Who can apply
- Individuals applying for full-time employment rather than organisations
- Applicants legally authorised to live and work in a country supported by Educate!
- Professionals with early but clear evidence of high performance in demanding environments
- Applicants with strong written and verbal communication skills
- Applicants with excellent research, organisation and execution skills
- Applicants with some exposure to fundraising, strategic initiatives or high-value external relationships
- Applicants whose fundraising exposure may have been gained in a supporting capacity
- Applicants who can learn unfamiliar subjects and donor landscapes quickly
- Applicants who can work independently and manage competing priorities
- Applicants strongly aligned with Educate!’s youth-employment mission
- Candidates should not exclude themselves solely because they do not meet every listed preference
- No mandatory university degree is stated
- No fixed minimum number of professional years is stated
Focus areas
- High-net-worth donor prospecting
- Network and relationship mapping
- Individual donor research
- Corporate donor research
- Family-office research
- Donor-advised fund advisers
- Giving networks
- Prospect qualification
- Relationship-tracking systems
- CRM development and management
- Donor stewardship
- Donor engagement planning
- Donor narratives
- Pitch decks
- Funding menus
- Tailored donor briefings
- High-value cultivation events
- Philanthropy market intelligence
- Donor-interest monitoring
- Fundraising communications
Requirements
- Current résumé or CV
- Accurate contact and location information
- Response explaining a complex subject the applicant taught themselves
- Explanation of why the subject mattered to the applicant’s work or ambitions
- Explanation of how the applicant approached the learning process
- Explanation of how the learning changed the applicant’s work
- Country in which the applicant is legally authorised to live and work
- Declaration of any required visa assistance or work authorisation
- Expected gross monthly salary
- Safeguarding declaration
- Agreement to provide a Police Clearance Certificate, Certificate of Good Conduct or equivalent if selected as a final candidate
- LinkedIn profile where available
- Website or professional portfolio where available
- A separate cover letter is not listed as mandatory
- Application must be submitted through the official Greenhouse form
Application steps
- Read the complete official role description.
- Confirm that you are legally authorised to work from an eligible country.
- Tailor your CV to donor research, relationship mapping, fundraising systems and external communication.
- Prepare a specific response about learning and applying a complex subject.
- Complete the salary, work-authorisation and safeguarding questions accurately.
- Submit the application through the official Greenhouse form as early as possible.
Applicants should demonstrate specific donor or prospect research, relationship mapping, systems or workflows they have built, persuasive donor-facing writing and exposure to fundraising or high-value stakeholders. Strong applications will provide evidence of ownership and measurable performance rather than relying on general claims about passion or hard work. The written response should give a clear example of learning an unfamiliar subject quickly, explain the applicant’s approach and show how the new knowledge was applied in practice. Educate! expressly encourages strong candidates to apply even where they do not meet every listed preference, but applicants must still demonstrate the quality of thinking, execution, curiosity and responsibility required to build a high-net-worth fundraising function.