Sightsavers Head of Individual Giving Fundraising and Marketing Jobs Kenya 2025 – NGO Jobs in Kenya. Sightsavers has announced a new and exciting career opportunity for job seekers in Kenya. They are currently hiring for the position of Head of Individual Giving Fundraising and Marketing at Nairobi. This role is a great opportunity for candidates.
Sightsavers Head of Individual Giving Fundraising and Marketing Jobs 2025 Details
| Position | Head of Individual Giving Fundraising and Marketing |
| Location | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Organization | Sightsavers |
| Application Deadline | 3rd Aug, 2025 |
| Job Type | Full-Time |
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsibility for supporter care in Ireland, working closely with the Global Fundraising team, to ensure the highest standards of delivery of supporter services.
- Responsibility for the day to day running of the individual giving programme including line management of fundraising staff.
- Responsibility for identifying and implementing new fundraising and business development opportunities with local stakeholders in Kenya.
- Working closely with the Sightsavers Kenya Country Office, the Global Communications team and local photographers and media agencies to secure new content for fundraising campaigns in Ireland. Through these close stakeholder relationships in Kenya, the candidate will need to link Sightsavers work in Kenya to key supporters in Ireland.
- Playing an active role on the Sightsavers Ireland management team, working closely with the Sightsavers Ireland CEO on developing and inputting into strategic documents and reporting to the Sightsavers Ireland board.
Required Qualifications:
- Significant experience in Fundraising or Direct Marketing including substantial experience in a senior management level role with proven experience in devising and implementing successful direct marketing campaigns to mass market audiences activity using current best practice.
- Proven track record in generating significant fundraising income of over 4 million euro.
- Experience in working in other key international markets demonstrating adaptability to different fundraising environments.
- Effective financial management, control and prioritisation of budgets, including annual planning, reforecasting, and presenting investment cases.
- Experience of devising and implementing segmentation, targeting and prompt strategies.
- Experience of managing creative, print and media agencies with practice in negotiating strong commercial agreements.
- Demonstrable experience of leading, managing, motivating and inspiring a team.
- Experience of working within an environment of constant change often working to very tight deadlines and potentially changing priorities.
- Experience of appraising new ideas and proposals and testing (or not) as appropriate.
- Experience of working for a not for profit organisation would be desirable
- Experience of developing integrated multi-media campaigns.
- Creative and innovative thinker, motivated by pushing the boundaries
- Proven ability to think strategically and translate concepts into effective action plans.
- Robust, confident, ‘can-do’ attitude that thrives on challenges and calm under pressure
- Excellent management and leadership skills with the ability to build strong relationships, based on mutual respect and trust, and ensure that the relationships thrive under pressure.
- Positive, results driven individual
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong analytical ability
- Proven strategy development, project management and planning skills
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for persons with disabilities.
- Excellent written and spoken English is essential and additional European languages would be an advantage.
How to Apply
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply through the official Sightsavers career portal.
(Visit the link and search for the job title “Head of Individual Giving Fundraising and Marketing – Nairobi” to begin your application.)
Make sure to submit your application before 3rd Aug, 2025, as late applications will not be considered.