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Remote Consultancy Opportunity: Join CIVICUS as an Innovation and Sustainability Consultant

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Closing Date: 9 May 2025

Remote Consultancy Opportunity: Join CIVICUS as an Innovation and Sustainability Consultant

CIVICUS is looking for an expert fundraiser with significant management experience to support its innovation and sustainability workstream for an initial period of six months. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. The first batch of applications will be reviewed on 9 May 2025.

About CIVICUS

CIVICUS is a growing global alliance of more than 15,000 members in 175 countries. CIVICUS works together to expand civic and democratic space and strives to promote excluded voices, particularly from the global south.

CIVICUS 2022-2027 Strategic Plan is built on the assumption that we are stronger when we work together. Expanding civic and democratic space requires a collective effort where its members and allies design and test sustainable solutions to deliver impact at scale.

To make this happen, CIVICUS works on five core objectives:

Generate timely knowledge and analyses on civil society actions in relation to civic and democratic space.
Coordinate targeted advocacy to defend and expand civic and democratic space.
Contribute to stronger emergency and sustained support ecosystems for activists and organisations at risk.
Strengthen public discourse on civic space and reinforce civil society narratives.
Build counter power with the most affected groups and their movements.

Consultancy background and objectives

CIVICUS’ current Strategic Plan 2022-2027 is supported by a costed strategy that outlines funding necessary to fulfill its strategic objectives mentioned above, and to support the strengthening of the alliance’s work on innovation and sustainability. In light of shifting funder priorities, CIVICUS is looking to diversify its resourcing partnerships and test alternative funding mechanisms, including individual giving using digital platforms.

The Innovation and Sustainability consultant will be required to explore new partnerships with potential funders, support relationships with existing funders and implement CIVICUS’s fundraising priorities. In addition, the Innovation and Sustainability consultant will be required to work flexibly to advance CIVICUS’s innovation and sustainability workstream objectives.

Qualifications and Experience:

Hands-on experience in fundraising, funder outreach and relationship development.
In-depth knowledge of the rights-oriented funding landscape.
Extensive networks including with funders in the Global North and South.
Hands-on experience with proposal development, reporting and management.
Familiarity with innovative digital fundraising tools to support individual giving.
Excellent communications skills – written and verbal.
Excellent facilitation skills – online, in-person and hybrid.
Experience working with diverse cultures and dispersed teams.
Experience working with civil society organisations and activists, particularly those belonging to traditionally excluded or marginalised communities.

Expected workdays, timeframe and costing

CIVICUS anticipates that this remote consultancy will require an average commitment of around 30 hours per week over a six-month period between May and November 2025. The consultant must be willing to also respond flexibly to emerging organisational needs with regards to innovation and sustainability

Budget

Please provide a financial proposal which includes human resources, and any material costs likely to be incurred, with an accompanying budget narrative. 

Application process 

Please include the following elements in your proposal and submit here by COB 14 May 2025:

Introduction: Motivation/interest in applying for this opportunity. 
Unique value add: This should include your approach – responding in more detail to the information set out in the ToR. Please be specific in how your experience coincides with the rationale/purpose of this consultancy, including a high-level workplan and means to measure the success of the expected deliverables.
Experience and examples/references: Include your CV, relevant experience and capabilities to deliver this consultancy along-with any testimonials of similar completed work projects.
Budget: Proposed project fee including detailed breakdown of costs. All financial information must be expressed in United States Dollars (USD), unless the applicant is based in South Africa, in which case rates should be included in South African Rand (ZAR).

Please ensure all of the above elements are included in one PDF document proposal, whilst keeping it to a maximum of 5 pages (CVs may be included in an annex to the proposal and will not count against the page limit).