Your mission
Overview
The War Child Alliance is seeking a Senior Fundraising Strategy Consultant with extensive experience in developing global fundraising strategies for complex organizations and humanitarian INGOs. This high-impact consultancy will lead the design of a three-year global fundraising strategy and an associated one-year action plan, ensuring alignment with War Child’s ten year Impact Strategy and its mission to protect, educate, and stand up for the rights of children affected by conflict.
In an increasingly challenging funding landscape, where donor commitments are shifting, aid budgets are tightening, and competition for resources is intensifying, this strategy must focus on maximizing impact with limited resources, diversifying revenue streams, and building resilience and innovation in fundraising efforts across the War Child Alliance.
Working closely with senior leadership, fundraising teams, fundraising members (UK, US, NL, SE, DE) and key stakeholders across the War Child Alliance, the consultant will leverage deep expertise and strong networks to create a strategy that drives sustainable revenue generation, strengthens donor engagement, and enables War Child to continue to deliver impact for children affected by conflict. The strategy will reflect sector best practices, emerging fundraising trends, and innovative financing opportunities, ensuring War Child remains at the forefront of humanitarian and development fundraising despite a more constrained and complex humanitarian system and funding environment.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Fundraising Leadership
The War Child Alliance is seeking a Senior Fundraising Strategy Consultant with extensive experience in developing global fundraising strategies for complex organizations and humanitarian INGOs. This high-impact consultancy will lead the design of a three-year global fundraising strategy and an associated one-year action plan, ensuring alignment with War Child’s ten year Impact Strategy and its mission to protect, educate, and stand up for the rights of children affected by conflict.
In an increasingly challenging funding landscape, where donor commitments are shifting, aid budgets are tightening, and competition for resources is intensifying, this strategy must focus on maximizing impact with limited resources, diversifying revenue streams, and building resilience and innovation in fundraising efforts across the War Child Alliance.
Working closely with senior leadership, fundraising teams, fundraising members (UK, US, NL, SE, DE) and key stakeholders across the War Child Alliance, the consultant will leverage deep expertise and strong networks to create a strategy that drives sustainable revenue generation, strengthens donor engagement, and enables War Child to continue to deliver impact for children affected by conflict. The strategy will reflect sector best practices, emerging fundraising trends, and innovative financing opportunities, ensuring War Child remains at the forefront of humanitarian and development fundraising despite a more constrained and complex humanitarian system and funding environment.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Fundraising Leadership
- Build on scenario planning exercises and pipeline mapping to develop a comprehensive, future-focused global fundraising strategy aligned with organizational priorities, system and sector priorities and needs and new and emerging funding trends.
- Assess and analyse existing fundraising performance, position in the market, revenue streams, pipelines and donor engagement models to identify income generating opportunities.
- Identify and evaluate new and innovative funding sources, including institutional donors, trusts and foundations, public-private partnership funding and other emerging and innovative approaches to fundraising in line with priorities of the Humanitarian Reset and other emerging ways of working.
- Engage and consult with senior leadership, fundraising teams, fundraising members, programme teams, advocacy, scaling, finance, R&D, and communications to ensure internal alignment and strategic buy-in.
- Leverage an extensive global network of donors, partners, and sector influencers to inform strategy development and explore funding opportunities.
- Develop a donor engagement and stewardship strategy to strengthen relationships with key institutional and private donors.
- Assess internal fundraising structures, skill gaps, and resource needs, providing recommendations for strengthening capacity.
- Develop a structured one-year action plan, outlining key priorities, roles, and responsibilities.
- Provide a detailed monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) framework with key performance indicators (KPIs) to track success.
- Work under the guidance of a steering committee led by the Head of IFGD and provide regular updates to senior leadership.
- Present findings, recommendations, and strategic documents to key governance bodies, including the IF ACG and Directors/IMT.
- Conduct a risk assessment to anticipate potential fundraising challenges and develop mitigation strategies.
- Implement a flexible strategy framework, ensuring adaptability based on market trends, donor shifts, and organizational needs.
- Market Analysis: Conduct desk research on fundraising best practices, donor behaviour, and emerging funding landscape.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate high-level consultations, key informant interviews, and strategic workshops.
- Strategy Development: Produce a comprehensive fundraising strategy and an actionable implementation roadmap.
- Month 1: Initial consultations, scenario planning, and fundraising landscape assessment resulting in a market assessment report. Exact scope and level of detail to be further discussed.
- Month 2: Development of a draft strategy and action plan and initial stakeholder review.
- Month 3: Refinement and roll out of the strategy and action plan based on feedback and further stakeholder engagement.