Director of Development at Family Empowerment Media (FEM)

Family Empowerment Media (FEM) is an evidence-driven non-profit that enables informed contraceptive decisions through clear, compelling, and accurate radio-based communication. Enabling couples to access modern contraceptives is one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent maternal deaths. It also provides a host of other benefits. Numerous studies have demonstrated that radio-based social and behavioural change campaigns can empower women and men to use effective contraceptive methods to avoid unintended pregnancies. 

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director of Development

Location: Abuja (Remote)
Hours: Full time/Part time
Duration: Long term
Starting Date: 21st of April 2023

About the Role

• We seek a strategic thinker, dynamic manager, and skilled writer to lead our development and communication efforts. We expect the Director of Development to spend about 75% of their time on development and 25% on communication and additional generalist tasks.

Responsibilities
Lead FEM’s development efforts - 75%:

• Develop and implement a short- and long-term fundraising strategy to meet FEM’s financial goals and make future scaling plans possible.
• Write fundraising proposals and other written output for funders.
• Build connections with past, current, and future funders; this includes participation in pitch calls and sending updates to funders.

Serve in a generalist capacity - 25%:

• Create communication materials for FEM, such as newsletters, emails to stakeholders, one-pagers, blog posts, videos, and social media posts.
• Copy-edit written materials created by others, such as reports and blog posts.
• Lead and support other communication-related tasks.

Qualifications

• We’re looking for someone who enjoys putting together exceptional written output.
• The successful candidate will be inspired by our mission and demonstrate a commitment to our core values of ambitious altruism, evidence-based decision-making, cultural sensitivity, humility, and transparency

The Director of Development will also possess some or most of the following qualities:

• Excellent decision-maker: skilled at breaking down complex problems and, together with the senior management team, coming to decisions that best increase our impact.
• Skilled communicator: creates powerful, professional, and compelling written communication that concisely conveys complex ideas.
• Detail oriented: able to dot the i’s and cross the t’s across budgets and written outputs, ensuring high quality throughout all our communication.
• Strong generalist: a fast learner who enjoys a challenge and is able to progress on important projects throughout our organisation independently.
• Engaged entrepreneur: takes the initiative and actively seeks to improve how we currently run our organisation.
• Constructive team player: enjoys working in a team, values feedback, and effectively collaborates with colleagues from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Experience in the development sector is a plus but not a requirement for the position. Please apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria. We would love to see your application.

Benefits of Working at FEM

• High impact: Enabling our model's successful scaling can improve thousands of lives. Our intervention was chosen for its high cost-effectiveness and strong evidence base from 188 ideas evaluated by Charity Entrepreneurship [1].
• Community: You will have the opportunity to become a part of the Charity Entrepreneurship community and connect with experts in the field.
• Flexibility: You will experience a high level of freedom and autonomy as we offer both remote and office-based working environments.
• Personal growth: You are guaranteed to be challenged with a variety of tasks and receive rapid and implementable feedback.  
• Entrepreneurial experience: You will work with a scale-up and gain insights into the entrepreneurial process.

Application Closing Date
7th March, 2023.