Closing date: 31 Oct 2015
About Translators without Borders
Translators without Borders, a US 501(c) 3 non-profit with an operations centre in Kenya, was founded in 1993 to provide volunteer translations to non-profit organizations. In 2010, the organization started a virtual platform to better coordinate these resources. In the last five years we have translated over 25 millions words of life-saving and life-changing content in over 100 languages. Our latest activations around the Ebola crisis and Nepal earthquake have won widespread praise from the international community.
Although we remain a volunteer-driven organization with a small team, we have now secured funding to hire three key personnel, with the aim of taking the organization to a new level of professionalism, developing our extensive network of partnerships, and further developing our strong technology platform.
The External Affairs Manager Role
Develop and execute awareness-raising campaigns with NGOs/governments; implement enhanced development initiatives/campaigns; design new vehicles to begin generating earned income and reduce dependence on annual/restricted contributions. The External Affairs Manager will be focused on communications and relationships with major funders, major aid organizations, individual donors, general public and the translation industry.
Responsibilities
- Create and implement a targeted resource development strategy.
- Manage and implement donor and constituent management system.
- Create and implement marketing and awareness programs, including digital programs.
- Oversee enhanced marketing communications, public relations and social media activities as well as development of brand identity.
- Establish metrics and benchmarks for measuring fundraising and marketing programs and goals.
- Manage submission of grant proposals based on program and delivery goals.
- Supervise team of volunteers focused on marketing and fundraising activities.
- Coordinate donor relations and partnerships as required by Executive Director and Board.
Qualifications
The External Affairs Manager for TWB should be enthusiastic about the importance of increasing access to knowledge through language. The right candidate is an energetic team player and leader who agrees with TWB´s basic beliefs and values and who can work virtually with team members based throughout the world.
- Comfortable reporting to management and funders
- Able to innovate to find creative solutions; willing to explore new technologies
- Resourceful, able to get more out of small budgets
- Experienced in leveraging the power of social media
- Experienced volunteer manager
- Previous experience with NGOs, particularly in development and/or disaster relief, is a plus
- Strong writing skills
Requirements
- Humanitarian aid experience required
- Established network in the humanitarian world
- 3+ years fundraising experience
- 3+ years marketing and communications experience, preferably in non-profit setting
- Familiarity with the translation, language or content industries a plus
Core Values
Translators without Borders employees and volunteers are made of people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. Translators without Borders’ mission and organizational spirit are made up of the core values established in its strategic framework:
Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, Translators without Borders is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
Integrity: Translators without Borders believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
Empowerment: Translators without Borders believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
Innovation: Translators without Borders recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
Sustainability: Translators without Borders recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and, conduct themselves professionally at all times.
Organizational Background Translators without Borders envisions a world where knowledge knows no language barriers. The US-based nonprofit provides people access to vital knowledge in their language by connecting nonprofit organizations with a professional community of volunteer translators, building local language translation capacity, and raising awareness of language barriers. Originally founded in 1994 in France as Traducteurs sans Frontières (now its sister organization), Translators without Borders translates millions of words per year, provides rapid response teams for crises and trains community and professional translators in places where translation is not well established. For more information and to volunteer or donate, please visit: http://www.translatorswithoutborders.org or follow on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/TranslatorsWB.
How to apply:
Qualified candidates should send CV and cover letter to info@translatorwswithoutborders.org; closing date is 31 October.