Vacancy: Development Coordinator

Starting date

April 2026
Application deadline

8 February 2026

About CER

Cultural Emergency Response (CER) supports locally led protection of cultural heritage under threat.

Focused on cultural first aid, we provide fast and flexible financial support and expertise to protect cultural heritage in immediate response to disaster or conflict. Working with our Regional Hubs and local experts, we help safeguard cultural heritage, strengthen resilience, and ensure cultural continuity in some of the world’s most vulnerable contexts. Beyond emergency response, CER works to shift power through an inclusive and accessible approach, strengthening decentralised systems, sharing knowledge, and advocating for the protection of cultural heritage as a humanitarian priority.

This work is made possible through strong partnerships and sustainable funding. To support and strengthen CER’s fundraising capacity, we are looking for a:

Development Coordinator
36 hours per week (full-time)

Tasks & responsibilities

As Development Coordinator you are responsible for the operational backbone of CER's fundraising efforts – from identifying funding opportunities and managing donor pipelines to coordinating grant processes and donor stewardship. You play a crucial role in strengthening CER’s fundraising capacity and supporting sustainable growth across individual, corporate, and institutional funding streams.

Your work ensures that fundraising efforts are well organised, strategic, and compliant, creating the conditions for strong donor relationships and sustainable funding. Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, you contribute directly to CER’s long-term impact.

In this role, your key responsibilities are:

Prospect research, pipeline & donor intelligence

Identify, research, and qualify prospective donors and funding partners across multiple segments aligned with CER’s mission.
Maintain a structured donor pipeline, tracking prospects from initial identification to stewardship.
Develop donor profiles and intelligence briefings to inform outreach strategies and prioritisation.

Funding opportunities & grant coordination

Monitor and assess relevant funding opportunities, including grants, calls for proposals, and partnerships.
Maintain a funding opportunities calendar with deadlines and preparation timelines.
Coordinate grant applications, concept notes, and funding requests, ensuring all technical requirements and deadlines are met.
Collect inputs from programme, finance, leadership, and communications teams, ensuring consistency and accuracy across submissions.
Track submitted proposals, funding decisions, contractual requirements, and reporting deadlines.

Donor relationship support & stewardship coordination

Support relationship management by preparing briefing notes, meeting agendas, presentations, and background materials.
Coordinate donor outreach and stewardship timelines for strategic and consistent engagement.
Occasionally engage directly with donors for coordination or information-sharing purposes, without acting as the primary relationship lead.

Fundraising systems, data & reporting

Manage and maintain CER’s donor database, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with data protection regulations.
Develop outreach lists for targeted fundraising initiatives and campaigns, including emergency fundraising.
Produce internal fundraising reports and data extracts to support planning and decision-making.

Events, policy & compliance support

Support the organisation of fundraising events, donor meetings, and networking activities.
Assist in implementing donor due diligence processes and CER’s ethical fundraising policies.
Identify opportunities to improve fundraising systems and processes.

Your profile

We are looking for someone with:

At least 3 years of relevant professional experience in fundraising coordination, development support, grant management and/or grant writing, or a comparable role within the non-profit, NGO, or public-interest sector.
Experience with prospect research, donor pipelines, grant applications, and fundraising databases.
Excellent organisational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple timelines, deadlines, and stakeholders simultaneously.
High level of accuracy and attention to detail, particularly in relation to data management, grant requirements, research, and compliance.
Ability to analyse information and translate donor intelligence into actionable insights for colleagues.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in a professional context.
Professional level proficiency in English (written and oral), knowledge of Dutch is an asset.
Based in the Netherlands and willing to commute to Amsterdam at least twice per week.

We are looking to fill this position with an ideal start date in April 2026.

What we offer

At CER, you will work in a challenging and rewarding position on an international level in an ambitious and inspiring organisation. You will be part of a small and dedicated team and will work closely with wide global network of partners and supporters. You will take up an indispensable role in realising our core mission and will contribute to the long-term sustainability, development and growth of CER.

We offer:

A competitive salary in line with cultural sector standards, depending on knowledge and experience.
A one-year contract, with the possibility of extension.
A unique working place in a brand-new office based in the city centre of Amsterdam, which is shared with other leading Dutch organisations for international cultural collaboration. We work hybrid – partly from the office, and from home.
Attractive secondary employment conditions, among which 8% holiday allowance, an NS-Business Card, a good pension scheme, and access to mental health and well-being support.
Opportunities for growth and development, courses, and training opportunities.

CER strives to be an inclusive environment and is fully committed to this in the recruitment, selection and placement of staff. All interested parties, regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender are welcome to apply and will be considered equally. We believe that diversity and inclusion among the staff is critical to our success and want to enhance the diversity of our workforce to reflect the world we live in.

To apply

Are you interested? To apply, please share with us your CV and motivation letter in one PDF file to the attention of Sanne Letschert, Director Cultural Emergency Response, via info@culturalemergency.org, subject Vacancy Development Coordinator.

The deadline for applications is 8 February 2026.

The interviews are planned in February. If you have any questions regarding the vacancy, feel free to contact us at info@culturalemergency.org.

For more information on our work, please visit www.culturalemergency.org.