Fundraising and Events Intern at Street Child of Nigeria

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 650,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Fundraising and Events Intern

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Reporting to: Country Director
Contract Type: Intern
Principal Location: Abuja

Street Child’s Commitment to Safeguarding

• Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.
• As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks, including a Criminal Records check. Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

Role Purpose

• In addition to administratively supporting the Abuja HQ office, The Fundraising and Events Intern will work closely with the Country Director to primarily support in the administration, logistics and planning of fundraising events. Under the direction of the Country Director, the ideal candidate will be a creative and business minded, able to handle and deliver high standard communications to the business and diplomatic community in the Abuja sector.

Key Responsibilities
Events and Fundraising Support (70%):

• Support the Country Director in planning, preparation and execution of fundraising events.
• Conducting venue and other event research
• Assisting in the research and design of new donor cultivation events
• Prepare materials for meetings with current and prospective funders
• Assisting with the set-up of equipment, materials and stands at such events
• Maintain supporters and guests with well written communications thanking them, answering queries, and providing support prior and after events.
• Help create and maintain a database of donors, vip guests and prospects, including regular data entry and clean up
• Research potential corporate and major donor fundraising sources
• When required liaise with the UK team to engage UK level support on communications and social media.
• Support in the curation of multi-platform media via a range of multimedia platforms; Instagram, Facebook ect.
• Provide ideas and creativity to support the Country Director in curation of a fundraising business plan.

Administrative Support (30%):

• Provide general administration and logistic support to the Abuja office
• Ensure event vendors and general merchant procurement paperwork is processed in line with SCoN procurement policy.

Person Specification
Educations / Qualifications
Essential:

• School Diploma
• Ongoing or completed University Degree.

Desirable:

• Completed university degree in the field of business/ events/ diplomacy or international relations

Experience and Knowledge
Essential:

• Demonstrable experience in coordination and support of events large or small
• Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of Microsoft office

Desirable

• An understanding of the diplomatic and INGO sector in Abuja
• Previous experience in high-level event management
• Understanding of the humanitarian intervention in Nigeria

Skills and Abilities
Essential:

• Excellent to outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• High levels of emotional intelligence
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Confidence to engage with a range of senior and VIP individuals form the Abuja diplomatic network
• Excellent use of English language
• Ability to work efficiently, accurately, and collaboratively, and to manage short-and long-term deadlines

Desirable:

• Strong social media skills

Other:
Essential:

• A fundamental interest in fundraising and event management
• Creative problem solving
• Creative eye for

Desirable:

• A general interest in the Humanitarian Sector.

Application Closing Date
5th April, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Covering Letter explaining why they think they could make an extraordinary impact in this role to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.

Note

• This is a rolling recruitment.
• Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and so interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.
• As this role is based in country, appropriate pre-employment checks will be required as part of our recruitment process in line with our Safeguarding Policy.