Private Partnerships Assistant

Reporting to: Stewardship & Donor Relations Manager

Location: Stellenbosch

BACKGROUND

Peace Parks Foundation, founded by President Nelson Mandela, HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Dr. Anton Rupert, is a leader in large-scale ecological restoration across southern Africa. Through co-management partnerships that unite governments, communities and donors, it restores vast transboundary landscapes that deliver measurable conservation and livelihood outcomes. Vision 2050 will secure 18 functional landscapes spanning 980,000 km², one of the world’s largest land-conservation initiatives.

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Job Purpose

Peace Parks is committed to Conservation m a Fund Development perspective, this is achieved by developing new and creative partnership opportunities, fostering lasting relationships, engagingly telling the Peace Park story, while also ensuring administrative and support processes run smoothly.

The role focuses on providing assistance with relationship development and maintenance with private donors who share Peace Parks’ vision. Support to the Team of Fund Developers may be requested on occasion.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain a donor database and customer relationship management system
• Draft, donor letters, and other correspondence
• Support donor visits to the head office and to Peace Parks field programmes including planning, gathering quotes and hotel reservations
• Support in promotion of Peace Parks Legacy Programme and administration of the programme.
• An ability to support the team of Account Managers, to ensure the grant lifecycle from inception to close out
• Update Peace Parks’ online customer relationship management system to record and process opportunities, agreements, reports, thank you letters, campaigns and extract reports
• Compiling and supporting travel itineraries and quotations
• Support donor due diligence processes
• Developing high quality presentations and other communications materials