TERMS OF REFERENCE (ToR) FUND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

TERMS OF REFERENCE (ToR)

FUND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

SOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGES ESWATINI

POSITION TITLE

FUND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

Duty Station: National Office, Mbabane
Reports To: National Fund Development Manager

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and passionate Fund Development Coordinator to join our team and support our Local Fundraising and Sponsorship Initiatives.

The Fund Development Coordinator will ensure the coordination, quality, and ethical use of content related to children, young people, programmes, and communities at national level. The role connects programme-level colleagues, participants, national teams, and international stakeholders to ensure sponsorship and content outputs are authentic, child-safe, and reusable across fundraising, communication, advocacy, and awareness-raising activities.

Furthermore, the Coordinator will adhere to the MA’s Fundraising and Resource Mobilizing Strategy by mobilizing resources that enable sustainable impact for children and young people in situations of vulnerability.

This role offers hands-on experience in donor engagement, Individual giving, campaign coordination and local fundraising within an international child-focused organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of the organization’s fundraising and resource mobilization strategy to secure sustainable funding from individuals, corporations, foundations, institutions, and other partners.
• Coordinate donor engagement, stewardship, and individual giving initiatives to strengthen donor acquisition, retention, and long-term relationships.
• Assist in the development of fundraising proposals, grant applications, sponsorship packages, donor reports, and other resource mobilization materials.
• Plan, coordinate, and monitor fundraising campaigns, events, and awareness-raising initiatives to achieve fundraising and engagement targets.
• Develop and coordinate donor communications, including newsletters, impact stories, donor updates, acknowledgements, and recognition initiatives.
• Coordinate the collection, review, quality assurance, storage, and dissemination of content related to children, young people, programmes, and communities.
• Ensure all fundraising, sponsorship, and communication content complies with organizational policies, branding standards, ethical storytelling principles, and child safeguarding requirements.
• Support the creation of high-quality stories, photographs, videos, case studies, testimonials, and programme updates for fundraising, communications, advocacy, and sponsorship purposes.
• Coordinate sponsorship communications and content processes, ensuring accuracy, quality, compliance, and timely submission of sponsor-related information and reports.
• Promote child-safe content practices by ensuring informed consent, confidentiality, privacy, and safeguarding standards are consistently upheld.
• Maintain donor databases, content management systems, and accurate records of fundraising, sponsorship, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Monitor and analyze fundraising, donor engagement, sponsorship, campaign, and content performance indicators and prepare regular reports.
• Develop impact reports, case studies, and other documentation that demonstrate programme achievements and donor contributions.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with programme teams, donors, sponsors, corporate partners, government institutions, community organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Represent the organization at meetings, networking forums, donor engagements, and fundraising events to strengthen partnerships and advance resource mobilization objectives.
• Support collaboration between programme, communications, sponsorship, advocacy, and fundraising teams to maximize organizational impact and visibility.

Compliance with Child Safeguarding

• Ensuring that Child Safeguarding measures are in place within their area of managerial responsibility and that staff, associates and other key stakeholders are made aware of these measures and are supported in implementing them.

• Ensuring that Child safeguarding is integrated in all management processes including performance management, team meetings, annual planning process field-level monitoring, IWP, IDP etc.

• Creating and maintaining a managerial and operational environment where the Child Safeguarding Policy is effectively implemented.

• Fulfilling specific and additional responsibilities in achieving compliance of SOS Children’s Villages Child Protection Policy.

• Ensure the best interest of the child is applied and considered.

Qualifications and Experience

Education

A bachelor’s degree in marketing, Communications, Public Relations, Fundraising, Development Studies, Business Administration, International Development, Social Sciences, Media Studies, Project Management, or related field is required.

Candidates with academic qualifications that provide a strong foundation in fundraising, donor engagement, communications, partnership development, and resource mobilization will be considered favourably.

Experience

Candidates should possess a minimum of 3–5 years of relevant professional experience in fundraising, donor relations, communications, sponsorship, marketing, resource mobilization, or non-profit programme support, with demonstrated experience in coordinating fundraising campaigns, donor engagement initiatives, and developing content for communications, donor reporting, social media, or sponsorship programmes.

Experience working with children, community-based programmes, development organizations, project coordination, stakeholder engagement, and the use of donor databases, content management systems, or customer relationship management (CRM) platforms will be an added advantage.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of fundraising principles and donor stewardship practices.

• Understanding corporate fundraising and individual giving approaches.

• Excellent writing, editing, reporting, storytelling, and analytical skills.

• Ability to translate programme information into compelling donor-focused content.

• Strong content planning and coordination skills.

• Knowledge of digital communications and social media platforms.

• Strong organizational and planning abilities.

   

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

• Experience using CRM systems, donor databases, or content management systems.

• Familiarity with photography, videography, and digital content tools is an added advantage.

Interpersonal Skills

• Excellent relationship building and networking skills.

• Strong communication and presentation abilities.

• Ability to work collaboratively in multicultural environments.

• High levels of integrity, professionalism, and accountability.

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about child rights and youth development.

• Highly motivated and results oriented.

• Creative and innovative.

• Ethical and trustworthy.

• Detail-oriented and quality focused.

• Flexible and able to work under pressure.

• Proactive and self-driven.

• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and child safeguarding.