Join the staff—Fundraising Director

Location: London, United Kingdom
Duration:  Permanent
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits
Hours: 35 hours per week

About the role

Reports to: Director of Development

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

• IFRS Foundation Corporate Champions Network (Corporate Champions Network)—ensuring the programme meets its annual targets while evolving into a long-term, multi-stakeholder engagement model.
• Jurisdictional fundraising—overseeing strategies to stabilise 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.

The team: The Contributed Revenue Team (CRT) plays a crucial role in securing funding for the IFRS Foundation, ensuring financial sustainability and the expansion of its IFRS Standards. The CRT is responsible for six revenue streams: IASB jurisdictional revenue, ISSB jurisdictional revenue, ISSB seed funding, philanthropic contributions, Corporate Champions Network and the accounting profession. Our work is high-volume and fast-paced. This is an excellent place to gain exposure to VIP fundraising experiences, grow your skill and experience, and achieve measurable results with six and seven-figure fundraising. 

Key responsibilities

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

• Ownership of corporate fundraising outcomes, ensuring the Corporate Champions Network 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 stabilise and grow jurisdictional fundraising globally for both IASB and ISSB.
• Best practice and tailored strategies, ensuring IFRS Foundation fundraising efforts align with global benchmarks while adapting to specific jurisdictional opportunities and challenges.
• Leveraging internal stakeholders, working with IFRS Foundation staff directors, regional directors, C-suite executives and trustees to secure annual and multi-year funding agreements.

Required skills and 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.

To apply

Please send a detailed CV/résumé to recruitment@ifrs.org. Please include the following information or your application may not be considered:

• the job title/position you are interested in (in the subject line of your email); and
• covering email/letter detailing how you meet the specified role requirements and your salary expectations.

Closing date: 22 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.