Fundraiser

**Job Title**: Corporate Partnerships Fundraising Officer

**Location**: Ottawa (or remote based in GTA/Montreal)

**Position Type**: Full-Time, Permanent

**Language**: English, French is an asset

**Salary**: $65,000 - $70,000 annually

**Job Requirement**: Must be currently eligible to work in Canada.

**ABOUT US**

Founded in 1969, SOS Children’s Villages Canada is a member of the SOS Children’s Villages International federation. SOS Children’s Villages is dedicated to protecting children and advancing their rights in 137 countries and territories. We believe that children deserve more than just survival. They have a right to grow up in a safe and caring family environment, giving them the best chance of a secure future. Using a holistic approach, we work to empower vulnerable children, families, and communities to ensure children’s rights are met. Through programs focused on child protection, education, health, nutrition, women’s economic empowerment and humanitarian responses, SOS Children’s Villages serves over 1 million people annually.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

The Corporate Partnerships Fundraising Officer plays a key role in driving the impact, growth and satisfaction of the corporate partners of SOS Children’s Villages Canada. You will lead and support ambitious partnerships leveraging the positive power of business, to simultaneously create the shared values of social and corporate impact.

Reporting to the Director of Leadership Giving, the Corporate Partnerships Fundraising Officer’s key success indicator will be the growth of our donation revenue from corporate engagement.

As Corporate Partnerships Fundraising Officer you are responsible for recognizing and seizing funding opportunities that align with SOS Children’s Villages mission. Managing a portfolio of existing corporate partnerships as well as contributing to the cultivation of new strategic partnerships and corporate giving programs, you engage corporations in national or regional strategic partnerships that build brand alignment, grow impact, and drive revenue.

The role oversees stewardship and donor relations activities pertaining to an existing portfolio of corporate partners and prospects.

**CORE RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Manage relationships with 75+ prospective corporate partners and supporters
- Working with the International Programs and Projects Team, prepare compelling, tailored proposals and grant submissions for corporations and corporate foundations.
- Contribute to accurate and professionally written progress reports and sponsorship packages.
- Contribute to all aspects of the gift cycle: identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
- Collaborate with Community Fundraising Team to create meaningful employee engagement experiences and campaigns for our corporate partners
- Build a corporate pipeline for SOS Children’s Villages events and increase revenue through sponsorship and ticket sales
- Ensure donor/sponsor contract obligations are met (e.g. logo recognition/inclusion, category exclusivity), communicating sponsorship deliverables to colleagues across the organization.
- Ensure CRM donor records are maintained, current, and accurately represent actions and events.
- Ensure that team members and volunteers are properly briefed and prepared in advance of meetings and events.
- Work with Communications Coordinator to highlight key institutional partnerships in web stories and social media features, etc.
- Coordinate with SOS Canada finance staff to ensure disbursement of corporate and corporate foundation donations to specified programs.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**
- Minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related education/experience
- Demonstrated ability to meet strategic goals; develop relationships in a positive trajectory and generate revenue (5 and 6 figure gifts)
- Proven knowledge of current theories and practices in corporate social responsibility
- Proven success in collaborative interpersonal skills, demonstrated ability to navigate challenging situations to achieve goals and deadlines, drive projects to completion
- Proven ability to problem solve, navigate ambiguity, and take initiative
- Demonstrated success in client relations
- Professional proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 25%, domestically

**DESIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES**:

- International experience and working knowledge of French and additional languages desirable
- Experience supporting all types of complex relationships, inclusive but not limited to complex multi-country partnerships, cause-related marketing campaigns, and national campaigns
- Proficiency with database management and using CRM donor database (Raiser’s Edge experience advantageous)

We are committed to safeguarding children and adults in the communities where we work from deliberate and unintentional harm or abuse caused by SOS