Fundraising Support

The Renewables Grid Initiative is a unique collaboration of NGOs and TSOs from across Europe. We promote transparent, environmentally sensitive grid development to enable steady growth of renewable energy and the energy transition.

As a member organisation for TSOs and NGOs, RGI facilitates the exchange of our members and further stakeholders to come up with

1. new approaches on how to plan and build the grid infrastructure needed for the energy transition while defending environmental safeguards and fully recognising societal concerns related to the develop of large infrastructure and
2. new and more progressive political positions on how to operate the electricity grid in a fast changing environment.

RGI receives funding from different sources, including project grants, operating grants and membership fees.

The Renewables Grid Initiative seeks a

Fundraising Support

The new staff shall on part-time basis (50%) help to develop and implement a new fundraising strategy and support the development and writing of proposals.

Deadline for application December 15th, 2017; interviews will be run until mid-January; please include in your application responses to the questions at the end of this document.

Specific tasks

The Fundraising Support shall specifically work on the following tasks:

• Analysing RGI’s current approach to fundraising
• Identifying additional funding opportunities; enhance the understanding of how to apply to new programmes or how to propose project ideas to new potential private sector funders
• Develop and regularly update a fundraising map
• Together with the RGI team, develop fundraising funnels which can be promoted with relevant institutions and develop new multi-stakeholder projects (establishment of new collaborations).
• Contribute to writing proposals.

Qualifications

Candidates should have

• working experience of at least three to four years, ideally with an international component.
• experience with fundraising, both with international programmes and with private funders (foundations); ideally a relevant network.
• background knowledge on matters of stakeholder engagement in the field of large-scale infrastructure in the energy sector with some understanding of planning and permitting procedures.
• the availability to travel (nationally and at EU level).
• an ability to work fully independently and highly efficiently structure their own work; be a respected discussion partner for potential funders.
• excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; at least one further European language highly desirable.
• an ability to learn fast and to quickly understand new issues; convincing personality with strong capacity to build up trustful relationships.

What we offer

• We are a small but highly international and diverse team.
• We are growing and continuously inventing something new.
• We interact with partners in 11 different European countries.
• We work at the interface of the corporate energy world, non-governmental organisations and the policy world.

Your application

Please address your application to Antonella Battaglini, the Executive Director of RGI, including your Curriculum Vitae, the responses to the questions below and a letter of motivation in which you indicate expected salary, first possible available date and references. Send your application to jobs@renewables-grid.eu. The deadline is December 31th.

The starting date for this post is as soon as possible. The contract will run for initially two years with the option of prolonging it. Our offices are based in down-town Berlin.

Only candidates with the required qualifications will receive feedback to their application.

Questions

Please give an example of you raising funds. (maximum half a page)

You will have to develop a future fundraising strategy for RGI – what are the elements you look into and the steps to take? (maximum one page)

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