Come work with us at Women In Sports Empowered Hong Kong Limited (“WISE”) in making the world a better place for women and girls through sports! We are building a team who want to work with us to activate women and girls’ participation in all aspects of sport for their health, wellbeing and empowerment. Sport is one of the best tools to achieve good health and wellbeing, and reduce inequality; by joining us, together we can work towards a world that is more diverse and inclusive, and achieve gender equality.

WISE is seeking one individual who is deeply passionate about using sport for empowerment to join our team in a fundraising and development role. This opportunity is suitable for someone with at least three years of demonstrable achievement in some or a combination of the following: strategy, fundraising, stakeholder management, project management, grant-writing, partnership development and communications. 

If you are enthusiastic about promoting sports and empowering youth and women and girls through sports, come join us! 

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About WISE

Vision : A world where women and girls thrive through sport.

Mission : Empowering, educating and connecting women and girls through sport.

We believe in the power of sport and physical activity to transform lives. Our goal is to break down barriers to sports participation and support girls and women to thrive through sport. Sport is one of the best tools to achieve good health and wellbeing and reduce inequality. 

Sport is a reflection of society. When women and girls participate in sport, they are participating in society. We believe that achieving equity, diversity and inclusion in sport will have strong implications for achieving equity, diversity, and inclusion in broader society. We believe that by working together, we can work towards a world that is more diverse and inclusive and achieve gender equality.

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About the Development Manager / Assistant Manager role

The applicant will report to the Founder and Interim Director at WISE, and work with the Fundraising Committee, chaired by members of the Board of Directors at WISE. The applicant will play an integral role in leading business development activities through collaborations, partnerships and sponsorships that will generate monetary and non-monetary resources that support WISE’s effective functioning.

 The priorities of the applicant will be to:

• Maintain and grow a pipeline of diverse funders and donors that support WISE’s programs and operations
• Secure corporate giving and volunteering that will broaden awareness of WISE within the business world 
• Increase the visibility of WISE to sports-related organizations, such as clubs, associations and competition organizers
• Work with the broader Team WISE to generate and activate fundraising and partnership ideas
• Maintain the funder and donor database, including to timely and accurately record all donations and funding received and prepare regular communications to keep them abreast of developments at WISE

Other responsibilities may include:

• Manage and maintain relationships with past and current grantmakers through regular and accurate communications and reporting
• Writing and submitting grant applications where pertinent
• Organizing fundraising events 
• Creating awareness-raising campaigns to raise the profile of WISE within certain communities and networks

Aside from the above, the applicant may on occasion be tasked with ad hoc activities pertaining to partnership building and fundraising.

Requirements

• Track record of acquisition and retention of donors / supporters / clients, and in fundraising
• Comfortable with networking, with existing connections in the corporate world or sports ecosystem in Hong Kong
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to manage relationships with key decision makers
• Ability to self-manage with good time management and project management abilities such as strong planning, budgeting and financial management skills
• Team player who is willing to contribute to the overall team by giving feedback, ask hard questions, listen to different perspectives and be adaptable to change
• Fluency in spoken and written Cantonese and English 
• Commitment to working a minimum of 2.5 days per week (hybrid work mode)
• Must have right to work in Hong Kong

The applicant should be able to support WISE part-time starting from April or May 2025. The title and remuneration will be commensurate with their experience. This is a contract position with possibility to turn into a full-time position.

To apply, please fill in this form before 11:59PM on 31 May 2025. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Only successful candidates will be invited to an interview.

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