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This is a development opportunity, spending 8 weeks in Lesotho, supporting an NGO with your fundraising and strategic planning expertise, as part of the International Learning Opportunities Programme funded by the Welsh Government.
The placement is based in a non profit organisation creating sustainable opportunities in education, architecture and economic empowerment. Their social enterprise model combines humanitarian mission with sustainable business practices, creating self-funding initiatives that generate both social impact and economic value within communities across Lesotho.
The organisation has structured fundraising systems in place. However, they face challenges in diversifying and scaling their funding database. The placement will support the organisation in strengthening long-term resource mobilisation strategies, improving donor engagement processes, and enhancing grant-writing skills to ensure better alignment with donor requirements to win more grants and increase their recurring donors.
You will have strong fundraising and donor engagement experience and skills (institutional, corporate, and individual giving) and strategic planning and organisational development expertise. In particular you will have:
Previous experience working with international NGOs, development partners or foundations is an added advantage. Knowledge of potential donors and partners to target would be a welcome bonus.
For further details or to apply, email the Welsh Government Wales and Africa team at walesandafrica@gov.wales.
The International Learning Opportunities programme (ILO) provides a development opportunity to spend 8 weeks in Lesotho, Namibia or Uganda.
We source a wide range of projects with a diverse group of established partners in these three very different countries.
The ILO programme aims to improve the social, environmental and economic wellbeing of both sub-Saharan Africa and Wales through a variety of mutually beneficial projects, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The ILO programme gives individuals from the public, business and third sectors in Wales the opportunity to work on projects designed to both enhance their leadership skills and deliver a developmental outcome for their hosts. The opportunities listed illustrate placements requested but other opportunities may also be available. Overall, we conduct about 10 placements a year and would not expect to deploy more than one person to any organisation at a time. This scheme is open to anyone who lives or works in Wales. We are particularly interested to receive applications from members of the African diaspora.
