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Development Officer will manage responsibly AAW's current relationships with donors, engage prospective partners and further advance Ashoka’s strategy for fundraising, while maintaining knowledge management systems for the organization's fundraising efforts. Organize, attend and report on appropriate events and development trips along with a Media outreach support.
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INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC
_________________________________________________________________________________ .Registration No 4002/42مشهرة برقم
34/2004 Ashoka Arab World Regional املكتب االقليمى -أشوكا الوطن العريب
Office
Abdel Aziz Al Saud Street – 7 93 1شقة –الدور السابع –شارع عبد العزيز أل سعود 34th
Floor – Apt.1
Manial – Cairo – Egypt مصر –القاهرة –املنيل
Tel : (202) 25328586 – 23655336 – 25314775 - 25314779 Fax : (202) 23654404
www.ashoka.org arab.org-www.ashoka
Ashoka Arab World
Terms of Reference for Development Officer
Background:
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with
system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Social entrepreneurs are
individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. From its Regional
Office in Cairo Ashoka Arab World creates a competitive, entrepreneurial, and globally integrated
citizen sector and develops the profession of social entrepreneurship. Ashoka Arab world currently
works with 64 Ashoka Fellows located in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Kuwait and
Saudi Arabia.
Position Title: Development Officer
Reports to: Ashoka Regional Director
Employment: Full-time
Office hours: 9 am to 5 pm (unless assigned to stay later fulfilling work requirements)
Working days: Sunday through Thursday, with weekends on Friday and Saturday. Work-related
obligations sometimes require weekend attendance.
Tasks:
The Development Officer is responsible for assisting the Regional Director in implementing the
Development Plan, which includes the following tasks:
1. Fundraise between $300,000 - $1 million per year for Ashoka Arab World
2. Develop knowledge management systems for Ashoka’s Arab World fundraising efforts
a. Organize, update and create files of Ashoka’s Arab World donor history and current
activities. This includes to create a list and tracking document of all past and current Arab
World donors with time line, grant purpose, grant amount, funding cycles, and reports
already submitted and to be submitted by Ashoka (soft and hard copies)
b. Prepare quarterly report to Arab World Executive Team
3. Manage carefully and responsibly, Ashoka’s Arab World current relationships with donors and
partners
INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC
_________________________________________________________________________________ .Registration No 4002/42مشهرة برقم
34/2004 Ashoka Arab World Regional املكتب االقليمى -أشوكا الوطن العريب
Office
Abdel Aziz Al Saud Street – 7 93 1شقة –الدور السابع –شارع عبد العزيز أل سعود 34th
Floor – Apt.1
Manial – Cairo – Egypt مصر –القاهرة –املنيل
Tel : (202) 25328586 – 23655336 – 25314775 - 25314779 Fax : (202) 23654404
www.ashoka.org arab.org-www.ashoka
a. Prepare all due reports for donors and partners as required. This includes narrative,
graphics, and financial reports
b. Create a donor tracking system with updated information of current donors, their grants,
current relationship status with Ashoka, and Renewals
c. Create a report tracking system with updated information on pending reports and
submitted reports
d. Follow-up with current donors and partners’ requests as needed
4. Prepare all development reports and updates for Ashoka’s headquarters as required
5. Engage Prospects: potential donors and partners. This is working closely with and under
supervision of Regional Director. First contact with prospects or donors should be made on
behalf of Dr. Iman with a later follow-up on your name
a. Develop a tracking document, listing ALL prospects with whom Ashoka has initiated
relationships (from Iman’s trips to AWSIF, and others) but has not taken next steps yet
b. Develop a list of the 29 pledges from AWSIF and develop follow-up plan
c. Find Iman’s 2010 SFO trip minutes and develop follow-up plan
d. Develop list of all GCI leads and develop follow-up plan
e. Develop list of all contacts from personal cards collected at different events and develop
follow-up plan
6. Develop and Enhance Engagement Strategies for prospects and current donors and partners
a. Research all prospects tracked in the prospect tracking document (mentioned above).
