Description

Who we are

Bridge International academies Foundation (Bridge) is a community schools programme that partners with government, donors, parents, communities and teachers to ensure that every child has access to an education that develops her full potential and creates the foundation for prosperity for the country. Bridge transforms lives and opens the door to a successful future for its pupils. Together with its teachers, school leaders, families and communities, it creates schools that deliver academic excellence, build the essential skills for success, and provide a caring, nurturing community that supports growth.  

We are dedicated to supporting teachers, empowering school leaders, and ensuring every child has the learning support needed to master the national syllabus and have the confidence to succeed in a competitive world. The country team is supported through expertise and programming from additional group shared resources and a consulting technical partner, combining world-leading expertise in core design areas with locally resident leadership and execution. We leverage experts, data, and technology in order to support and scale every aspect of quality education delivery. Bridge managed and supported schools are technology enabled and data-driven to ensure accountability in the classroom for both teachers’ performance and children’s learning.

The Bridge model delivers significant learning outcomes at large scale by combining technology and customized learning materials. At Bridge, we believe innovation and technology can transform learning. Our model – which uses technology to deliver thoroughly researched and carefully designed daily lesson guides to teachers in our academies – is proven to increase learning outcomes for children. We are a solutions-driven, implementation-focused organization, using design principles to work in varied and often highly constrained contexts to ensure learning outcomes and positive development for children. Working in regional and national scales is important to us, as empowering entire generations of children with the core knowledge, skills, and confidence is what builds the foundation for a peaceful and prosperous future for us all.

Our mission is to provide our pupils with life-changing education and we believe that every child should have a right to a world-class education regardless of her family’s income. Core to our approach is the conviction that every child can learn, as long as the school she attends is committed to her development and puts her needs to learn at the forefront of all decisions. We have seen teachers and children transform and excel in the community schools that we support and manage.

We are not just a community school programme, every day we work to transform lives. We are nurturing children holistically, by empowering teachers and teaching pupils to be disciplined and confident using positive behavioural techniques and approaches. These traits empower pupils to lead a successful future long after they graduate. Our community school programme has a long legacy of success and has opened the door to opportunities that many of our pupils and their families could never have imagined.

We invite you to join this incredible endeavour that is having a world-changing impact across multiple continents. You will join a team of dedicated change-makers committed to ensuring that each decision we make keeps a child’s experience of learning as its guiding principle.

Partnership Management

The Partnerships Management team owns and manages critical relationships with regulators and donors, including individual and corporate organizations providing sponsorship and scholarships, ensuring a sustained movement to transform the lives of millions of children through education.

We lead pioneering efforts to revitalise delivery of education across the world and engage  with visionary political and government leadership to help shape policy, strengthen delivery and impact complex education systems through partnerships. We also engage with other dynamic influencers (NGO, donors, think-tanks and academicians) to unlock new ways of partnering to make high-quality education accessible to every child in underserved communities.

We ensure close collaboration, communication, and engagement with our parents and donors to ensure we deliver on the promise of our program, and that the parents and donors sees solutions coming to the fore, and is participating in the work and recognizes the impact taking place.

About the Role

Bridge International Academies is seeking a driven and results-oriented Resource Mobilization Officer to support the implementation of fundraising initiatives that expand access to quality, affordable education for underserved communities.

Reporting to the Resource Mobilization Manager, the Officer will contribute to executing a diversified resource mobilization strategy across multiple revenue streams. This includes supporting the pursuit of institutional funding from bilateral and multilateral donors, driving individual giving programs, and assisting in the coordination of fundraising events such as galas, donor forums, and campaigns.

The successful candidate will help strengthen donor relationships, support visibility efforts among funding partners, and contribute to positioning Bridge as a partner of choice in the education and development ecosystem.

The ideal candidate should be able to demonstrate:

• Experience contributing to successful resource mobilization efforts, including grants, partnerships, or sponsorships
• Strong proposal writing skills and the ability to translate impact into compelling funding narratives
• A collaborative working style and willingness to support cross-functional teams.

What You Will Do

Fundraising & Resource Mobilization Support

• Support the execution of the organization’s fundraising strategy aligned with Bridge’s growth and impact objectives
• Assist in diversifying revenue streams across grants, corporates, individual donors, and events
•  Help maintain and update the pipeline of funding opportunities

Grant Acquisition & Partnerships

• Research and identify funding opportunities from bilateral, multilateral, and philanthropic donors
• Contribute to proposal development, ensuring high-quality submissions and competitive positioning
• Support the cultivation of relationships with foundations, corporates, and development partners

Individual Giving & Local Fundraising

• Take the lead in identifying, cultivating, and stewarding individual philanthropists and individual givers, managing these relationships end-to-end
• Design and implement tailored engagement strategies for individual donors, including high-net-worth individuals and recurring givers
• Lead local fundraising initiatives, working with communities, local networks, and grassroots champions to mobilize support for Bridge’s mission
• Support digital fundraising campaigns across email, social media, and crowdfunding platforms to broaden the individual donor base
• Track, analyze, and report on individual giving performance, donor retention, and campaign outcomes

Fundraising Events & Sponsorships

• Provide coordination support for fundraising events (e.g., charity galas, golf tournaments, donor forums)
• Assist in developing sponsorship packages and engaging potential corporate partners
• Support logistics and follow-up to ensure strong donor engagement outcomes from events

Donor Relations & Compliance

• Support the maintenance of long-term relationships with donors and partners
•  Assist with donor reporting and ensure compliance with donor requirements
•  Help maintain accurate donor databases and fundraising performance tracking systems

What You Should Have

1. At least 2–3 years’ experience in fundraising, grants management, or a related role
2. Bachelor’s degree in Social Science, Strategic Management, Business, Communication, International Studies, or a related field
3. Demonstrable experience contributing to successful grant applications, partnerships, or sponsorship proposals
4. Good understanding of donor landscapes in developing economies
5. Strong grant writing and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas into compelling narrative
6. Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse stakeholders under the guidance of senior staff
7. Experience supporting event planning and project coordination
8.  Familiarity with data tracking and reporting tools
9. Exposure to online fundraising platforms and digital campaign strategies is an advantage
10. Self-motivated and organized, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
11. Genuine passion for education, equity, and social impact

You’re also

• A detailed doer – You have a track record of getting things done. You’re organized and responsive. You take ownership of every idea you touch and execute it to a fine level of detail, setting targets, engaging others, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. You can multi-task dozens of such projects at once and never lose sight of the details. Likely, you have some experience in a start-up or other rapid-growth company.
• A creative problem-solver – Growing any business from scratch comes with massive and constant challenges. On top of that, Bridge works in often fragile, sometimes volatile low-resource communities and with complex government systems. You need to be flexible and ready to get everything done effectively, quickly, and affordably with the materials at hand. 
• A relentless advocate – The children we serve and teachers we empower never leave your mind. You know them, get them, have shared a meal with them (or would be happy to in the future). You would never shrink back from shaking a parent’s hand or picking up a crying child, no matter what the person was wearing or looked like. Every decision you make considers their benefit, experience, and value.
• A malleable learner – You believe you can always do better. You welcome constructive criticism and provide it freely to others. You know you only get better tomorrow when others point out where you’ve missed things or failed today.
• A data-driven decision-maker – When making decisions, you don’t rely on your intuition alone. You collect data, you analyze it and make decisions with clear justifications.
• A curious investigator – You ask why a lot. You don’t just take what you see and accept it. You wonder why it is that way, and are aware that the world we see is created by human choices and actions – and it could be different. You wonder, and see the world as wonderful even when you want to change a part of it that is unjust.