Post Date: January 23, 2025
In our first decade, Namati’s Resource Mobilization team (RM) was small, but punched above its weight. Our ambitions for the current phase (our strategic plan spans 2024-2028) are to cultivate a team of superstars with the fundraising chops to secure a growing annual revenue goal, to drive opportunities with a spirit of bold initiative, and to promote a culture of fundraising within the organization. Each person on the RM team contributes their fundraising expertise and leadership in complementary ways to form a synergistic, generative whole greater than the sum of its parts.
About the Position
Within this team, the Senior Associate will play the mission-critical role of meticulously supporting the administration of our fundraising effort. From tracking and furthering new and existing relationships, to data documentation and management across a variety of important indicators, to internal coordination across the RM team and close collaborators, to financial forecasting – the Senior Associate will be a critical part of the administrative “nerve center” of our fast-paced fundraising shop.
We seek a teammate with a track record of experience on the operations and administrative side of an organization or company. The right person for this role will bring both precision and creative thinking to these often-mechanical systems and processes, and take pride in the seamless and ever-improving function of those systems and processes. This person should possess exemplary process management and communication skills, outstanding attention to detail, a drive to excel in all responsibilities, and an ambition to grow in response to the needs of our always-evolving team and organizational budget.
The successful candidate may already have experience as a fundraising professional, or may have held an operations-based position with some intersection with the fundraising function.
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About Namati
Since 2011, Namati has worked to build a movement of grassroots justice advocates worldwide. We’ve grown tremendously, from a small founding group of big-hearted change-makers to a global staff of 180+ people across 12 time zones in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The Grassroots Justice Network, which we co-founded and still convene to this day, has grown from 30 people in one room to the world’s largest community of justice advocates, with membership from 3,300 organizations across 175 countries.
We have supported local communities to take on thousands of justice issues, directly improving the lives of over 1.5 million people since our founding. Together with communities, partners, and Network members, we’ve envisioned - and won- transformative changes, like the Customary Land Rights and National Land Commission Acts of Sierra Leone, and the world’s first Legal Empowerment Fund.
Namati’s work has been featured in/on Democracy Journal, Amanpour & Co. New York Times, the Guardian, Devex, WIRED, the Washington Post, among others, and has been documented by the Sundance Institute. Vivek Maru, Namati’s CEO, gave a TED Talk in 2017 which has been viewed over 1.3 million times. In 2016, Namati was honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and in 2017, the Schwab Foundation named Vivek Maru and colleague Sonkita Conteh two of its Social Entrepreneurs of the Year. Namati has a perfect score, 100/100, on Charity Navigator and has earned Guidestar’s Platinum Seal of Transparency.
About Resource Mobilization
Alongside the growth in our ambition and impact, Namati’s budget has increased, on average, by 18% per year -- from $5M to more than $15M in ten years. Our donor base has grown from 3 founding partners to over 40 bilateral and philanthropic funding partners. Major recent investments include an unrestricted award from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, and an 8-year, $20M award from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation through the Racial Equity 2030 competition. Many of our funding partners remain with us for the long haul. We are particularly proud that two longtime supporters, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation, went on to support the Legal Empowerment Fund, with an aim to mobilize $100M to support grassroots justice.
At the heart of our fundraising track record is our commitment to bold, inspired action as fundraisers: fundraising is organizing. Namati’s Resource Mobilization team does not take a transactional approach to fundraising; instead, we form relationships with funding partners committed not only to our organization, but to the entire Legal Empowerment movement. We strive to build and steward expansive, long-term, and high-level funding partnerships that match the ambitious scale of our vision.
This kind of fundraising requires a team of aligned, courageous, and strategic connectors who understand where Namati is uniquely placed to make a difference, who can learn continually from our work - and the work of our network and collaborators - to identify promising opportunities, and to create new ones.
Post Date: January 23, 2025
In our first decade, Namati’s Resource Mobilization team (RM) was small, but punched above its weight. Our ambitions for the current phase (our strategic plan spans 2024-2028) are to cultivate a team of superstars with the fundraising chops to secure a growing annual revenue goal, to drive opportunities with a spirit of bold initiative, and to promote a culture of fundraising within the organization. Each person on the RM team contributes their fundraising expertise and leadership in complementary ways to form a synergistic, generative whole greater than the sum of its parts.
About the Position
Within this team, the Senior Associate will play the mission-critical role of meticulously supporting the administration of our fundraising effort. From tracking and furthering new and existing relationships, to data documentation and management across a variety of important indicators, to internal coordination across the RM team…
Compensation
Throughout the hiring process we will seek to understand your specific skills, experience, and abilities as they will fit into our team and our job levels. Namati's staff position bands range from 1 (entry level / assistant) to 9 (Managing Director). This position is at band 3. We base our compensation on the markets where our staff operate. The offer range for this position is likely to fall between $65,000 - $70,000 based on the final job level determined by the responsibility, scope, and complexity of the position; most offers are made in the first half of the offer range.
Namati offers a broad range of benefits, including:
Compensation
Throughout the hiring process we will seek to understand your specific skills, experience, and abilities as they will fit into our team and our job levels. Namati's staff position bands range from 1 (entry level / assistant) to 9 (Managing Director). This position is at band 3. We base our compensation on the markets where our staff operate. The offer range for this position is likely to fall between $65,000 - $70,000 based on the final job level determined by the responsibility, scope, and complexity of the position; most offers are made in the first half of the offer range.
Namati offers a broad range of benefits, including:
To Apply
Please apply by completing our online application form. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position will be open until filled.
No phone calls, please. Namati is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
To Apply
Please apply by completing our online application form. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position will be open until filled.
No phone calls, please…