Research could include but is not limited by philanthropic and business interests,
backgrounds, likes, etc.
b. Write all required funding proposals (graphics, narrative, budgets)
c. Developed all required engagement strategies. This includes prospect/donor
identification, mapping and profiling, strategy creation and implementation
7. Design new phase of Arab World fundraising efforts with corporations and foundations
a. Create a list of potential corporations and foundations with whom Ashoka could partner
or work with (corporate prospecting)
b. Create a list of products and services Ashoka can offer to corporations and foundations
(WISE, Collaborative Platforms, etc)
8. Events Organizing
a. Lead and be the focal point for planning, organization, and execution of the Arab World
Social Innovation Forum, AWSIF
INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC
_________________________________________________________________________________ .Registration No 4002/42مشهرة برقم
34/2004 Ashoka Arab World Regional املكتب االقليمى -أشوكا الوطن العريب
Office
Abdel Aziz Al Saud Street – 7 93 1شقة –الدور السابع –شارع عبد العزيز أل سعود 34th
Floor – Apt.1
Manial – Cairo – Egypt مصر –القاهرة –املنيل
Tel : (202) 25328586 – 23655336 – 25314775 - 25314779 Fax : (202) 23654404
www.ashoka.org arab.org-www.ashoka
b. Lead or provide support to other fundraising events as needed
9. Media and Outreach Support
a. Work with Media and Outreach staff on messaging and streamlining outreach efforts with
Development goals
10. Performance management
a. Together with her/his supervisor, the staff member will develop a performance agreement
at the beginning of her/his term. This agreement will include goals, measures and
expected results and will be the baseline for the performance review to take place after
the first six months and the end of the year.
b. Together with her/his supervisor, the staff member will develop an annual plan of action.
This plan will be created at the beginning of the year and updated on a monthly basis. c. Based on annual action plan, a monthly workplan with all activities to be executed during
the month will be sent to Regional Director. d. DO will send a weekly time-sheet to be sent at the end of Thursdays to the Operations
Manager. e. DO will send a monthly report with all activities executed during the month; to be sent to
Operations Manager, Financial Manager and Regional Director on the 25th of each month.
Qualifications:
1. Education
B.A. in a relevant field, preferably Social Sciences, Business, Economics, or Political Science
2. Experience and Requirements
5 years of fundraising and development experience is required.
Excellent writing and analytical skills
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
Applicant must have strong initiative, independence, creativity, and sound judgment. They
must be service-oriented and flexible, with excellent communication and organizational skills.
Applicant must be a team player with a high level of commitment who is able to manage
multiple high-priority tasks at once.
3. Language
Fluency in written and spoken English. Proficiency in written and spoken Arabic a plus.
Work Conditions:
INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC
_________________________________________________________________________________ .Registration No 4002/42مشهرة برقم
34/2004 Ashoka Arab World Regional املكتب االقليمى -أشوكا الوطن العريب
Office
Abdel Aziz Al Saud Street – 7 93 1شقة –الدور السابع –شارع عبد العزيز أل سعود 34th
Floor – Apt.1
Manial – Cairo – Egypt مصر –القاهرة –املنيل
Tel : (202) 25328586 – 23655336 – 25314775 - 25314779 Fax : (202) 23654404
www.ashoka.org arab.org-www.ashoka
1. Hours
Applicant must be willing to work in the office 70% of the time, and in the field 30% of the
time.
We work normal office hours (9 a.m. until 5 p.m., five days a week) 50-60% of the time.
We work until 6 or 7 p.m. at least 20 % of the time.
During major events, we work until 8 or 9 p.m. (25 % of the time)
Sometimes, we work during holidays, if necessary. (10% of the time)
2. Compensation
Starting salary is 9000LE per month with a possible raise after a 6 month evaluation period. The
minimum employment commitment is 2 years.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should please send a CV, and answer the following questions to
[email protected] and [email protected]
1. Please provide an example of an idea of yours that has been implemented in your current
organization or workplace. What has been the result or impact?
2. What was the most difficult challenge you have faced in the workplace, and how did you
address this challenge?
3. What qualities do you possess that will help you uniquely contribute to Ashoka?
4. Are you able to multi task? Please provide specific examples.
5. Please provide more examples of your fundraising experience. How/when did you reach out to
new donors, and what was the result?
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