Count me In
About CMI!
Count me In is a unique consortium of movement-support organisations and feminist funds that strengthens movements led by women and girls, and non-binary, gender non-confirming, trans and intersex people for a gender-equal and just world.
For almost a decade, CMI! has built a strong feminist infrastructure that supports these movements’ resilience and leverage of power to create change from local to global and from global to local. Together, CMI! and the movements we support drive systemic and sustainable change at all levels.
A strategic partner of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CMI! consists of member organisations: Mama Cash, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, CREA, Just Associates, and the Sister Funds Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism and Urgent Action Fund Africa, with Mama Cash as the lead organisation and pen holder. The sex worker-led Red Umbrella Fund (RUF) and the Dutch gender platform WO=MEN are strategic partners of the consortium.
Position Overview
CMI! is seeking a Partnerships Lead with excellent donor engagement, partnership building and fundraising experience to lead our ambitious goal of raising US $30-50M in the next three years. This funding is critical for CMI! to continue to exist, sustain results and to expand the reach and scope of our work from 2026 onward.
The ideal candidate must have extensive experience securing major grants from institutional funders, especially bilaterals, multilateral and large foundations. They must demonstrate agility, creativity, and a commitment to building transformative relationships. Experience in representing and fundraising for a consortium, along with the ability to skillfully navigate and negotiate partner dynamics and relationships, is essential
The CMI! Partnerships Lead will report to the CMI! Programme Coordinator and work closely with the CMI! Fundraising Working Group, consisting of representatives from each member organisation, and maintain an open line of communication with the Executive Directors.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Mobilise resources for the CMI! Programme through the development of partnerships with funders and donors (donor outreach and engagement, coordinate grant proposal development)
- Raise CMI!’s profile among funders and other relevant stakeholders
- Steward CMI-specific donor relationships, including reporting
Resource Mobilisation
- Develop a resource mobilisation plan for CMI! including a list of prospective donors and cultivation plan for each
- Write and submit new funding proposals for CMI!
- Lead and facilitate the CMI! Fundraising working group
- Create and manage processes and systems for collective donor management, moves management calendar, and shared repository of content
Raise CMI!’s profile
- Identify and attend key convenings to network and build CMI!’s profile among funders
- Raise CMI!’s profile and case for support in all communications channels, in collaboration with CMI!’s Senior Communications Officer where agreed
Stewardship
- Manage CMI! grants and reporting requirements, working with the Consortium members.
- Steward CMI-specific donor relationships, including reporting.
CAPACITIES:
- Shares CMI!’s values: integrity, intersectional feminisms, wellbeing, justice, courage and mindful engagement
- Holds a critical understanding of and deep commitment to feminism, social justice, and human rights issues facing women, trans, gender non-binary, and intersex people
- Strong commitment and practice to decolonizing philanthropy and anti-racist praxis
- Emotionally intelligent, comfortable working across cultures and time zones, team-oriented and works collaboratively and respectfully with multiple stakeholders, donors, activists, and external consultants
- Takes initiative, shows resourcefulness and has strong critical thinking, multi-tasking, and problem-solving skills
- Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment managing competing priorities and reprioritizing tasks as needed
- Works methodically with attention to detail and sensitivity to confidential information and security concerns
- Is able to receive and act on constructive feedback and demonstrates robust interpersonal skills
- Thrives in a remote and distributed global team environment, with dual reporting and accountability structure
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum of 7-10 years of relevant experience and proven track record in fundraising, nonprofit development, or resource mobilisation, in particular securing large, multi-year grants for complex, consortium-led programmes
- Knowledge and familiarity with fundraising and grant-seeking processes and procedures
- Subject expertise and past activism and/or lived experience related to LGBTQI rights, environmental and climate justice, racial justice, sex workers’ rights or disability justice preferred
- Detailed knowledge of and demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Google applications for example Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, Slides
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English and an ability to distill complex and detailed information into an accessible and approachable writing and verbal communication style
- Practical expertise in project management and stakeholder engagement
- Experience with and/or knowledge of feminist and social justice fundraising principles, practices and frameworks.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required
COMPENSATION:
This position is a one-year full-time (36 hours per week as Mama Cash has a 4-day workweek) assignment that can be fully remote, taking into account that Fundraising Working Group weekly calls will take place in the afternoon Central European Time to accommodate all of CMI! Members organizations’ locations. The monthly salary for this position depends upon experience and is based on CAO social work scale 11, with a range of € 4.072 to € 6.322.
How to Apply (EXTERNAL)
Please send your CV and letter of interest to info-cmi@mamacash.org by [3 week from posting] August, 23:59 CET.