- Role: Fundraising and Communications Specialist
- Organization: LishaBora Ltd.
- Location: Thindigua, Kiambu County, Kenya
LishaBora (“Feed Better” in Kiswahili) is a socially-driven Kenyan company that aims to improve the sustainability of smallholder dairy farming. With 65% of Kenya’s milk coming from 2 million smallholder dairy farms, it is essential that market inefficiencies and systemic failures are remedied. LishaBora uses technology, community-based networks, and quality-assured products to drive change for smallholders at both the market level and farm level.
Our market-based approach to improving animal feeding and farm-level practices has been demonstrated with 550 smallholders in Central Kenya. Our vision for the future is to co-manage smallholder dairy farms in the most nuanced and inputs-dependent areas of management: feeds and fertility. By leveraging our close relationship with farmers and other streams of data, LishaBora aims to understand farms at the cow level to make much-needed advisory a scalable and profitable reality.
About the role
EWB Fellows have played a major role in developing LishaBora’s strategy and will continue doing so. Fellows will get a hands-on-experience working in a young and dynamic social enterprise whose work directly benefits smallholder farmers in Kenya. We are looking to add a communications and grant writing rock star to support LishaBora’s next stage of growth.
Responsibilities
Fundraising
- Researching, identification and acquisition of grants and major donations from philanthropic bodies, government departments, individual donors and the corporate sector.
- Attending relevant fundraising forums and groups
- Writing and presenting proposals through collaboration with LishaBora staff
- Creating a grants management system for LishaBora;
- Identify networks in which LishaBora leadership can participate to raise the organization’s profile with donors and investors;
Communications
- In coordination with LishaBora staff, develop a communication and visibility strategy and support preparation of visibility materials such as fact sheets, brochures, and newsletters.
- Keep donors/investors abreast of LishaBora’s work by developing and implementing a robust donor and investors communications plan;
This job will also require you to:
- Work with the other team members in order to develop and implement better business practices;
- Work from the small office that acts as the company headquarters in Thindigua, Kenya;
- Be able and willing to do a diverse set of tasks, applying skills across disciplines;
- Have a drive and passion for working with small business that are impact focused;
- Willing to take risks in order to achieve something new and exciting;
- Have an open mind, be creative, have fun and enjoy new experiences.
Sound exciting? Here’s who we are looking for.
Skills & Qualifications
- Post-secondary education in related field required
- Excellent skills in networking, communications, prospect research, marketing and project management
- Ability to explain complex issues to funders and present LishaBora and its work in a compelling, concise manner
- Demonstrated success in securing grants or major donations from philanthropic bodies, government, major donors and the corporate sector would be highly desirable but not required
Specifically, we are looking for the following skills:
- Experience in Fundraising or like field;
- Excellent grammar and spelling;
- Very strong writing skill and the ability to clearly articulate;
- Organizational and managerial skills;
- English as a primary language;
- Social personality and eagerness to interact with lots of people.
