GLOBAL FUNDRAISING WORK PLACEMENT
Change your Career, Change the World
Applications for our Fundraising Work Placement 2022 are closed. If you are interested in fundraising positions, check out our Fundraising Skills Profile to better understand this area in the Animal Advocacy Space.
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Realise Your Potential in Animal Advocacy
Would you like to have a more meaningful job in an animal advocacy organisation? Can you imagine yourself helping organisations raise money so they can help more animals? Animal Advocacy Careers’ 2022 Fundraising Work Placement might be perfect for you!
Apply for a remote, paid work placement and immerse yourself in an effective animal advocacy organisation during the summer, doing part-time or full-time work.
We particularly encourage applications from people from less privileged backgrounds and from people of colour.
▶ REMOTE ▶ TEMPORARY (3 MONTHS) ▶ PART TIME OR FULL TIME ▶ PAID
Boost Your Career and Start Helping Animals for a Living
AAC has partnered with some of the most effective animal advocacy organisations to help solve two of their biggest challenges: getting enough funding to increase their impact for animals, and identifying talented people who can help them to achieve this.
One central part of this solution is people who are highly motivated to do work that helps animals and have skills applicable to a fundraising position.
Is that you?
Why You Should Apply
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Why Fundraising?A lack of funding is one of the main problems that the animal advocacy movement faces. We believe that fundraising is one of the top areas where the movement most urgently needs more expertise. This programme seeks to empower individuals with fundraising skills within the animal advocacy sphere, in order to strengthen the movement.
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What Do Fundraisers Do?There are many different types of fundraising roles and work, ranging from digital marketing to face-to-face fundraising with major donors. However, there are some common activities: ‣ Communicate with donors. Of course, this often involves directly asking donors or institutions for their financial support. ‣ Research potential donors and grant-makers. ‣ One-to-one communication with individuals and institutions that might make gifts and thanking them for gifts they have made. Fundraising involves both cultivating relationships with prospective donors and stewarding relationships with existing donors. ‣ Coordinate with other employees in the organisation to ensure that information related to donors is well-informed and to support communication with or proposals for donors. ‣ Logistical work coordinating fundraising across the department or specific fundraising campaigns.
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How Will this Work Placement Expand my Career Options?Fundraising provides a lot of generally useful skills. At the end of the experience, you will be better equipped to work in various nonprofit roles besides fundraising, including campaigns, marketing, or management and leadership, roles in government institutions, or roles at for-profit companies. Fundraisers may be well-placed to enter high-level management and leadership roles in nonprofits.
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How Does This Work Help Animals?If you’re interested in helping animals effectively through your career, you should prioritise work that has high potential for impact. Spending resources on fundraising can have a multiplier effect by raising substantially more money than is invested.
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How Does the Application Process Work?Please complete our application form. After the deadline, if we have received a completed form from you, we will send you an email letting you know whether we will proceed with your application or not. If we proceed, you will be asked to complete 2-3 hours’ worth of test tasks. We will then send you another email letting you know whether we will proceed with your application or not. If we proceed, you will have an interview to discuss your application and the programme. We will then send you another email letting you know whether we will proceed with your application or not. Application deadline: Sunday 1st May. We recognise that this application process is more time-consuming than some. We offer compensation of $20 per hour spent on test tasks (up to a maximum of 3 hours), as well as $50 per interview. (Note that this payment might be taxable in your country and you are responsible for reporting it to your tax authority.)
You might be a great fit if you can be persuasive, whether that’s in face-to-face conversations or in writing. Additionally, you’ll need to have some, but not necessarily all, of the following:
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Good “people skills” and “emotional intelligence.”
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Familiarity with data, data analysis expertise, and an ability to make decisions based on evidence and testing.
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Good writing skills.
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The ability to tailor fundraising pitches to different donors.
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A problem-solving mindset and focus on maximising positive impact.
You’ll need to be able to hit the ground running. This could be because ANY of the following are true:
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You are generally smart and learn quickly.
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You have experience that is applicable to fundraising. For example:
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Marketing and communications
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Sales
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Campaigns
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Event Management
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Account Management
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Recruitment
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Consultancy
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Direct fundraising experience (ideal, but not required)
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Have relevant studies for this position, such as fundraising, marketing, or management studies.
Last but not least, you should have passion and high motivation to help animals!
This Program is For You If...
