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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is looking for someone to lead and grow our private fundraising in Sweden.
NRC helps millions of refugees and people displaced by conflict in over 35 countries around the world. Private fundraising enables us to help people in many of the neglected conflicts like Central Africa Republic as well as people displaced by conflict that get global news coverage, such as Ukraine and Afghanistan.
Within NRC the External relations (Exrel) team has global responsibility for engaging with private individuals and organisations to build awareness of NRCs work and raise resources for NRC, especially unearmarked funds. Sweden is a significant market for this work, with a large focus on one-to-one recruitment of regular donors who want to support our work. In addition we want to grow our grants from private foundations in Sweden.
NRC in Sweden is its own non profit entity, with its own board and working to Swedish regulations and culture. We are looking for a Swedish national, based in Sweden, who can develop our fundraising, including work with partners who recruit donors on the street, submit grant proposals to foundations, report to the board and ensure all regulatory requirements are met. Ideally able to grow the income and in turn the team in Sweden to help people displaced by conflict around the world.
Come join us!
What you will do
Reporting to the Director - Global Fundraising, your mandate will be to grow NRC s unearmarked funding by recruiting regular donors and soliciting single donations from private individuals globally and across multiple channels in Sweden. This will include building and executing strategies to find new ways of fundraising from private individuals that enable faster ROIs, more resilience to fundraising income, and advice on how to improve existing fundraising ROIs in support of the fundraising operation for NRC Flyktinghj lpen Sverige. In addition to start fundraising from private foundations in Sweden.
Some of your day-to-day tasks will include:
What you will bring
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What makes this position attractive?
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We will be assessing candidates on an ongoing basis; therefore, early applications are recommended.
About Us
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.
Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.
NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.
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