Background and objectives
Requirements
We are looking for someone to help us raise funds for projects in rural Tanzania. It's a flexible, ongoing opportunity involving researching funding opportunities, and contributing to bids. The volunteers will not submit any funding requests on our behalf. Tanzania Development Trust has been supporting grassroots organisations in the poorest areas of rural Tanzania for 45 years. We are all volunteers, with no offices, so every pound donated goes directly to projects. Typical projects include hand drilled bore holes for clean water, locally produced rope pumps, solar panels for schools, girls hostels and small income generating projects for rural women. The Online Volunteers will not be asked to contact any third parties/donors, but to work directly with our fundraising lead and team to research and identify potential trusts and foundations to apply for and liaise with projects on the ground in Tanzania to put together budget information.
Project development and management
Resource mobilization, partnership and donor coordination
You will be part of a fundraising team that will regularly communicate online to divide up tasks, assess progress and agree on direction. Ability to attend monthly meetings via zoom is an advantage but not essential. You will be assisting on research for fundraising for our projects to bring clean water to villages, fund girls hostels in government secondary schools and small income generating projects for women living in extreme poverty. This fundraising research will enable us to reach more people in rural Tanzania. All donations made go directly to projects in rural Tanzania.
Volunteers: 3 needed
1-5 hours per week / 26 weeks
You need to have excellent spoken and written English and a passion for helping rural Tanzanians living in extreme poverty. You will need good IT skills, and be happy with remote teamworking. We are looking for someone with experience of fundraising and remote working. The ability to attend monthly meetings via Zoom is an advantage but not essential. We are ideally looking for a long term commitment (Maximum duration is 26 weeks).
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