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Cape Mental Health is a non-profit organisation that offers comprehensive and proactive mental health services in the Western Cape.

Cape Mental seeks to appoint Senior Fundraising Practitioner to be based in Cape Town.

The purpose of this position is to find someone from highly motivated and dynamic fundraisers with an excellent track record in donor research and mobilisation to join our Donor Development team in a senior-level . Preference will be given to South African citizens.

Eployment Type: 12-month contract for a 40-hour week.

Requirements:

  • Relevant tertiary qualification
  • Minimum of 5 years’ successful fundraising experience and some management or project coordination experience
  • Proven ability to source, nurture and manage fundraising opportunities
  • (examples of prior fundraising proposals/appeals will be requested)
  • Experience as a SETA liaison officer in the submission of Discretionary Grant applications
  • Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to multi-task and work closely with several community-based projects
  • Proficiency in MS Office, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Experience in online fundraising
  • In possession of a valid manual driver’s license (own transport a recommendation)
  • Able to work overtime occasionally in support of fundraising deadlines and special events

Responsibilities:

  • respect diversity and understand the challenges facing NGOs
  • can research and identify prospective funders
  • can take full responsibility for donor liaison and contractual requirements
  • can anticipate project needs, discern work priorities, and meet deadlines
  • can interpret and compile budgets and financial reports
  • can function as a member of a team, yet operate independently and responsibly
  • pay attention to detail, are target-driven, and have good time-management skills
  • display a high level of accountability to all stakeholders
  • are professional in manner, appearance and work ethic

Please submit a letter of motivation and an updated CV with three contactable referees,
marked confidential, to  Email:  [email protected]

Cape Mental Health is a non-profit organisation that offers comprehensive and proactive mental health services in the Western Cape. One of its programmes, the Rainbow PSR Groups, offers community-based psychosocial rehabilitation and support to adults with psychiatric /psychosocial disabilities in the form of 26 weekly support groups.

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Cape Mental Health (CMH)

Prior to 1913, there had been only one major consideration in the provision of mental health services in South Africa – to protect society from those who were considered 'morally defective'.

Historically, people with mental disabilities were treated with fear and loathing. They were kept in chains, thrown into prisons with lepers, criminals and murderers, subjected to corporal punishment, exorcism, shock treatment, bloodletting and purgatives, or hidden away by families who considered them a shameful secret.

With the close of World War II, the discovery of psychotropic medication led to an international wave of mental health care and a dramatic change in the treatment of mental illness. The emphasis gradually shifted from hospitalisation and institutionalisation to today's model of encouraging those with mental disabilities to function within the community through counselling, support and rehabilitation.

In the Cape, a meeting was held in 1913 under the auspices of the Child Life Protection Society, to discuss the problem of vagrancy and prostitution among young women with ‘mental handicap’. A committee was elected, with Sir John Graham as Chairperson, to manage the affairs of the South African Society for the Care of the Feeble-minded.

After the promulgation of the Mental Disorders Act of 1916, the Society split into two in order to specifically address the funding of projects in aid of persons with mental handicap, an area that they felt was not adequately addressed by the new legislation. One section became the Cape Town Committee for the Care of Mental Defectives, which is today known as Adam’s Farm, and the other became the Cape Province Committee for Mental Hygiene, which is today Cape Mental Health.

In the early days, Cape Mental Health worked from a cottage in Harrington Street, Cape town, and then moved to the Fletcher & Cartwright Building in Adderley Street. In the mid-60s the organisation moved to Namaqua House, finally finding its home in 1972 in Observatory House at 22 Ivy Street.

At the time of our Golden Jubilee in 1963, the organisation ran the following services:

  • clinical and social work
  • a Child Guidance Clinic (to our knowledge, at the time the only clinic of this kind for ‘non-European’ children in Southern Africa)
  • a Clinic for Mental Disorders and Mental Defects
  • an Occupational Day Centre for ‘defective children’ in the Athlone area
  • Garden Cottage in Maitland, catering for 24 ‘mentally defective’ Coloured boys and girls aged 2 to 12,
  • Torrance Home in Steenberg, accommodating 50 ‘mentally defective’ Coloured boys aged 10 to 18.

The organisation also invested its energy in research, education for prevention, and celebration of Mental Health Week. By 1988, our 75th Anniversary, the number of projects run by our organisation had expanded to eleven.

As the oldest mental health organisation in South Africa and a founding member of the World Federation for Mental Health (formed in London in 1948), Cape Mental Health is proud of the groundbreaking work it has done in the past 100 years, especially in poorly resourced communities.

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0 USD Cape Town CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Cape Mental Health (CMH)

Cape Mental Health is a non-profit organisation that offers comprehensive and proactive mental health services in the Western Cape.

Cape Mental seeks to appoint Senior Fundraising Practitioner to be based in Cape Town.The purpose of this position is to find someone from highly motivated and dynamic fundraisers with an excellent track record in donor research and mobilisation to join our Donor Development team in a senior-level . Preference will be given to South African citizens.

Eployment Type: 12-month contract for a 40-hour week.

Requirements:

  • Relevant tertiary qualification
  • Minimum of 5 years’ successful fundraising experience and some management or project coordination experience
  • Proven ability to source, nurture and manage fundraising opportunities
  • (examples of prior fundraising proposals/appeals will be requested)
  • Experience as a SETA liaison officer in the submission of Discretionary Grant applications
  • Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to multi-task and work closely with several community-based projects
  • Proficiency in MS Office, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Experience in online fundraising
  • In possession of a valid manual driver’s license (own transport a recommendation)
  • Able to work overtime occasionally in support of fundraising deadlines and special events

Responsibilities:

  • respect diversity and understand the challenges facing NGOs
  • can research and identify prospective funders
  • can take full responsibility for donor liaison and contractual requirements
  • can anticipate project needs, discern work priorities, and meet deadlines
  • can interpret and compile budgets and financial reports
  • can function as a member of a team, yet operate independently and responsibly
  • pay attention to detail, are target-driven, and have good time-management skills
  • display a high level of accountability to all stakeholders
  • are professional in manner, appearance and work ethic

Please submit a letter of motivation and an updated CV with three contactable referees, marked confidential, to  Email:  [email protected]

Cape Mental Health is a non-profit organisation that offers comprehensive and proactive mental health services in the Western Cape. One of its programmes, the Rainbow PSR Groups, offers community-based psychosocial rehabilitation and support to adults with psychiatric /psychosocial disabilities in the form of 26 weekly support groups.
 2020-09-29

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