Fundraising Manager:in Foundations

About the job

Are you ready to make a big impact for animal welfare?

The Swiss Animal Protection STS is the umbrella organisation of 70 animal protection organisations from all language regions of Switzerland as well as Liechtenstein. As the largest animal protection organisation in Switzerland, we are passionately committed to the welfare of pets, farm animals, wild animals, and laboratory animals.

We want to further professionalise our fundraising and sustainably expand foundation fundraising. For this, we are looking for you: a relationship-oriented and implementation-focused personality as

Fundraising Manager:in Foundations (80–100 %)

Your mission: Build and strengthen funding partnerships In this role, you will manage your own portfolio of foundations and funding institutions, develop existing partnerships further, and open up new funding opportunities. With convincing applications, professional reporting, and long-term relationship management, you will make a significant contribution to financing our animal protection work.

What you can achieve with us:

• Foundation fundraising: You research and prioritise suitable foundations and funding institutions, acquire new funding partners, and develop existing relationships in the long term.
• Funding applications & reporting: You create target group-appropriate funding applications, project descriptions, as well as interim and final reports, and coordinate the associated project budgets.
• Funding management: You manage your foundation pipeline, monitor deadlines, funding conditions, and reporting cycles, and ensure the timely submission of all documents.
• Department networking: You work closely with our specialist departments and the Head of Fundraising to prepare fundable projects, budgets, and impact evidence convincingly.
• CRM & planning: You document relationships and activities fully in the CRM and maintain pipeline, deadline, and planning overviews.
• Development perspective: With appropriate experience and development of the area, you can occasionally take on tasks in major donor fundraising and support its further development.

What you bring with you:

• Experience: You have several years of professional experience in foundation fundraising and know the requirements for professional funding applications and reporting.
• Foundation knowledge: You are familiar with the Swiss foundation landscape and its funding logics or can quickly orient yourself thanks to comparable experience.
• Linguistic skills: You write very confidently in German and can prepare complex technical content precisely, understandably, and convincingly. Good French skills, ideally at least level B2, are an advantage.
• Relationship strength: You present yourself confidently, listen attentively, and enjoy building and maintaining long-term relationships with funding partners.
• Working style: You work independently, structured, and accurately, keep an overview even with multiple projects and deadlines, and are confident in using CRM systems as well as MS Office, especially Teams, Word, and Excel.
• Passion: You strongly identify with the goals and values of Swiss Animal Protection STS.

What to expect from us:

• Scope for creativity: A responsible position in which you independently develop your portfolio, unlock funding potential, and actively shape the expansion of foundation fundraising.
• Meaningfulness: A meaningful activity in one of the leading animal protection organisations, where your work has a direct impact on the welfare of animals.
• Flexibility & teamwork: You work in a dynamic environment where cross-departmental collaboration is highly valued.
• Training opportunities: For your personal and professional development.
• Flexible working hours and home office: The main workplace is in Zurich-Altstetten.

Interested? Then help shape the future of animal protection with us!

We look forward to receiving your complete application documents including salary expectations with CV and a short motivation letter. Please apply directly via the “Apply now/Easy apply” button.

If you have any questions, we are always happy to assist you.