Development & Marketing Manager – Young1ove

The Role: Young 1ove’s mission is to connect youth to proven-life saving information. Our vision is to reach 1 million youth in Southern Africa with multiple evidence-based programs. The Development and Communications Manager will play a lead role in development activities – helping us triple our resources by 2021 to support our core programs as well as communications – external-facing writing, donor reporting and implementing communication strategies. We are seeking someone with excellent written and verbal communication skills, and who speaks the language of branding, fundraising and writing.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage grant proposal processes including strategic direction for narratives and budgets, project management, coordination, content production and final consolidation and review.
• Provide strategic direction and lead business development strategy, including new grant opportunities and potential income- generation streams, and lead the development department to execute on the strategy.
• Develop a pipeline of new partnership opportunities and crafting the strategy around these funding agreements
• Support strategic organization-wide communications and lead targeted communications initiatives.
• Produce regular blog posts, newsletters, annual narrative reports that are to be released to the public.
• Provide strategic input, direction, and execute on Young love’s brand as it relates to development and the mission.

Qualifications and Experiences:

• Bachelors’ degree. 5-8 years’ experience in writing, fundraising, project management, communications and business development in a local and global development context (experience in branding and editing sector advantageous).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and presentation and stakeholder management. Ability to discuss technical and strategic content in an articulate matter. An eye for visual aesthetics and layouts a plus.
• Ability to work cross-functionally synthesizing information from various sources to formulate and compare alternatives and recommend a path forward defining required actions and responsibilities.
• Must be able to critically evaluate successes and failures, with a clear eye for analyzing root cause and recommend process improvements.
• Proficiency with VIS Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) required.
• Willingness to learn, ability to balance having a strong set of skills and track record with an openness to feedback, learning, growth and collaboration among colleagues.
• Embodies Young 1ove’s values and commitment to the youth, evidence and scale.

Time Period: 3- year contract with potential for extension pending performance.

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