Resource Mobilization Coordinator
2025-12-08T11:58:43+00:00
Bamboo HR
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Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Consulting
Management
2026-01-05T17:00:00+00:00
Kenya
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Job title: Resource Mobilization Coordinator
Location: Africa
Remuneration: Dependent on country of location
Contract type: Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Preferred start date: March 2026
Length of contract: 1-2 years
Reports to: Senior Resource Mobilization Manager
Expected travel: Occasional regional/international travel
Key Responsibilities
1. Prospecting and Donor Cultivation
- Identify, research, and cultivate new funding leads, notably trusts and foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors.
- Track donor intelligence, analyse trends, and share insights with country offices and global colleagues to inform agency-wide cultivation strategies.
- Develop capacity statements, pitch decks, case studies, and other assets to communicate agency expertise and support donor outreach.
- Provide high-quality relationship management and stewardship for existing donors, ensuring consistent engagement and responsiveness.
- Assist with tracking key touchpoints, relationship mapping, and proactive follow-up with donor prospects.
- Pitch and promote Restless Development’s work externally, with a particular focus on opportunities across Africa.
- Support major fundraising events (e.g., Africa Philanthropy Forum) to raise visibility and cultivate strategic relationships.
2. Development of High-Quality Concepts, Offers, and Proposals
- Lead end-to-end bid development, including facilitating design workshops, coordinating budgeting and due diligence, and drafting high-quality proposals that showcase agency expertise and - where possible - are co-created with young people and youth civil society.
- Support in-country teams to produce strong, technically robust submissions, ensuring the effective coordination of technical inputs across programme, MEL, finance, safeguarding, and operations teams.
- Enhance evidence-led storytelling by working with the communications team to develop compelling, well-packaged narratives for pitches and proposals.
- Support in-country teams in identifying, on-boarding and co-creation with potential consortium partners whenever relevant during the proposal development process.
3. Regional Coordination & Support
- Work closely with in-country teams to understand funding needs, identify opportunities, and strengthen resource mobilisation capacity.
- Liaise with in-country Resource Mobilization leads in Africa hubs to identify key nodal points of support they require in their fundraising efforts.
- Provide tailored support and training on fundraising, donor engagement, and proposal development to enhance regional fundraising effectiveness.
- Support monthly coordination meetings to ensure alignment, shared learning and timely sharing of updates.
4. Data, Reporting & Knowledge Management
- Ensure the global programme funding pipeline and funder database are kept up to date.
- Provide support in quarterly reporting and performance analysis for the global agency and in-country hubs, and actively participate in quarterly shared leadership meetings.
- Document lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful proposals to inform future bids.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of organisational processes, tools, and knowledge products related to resource mobilisation.
We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our Values.
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Experience in institutional fundraising, including donor cultivation, proposal development and pipeline management.
- Ability to lead strategic funding proposals and reports; co-ordinating input from a variety of sources and working to tight deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Effective networking skills.
- Creative and systematic thinker.
- Ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams, time zones and geographies.
- Ability to work independently as the role will be remote.
Desirables
- Experience in the international development or youth sector.
- Knowledge of current and future funding trends.
- Understanding of project cycle management, budgeting, and donor compliance requirements.
- Experience of designing proposals and programmes in one or more of Restless Development’s priority areas - education and livelihoods, gender and sexual rights, voice and democracy, and climate change.
- Experience in communications and visual design.
- Proficiency in databases or CRM systems (Salesforce preferred).
Restless Development is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Restless Development will ensure that no applicant or staff member receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be shown to be relevant to performance.
What we do for you
Remuneration
We are proud to commit to a transparent global salary scale, ensuring a fair and comparable system of pay across all global locations.
Values and Culture
At Restless Development, we’re proud that the strength and integrity of our Values has been recognised by staff, young people, donors and others who we work with. Beyond this, we have a culture of recognising and celebrating both our Values and our global achievements with monthly Values Champions and an annual Values Day.
Work-life Balance
It goes without saying that we work hard at Restless Development. We also recognise the importance of helping our people to maintain a positive work-life balance by offering*:
- 24 days annual leave (in addition to public holidays and with an extra day of annual leave given for each full year of service, up to a maximum of 28 days).
