Claire May Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for the Technical Assistance grant management of over 100 grants (total value £55m) supporting pioneering private/public sector green infrastructure projects across Africa and Southeast Asia. • I have refined and re-designed the Portfolio Management processes to make the assessment, awarding and reporting of grants more effective. This work included incorporating tools such as Docusign and redesigning the grant database. • I coordinate grant operations with regional managers, project staff across the four PIDG companies, legal, compliance and finance teams. My team also includes an Analyst who works with me closely. • I track the project pipeline and current portfolio of each PIDG company and assess the viability of projects against our income. I closely monitor project progress, overseeing all grant reporting and support on due diligence and management of consultants. • I prepare funding requests for FCDO and manage the cashflow tracking and income and expenditure reports monthly. I write recommendations and reports (including KPIs) for PIDG’s Technical Committee and Senior Management.

Responsible for programme development across RI’s Asia and Middle East portfolio of nine countries with an income of £41m on health, education and development initiatives.· I oversaw the development and creation of successful seven figure applications to institutional donors including OFDA/BHA, USAID, DfID/FCDO, the EU and the UN. This work included project management, writing applications, collecting inputs from technical staff and developing budgets.· I worked closely with country teams with various levels of programme development skills, often developing and writing the majority of applications remotely (due to recent restrictions). I also regularly facilitated programme development workshops, often with other INGO or CSO partners for consortium applications.· Acting as donors point of contact, I was responsible for application submissions and contract renewals ensuring compliance. As a result, I have a comprehensive understanding of institutional donor application requirements.· I maintained regular engagement with international organisations and national governments, to track donor trends and inform SMT of upcoming program priorities.· I sat on RI’s Regional SMT, devised the Asia Programme Development strategy to grow US and UK government engagement, increase income and indirect cost recovery. I also managed a Programme Development Coordinator.

Responsible for institutional and trust income, which in four years I increased by 300% (to £3.2m, 80% of the organisation’s income). I was also undertook programme development with local partners, oversaw compliance and managed two staff members. • I increased grant income by 300%. This was as a result of my programme development strategy which engaged other teams, addressed ineffective processes and created a pipeline of new projects to create diverse and sustainable income. • I worked closely with local partners to develop impactful projects. I regularly visited local partner organisations in countries such as DR Congo and Pakistan to work with staff, local authorities and participants. I also coordinated successful applications as part of consortia, managing these collaborations. • I identified and engaged new donors to build professional relationships with senior stakeholders through meetings leading to successful grants. Donors include USAID, DfID, EU, Big Lottery Fund and the Swedish government.• I delivered capacity building training to local organisations for groups on topics including locally relevant logical frameworks, fundraising and application writing.

I was promoted to be responsible for all trust, foundation and institutional income and a member of the senior management team, managing two members of staff. • The first point of contact for institutional grants ensuring the funder was engaged with the work through detailed stewardship plans. I Increased the income stream by over £600k in two years through streamlining processes and identifying new opportunities for institutional grants. • Created and implemented a grant management process involving the finance, programme development and programmes teams working more collaboratively resulting in better staff coordination, increased accountability and more effective use of resources. • A member of Peace Direct’s senior management team reporting monthly on key performance indicators to the CEO and Board. Responsible for budgets of over £10,000 and created and reforecast the annual income stream budget.

• Responsible for all trust and foundation acquisition and stewardship as well as institutional applications as the organisation grew and increased the portfolio by 30%. • Increased major donor engagement and organising regular events including a widely publicised evening with Mark Rylance and other actors for an audience of 350.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed a team of 30 volunteers in a variety of tasks including compiling and sending fundraising resources and coordinating fifteen simultaneous collections from tube stations on World AIDs Day raising over £9,000. • Organised NAT's annual major donor gala for 150 guests including tombola, live auction and cocktail reception, making a profit of over £30,000 and introduced many new major donors to the charity.• Managed NAT's major donor programme, the 'Champion' scheme, increasing members by 30% during my tenure. This included personal stewardship and organising regular engagement events. • General responsibilities included researching new fundraising and major donor opportunities, designing and developing resources, volunteer and intern management.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for researching and composing Orchid’s first public document, a large ‘positioning paper’, outlining the charity’s current policy, advocacy and programmatic objectives to potential funders.• Researched possible donors and compiled a database. I identified Orchid’s initial largest funder.• Represented Orchid at lobbying and advocacy events and meetings such as the FGM Forum at the Foreign Office.