Prospect Research Manager
Fundraising | Good Food Institute | Up to £48k | Perm
Good Food Institute
Prospect Research Manager
Up to £48k
Remote - Anywhere in Europe
Full-time, Permanent
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The Role
To date Europe has a healthy portfolio of major donors who are giving c.£750k, in gifts ranging from £15k - £300k. Many of these donors have offered their services in building the organisation’s funding network, but they haven’t had a fundraiser in place who could capitalise on this. That all changed in February 2021 when they brought on an incredible Head of Philanthropy (we placed her, so I would say that), who has added two Philanthropy Managers to the team and they are now looking to increase their research and pipeline management resource.
The organisation is in the envious position of having too many leads to follow up on, rather than needing to do lots of speculative outreach. Their own network is incredibly strong, and the global organisation has found they’ve benefitted from referrals from donor advisors in the effective altruism space, such as Founder’s Pledge. Whilst some cold donor research is always part of the programme, this will largely be focused on the detailed mapping of their existing network, production of detailed donor profiles, and working strategically with the philanthropy team to ensure that the right donors are being approached, at the right time, for the right reasons.
Emily has worked in organisations with highly developed prospect research functions, where it is a strategically integrated part of the philanthropy programme, acting as a partner in philanthropy rather than a service to it. She is looking for someone to become that strategic partner at GFI and work with her to build their prospect research capacity.
The last 5 years has seen a rise in international enterprises with a relatively low staff count, high impact and incredible reach, staffed by brilliant, talented individuals working in a flexible way that works for both the organisation and the individuals involved. Their very nature means that roles with those organisations come up rarely, but here we find ourselves.
If you like the cut of my sales pitch gib, I’d thoroughly recommend reading the job brochure that I linked to at the beginning of this email, and that we find some time to talk it through in more detail.
The Bamboo team has worked with GFI since 2018 and they’re absolutely one of our favourite teams to partner with, I’d love to tell you a little about why!
The Organisation
This global organisation, with income of £15m, are looking to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems (climate change, future pandemics, animal welfare, obesity, life limiting health) by investing in and stimulating the production and adoption of non-animal proteins in our food supply chain.
Animal products are ubiquitous because the incredible production capacity we have developed globally makes them relatively cheap and, compared to the alternatives, many people find them to be delicious. By investing in innovative start-ups who are exploring novel products and technologies, as well as lobbying governments to ease the regulatory landscape, this organisation are doing for the food sector what governments have done for the renewable energy sector. They are driving innovation, driving down costs, and consumers are following.
Rather than fighting the structures around us, they are manipulating market forces with social purpose. It not only works but has sparked the imagination of a global network of donors.
GFI work globally, but Europe is becoming the focus of much of their work. The UK has just approved the sale of two cultured meat types, and the EU looks set to follow suit, this looks to become the epicentre of the movement towards large-scale alternative protein in the human diet.