James Wangombe

Background

About James Wangombe

I am an experienced fundraising and business development specialist with a focus on supporting Global South countries and organizations. My expertise lies in supporting non-profit organizations (NPOs) grow their institutional and private & public (P&P) income through data-driven approaches targeting major donors and high-net-worth individuals. I assist countries in developing and implementing fundraising strategies and funding plans with clear outputs and key performance indicators (KPIs) that ensure fundraising sustainability. My technical skills include providing donor funding forecasts, institutional funders’ fundraising outlooks, and leading efforts to diversify income streams by modeling fundraising tools and processes to support long-term financial sustainability. Additionally, I am skilled in designing grants that ensure full cost recovery, direct cost recovery, and contextualized country cost recovery, ensuring organizations can recover all their costs from grant funding. Furthermore, I excel in building, maintaining, and stewarding funding relationships with major donors and high-net-worth individuals. I support teams in developing a high-performance culture in fundraising and manage complex funding partnerships and consortium-driven fundraising initiatives. My core competencies include funding forecast analysis, proposal and concept note development, program conceptualization, cost driver analysis, donor stewardship, donor account management, and designing fundraising strategies for countries in the Global South. Through my work, I ensure that organizations have sufficient, predictable, flexible, and long-term funding to deliver the results envisioned in their strategic plans and country strategic papers.