Grants and Fundraising Lead

You build YouthShare’s funding strategy: the grants, foundations and sponsorship that give the labs the means to act.

Read the full role description on our website: full role description

HOW TO APPLY: PLEASE READ

You can apply here on Idealist, but you must also apply on our website, even if you have already sent your application on Idealist. On the website you present your background, attach your CV and receive your application reference by email.

Apply on our website: apply for this role on youthshareinitiatives.org

THE ROLE AT A GLANCE

• Level: Lead

• Time: 6 to 10 hours a week

• Commitment: at least one year, fully voluntary role

• Location: fully remote, from any country

• Languages: English or French, ideally both

• Applications open until 31 January 2027. This listing may close earlier, as soon as the right person is found.

• Role page: youthshareinitiatives.org

TWO MONTHLY MEETINGS

As a Lead, you take part in two meetings every month. You must be able to align your team around shared goals and to organise and run its meetings.

ABOUT THE TEAM

YouthShare Initiatives is a French non-profit that runs five youth labs across several continents. The fundraising team turns their projects into strong applications and nurtures relationships with those who support them. You set its strategy, lead the monitoring of funding calls and own the relationships with funders. The Grant Writer drafts the applications; the Finance and Administration Lead consolidates the budgets and tracks how they are spent.

YOUR ASSIGNMENTS

• Build and keep the association’s annual funding strategy

• Monitor calls for projects: European programmes, foundations, cooperation agencies, sponsorship

• Choose with the lab leads which calls to answer, then steer each application with the Grant Writer

• Present application budgets to the Board, as consolidated by the Finance and Administration Lead

• Track funding, deadlines and the reports due to funders in Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud

• Develop relationships with foundations and funding partners

PROFILE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• A first experience in fundraising, grant writing or project management

• Excellent, clear and persuasive writing

• Rigour in following deadlines and budgets

• A feel for working with institutional partners

NICE TO HAVE

• Knowledge of European programmes or international foundations

• A background in project management, economics, international relations or humanitarian action

WHAT THIS ROLE GIVES YOU

• Running the funding strategy of an international non-profit

• Full command of grant application building

• A seat on YouthShare’s coordination team

A VOLUNTEER ROLE, OPEN TO YOUNG PEOPLE

Every role we offer is fully voluntary. The experience we ask for can come from a course, a student project, an internship, volunteering or a personal project: every skill counts, wherever you gained it. We weigh your motivation and potential as carefully as your track record.

HOW SELECTION WORKS

• Online application on our website: apply online

• Profile review: the Talent team reads every application and sends a first reply by email within three days on average.

• Video interview: a conversation to get to know each other and shape the assignment together.

• Decision and arrival: our answer by email, then a welcome to the team and access to its tools.

If you need an adjustment to apply or to take part in an interview, write to hr@youthshareinitiatives.org

ABOUT YOUTHSHARE INITIATIVES

YouthShare Initiatives is an international think-action tank and a French non-profit (Act of 1 July 1901). It brings young people from around the world together in five labs to think together, then act: research, debate, mentoring and foresight. Discover us: youthshareinitiatives.org

APPLY ON OUR WEBSITE (REQUIRED, EVEN IF YOU APPLIED ON IDEALIST)

• Apply for this role

• Read the full role description

• See all our open roles

RÉSUMÉ EN FRANÇAIS

Responsable du financement et des subventions : Vous construisez la stratégie de financement de YouthShare : subventions, fondations et mécénat qui donnent aux laboratoires les moyens d’agir.

Poste bénévole, à distance, pour au moins un an · 6 à 10 h par semaine. Candidatures jusqu'au 31 janvier 2027.

En tant que lead, vous participez à deux réunions par mois : vous devez savoir fédérer votre équipe et organiser ses réunions.

Même si vous postulez sur Idealist, vous devez aussi postuler sur notre site : postuler sur youthshareinitiatives.org

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