Executive Director

Job Description

The Catholic Territorial Prelature of Santiago Apostol of Huancane, Puno, PERU is standing on the threshold of a life changing moment as it takes its first steps to serve the people of Huancane. The Prelature was created by Pope Francis on the 3rd of April of 2019. Fr. Giovanni Cefai, a priest of the congregation of the Missionary Society of St Paul, a maltase missionary congregation, was named the first bishop of this new Prelature. The Prelature has an area of 18,880 km2 and a population of 200,000 Catholics. The Prelature faces many challenges in these early days due to widespread poverty, lack of infrastructure, and rough terrain - with altitudes ranging from 17,000 feet above sea level to 3.000 ft above sea level. Having some of the most dangerous roads in the world, the clergy and religious face challenging pastoral situations in their effort to simply travel from one place to the next.

Bishop Cefai has a great vision for the integral development of the people and the Prelature, especially in the areas in education, health as well as human and spiritual formation. He sent Fr. David O'Connor, an Irish missionary priest, ordained in Peru in 2015, to establish Together for Huancane, a 501C3 nonprofit organization, to help support the bold plans that God has placed in Bishop Giovanni's heart.

In Fr. David's role as President, he shares his love of the mission where he has worked for almost 10 years, the beautiful vision of Bishop Cefai, and is currently in the process of establishing a Board of Directors. He is seeking out Catholic philanthropists in the United States who feel called and are willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with Bishop Cefai, to help advance the mission of our Church in this often-forgotten part of Peru.

To succeed, Together for Huancane seeks a fundraising leader who believes in the power of philanthropy, who can thoughtfully create new strategies to raise the bar on our fundraising. This Executive Director must serve as "fundraiser-in-chief" and be an entrepreneurial leader who will serve as the main conduit between the United States and the Diocese and Bishop of Santiago Apostol de Huancane.

Bishop Giovanni Cefai and Fr. David O'Connor are extremely optimistic about the future. We now need a dynamic fundraising leader to join us in building a new foundation for inspiring great generosity to help advance the mission of Huancane in extraordinary ways.

Candidate Description
The founding Executive Director must be a bilingual (english - Spanish) proven and successful fundraiser or business development professional. It will require that unique person whose passion and understanding of our mission will inspire individuals from all walks of life, to make meaningful financial contributions. It will require a leader with a head for strategy and a heart for the Lord, to implement a fitting fundraising model to fuel the success for the multiple projects awaiting development.

Responsibilities
• Lead the creation of a new strategy and create the plans that will ensure successful fundraising with
• emphasis on major gifts ($25,000+) and leadership gifts ($100,000+).
• Create an annual written fundraising plan that is clear in its goals, target audiences and timelines.
• Work with Fr. David O'Connor to set the priorities.
• Build and work closely with a U.S. based Board of Directors to build a team that can continue the work in the future.
• Serve as a passionate and informed advocate for the Prelature of Huancane, able to communicate its message clearly one-on-one and to large groups, in the spoken and written form; to ensure that the work and impact of the mission is known by those who will help fund the mission.
• Capacity to run the office in its entirety.
• Experience in preparing all the documents for project applications for groups in the US and Europe.
• Establish connections with universities, dioceses, and parishes, to become partners in mission.
• Organize mission trips for people who want to contribute their time and expertise in the mission field.
• Identify and recruit volunteers to support the executive director in managing operations.
Education and Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree required (graduate degree preferred) with five or more years leadership experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, comfortable networking with the ability to engage, inspire and educate in settings that are one-on-one or large groups.
• Spanish speaking or willing to learn to ensure seamless communications between the Bishop, the Office of Projects in Peru, and the U.S. operations.
• Proven history in building strong, lasting relationships with donors/customers.
• Experience with securing foundation and/or government grants, a plus.
• Comfortable with corporate and community leaders and high net-worth individuals.
• Experience leading organizational and operational change.
• Strong collaborator within and outside of an organization.
• Exceptional planning and execution skills with a results-oriented record of achievement; the ability to set goals, meet deadlines and evaluate results.
• Open mind, entrepreneurial and willing to learn from others.
• Brings humility and a deep commitment to advancing philanthropy at all levels.

About the Employer

Together 4 Huancane is a nonprofit foundation that seeks to unite people in a missionary spirit of solidarity, to create an efficient platform for seeking solutions to combat the poverty of the people served by the Catholic Prelature of Santiago Apostol of Huancane Peru.
We desire to be a bridge of human and economic resources to help our vulnerable and often excluded brothers and sisters in their integral human development. Through the organization of projects, human aid and mission trips in which people travel to Peru share their skills and educate others, we seek to spread hope for the future generations of the Prelature of Huancane.

www.together4huancane.org