Gauteng: Senior Fundraising and Partnerships Manager posted by IntelliStaff

About the Role

The Senior Fundraising and Partnerships Manager will be a key member of IntelliStaff’s fundraising team, responsible for identifying, establishing, and nurturing private, public, and corporate donor-based impact partnerships. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in grant writing and fundraising, with excellent communication and influencing skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Grant prospecting and proposal development – Identification of potential private, public, and corporate donors; drafting of clear and persuasive proposals; and copywriting and proofreading.
• Budget & financial alignment – Preparation and refinement of budgets in collaboration with the Operations and Finance teams, ensuring alignment between proposal narratives, activities, timelines, human resources, and financial allocations.
• Monitoring, evaluation, and integrated learning – Preparation and refinement of results frameworks in collaboration with Operations and Impact Insights teams, including project-specific Theories of Change, Log Frames, and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning frameworks.
• Knowledge management & process coordination – Development and maintenance of proposal and reporting templates and boilerplates; coordination of proposal and reporting processes; preparation and presentation of fundraising and partnership reports as required, including regular Board reports.
• Analytics – Maintenance of a live database of global and regional private, public, and corporate donors within the organisation’s focus areas, including tracking philanthropy trends to inform fundraising strategy.
• Compliance – Ensuring compliance with organisational policies regarding funding sources, confidentiality, and data handling.

Requirements

• Excellent communication, influencing, and presentation skills, with high-level proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Strong strategic thinking with a results- and impact-driven approach.
• Excellent project management and cross-functional collaboration capability.
• Strong financial literacy with proven budget oversight experience.
• Strong monitoring, reporting, and impact measurement experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s or Honours degree in a relevant field.

Salary & Benefits