurate and timely recording of donor interactions, gifts and pledges in Salesforce donor database.
• Serves as the key advisor for all departments on the organization’s grant agreements, restrictions and other partnership terms with all corporate and foundation partners