Fundraising Officer

The Fundraising Officer supports the Executive Director to deliver our fundraising strategy and grow our funding income.

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The Fundraising Officer is primarily responsible for researching and writing compelling fundraising applications to trusts and foundations and researching and developing pitches to corporates and high value individuals to support our fundraising activities.

The Fundraising Officer also manages fundraising administration including gift processing and thanking, donor stewardship and fundraising events.

Reporting to the Program & Impact Manager this role is key to delivering AISA’s goal to become a large and powerful movement of people to deliver human rights impact and fulfil its role as an accelerator country.

AI SOUTH AFRICA PURPOSE: Amnesty International South Africa (AISA) is a national human rights entity that is part of a global human rights movement, established to address national human rights priorities as well as create the possibility for people in South Africa to join Amnesty International's global human rights campaigns. Our mission in South Africa is to address pertinent national human rights issues through research and campaigning, and to empower South Africans to take action on issues that matter to them through AI's international human rights movement; and to leverage South Africa's influence regionally and globally to promote human rights domestically, bilaterally and internationally.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PURPOSE: We campaign for meaningful human rights change; enable effective human rights activism and work to persuade governments and other actors to uphold universal rights standards.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

Reporting to: The Program & Impact Manager