- Birthday Leave
- Access to flexible working
- Generous study leave, maternity, paternity or adoption leave, and other leave allowances.
* In cases where a consultant contract is offered, the equivalent of these benefits will be considered within the agreement.
Professional Development
Restless Development is proud to be an employer who recognises potential and invests in the development of its people. We are committed to the professional development of our teams through:
- Empowering opportunities to work on significant projects which stretch and inspire staff – allowing them to develop on-the-job.
- Regular performance management.
- Training and development opportunities, including supporting our people to identify mentors both within and outside of the agency.
Travel Insurance
When travelling abroad with work, all staff will be covered by Restless Development's travel insurance.
1. Prospecting and Donor Cultivation Identify, research, and cultivate new funding leads, notably trusts and foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors. Track donor intelligence, analyse trends, and share insights with country offices and global colleagues to inform agency-wide cultivation strategies. Develop capacity statements, pitch decks, case studies, and other assets to communicate agency expertise and support donor outreach. Provide high-quality relationship management and stewardship for existing donors, ensuring consistent engagement and responsiveness. Assist with tracking key touchpoints, relationship mapping, and proactive follow-up with donor prospects. Pitch and promote Restless Development’s work externally, with a particular focus on opportunities across Africa. Support major fundraising events (e.g., Africa Philanthropy Forum) to raise visibility and cultivate strategic relationships. 2. Development of High-Quality Concepts, Offers, and Proposals Lead end-to-end bid development, including facilitating design workshops, coordinating budgeting and due diligence, and drafting high-quality proposals that showcase agency expertise and - where possible - are co-created with young people and youth civil society. Support in-country teams to produce strong, technically robust submissions, ensuring the effective coordination of technical inputs across programme, MEL, finance, safeguarding, and operations teams. Enhance evidence-led storytelling by working with the communications team to develop compelling, well-packaged narratives for pitches and proposals. Support in-country teams in identifying, on-boarding and co-creation with potential consortium partners whenever relevant during the proposal development process. 3. Regional Coordination & Support Work closely with in-country teams to understand funding needs, identify opportunities, and strengthen resource mobilisation capacity. Liaise with in-country Resource Mobilization leads in Africa hubs to identify key nodal points of support they require in their fundraising efforts. Provide tailored support and training on fundraising, donor engagement, and proposal development to enhance regional fundraising effectiveness. Support monthly coordination meetings to ensure alignment, shared learning and timely sharing of updates. 4. Data, Reporting & Knowledge Management Ensure the global programme funding pipeline and funder database are kept up to date. Provide support in quarterly reporting and performance analysis for the global agency and in-country hubs, and actively participate in quarterly shared leadership meetings. Document lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful proposals to inform future bids. Contribute to the continuous improvement of organisational processes, tools, and knowledge products related to resource mobilisation. We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our Values.
Essential Experience in institutional fundraising, including donor cultivation, proposal development and pipeline management. Ability to lead strategic funding proposals and reports; co-ordinating input from a variety of sources and working to tight deadlines. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong organisational and time management skills. Effective networking skills. Creative and systematic thinker. Ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams, time zones and geographies. Ability to work independently as the role will be remote.
Experience in the international development or youth sector. Knowledge of current and future funding trends. Understanding of project cycle management, budgeting, and donor compliance requirements. Experience of designing proposals and programmes in one or more of Restless Development’s priority areas - education and livelihoods, gender and sexual rights, voice and democracy, and climate change. Experience in communications and visual design. Proficiency in databases or CRM systems (Salesforce preferred
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Deadline of this Job:
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JOB DETAILS:
Job title: Resource Mobilization Coordinator
Location: Africa
Remuneration: Dependent on country of location
Contract type: Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Preferred start date: March 2026
Length of contract: 1-2 years
Reports to: Senior Resource Mobilization Manager
Expected travel: Occasional regional/international travel
Key Responsibilities
1. Prospecting and Donor Cultivation
- Identify, research, and cultivate new funding leads, notably trusts and foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors.
- Track donor intelligence, analyse trends, and share insights with country offices and global colleagues to inform agency-wide cultivation strategies.
- Develop capacity statements, pitch decks, case studies, and other assets to communicate agency expertise and support donor outreach.
- Provide high-quality relationship management and stewardship for existing donors, ensuring consistent engagement and responsiveness.
