Title Fundraiser and Coordinator (full-time position)
Reporting to Two Line Managers from the Fundraising Working Group
Time Commitment 6 months minimum
Starting date 24th March 2025 for handover: starting 1st April 2025
Location Based in Calais.
If the candidate has previous field experience in Calais there is a
possibility for remote working, with a minimum of two weeks
every three months spent in Calais.
The first week (handover period) should be in person in Calais.
Salary 1,767€ (before tax) with a French determined duration contract.
Or, possibility of a freelance contract with an equivalent salary.
About Calais Appeal
Calais Appeal is a consortium of independent organisations working at the France-UK border, principally in Calais and Grande-Synthe. They are; l’Auberge des Migrants, Calais Food Collective, Project Play, Refugee Women’s Centre, and Utopia 56. Each organisation provides essential aid and/or services to displaced men, women and children stuck at the border. We built this coalition in 2022 in order to be more effective together, prevent the duplication of work, and to find collaborative solutions to common challenges. We are made up of frontline aid workers supporting and protecting displaced people stuck in the UK-France border area, who are living in tents, isolated from society and in great need of help.
Calais Appeal is an operational consortium: we concern ourselves with the administration, safeguarding, finances, communications, and advocacy of our member organisations, not daily humanitarian relief work.
Mission Statement
Calais Appeal aims to enhance the capacity, professionalism, reach, and stability of each member organisation through collaborative efforts, ensuring effective and sustainable support for displaced individuals in the UK-France border zone.
Position
The fundraising tasks involve the implementation of a holistic fundraising strategy - including applying for grant funds from relevant trusts and foundations as well as crowdfunding and philanthropic networks - to support the financial stability of the member organisations and their activities on-the-ground.
The coordination tasks involve facilitating the Coordination Committee to implement the Calais Appeal MoU, vision, and mission.
Job purpose
Fundraising: empower the Calais Appeal members to secure funding to continue their operations smoothly, as well as to ensure that the activities of Calais Appeal are sustainable and can be executed as desired.
Coordination: empower the Calais Appeal Coordination Committee to operate consistently, safely, and in line with the MOU.
Overall, the candidate should support and empower Calais Appeal members, and to facilitate their decision making, rather than to control the consortium from an independent perspective.
Responsibilities
Fundraising and Capacity Building (~80%)
● Build upon and implement the fundraising strategy and oversee their implementation.
● Facilitate fortnightly meetings of the Calais Appeal Fundraising Working Group.
● Maintain and develop materials to apply for grants and other funding sources.
● Monitor, identify, and research prospective funding opportunities and new donors, including researching the ethics of potential corporate donors.
● Inform Calais Appeal members of relevant opportunities that can apply to, for individual members and/or the Calais Appeal as a whole.
● Lead on collaborative grant applications and reporting for Calais Appeal members.
● Support individual members with their individual fundraising activities.
● Build new and manage existing relationships with stakeholders and create a sustainable and growing (philanthropic) network for Calais Appeal. This includes planning and hosting a quarterly webinar in order to inform stakeholders about the situation in the UK-France border zone.
● Produce a quarterly “donor round-up” newsletter aimed at informing stakeholders.
● Work with members to monitor the amount of funds available to Calais Appeal and to the members, facilitate the sharing of funds, and applications to the Reserve Pot.
● Use platforms (Google Drive, HubSpot, AirTable) in order to implement the work.
Coordination (~20%)
● Facilitate the monthly Coordination Committee meeting (prepare updates from the departments, the agenda, facilitate discussion, take minutes, send action points).
● Facilitate exceptional meetings where capacity allows.
● Support the Coordination Committee decision making, including facilitating votes.
● Oversee the annual revision and continuous implementation of the MoU and in
exceptional circumstances, the implementation of the intervention protocol.
● Help build a culture of member engagement, transparency, and respect for the MoU.