It is sometimes said that men tend to apply for jobs when they meet only some of the criteria, while women and other marginalised groups are less likely to apply if they are not a 100% match. If you are passionate about helping animals and think you have what it takes to be successful in this, please apply even if you don’t check all the boxes. We’d appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.
Among others, you could be matched with one of the following organisations:
Testimonials
Animal Advocacy Careers is an exceptional organisation and Lauren Mee is a superb leader.
Through AAC's paid (by ACC) Fundraising Work Placement program, Lauren matched us with a very talented Development Consultant who helped enormously with our fundraising program, particularly through the year-end charitable crush so many nonprofits face.
AAC and Lauren are providing a unique and much needed resource for the animal protection movement. And each time I'm asked for advice on starting or further developing a career in animal protection, I'm reminded of how fortunate we all are to be able to point to AAC as the place to start.
— David Ebert, Co-Founder at Animal Defense Partnership
How the Program Works
You will be compensated at around $20 per hour throughout the process, including time spent on applications (if you make it past the initial applications screening) and learning (if you complete the courses). Note that these payments might be taxable in your country and you are responsible for reporting it to your tax authority.
A fundraiser’s role is to help maximise the donations received by a non-profit organisation, which might include a variety of tasks. Here are some example tasks you could be responsible for:
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Researching potential donors and grant-makers.
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Tracking interactions with donors and new gifts.
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Drafting communications with donors and grant proposals.
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Drafting strategies for moving prospects to actually making donations or for increasing gift sizes from specific donors.
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Organising or assisting with fundraising events.
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Attending external VegFests, conferences, and other events, either for face-to-face fundraising or just as a representative of the organisation.
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Logistical work coordinating specific campaigns or fundraising across the department.
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Creating informative resources for donors, such as impact reports.
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Analysing the organisation’s fundraising data.
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Reviewing existing systems and providing suggestions for improvements.
Exactly which tasks you end up undertaking will ultimately be decided by you and your placement organisation, and could include more substantial and ambitious projects for more experienced applicants.
How You Will
Make a Difference
Still not sure if this work placement is for you?
Read more about fundraising in our fundraising skills profile
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Why Fundraising?A lack of funding is one of the main problems that the animal advocacy movement faces. We believe that fundraising is one of the top areas where the movement most urgently needs more expertise. This programme seeks to empower individuals with fundraising skills within the animal advocacy sphere, in order to strengthen the movement.
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What Do Fundraisers Do?There are many different types of fundraising roles and work, ranging from digital marketing to face-to-face fundraising with major donors. However, there are some common activities: ‣ Communicate with donors. Of course, this often involves directly asking donors or institutions for their financial support. ‣ Research potential donors and grant-makers. ‣ One-to-one communication with individuals and institutions that might make gifts and thanking them for gifts they have made. Fundraising involves both cultivating relationships with prospective donors and stewarding relationships with existing donors. ‣ Coordinate with other employees in the organisation to ensure that information related to donors is well-informed and to support communication with or proposals for donors. ‣ Logistical work coordinating fundraising across the department or specific fundraising campaigns.
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How Will this Work Placement Expand my Career Options?Fundraising provides a lot of generally useful skills. At the end of the experience, you will be better equipped to work in various nonprofit roles besides fundraising, including campaigns, marketing, or management and leadership, roles in government institutions, or roles at for-profit companies. Fundraisers may be well-placed to enter high-level management and leadership roles in nonprofits.
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How Does This Work Help Animals?If you’re interested in helping animals effectively through your career, you should prioritise work that has high potential for impact. Spending resources on fundraising can have a multiplier effect by raising substantially more money than is invested.
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How Does the Application Process Work?Please complete our application form. After the deadline, if we have received a completed form from you, we will send you an email letting you know whether we will proceed with your application or not. If we proceed, you will be asked to complete 2-3 hours’ worth of test tasks. We will then send you another email letting you know whether we will proceed with your application or not. If we proceed, you will have an interview to discuss your application and the programme. We will then send you another email letting you know whether we will proceed with your application or not. Application deadline: Sunday 1st May. We recognise that this application process is more time-consuming than some. We offer compensation of $20 per hour spent on test tasks (up to a maximum of 3 hours), as well as $50 per interview. (Note that this payment might be taxable in your country and you are responsible for reporting it to your tax authority.)