- Assist with tracking key touchpoints, relationship mapping, and proactive follow-up with donor prospects.
- Pitch and promote Restless Development’s work externally, with a particular focus on opportunities across Africa.
- Support major fundraising events (e.g., Africa Philanthropy Forum) to raise visibility and cultivate strategic relationships.
2. Development of High-Quality Concepts, Offers, and Proposals
- Lead end-to-end bid development, including facilitating design workshops, coordinating budgeting and due diligence, and drafting high-quality proposals that showcase agency expertise and - where possible - are co-created with young people and youth civil society.
- Support in-country teams to produce strong, technically robust submissions, ensuring the effective coordination of technical inputs across programme, MEL, finance, safeguarding, and operations teams.
- Enhance evidence-led storytelling by working with the communications team to develop compelling, well-packaged narratives for pitches and proposals.
- Support in-country teams in identifying, on-boarding and co-creation with potential consortium partners whenever relevant during the proposal development process.
3. Regional Coordination & Support
- Work closely with in-country teams to understand funding needs, identify opportunities, and strengthen resource mobilisation capacity.
- Liaise with in-country Resource Mobilization leads in Africa hubs to identify key nodal points of support they require in their fundraising efforts.
- Provide tailored support and training on fundraising, donor engagement, and proposal development to enhance regional fundraising effectiveness.
- Support monthly coordination meetings to ensure alignment, shared learning and timely sharing of updates.
4. Data, Reporting & Knowledge Management
- Ensure the global programme funding pipeline and funder database are kept up to date.
- Provide support in quarterly reporting and performance analysis for the global agency and in-country hubs, and actively participate in quarterly shared leadership meetings.
- Document lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful proposals to inform future bids.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of organisational processes, tools, and knowledge products related to resource mobilisation.
We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our Values.
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Experience in institutional fundraising, including donor cultivation, proposal development and pipeline management.
- Ability to lead strategic funding proposals and reports; co-ordinating input from a variety of sources and working to tight deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Effective networking skills.
- Creative and systematic thinker.
- Ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams, time zones and geographies.
- Ability to work independently as the role will be remote.
Desirables
- Experience in the international development or youth sector.
- Knowledge of current and future funding trends.
- Understanding of project cycle management, budgeting, and donor compliance requirements.
- Experience of designing proposals and programmes in one or more of Restless Development’s priority areas - education and livelihoods, gender and sexual rights, voice and democracy, and climate change.
- Experience in communications and visual design.
- Proficiency in databases or CRM systems (Salesforce preferred).
Restless Development is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Restless Development will ensure that no applicant or staff member receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be shown to be relevant to performance.
What we do for you
Remuneration
We are proud to commit to a transparent global salary scale, ensuring a fair and comparable system of pay across all global locations.
Values and Culture
At Restless Development, we’re proud that the strength and integrity of our Values has been recognised by staff, young people, donors and others who we work with. Beyond this, we have a culture of recognising and celebrating both our Values and our global achievements with monthly Values Champions and an annual Values Day.
Work-life Balance
It goes without saying that we work hard at Restless Development. We also recognise the importance of helping our people to maintain a positive work-life balance by offering*:
- 24 days annual leave (in addition to public holidays and with an extra day of annual leave given for each full year of service, up to a maximum of 28 days).
- Birthday Leave
- Access to flexible working
- Generous study leave, maternity, paternity or adoption leave, and other leave allowances.
* In cases where a consultant contract is offered, the equivalent of these benefits will be considered within the agreement.
Professional Development
Restless Development is proud to be an employer who recognises potential and invests in the development of its people. We are committed to the professional development of our teams through:
- Empowering opportunities to work on significant projects which stretch and inspire staff – allowing them to develop on-the-job.
- Regular performance management.
- Training and development opportunities, including supporting our people to identify mentors both within and outside of the agency.
Travel Insurance
When travelling abroad with work, all staff will be covered by Restless Development's travel insurance.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 12
Level of Education: bachelor degree
Job application procedure
How to Apply
Please submit your CV and a cover letter that provides tangible examples of how your skills, knowledge and experience will support your ability to perform the key priorities outlined in the above role description (using no more than 750 words).
Apply by 5 January 2026. Interviews will be held on the week commencing 12 January 2026.
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