Fundraising Director

Location: London

Status: Fulltime, permanent
Reports To: Director of Development 

About the IFRS Foundation 

The IFRS Foundation is responsible for developing and maintaining global financial reporting standards through the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). The Contributed Revenue Team (CRT) plays a crucial role in securing funding for the Foundation, ensuring financial sustainability and the expansion of its standards. 

The CRT is responsible for six revenue workstreams: IASB Jurisdictional Revenue, ISSB Jurisdictional Revenue, ISSB Seed Funding, Philanthropy, Corporate Champions and the Accounting Profession. Our work is high-volume and fast-paced. This is an excellent place to apply experience and best practice with new and very large fundraising opportunities.  

Role Summary 

The Fundraising Director is responsible for leading and delivering two of the IFRS Foundation’s most critical fundraising priorities: 

• Corporate Champions—ensuring the programme meets its annual targets while evolving into a long-term, multi-stakeholder engagement model. 
• Jurisdictional fundraising—overseeing strategies to stabilize and expand funding from public and private sector contributors to both the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). 

This role requires both strategic oversight and hands-on execution in fundraising, relationship management and donor engagement. The Fundraising Director will work across the IFRS Foundation’s internal leadership and external networks to drive revenue growth, secure multi-year funding agreements and ensure IFRS Foundation fundraising remains best in class. 

Key Responsibilities 

Bottom-line accountability for the Corporate Champions program, ensuring it meets annual fundraising goals and continues to grow. 

• Ownership of corporate fundraising outcomes, ensuring the Corporate Champions program achieves or exceeds annual revenue targets. 
• Ongoing program development, evolving the Corporate Champions model following its 2025 relaunch and expanding it to engage other stakeholder groups in future years. 
• VIP donor relationship management, directly stewarding high-value Corporate Champions donors while delegating mid-tier donor engagement to other team members. 
• Jurisdictional Fundraising 

Full accountability for public and private sector jurisdictional fundraising, ensuring it meets annual, mid-term, and long-term goals. 

• Oversight and project management, leading and implementing strategies to stabilize and grow jurisdictional fundraising globally for both IASB and ISSB. 
• Best practice and tailored strategies, ensuring IFRS fundraising efforts align with global benchmarks while adapting to specific jurisdictional opportunities and challenges. 
• Leveraging internal stakeholders, working with IFRS’s staff directors, regional directors, C-suite executives, and IFRS Foundation Trustees to secure annual and multi-year funding agreements. 

Key Qualifications & Experience 

• 10+ years of experience in high-level sales, fundraising, business development, or external relationship management, with proven success in securing six- and seven-figure deals. 
• Experience developing structured programs for engaging external clients. 
• Exceptional leadership and project management skills, able to drive fundraising initiatives while managing cross-functional teams. 
• Proven track record of high-level relationship management, including corporate executives, government officials, and institutional funders. 
• Strategic thinker and revenue driver, with a strong understanding of best practices in donor engagement, stewardship, and multi-year funding strategies. 
• Experience in CRM systems (Salesforce preferred) for donor tracking and pipeline management. 
• Global fundraising experience, with the ability to adapt strategies across regions and stakeholder groups. 

Closing date: 22nd April 2025

Please note that while we have a closing date for this application, we reserve the right to interview candidates and potentially close the role early should we find a suitable candidate before the closing date.

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